“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…
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. Think of her as a modern Artemis, Protector of Young Women. Though she is soft-spoken, measured and…
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. With so many large walls in need of decorating, an ornate painting of a park in autumn…
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. There is a moment in the sexy Adam Rapp play Red Light Winter that could test the…
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. Jane Aldridge reaches for a life-sized white ceramic cat perched on one of her coffee tables and…
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. It’s the movie house that Howard Hughes built, and the one a shlub named Lee Harvey forced…
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. A little more than three years ago, Nicole Stewart was in Venice Beach, California, and she was…
Back in college, a “power hour” was a drinking game where two very drunk, and likely underage, idiots tried to drink one shot of beer per minute for a full hour. As an adult, we still rock that shit, but now we just call it “happy hour at Goodfriend.” These…
Among some of his less-remembered acts as governor, George W. Bush declared June 20th an official Texas state holiday back in 1999, honoring Audie Murphy. From meager beginnings as a North Texas plowboy to World War II’s most highly-decorated American soldier, Murphy led a life of immense acclaim as a…
Juneteenth is a complicated holiday here in Texas. While it is a national celebration of emancipation, it is too a solemn reminder not only of one of the most shameful periods of American history, but also the fact that slavery did not end in Texas when the Emancipation Proclamation went…
If one were to describe photographer Allison V. Smith’s work with just one word, it would be: multifarious … or, variegated. Vivid, nuanced, resplendent, complicated. Conspicuous, but never ostentatious, never distractingly so. In other words, there’s simply no way to condense a multifaceted artist of Smith’s breadth to a single…
Art is Art posted a little reminder yesterday evening on Facebook that there are only two days left to scrounge up some last minute goods for the favorite father figure in your life. What do dads even like? Bill O’Reilly and steak, probably. Maybe a meat basket, if you want…
First of all, we’re not crazy about tossing around the term “bitch” – at least not outside the context of safe words and “yes ma’ams” – but some asshat writer popularized the phrase in order to capitalize on one of Dallas’ most overwrought stereotypes, and it has unfortunately just kind…
A couple weeks ago, we reported on a panel discussion at CentralTrak, “1.2 Million Stories: State of the Emerging Arts,” conceived by Green Bandana Group founder, Darryl Ratcliff, and featuring such prominent young voices as Kevin Rubén Jacobs, Danielle Georgiou, Jerod Davies and Bryan Embry. Lasting more than 90 minutes,…
I’ll have to break somebody’s legs up in payroll before I make another trip over to Dolly Python, because that place has everything I want, but nothing I (particularly) need. *Not a real threat, payroll; I’m a writer, not a fighter.* Whenever I step through those doors, my staying on…
