You know what Dallas needs? A weekly indoor marketplace connecting local artisans with potential clients that also promises free beer and wine. You know what Dallas is getting? Bingo. This upcoming three-day weekend is full of promise, but none as big as the Dallas Handmade Arts Market Grand Opening on…
Okay, okay. We get it. Self-published S&M-lite has an enthusiastic audience and is therefore pop-culturally relevant. And despite our earnest entreaty for something a bit more imaginative than “Fifty Shades of Beige,” this week marked another huge success with a familiar reprise: Gordon Gekko (with a heart of gold and…
Whether on the prowl for Mad Men inspired mid-century decor, or something more Victorian, Dallas’ antique stores have got it covered. Below is a list of five of our favorite antique stores in town, each heaping with vintage treasures and worth taking a browse through. Dolly Python (1916 N. Haskell):…
See also: Jennifer Moreman, a Tyler Artist Who Made Her Name Painting Longhorns, Has Gone Global Leonard Volk’s upcoming exhibition at Samuel Lynne Galleries is not his first — in fact, he’s shown publicly in one other solo exhibition at Brookhaven College back in 2005 — but it is a…
Consider us the “Mean” Gene Okerlund of Scrabble. We talked this week with Dallas-based gamer Chris Cree, who psyched himself up for August’s National Scrabble Championship with a growling, groaning pregame interview that would make even the Hulkster shudder. OK, not exactly. The 57-year-old Cree is an affable guy who…
If you’ve noticed that your cross fit center has been overrun lately, it isn’t due to swimsuit season. Dallas’ most fashionable shoppers are to blame; they’ve gone into heavy training for this weekend’s F.I.G. Shopping Finale Sale, a two-day affair in the Design District that resembles a museum filled with…
See also: The Epic Gamers of QuakeCon 2010. Let’s go over a quick checklist for this weekend: Fully optimized alienware desktop? Check. A full case of Bawls? Check. Soap? For the love of god please say check. This weekend, QuakeCon 2012, celebrating its sweet sixteen in Dallas, will bring gamers…
The other day, while cruising Lula B’s West on our lunch break, we found a bunch of typewriters and lucite gems, plus an amazing white and gold ceramic dolphin lamp. We felt compelled to share them with you. The above photo is a Smith-Corona typewriter with a $48 price tag…
Let’s say you’re a decent human being who believes that people shouldn’t feel like shit for wanting to get off with other happy, productive tax payers. Oh, you are? Great. Come make out with me Friday night, August 3. This is the only instance in which half-buzzed straight girls making…
The Cowboys might be in off season, but that doesn’t mean the Etsy booster club has slowed down its production of must-have items. On the contrary, there’s more weird shit on there than ever. Is your dog a football fan but also a captain of industry? Does he need clothing…
Find more of DFW’s best in our Best Of app, available for the iPhone and Droid. Like taking a new car for a test drive, sometimes it’s fun to try on a different head to see what you’ll look like before you chop, perm or color your own hair. Or…
Local metal sculptures Casey Melton and Shannah Frank are known better collectively as f. is for frank, the Dallas-based duo behind the city’s most inventive accessories. But it didn’t start out that way. Originally their main focus was furnishings: gorgeously detailed wooden chairs and tables, as well as pewter-crafted lighting…
Forbes posted its list of Top 15 Cities for Young Professionals this month, and Dallas didn’t make the cut. The rankings took job growth, employment rate, cost of living and median income into account, so it feels counterintuitive that Austin holds seat number 11 while Dallas warms the bench. Known…
London was infiltrated by a host of new “phone boxes” this summer, and while none of them to our knowledge is equipped for time/space travel, there is one in particular that we love. 2010 MasterMinds nominee and Dallas-based Pakistani artist Simeen Farhat’s donation, Outside the Box, is a jigsaw tooled,…
“It’s okay, I don’t get art either,” Aralyn McGregor claims when asked about her line of work. After receiving her BFA in studio painting from UNT in 2009, McGregor worked for a while as a middle school and high school art teacher before “retir[ing] at the ripe old age of…
A couple of weeks ago, Dallas’ ranking as the 19th “Best Big City for Art” by AmericanStyle Magazine left us slightly underwhelmed. Sure, it didn’t suck that Dallas got recognized for something other than being the worst city for hipsters, and sometimes you got to let them haters have it,…
Aside from having the Wild West’s most enviable surname, Catherine Horsey is a craft beer enthusiast, avid Red Dirt music listener and serious mandolin picker. And, despite the fact that she found her way to Dallas as an adult, she is as integral to the city’s cultural preservation as any…
Check your URL, because you haven’t inadvertently clicked over to The Onion. Dallas was ranked 19th in the Top 25 Big Cities for Art by AmericanStyle Magazine in its June 2012 Summer issue. (Up from 24th in 2011 and 2010). Granted, we didn’t get a fancy write-up like the big…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. In the third-semester acting class he teaches at KD Studio, theater director René Moreno recently asked students…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. When Ben Fountain published his first book in 2006, a collection of short stories called Brief Encounters…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. You might have seen his face on billboards — intense eyes conducting the traffic below with precision…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Altering the focal direction of a long-standing institution like the Dallas Museum of Art doesn’t happen overnight…
