How The Grinch Stole Christmas is already a legend. Written in 1957, it’s a clever little criticism on the commercialization of Christmas. There’s the Grinch who tries to ruin everything by stealing Christmas altogether and there are The Whos that celebrate the spirit of the season even when they’re tinsel-free…
If you didn’t get your art auction fix at Art Conspiracy, you’re in luck. The Winter Art Mart and Silent Auction carries on the tradition of art for a good cause with a special three-day event benefiting the visual and performing arts programs at the Bath House Cultural Center. With…
When series seven of Doctor Who concluded in May, the 11th Doctor confronted a new Time Lord. It turns out now — brace yourself — that the unknown man is actually the Eighth Doctor who drank a potion to regenerate into the War Doctor to battle in the Time War…
You screamed “No!” when Snow White ate the poisoned apple. You praised Mulan when she saw her father’s armor and decided to fight for her family’s honor. You laughed whenever Genie clowned on Aladdin for absolutely no reason. Starting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, all the beloved Disney franchises will intertwine…
Generally speaking, the works we see on the walls of art museums are the finished products created by artists who each have their own distinct processes. While each piece is nicely framed and carefully constructed from what could possibly be years of struggle, rarely do we get a peek behind…
Horror Remix Presents… ROAD RASH The sick, twisted minds behind Horror Remix, the hosts of the mini horror film festival that cut out everything but the good parts from cheesy ’70s and ’80s monster movies and slasher flicks, are bringing some very obscure biker flicks to the Alamo Drafthouse in…
The Movember Comedy Show this Sunday at Hyena’s in Dallas is part of November’s mustache-loving fight against cancer. Members of Movember team Dallas Comedy are banding together to grow creepy mustaches and perform some stand up to put money where it’s needed — to fight prostate and testicular cancers and…
Images courtesy Lionsgate.Ritchman and Schlund in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, opening this Friday, Alan Ritchson and Stephanie Leigh Schlund play two of the story’s fiercest bad guys. But tucked away in a hotel room on the 17th floor of the Mandarin Oriental in Miami’s…
I think most of us went to the City Performance Hall last night for the slapstick. I’m not ashamed to say it: I love Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin. I love big guy/ little guy moments. I love seeing people fall through trap doors and become the jogging…
Imagine a man with two hearts inside a blue box traveling through space, jumping through time like an intellectual child of Marty McFly, the hero of the Back to the Future film series, and Sybil, the film character who suffered a mild case of multiple personalities in the 1976 film…
Hey, you love the arts. Well we do too, and that’s why we throw Artopia, a massive immersive experience celebrating those creative people shaping Dallas’ exciting new era. Also, there’s booze. You’re welcome. One ticket gets you access to runway shows by local designers, food and drink stations, live music…
Nick Offerman likes red meat. This much is clear. The lines between him and the comic creation Ron Swanson, one of the most consistently funny sitcom characters ever made, are distinctly blurred. Both are huge fans of woodworking. Both enjoy self-sufficiency. Both would rather there were less government encroachment into…
The Dallas Observer just opened nominations for its annual Masterminds competition. We’re passing out a total of $6,000 in no-strings-attached cash to driven Dallas County residents who are making a difference through film, visual arts, dance, fashion, performance, theater and other non-music avenues of expression. We’re looking for people who…
As a UNT alumn, Denton is dear to me. That magical, distant land is the type of place where you can still find a good cheap breakfast. Plus, UNT recently hired Ruth West, an egghead of thrilling proportions, who’s establishing a shared future for the arts, new media and technology…
Art Con 9 hit a cultural tipping point this year, attracting thousands of Dallas residents to a warehouse on Singleton Boulevard. DJs Sarah Jaffe and emptycylinder kept the collective heart rate up between auctions rounds while headliners Zhora and New Fumes circulated their own energies through the front of the…
On Friday night La Davina Productions celebrated the sexier side of espionage with an all 007-themed stage show. Goldfinger, Dr. No and other characters left their respective lairs to stalk the stage of Kalita Humphreys Theater. We sent photographer Ed Steele deep undercover to gather photographic evidence against those villainous…
Before you fill up on turkey and stuffing and can’t move your extremities, come out to The Amsterdam Comedy Festival for three kick-ass days of laughs from some of DFW’s best comedians. It’s all free, so don’t worry about wrecking your pie budget. The shows are November 22-24 at The…
This Saturday night Dallas gets more inventive, thanks to a little shindig called Art Con 9. Organized by a legion of do-gooders, the event unites the city’s fringe in an unassuming warehouse at 500 Singleton Blvd. That space has been converted into a fleeting party venue where a few thousand…
2015 is shaping up to be a good year for fans of new music and opera in Dallas. Last night The Dallas Opera announced that acclaimed American composer/librettist Mark Adamo has been commissioned to compose what they are calling “a holiday opera.” The new work is scheduled to be premiered…
Last week was a strange one for Tattooed Hippie Pirate Mommas founder Stacy Willingham. She was already getting a ton of publicity for the mom group she founded and the calendar she helped create to raise money for charity. It reached an interesting new level when we reported that the…
Next Friday is composer Gunther Schuller’s 88th birthday, but he hasn’t planned a celebration. “I’ve had so many birthdays,” he explains, “I suppose something will come up.” It doesn’t seem unreasonable to ask an almost 88-year old about his retirement plans, especially since he’s in Dallas preparing two area colleges…
What’s the best way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of Japan’s greatest animated films? Seeing it on the big screen, of course. Duh. If you said something else like developing psychic powers to start a war in a dystopian metropolis, you’re setting the bar too high. The Alamo…
