Bowling for Soup have been a mainstay in the music industry since the band first formed in the mid-1990s. The Wichita Falls pop-punk band has earned a Grammy nomination and certified radio hits such as “1985” (trust us – you’ve heard it.) and lent the theme song to the mega popular animated Disney series Phinneas and Ferb.
Picture a movie with symmetrical framing. Add quirky characters. Colorful sets. Bill Murray. And a legion of hipster baristas ready to defend it as a work of genius. Yeah, you guessed, this is the work, any work, of acclaimed filmmaker Wes Anderson.
Rejoining the world after spending time in prison is tough. We can’t say we’ve been there, but those scenes in The Shawshank Redemption are forever stitched into our minds.
North Texas star Demi Lovato has been a role model since first appearing on Barney & Friends in the early 2000s. We’re trying hard to root for the singer-actress, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that Demi’s wokeness is rarely even demi-congruent.
One local TikTok star is earning massive internet fame – and without having to join in on the app’s dangerous #MilkCrate challenge or by committing felonies by vandalizing school property.
If you’ve been contemplating whether you should finally monetize your hot takes by making the jump into the world of journalism, then let us give you a little push: the Dallas Observer is looking for culture writers. We know, “culture” is a broad term, just as wide of a range…
Name any type of descriptor for a human being – or, any object, trend, place, verb, animal, mineral, vegetable, or even the most abstract of concepts – and there’s probably a category of porn dedicated to that very thing.
This week, a law went into effect in Texas banning abortions performed after six weeks of pregnancy. The law makes no exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape.
For those unfamiliar (or simply skeptical), not only does the city of Celina exist, but things also happen there.
Before there was social media, reality TV was the most reliable, sobering mirror we had available to gawk at the worst of societal flaws through videotaped evidence.
With a statewide spike in COVID cases caused partly by the Delta variant, the live music industry is trying to find ways to avoid mass concert cancellations and venue shutdowns, which caused a 30 billion loss of profit to the concert industry in 2020.
On the last Saturday of July, an entranced crowd circled the stage at the Cambridge Room at Dallas’ House of Blues.
The internet loves to divide us, sometimes in ways that have nothing to do with politics.
Donald Trump Jr. is no stranger to backlash, but he really angered twitterfolk this week when he tried to come after music royalty.
It’s been a head-spinning year-and-a-half and it’s time for our bodies to follow suit, so dust off your old skates and channel your inner Roller Girl, because DJs Blake Ward and Sober are having a party.
Drake Bell, former teen star on Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh, was sentenced this Monday to two years probation after pleading guilty to charges of child endangerment.
America has a long tradition of challenging its culture through the use of public transportation. A recent ad spotted on a Dallas bus is no Rosa Parks moment, but a curious one nonetheless.
Bill Hutchinson, a wealthy Dallas developer who appeared on the reality show Marrying Millions, was arrested in Highland Park on Tuesday.
In a city like Dallas, once named “the most Bible-thumping city in Texas,” it’s perhaps not entirely rare to expect 80,000 Christians in one big gathering.
Bars are a pillar upon which a city’s culture is built. They provide stages and meditative spaces for writers and artists and propel careers for entertainers and entire art movements.
Concert announcements are starting to again dictate how we spend all our free time and money, and one of the biggest names in local music history is ready to alt-rock her hometown crowd.
When the killing of George Floyd inspired protests across the world last summer, Dallas marched for the cause.
