‘Tis the season for glitz and glam at the Dallas Symphony. On Saturday, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s 2014 AT&T Gala brings an opportunity not only to hear great music, but also to slip into a formal gown, sip champagne and get your groove on in the Meyerson Symphony Center’s elegant…
Comedian Doug Stanhope once told us in an interview that “there’s nothing fucking worse” than performing at huge theaters because they ruin the intimacy of a room or a comedy club. Unfortunately when you’re big enough to get on the cover of Rolling Stone’s comedy issue like comedian Aziz Ansari,…
TITAS is starting its dance season off with a little bit of magic by bringing back audience-favorite, MOMIX. It’s been almost four years since MOMIX presented their full-length production, Botanica, at the Winspear Opera House, and had us all dreaming of flowers, forests, and dinosaurs, but they are finally back…
Beer before liquor never been sicker, beer before beer you’re in the clear. That’s the expression, right? Anyway, Brewfest is simple: You drink beer, listen to music and have a damn good time.This fifth annual event features an array of breweries.Tickets include 12 2-ounce tastings. 21 and up, only. Sat.,…
Soprano Ailyn Pérez is beautiful and ridiculously talented. She’s also married to a gorgeous, talented man, a tenor named Stephen Costello. Some people are just lucky like that. For the rest of us, it’s awfully fun to watch an attractive couple with insanely beautiful voices perform together on stage, which…
It seems that every fair, food “palooza” or gluttony fest is dedicated to some kind of food that’s really not healthy to eat until it starts oozing out of your ears. We’ve got nothing against chili cook-offs or rib fests but it would be a nice change of pace for…
Showing that dancers are some of the strongest and toughest breed of performing artists, the dancers of the Bruce Wood Dance Project are keeping the faith and moving forward with the work of their artistic leader by honoring his memory with their fall show, Lovett + More, at the Dallas…
You only use the word vintage when you’re talking about antiques and fine vines. Frankly, I like the second use a whole lot more. And once a year for the past 28 years, downtown Grapevine is filled with people who agree with my taste in semantics. At GrapeFest, a blend…
When you read “opening ceremonies attire” on the September Surrender event description, think latex. Latex, whips, dog collars, and anything else that you’d find in the kink section of your favorite sex shop. If you’re not part of that community, it will be unlike any party you’ve ever attended. This…
If you’ve sat in the Wyly Studio, cradling your sanctioned adult sippy cup, and listened to the presenters of Oral Fixation, you know the true life tales are something to cherish, something you feel special you got to hear first-hand. The themed readings of each season can sell out so…
One of the most infamous women in world history is the mysterious Egyptian queen Cleopatra. As penned by William Shakespeare, she’s the complicated centerpiece of the tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra. For the fall show of its 2014 season, Shakespeare Dallas mounts this somewhat historical romance in all its temptuous grandeur…
If Broadway is The Great White Way, you might call Turtle Creek The Great Rainbow Way this month, as theater group Uptown Players has returned to the Kalita Humphreys Theatre (3636 Turtle Creek Blvd) with its 4th annual Dallas Pride Performing Arts Festival. The nine-day festival features plays, a concert…
The O’Jays were formed way back in 1958 in a high school in Canton, Ohio. So naturally a casino in Oklahoma will have yet another legendary act you didn’t have a clue still tours pop into town. Accolades for the soul and R&B group run deep: Seven of their studio…
Opening Undermain Theatre’s thirty-first season, we’ve got the world premiere of a play by Gordon Dahlquist, and it’s perfect for fountain-of-youth hunting Dallasites. Tomorrow Come Today is a futuristic sci-fi thriller about a world where the wealthy can exchange their tired, old bodies for fresh, young ones, allowing them to…
It’s been a while since you’ve done the time warp, hasn’t it? Somewhere between the step to the right and bringing your knees in tight, Saturday nights spent watching outgoing goth kids dressed as Magenta and Riff Raff went by the wayside. But everyone needs a bit of a mind…
Maybe Great Britain doesn’t strike you as a bastion of modern design—after all, it’s a nation associated with a certain primness, plus super stodgy dinnerware and post-apocalyptic public housing. But really, since the 1960s, jolly old England has churned out some of the most exuberant and fun pieces of design—like…
It’s little wonder Gordon Dahlquist’s newest play is science fiction. The first words of the upcoming Undermain Theatre world premiere,Tomorrow Come Today, were penned at a 10-day silent retreat in West Texas. “It’s not just not talking,” the Brooklyn-based playwright explains over lunch at All Good Cafe. “It was eight-and-a-half…
It’s a picturesque summer night. My mother is in town for the week. I’m taking her to the theater in the downtown Dallas arts district. With the simple hope that we confab over a cocktail before we settle into our seats at the City Performance Hall, we head to One…
This weekend, one of the country’s funniest foodies stops in at the American Airlines Center. Aziz Ansari brings his latest comedy tour, Modern Romance, to town at 8 p.m. Saturday night and according to him it’s so dope, he wants to give the tickets away. “I think this is my…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. “Sorry if the reception’s bad, I’m headed into a national sequoia forest,” Toby Halbrooks says, answering…
Merritt Tierce spent her mid-twenties waiting tables at a Dallas steakhouse. She was a writer, sure, but she spent most of her days serving the elite and struggling toward 30. That this experience would serve as formative life experience and become fodder for her first novel, Love Me Back surprises…
Tonight in Denton at Dan’s Silverleaf local author Darin Bradley will officially release his second novel Chimpanzee complete with a live rendition of the audioplay of the novel. Bradley released his first novel, Noise, through Random House in 2010 while he was still working as a lead video game writer…
