Arts & Culture

Holly Dodson, 23. Singer in Parallels. Dada in Deep Ellum. “I’m wearing a cape from Etsy. I love vintage. I totally wish I had my mom’s wardrobe from the ’70s.”…

Decades after he helped make Texas skateboarding famous around the world, Jeff Phillips’ legacy still shapes young skaters in Dallas. This Saturday, pro skaters from around the country are reuniting for a tribute to their old friend, and to mark the opening of Dallas’ newest skater mecca. The Overground Project…

I’ve been looking at your photos. I see them on Facebook, Twitter, Path, instagram and Flickr. Occasionally, I plan to post a few that I like, with your permission, in what I like to call, the Smallest Group Show, ever. This installment: scenes of Texas weather. View the show after…

Park Place Motorcars of Dallas turned into a mini Bryant Park last night for Fresh Faces of 2011 Fresh Focus Reveal, a fundraiser for the Suicide Crisis Center of Dallas. The dealership rolled out the shiny, new 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet, but the main event was a fashion show featuring…

Welcome to the second installment of Profiles In Pictures, a photo series brought to you by The Mixmaster. Every couple of weeks we’ll profile a Dallas natives who, in some form or another, create. Shot by photographer Sara Kerens, (check out the premier PIP post here) and accompanied by a…

Some bus tours are all hype and no substance, like those buses that shuttle blue-haired grannies to Louisiana for slots and steak dinners. Your money is better spent elsewhere, so skip the casino bus and hop on the cool kids’ bus for Scardello’s cheesemaker tour. The tour is heading to…

As some of us from the Observer learned a couple weeks ago in the 24 Hour Video Race, making a short film is not as easy as it sounds. While we were thrilled just to have some semblance of a plot and a few jokes about balls that made us…

You love football. You love it so much you would marry it. But you can’t, and well, you’re still looking for that special someone. We’re not gonna say it’s entirely because you said that one time in public that you’d marry football, but its probably mostly because of it. Don’t…

I don’t know how to skateboard at all, but I’m really good at saying things like “sick,” “killer” and “wicked air, brah.” See? It’s amazing how realistic that was, right? Guess what? Even I am invited to the Texas Skateboarding Event of the Skate-century. (Don’t call it that or you’ll…

Our music section here at the Observer tends to ignore (if not openly mock) cover bands, aside from enjoying the semi-ironic tribute acts that crop up every Halloween. But really, is yet another terrible “original” band that’s a blatant rip-off of, say, Radiohead or Wilco more inherently valuable than an…

Do you love your hair? Do you love it less au naturale? That attitude is an uphill battle that could leave your treasured tresses most distressed. Ulta teaches you to not just work with what you’ve got, but embrace it during its special series on hair care. Love Your Hair…

The inner workings of the workplace have long been skewered in popular culture, much to the delight of us worker drones. Nearly all of us experience some level of boredom with our daily tasks or occasional frustration at the futility of our efforts. And we’ve pretty much all been the…