When the final touches were placed on the city-owned Omni Dallas Hotel in 2011, a new vision of Downtown Dallas began to take shape. But while the Omni flashed its LED-lit greeting to Dallas, less than a mile away, another iconic building downtown remained shrouded in darkness. “We always saw…
Over six episodes crafted with the rich complexity of the novel, “celebrated murderess” Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), tells her own story, Scheherazade-style, to a doctor (Edward Holcroft) with the power to arrange for her pardon
Authors Live!: Scott Kelly Highland Park United Methodist Church 3300 Mockingbird Lane 7 p.m. Monday Free Nobody on Earth has spent more accumulative time outside of its gravity than Scott Kelly, former military fighter pilot and test pilot, engineer, retired astronaut, retired U.S. Navy captain and, now, author. He wants…
Prism Movement Theater has brought some of the most evocative theater to Dallas in recent years, all without uttering a word. Its latest creation is a wordless adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most complicated plays, King Lear. Prism’s iteration is simply called Lear. Audiences might wonder how theater so rooted…
Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of the Dana Carvey Show streams on Hulu Toward the end of the excellent new documentary, Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of the Dana Carvey Show, Dana Carvey describes the final installment of a bit that ran throughout his…
Why is Mel Gibson in the holiday family comedy Daddy’s Home 2? When Gibson’s relentlessly bloody, morally incoherent 2016 film Hacksaw Ridge inexplicably became a critical darling, I watched in horror at the love and attention lavished on the director. In what world were we living where, when Gibson’s name…
A Texas artist will have the opportunity to show his paintings in Miami during Art Basel, an international art fair, after discovering that a Miami gallery was promoting copies of his work. Jeff “Skele” Sheely first learned that someone was copying his paintings on Instagram. F.A.M.E. Gallery & Concept Store, based…
Friday Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band bring together music icons of the ’60s and ’70s and the fans who adore them. If we’re being honest, Starr is probably our favorite Beatle, and he’s toured with 12 variations of the band since 1989. He plays a bit of his…
Oak Cliff’s Top Ten Records is often recognized as the last place Dallas police Officer J.D. Tippett was seen, making a phone, call before Lee Harvey Oswald shot him at an intersection just a few blocks away. This historical connection to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 undoubtedly put…
Yes, it’s hard to imagine wanting to watch 11/8/16 today. The film, a sweeping survey documentary created and produced by Jeff Deutchman, follows 16 Americans from across the country on election day of 2016: a Sikh New York cabdriver, a “Dreamer” in San Jose, a Massachusetts dad in a MAGA…
The Dallas Observer has stepped up its commitment to multimedia reporting in the last few years and is hosting a free festival celebrating the short films we’ve produced in collaboration with our fine team of freelance videographers. Join us at the Texas Theatre on Tuesday, Nov. 21. The festival takes place on…
This fall, mainstream films are subverting expectations all over the place. Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! proved too much for some audiences looking for a moody drama who were then shocked by gory, allegorical narrative. Blade Runner 2049 sloughed off most of its predecessor’s lower-brow populist action for a somber tone and…
It’s not enough that the sitting president will hate Rob Reiner’s LBJ, but that’s not nothing, either. Here’s a portrait of a resolutely unlovable vulgarian who, due to a cruel accident of history, ascends to the Oval Office. But it’s the distinctions that will sting: In the opening moments, a…
If you’ve been to a fan convention, a special movie screening or any gathering of fanboys and girls in a public place, then chances are that you’ve seen the goateed face or heard the booming voice of Devin Pike. The host, emcee and program director at the online radio station…
A few years ago, photographer Takiyah Wallace was searching for a dance studio in Dallas for her 3-year-old daughter, who had expressed an interest in ballet, when she noticed something. “One of the first things that jumped out to me in visiting local studios here was that there were not…
With all of the sexual harassment allegations surfacing in the news, it’s appropriate that Nicole Stewart, founder of the storytelling series Oral Fixation, devoted the show Friday, Nov. 3, to women who have taken big risks. The theme for the program is “Jump Off a Cliff,” and former Fox News…
Thursday Three Dog Night had an incredible run of hit singles in the late ’60s through the ’70s, with such tunes as “One,” “Joy to the World,” “Mama Told Me Not To Come” and “Easy to Be Hard.” Its pop-friendly take on R&B and rock translated to millions of records…
It’s November! Which means that we’ve almost survived this year and I think that calls for a little celebration. How should we celebrate? Probably with lots of liquor. It’s been a tough one, but also TV! Nov. 2: Young Sheldon, CBS And on the seventh day, God planted the idea…
Jane arrives in theaters on October 20 On Sept. 11, 2001, renowned primatologist and environmental advocate Jane Goodall was in New York on business. She had planned to catch a flight out to visit a high school to give a talk on how we can find a reason to hope…
When I first saw Brett Morgen’s 2002 documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, I was shocked that the film somehow matched the rollicking, mercurial energy of its subject, producer Robert Evans. Morgen reimagined the use of archival footage and voiceover, and the style he pioneered has now been mimicked…
Like most of the better Marvel efforts, Thor: Ragnarok feels like the work of a unique sensibility instead of a huddle of brand managers. While the studio’s films demonstrated plenty of comic flair right from the start of its shared-universe experiment, with 2008’s Iron Man, recent efforts have veered too…
Ethan and Chantra Briggs of Burleson were just a few weeks into a year’s worth of wedding planning when they got an email that would let them bump up the date. The only catch? They’d have to get married at the amusement park Six Flags Over Texas, and they’d have…
