It’s every designer’s dream to create a garment that becomes a classic, but few fashion trends ever make it to that status. Coco Chanel did it with the black dress. Burberry did it with the trench coat. Then there’s Diane von Furstenberg. In 1974, von Furstenberg created the wrap dress…
Joan Rivers has a giant card catalog in her fancy New York City apartment where she files every one of her jokes. The 78-year-old manages to shill jewelry on QVC, host a show on E!, film a reality show with her daughter, make brilliant guest appearances on TV shows and…
Ah, the big, fancy wedding. At least half the guests (the male half) would rather be somewhere else. The bride is exhausted. The groom is either hung over or just generally looking pole-axed. The lines for food and the bar are long. The clothes are uncomfortable. How is so much…
Steven Levine started chasing storms way back in 1977, nearly 20 years before Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton made it cool (did that really happen?), and 30 before Reed Timmer and Sean Casey made it cool again with Storm Chasers. In fact, Levine realized storm chasing’s mainstream appeal well before…
Ah, the saintly Atticus Finch, his daughter Scout and his boy Jem — such a pure-hearted and forthright trio of the nobler kind of Southern white people. How good they were. How kind. How treacly, like a big mouthful of sweet cornbread smothered in molasses. OK, so maybe that last…
Diana Al-Hadid is making some of the boldest, most interesting pieces of any living artist, creating works inspired by a mélange of ancient mythologies, Gothic and Middle Eastern architecture, cosmology and physics. Her visionary creations resemble upended cathedrals, castles and Towers of Babel (See: “Self Melt” or “Spun of the…
His face is on the one-dollar bill, the quarter and Mount Rushmore, and he may or may not have chopped down the cherry tree as a child. You know George Washington, but it’s unlikely you know the real George Washington. The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History offers you…
Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King are a match made in scary, anxiety-inducing horror movie heaven. Oh, no wait. Actually, let’s make that perfect pairing a three-way with Jack Nicholson. Creepy Jack Nicholson, to be specific. The tale is a classic: Isolation (or near isolation) + malicious spirits + person of…
The World Series game has been postponed so you need something new to do. Seems to us that Scott Pasfield’s one-night reception for and book signing of Gay In America at Ilume Galerie is the obvious choice. Why? Because it’s equally American as apple pie and baseball — it’s just…
Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs , where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through hump day each week. Bless the Japanese. That sweet little island nation half a world away has given us some pretty awesome stuff. From tasty treats to creepy horror flicks…
So, Chuck Palahniuk races up the aisles of the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art with arm-fulls of huge, inflatable brains, snapping them like Frisbees throughout the eager audience, most of whom look to be in their early- to mid-20s and many of whom are bedazzled with metal…
Tiesto, Girl Talk, Diplo and Neon Indian are just a few of the names taking to the tables at the annual two-night New Year’s blowout better known as Lights All Night. But you knew that. What you may not have known is that the Observer and DC9 are official sponsors…
A note to all homebuilders: Please pay better attention to the likes of your grounds. You see, over the years, too many homes have been built on or near pet cemeteries, directly on top of Native American burial grounds, or caves that lead to the Hell. Land is land, I…
Tags: Gay Video & Lesbian Movies, Logo: Fierce TVScene 1: We join last week’s Footloose pool party in progress. Stylist/future cartoon character Phillip continues to rage uncontrollably at having been pushed in the water by the doe-eyed RepubiChristian, Taylor. Taylor’s secret beau, Brokeback Levi, also got wet in the pushing,…
In all honesty, I haven’t been to a haunted house since — well, lets just say since my mode of transportation was my mummy. While I love Halloween (it just so happens to be my favorite holiday of the year) I stopped hanging out at haunts back in high school…
Dallas actor and painter Aidan Langford rolls like a rock star. He has a driver to chauffeur him to and from the theaters where he’s performing. His agent is busy fielding offers for acting and modeling gigs. At home, he has someone cooking and serving the meals he likes. Being…
Her name is Stacey Maynard but she calls herself Lucky Girl. And rightly so. Maynard, unlike way too many people, is actually doing what she loves — creating art. The high school art teacher working in a variety of media hails from Australia, but she’s celebrating her first solo exhibition,…
It’s debatable but there may not be another Horror film to embed itself so deeply in pop culture urban legends than Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It is safe to say that at least one time in your adolescent life you had a friend that had…
Hopefully everyone is rested and sober by now after all the Dallas Observer Music Awards partying that took place in the last week (and for some, the week before, too). If not, we promise to speak softly. Although, if you hear a rumbling rolling down the street, it just might…
In between Rangers games this weekend, Dallas was busy. There was belly dancing, jets juuuust about to break the sound barrier (holy shit!), a food truck smackdown and enough barbecue to make PETA blush. Hey dudes! Don’t worry if you were walled up inside with a helmet sundae, we so…
It’s hard to say which is more frightening — the idea of a murderer with no flesh (traditionally speaking) and fingerblades, or the idea that he only attacks in dreams. Wes Craven again took a basic horror outline and reworked it into something incredibly original and panic-inducing by providing details…
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Nearly a week before Halloween, and we haven’t spotlighted a zombie film? Well, here’s two: 28 Days Later (2002) and 28 Weeks Later (2007). The original and the sequel are watershed zombie films. They changed the game. Moaning, meandering brain-eaters are officially boring. Danny Boyle’s two-part, digitally-shot…
