Since it was founded by artistic director and conductor Richard McKay in 2011, the Dallas Chamber Symphony has enlivened Dallas’ classical music scene with innovative programming. Now that work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which announced yesterday that the Dallas Chamber Symphony will receive…
There’s so much to do over the next week in Dallas that we could probably just pick events out of a hat, and you’d still be guaranteed a stellar time. But there’s a little more method to our madness than that; we like to find a little something for everyone…
The Real Housewives of Dallas Episode 5 Recap “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” From everything we’ve been told, The Real Housewives of Dallas started out as a show about women balancing their society, personal and career lives. But when Housewives executive producer Andy Cohen saw the footage, he said Dallas…
The first thing multimedia artist K. Yoland brings up over coffee in her second floor apartment in the M Streets is the Ku Klux Klan. For the British-born artist, who now divides time between Dallas and Marfa, the strong historical presence of the white-hooded terrorist group in Texas was quite…
The Oak Cliff Film Festival turns five this year and they just announced the first six features they’ll be screening. They’re all killer. The festival’s theme this year is the “New Hollywood Era.” “This year’s artist’s inspiration uses the New American era of ’70s maverick Hollywood as a jumping off…
Do This! Former Observer arts and culture editor Lauren Smart has collaborated with The Wild Detectives (314 8th St.) to throw a month-long festival, Women Galore, that celebrates the work of women in the arts. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday you can catch everyone’s favorite 10-year-old comedian, Saffy Herndon, as she…
If PEZ Dispensers never struck you as works of art, pay a visit to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and you’ll see them differently. One of the most visually enticing displays in its new exhibit, Eye of the Collector, shows hundreds of Kermit and Princess Jasmine sugar-delivery mechanisms…
Vaxxed, the new “documentary” about the alleged connection between vaccines and autism, is directed by Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced doctor responsible for duping untold thousands of parents into believing vaccinations could give their children autism. This may not be news to anyone who’s followed the controversy surrounding the film’s abrupt…
trapped in the fjord, so we had to walk everywhere at the Magnolia Theatre 3699 McKinney Ave. Ro2 Art presents a new exhibition by Fort Worth-based multi-disciplinary artist Dannie Liebergot. The show, trapped in the fjord, so we had to walk everywhere, features new photographs inspired by Liebergot’s six-week residency…
All actors possess their own personal gateway into becoming a character. Some require deep memory mining (method). Others require lengthy conversations with the director about seemingly unrelated philosophical topics. And some just need a single physical characteristic around which they can develop a character’s entire being. Susan Sarandon is a…
If nothing else, Captain America: Civil War stands as something of a corrective to this spring’s other superheroes-bludgeoning-each-other opus, Batman v Superman. While that film was severe and downcast, Civil War is expansive, at times even light. BvS strove to redefine its superheroes to fit newer, darker, borderline-sociopathic molds; Civil…
The Real Housewives of Dallas Episode 4 Recap “Mouth of the South” We are now on episode 4 of The Real Housewives of Dallas and one thing seems to be certain. Brandi Redmond will get the first segment. And she’s almost always in her home, cooking something, and talking about…
It’s a night for alter egos. Even the venue, tucked a few steps away from the main streets of Deep Ellum, is using its second name. Tonight the Lizard Lounge is called The Church, and here the acolytes of the father of suspension have gathered. Inside, the Freaks and Fetish party…
The spring arts and culture lineup in Dallas is hitting it out of the park, and there’s no sign that things will let up anytime soon. This week in particular bats a thousand, with a roster that includes hard-hitting political discussions, Broadway-themed grand slams, and an arts discussion that touches…
For all but the most dedicated kids, playing it safe on Mother’s Day is generally the way to go. Even if you have the best mom on the planet – so great that you’ll be telling everyone on Facebook about her – you’re probably not going to go too far…
Is it too much to ask that all these holiday-themed rom-coms — Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve and now Mother’s Day — one day merge with the Halloween movies? Michael Myers might be the only one in either franchise with a truly cutting response to all the rhetorical musings about relationships romantic,…
It’s easy to think, based on the marketing, that the first feature film from acclaimed comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele will be a hundred minutes of an adorable kitten dressed in a do-rag and gold chain for easy laughs, but Keanu is so so much more than that…
Do This! Join 200,000 other people from all over Texas at the 36th Denton Arts & Jazz Festival this weekend, where seven stages of music from acts such as UNT One O’Clock Lab Band, the Flatlanders and Brave Combo, tons of local art exhibits and a juried art show are just the beginning of…
Another Texas Frightmare Weekend is upon him, but founder Loyd Cryer is calm and collected. This year is the convention’s 11th installment, and per usual the multi-day event will take place at the Hyatt Regency near DFW Airport. Not only is it the sole horror-themed convention in Texas, it’s considered…
Bubble and Rooftop Gardens at PDNB Gallery 154 Glass St., No. 104 Stuart Allen’s explorations of light and color continue with photographs of bubbles. These amorphic shapes against the sky reveal colors we cannot see with the naked eye. Bubble opens with an artist’s reception Saturday from 5-8 p.m. PDNB’s other…
If you’re not watching The Real Housewives of Dallas, then you might not be the only one. Ratings for the Dallas-based show have decreased each week since its premiere. According to TV By The Numbers, a TV ratings site, about 1 million people tuned in to the premiere episode, then…
Trailer Park Boys, Canada’s classic television comedy series, has been running for 10 seasons and counting. Actor John Dunsworth brilliantly plays the Boys’ drunken nemesis, Jim Lahey. Along with his shirtless sidekick and on-and-off lover, Randy, Lahey has sent the Boys to jail several times. A former police officer and…
