In Spanish-speaking countries, it’s tradition for a girl who turns 15 to celebrate a quinceañera. The celebration symbolizes a girl’s transformation from childhood into womanhood. As part of Hispanic Heritage month, The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden will allow selected participants to embrace the tradition by hosting the first Quinceañera…
Barefoot, nearly naked, sweating and seemingly disoriented, local artist Xxavier Carter carried a heavy weight on his shoulder during his Saturday performance of “Sweet Jesus.” He walked 10 miles from The Great Trinity Forest to White Rock Lake wielding a wooden cross almost twice his size. The performance was a…
Actor Barry Corbin’s Internet Movie Database (IMDB) page doesn’t do him justice. He’s starred and performed in more than 200 TV shows and films, including beloved classics like WarGames, Northern Exposure and No Country for Old Men. He’s acted in roles for best-selling video game franchises like the Tex Murphy adventures, the…
You’ve gotten into a rut. Every date is exactly the same. You go to the same restaurant. You order the same thing. Date night has become a monotonous chore. That ends today, because if there’s one thing the Dallas Observer does better than anyone else, it’s saving relationships. You need…
America will get another look into Dallas drag queen Alyssa Edwards’ life. Netflix announced the docuseries Dancing Queen will be added to its queue. It will follow Edwards, aka Justin Johnson, as he tackles drag life, home life and owning a dance studio in Mesquite. In 2010, Edwards was named Miss…
Filmed in black and white in the wintry countryside of Görlitz, Germany, Schwentke’s vision of a man who would be posthumously named the Executioner of Emsland is chilling and yet, at times, almost farcical
Bujalski frames most of Support the Girls as an almost real-time delineation of chaos, but his storytelling elegance — delicate, nearly invisible foreshadowing; cogent evocations of backstory — adds reflective layers to the surface anarchy
Happytime Murders, though, demands that we take its world somewhat seriously, that we invest ourselves in the tensions between people and puppets, that we buy into its by-the-book serial-killer narrative …
The story follows a gang of misfit criminals escaping to a hideout carved into the rocky Italian cliffside, where an eccentric, society-hating artist, Luce (Elina Löwensohn), and her guests sunbathe and make bullet-ridden art
For months, people have wandered the halls of the Sweet Tooth Hotel snapping photos, taking selfies in a tub and posing with giant lollipops on a bed made from leftover Nike shoe tread. Built By Bender, a Dallas-based custom fabrication shop, crafted five of the rooms for the Sweet Tooth…
Friday It’s not so much the securing of a designated driver. No, when it’s time for a group outing, the big problem is deciding on the destination. Which bar? Does it have food? Whose house is the meet-up? The Party Bus Bar Crawl from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday removes…
This new version, directed by Danish filmmaker Michael Noer, brings to the story a refreshing intensity and sweep, and even a sense of adventure
At its best, the show was a canny deconstruction of contemporary late-night comedy, which has been swamped with political satire since Stewart, the former Daily Show host, turned Bush-era liberal outrage comedy into its very own TV genre
Secrets get exposed, cultural barriers get smashed and re-erected, and every apparent villain will prove heroic and every hero something of a villain
A profile on Nick Florez, a DFW native who has worked as a dancer, choreographer and artistic director for everyone from Celine Dion to Katy Perry.
Jeff Smith, festival director of Texas Terrors Film Festival and Dallas filmmaker, believes short horror films don’t get the attention they deserve. He decided to organize the inaugural Texas Terrors fest that will showcase 20 independent short films Tuesday, Sept. 18 at Texas Theatre. “I wanted to have a lot…
Bare-knuckle boxing has a 173-year history that was put on pause back in 1892. A little over a century later, this legacy picked back up where it left off. Dallas-Fort Worth’s own mixed martial artist, Johnny Bedford, competed in the first regulated bare-knuckle event earlier this summer.
Jessica Sotero, a single mother of two from Irving who works as an administrative assistant in Dallas, signed up for WhatsYourPrice.com and found much more than a future boyfriend or husband.
Wednesday The regional premiere of Revolt. She said. Revolt again. closes Second Thought Theatre’s 2018 season. The new play focuses on the experiences (family, work, relationships, sex, power) of a woman in the 21st century. Writer is Britain’s Alice Birch. Director is Christie Vela. The cast: Jenny Ledel, Lydia Mackay,…
Boudoir photo shoots, where the bride-to-be takes photos in lingerie to give as a gift her husband on their wedding day, are often added into the mix of bridal to-dos. They’re perhaps seen as a bit taboo or hush-hush, but we’re talking about it. A bride’s list stacks up with…
Hannibal Buress is one of the most unique, original voices in comedy today, stand-up or otherwise. Blending absurdity with the benign, Buress can take what’s on its face a simple premise, like talking about the mixed drink “Flaming Dr Pepper,” and create a full history of how it was made…
Two thoughts come to mind when your Instagram newsfeed features a dog account with more followers than you: 1. Wow, someone has way too much free time on their hands. 2. Wow, this dog is so cute; I must follow and like every single photo. We bring you the best…
