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Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend

Friday The Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak St., presents El Encuentro, a love story that explores flamenco's Moroccan past. The Moors ruled Spain for hundreds of years, and their influence still pops up in Spain's music and architecture today. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, the concert will include Carlos Garcia...
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The Meg Only Triumphs When It Accepts Its Full Silliness

... It’s a hero-dude adventure movie based on a Michael Crichton-esque paperback techno-thriller, which means we hear more science talk than is strictly necessary, get a tour of a gleaming research facility and meet a billionaire finder (Rainn Wilson) who just might have ulterior motives
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Marvel Universe Live! Is Bringing Your Favorite Superheroes to AAC

On Sunday night the cast and crew of Marvel Universe Live! left San Antonio after their last performance, immediately driving toward Dallas to rest and recharge for the week ahead. Starting Monday the crew entered American Airlines Center to build their intricate set designed to wow an arena of spectators...
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Dallas Observer Mixtape with DJ Aaron Merges

With only a year into the DJ game, Aaron Merges is the epitome of a rookie, but don't let that fool you. Merges has taken to the craft like a fish to water. He's a natural talent with a deft ear and the required amount of hustle that comes with...
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6-Day Countdown Until RHOD: LeeAnne Locken Applies for Miss USA

Only six more days until our six favorite women return for Season 3 of The Real Housewives of Dallas. That's less than a week. Wow! We explored Dallas Housewife Kameron Westcott's worst job interview Wednesday, and today we're looking at Dallas Housewife LeeAnne Locken's worst. In a CNBC Prime YouTube...
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A Timeline of All the Name Changes of That Fair Park Venue

The Dos Equis Pavilion has had many names, and while all of them might not have rolled off the tongue, there’s the possibility the names could have been something much worse. There’s the University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona, the Taco Bell Arena in Idaho and the KFC Yum! Center...
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Hand To God Is a Play About Puppets, Church and the Devil

Texas-born playwright Robert Askins grew up going to church where puppet ministries were used to teach life lessons from the Bible. In his play Hand to God, Askins explores the complex duality of human nature and the battle against the self. He created a little puppet named Tyrone to ask...
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R&B’s Cheeseburger Bao Is Fusion Food At Its Best

At 3:15 p.m. on a weekday, R&B is polished-clean and empty. It won’t be long. It’s a brief breath of air before the plunge: over the weekend, the night crew will sear oblong beef patties until 4 a.m. The first late-night service went fine. A surge of Dallasites showed up...
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Dallas Producer Ish D Goes Solo with New EP, Marina’s Melody

Ish D was raised on Fruity Loops. Not the cereal with the toucan mascot — the music-making software. Born Ishmael Davison, the San Angelo native-born music producer cut his teeth making beats with the family computer and with the PlayStation 2 game “MTV Music Generator.” MIDI controllers and other tech...
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McMansion Hell Is Taking on Dallas’ Own McMansions

A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but affronts to architectural pulchritude live in infamy on Kate Wagner’s blog McMansionhell.com. McMansion Hell highlights a certain type of enormous, aesthetically baffling dwelling constructed across the country in recent decades. Wagner wants to unveil the worst offending home in Texas, her...
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8-Day Countdown Until RHOD: Kameron Westcott Applies for Fossil

Only eight more days until our six favorite women return for Season 3 of The Real Housewives of Dallas. If it hasn't hit you yet, it should by now. Eight days, people! In a CNBC Prime YouTube video, Dallas Housewife Kameron Westcott reveals her worst job interview. When she applied...