Guessing This Cover Might Keep You Tied Up For A While

It’s a new week; time for another peek. That’s right, friends, it’s press-day here at Dallas Observer. Prepare yourself for The Weekly Tease! As you can see above, this week’s cover will be an illustrated one. Just perfect for the story it represents. But what could it be about? Are those…

Stage Black Offers Weekend Festival of New Plays

Stage Black is back. The midsummer festival of new plays reflecting the African American experience runs Friday through Sunday (July 15 to 17) at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters at the Dallas Convention Center Theater Complex. Six short plays are in the mix. They are: Breaking Vows at…

Contest: Area Reader To Win Tickets to The Onion Live

You read The Onion, right? You want to see The Onion live at the Winspear Thursday night? That’s what we thought. We have a pair of tickets ready to give away … but it’s not that easy. We want you to prove your love for the satirical publication. So, in…

Vintage Mobile Rolls Out For Its First Weekend At The Belmont

The Vintage Mobile made its debut this past weekend outside the Belmont Hotel, and we over at The Mixmaster hopped on the opportunity to check out the green school bus-turned-mobile shop, being avid thrifters and all. We arrived at noon to a handful of folks; some were browsing, others were…

Picture Show: The Best Costumes From Saturday’s Firewater

If ever there were two styles that could intermingle in a manner divine, perhaps the flowing dress and corsets of Victorian England and clockwork gadgetry of an altered history would be among the greatest. But, since we live in Texas, add in a dark mix of western-goth with some baroque…

I’mma Pass on the Bathing Suit, But Spanx for Asking.

Hey ladies (and mid-40s Dallas douchebags), you ever skooch yourself into the sausage-casing that is Spanx? Yeah, us too. And we just discovered that Spanx, who brought you the shapewear that made you look un-muffin-toppy and awesome in that fancy outfit you wore recently, has a swimwear line. Yep. They’re…

Postcards From the Road

I’m on the road again. I’ll be taking a few weeks off from the blogging world to take it all in and catch up on some personal projects. Follow the jump to see more postcards from the road…

What To Expect At This Year’s Festival Of Independent Theatres

The Bath House Cultural Center will be swimming with talent next week with the opening Friday of the 13th annual Festival of Independent Theatres. The four-weekend event features eight small theater companies doing one-act plays under one hour each, in rotating repertory and for budgets averaging under $2000. Playwrights represented…

This Photo Of Willie Nelson’s Son Looks Eerily Familiar

Thousands of country-music-lovin’ Americans came out Monday to celebrate the most patriotic of holidays at the most patriotic party this side of the Mason-Dixon Line: Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic. The crowd at Billy Bob’s braved the heat for some honky-tonk from Willie and his friends, but it truly…

The Wiz: By The Numbers And Behind The Scenes

Some stats you should know before you ease on down the road to the Wyly Theatre for Dallas Theater Center’s musical The Wiz, opening 8 p.m., Friday, July 8, in a pay-what-you-can preview, before the official opening night on July 15…

On John Wiley Price’s Strange Land(mark) Dealings

​There’s nothing more fun than putting people’s faces in places where they don’t belong.Wait, let’s rephrase that. Maybe it’s more fun accumulating so much cars and cash that the FBI raids your offices and home. Or maybe obtaining some land in the most bizarre manner possible, with the help of…

Jay Pharoah in Arlington: What You’re In For This Weekend (Video)

Last season was a strange one on Saturday Night Live: a lot of repeat sketches, some lackluster hosts, the usual misfires from the Lonely Island crew, some new cast members clumsily finding their way, and the continued strange existence of Abby Elliot, who, outside of her opening-credit sexy-hair tussling thing,…

Best Of Dallas 2011: Help Us Help You Decide On Dallas’ Best

Yep, we’re already there again. Venus temperatures are officially upon us. Oh, and we’re gearing up for our big ol’, bad-ass issue: Best Of Dallas. If the Rapture goes on as predicted, we’re looking at one of the last Best Ofs ever. So, naturally, we want your feedback. It’s taken…

Horrible Bosses Sings the White Man’s Lament

There’s a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male hygienist (Charlie Day), repeatedly says the word “pussy.” Her character is trying to intimidate his, while the filmmakers attempt to shock the audience with the spectacle of this lady rom-com…

Storm The Bookstore

If you’re worth your salt when you lose your mind, you couldn’t do better than to get institutionalized at McLean Hospital. The famous psychiatric hospital has played home to everyone from John Nash to Frederick Law Olmstead to David Foster Wallace, and the list of literary works set at McLean…

Walt’s Last Waltz

Growing up, most kids wanted to be doctors. It’s a profession that helps out others as well as your pocket book. However, sitting through eight years of college is brutal, so what’s the next big thing? Lie and tell everyone that you got your medical license. That’s what the ensemble…