The One-Minute Play Festival at first glance sounds a little like the 21st century’s ADD addled response to the art of theater. It’s actually anything but. This August audiences will have three chances to see Dallas’ inaugural One-Minute Play Festival, a festival Artistic Director Dominic D’Andrea calls a “barometer project.”…
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. Curiosity and experience are essential to creation and Karen Minzer has both in spades . Citing…
“60 pulses of storytelling is how we like to describe it,” Artistic Director Dominic D’Andrea says of his One Minute Play Festival (#1MPF), making the fest sound suspiciously like theater for the ADD-addled 21st century. In actuality the #1MPF is anything but. This year Kitchen Dog Theater will play host…
For the past few years the Oak Cliff Cultural Center has been working hard providing outreach and education programs for Oak Cliff residents and neighbors. The staff at the Cultural Center provides a wide array of activities intended to foster community engagement and it’s time to celebrate their hard work…
This month Oak Cliff’s The Wild Detectives hosts Wordspace’s OffWorld Sci Fi Readers Club. We know, we lost you at “sci fi readers club,” but hear us out. Location? The Wild Detectives where they serve coffee, wine, beer, cheese and pie. You love all of those things. Host? Will Evans…
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. When Mark Lowry was contemplating the launch of a website covering regional theater he didn’t have…
Whether you watch classic movies regularly or not, chances are you’ve seen Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot, or at least a few scenes from what is, arguably, the ‘greatest comedy of all time.’ You know: Jack Lemmon and the beautiful Tony Curtis simultaneously pulling and not pulling off their…
Pink Floyd: gods of the concept album, the conceptual rock tour and, arguably, the conceptual music video. Thanks to the Internet you can now watch Pink Floyd’s The Wall anytime you want, but thanks to Alamo Drafthouse, at 8 p.m. Tuesday you can see the full-length film exactly the way…
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. There’s a consistent trait shared by creators: the fear of not creating. When most people think…
It seems as if the thing to do these days is host excessively diverse art parties. Well, basically, the people at Dallas Fashion Art were throwing progressive art events before they were cool. This year’s Dallas Fashion Art part art event part fundraiser party’s theme is ‘Man as Machine.’ What…
This Ain’t No Party is a deceptive name for Ash Studios’ next art filled, dare we say it, ‘party,’ because a night full of film, music and art certainly checks out with our criteria for a party. Wait, were they just being facetious? Whoops. Anyways, June 12 is when, for…
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. “You can’t have too many businesses,” says Brandon Castillo. Dallas is certainly lucky he thinks so…
Ah, crush. Such a hard-working word, constantly doing double time conjuring up dreams of young love AND bringing to mind acts of gnarly violence, its meaning helplessly relying on that little possessive, or lack thereof. The Crush in Tim Best’s latest series of work happens to be the latter kind,…
