The Creative Arts Center of Dallas (CAC) will present its annual juried membership show at the Mary Tomás Gallery in the Dallas Design District. CAC is a nonprofit community arts organization and school of visual arts geared toward beginning, emerging, and working artists, and the selections for the show represent…
Armaggedon Michael Bay cannot be mocked enough. His films deserve to be taken down with an unrelenting spray of scorn and ridicule and not just because they are among some of the worst, highest-grossing movies to come out of Hollywood. They should be the only movies during which it’s OK…
The word arena might usually conjure images of tall men in brightly colored uniforms, dribbling an orange ball down a court. Trade the men for women, the uniforms for outfits, and just ditch the balls entirely, and you’ve got a pretty good idea of The Fashion Opera’s next event, Fashion…
There are few things more satisfying than the first bite of the warm, cheesy goodness of a pizza slice. The only way to make it even better is knowing that you earned that slice by enriching the life of a child. Monday night Greenville Avenue Pizza Company (GAPCo) hosts the…
It’s the archetype of every buddy/cop movie since. Old guy paired with rule-breaking buck. They dislike each other at first, then become BFFs. Over-the-top bad guys. Shooting. Lots and lots of shooting. It’s 1987’s Lethal Weapon, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as mismatched police partners who something something bang…
Many a love letter has been written to the short play. If it’s a bad play, the 60-minute run time gives a quick release from shoddy dialogue, or accents that need tuning. If it’s a good play, it leaves you wanting more. Plus the actors and the audience won’t have…
There was always a group of girls in the back of the school bus that sat together and sang Broadway tunes. They got all emotive and rolled through the soundtracks from Les Mis and Godspell and Phantom of the Opera. You always thought those girls were so cool and worldly…the…
You could say a lot of things about Miss Candy Barr, but accusing her of leading a boring life is not something you could get away with. The famed stripper/burlesque dancer and one-time Dallas resident had ties to a number of fascinating men (including Mr. Jack Ruby), gallivanted with mobsters,…
It’s all shapes and colors from the outside and even though you’ve been told not to judge a book by its cover, in the case of The Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, your assumptions will be fulfilled within. The art on display almost always feels like a psychedelic trip,…
Emma Stone and Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight.On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice and Amy Nicholson of L.A. Weekly discuss Woody Allen’s latest, Magic in the Moonlight, and revisit Get on Up and Guardians of the Galaxy, and…
Rio Ritz 2722 Routh St. A well-run boutique needs a welcoming atmosphere, trendy clothes, and pristine changing rooms. Oh, and booze. Rio Ritz has all of this in spades. Earlier this year, Thais Moses opened the doors of her well-curated shop to the benefit of closets throughout Dallas. The store…
What’s that saying about tides and ships? As the arts scene in Texas swells, the opportunity for cross-city collaboration. Whether it be sending Dallas artists to Austin, or bringing Houston artists here, as is the case with Draped Up & Dripped Out, which opened at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center…
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. Aaron Aryanpur is more than just one of DFW’s most admired comedians. He’s an admirer of…
It’s a jungle out there. The Mixmaster is looking for a few good writers to come along on our expedition through the arts and culture in Dallas. Ask yourself the following questions: Can you sniff out cool ways to spend the weekend? Do you wander into new shops out of…
Years ago Wesley Treat discovered an interest in roadside attractions. As a photographer, he’d found his subject and he started a blog to chronicle his travels. Around the same time two guys up in New Jersey had a blog called “Weird New Jersey” that eventually became a book and then…
Even paintings need to get out town for the summer. If you are driving through Dallas during the month of August, you might notice a few luminaries stopping by for a visit. Willem de Kooning is splitting time between Oak Cliff and the Cedars; Edward Hicks found a Peaceable Kingdom…
At WaterTower Theatre, time shifts to 1964 in San Francisco. Young Marines head out onto the town before they’re shipped off to a growing war in Southeast Asia. They are looking for a good time, hounding for women. Eddie Birdlace happens upon Rose, a young musician working a late-night shift…
Last fall, a small group of young actors appeared in the Bishop Arts District, mounted a gripping production of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis and then vanished. But not before promising an entire season of productions under the moniker Davis Street Collective. It’s the sort of thing that happens here too…
Celia Eberle’s work as an artist knows no restrictions. A lifetime Texas resident, Eberle considers herself a product of the “pine curtain,” a reference to growing up in Longview. For the past 25 years, she’s shown her work in and around Dallas, building an oeuvre that’s imaginative, surreal and occasionally creepy. Many times, one of her mixed media sculptures has sent an unconscious tingle down my spine.
Where did the summer go? It’s been a relatively quiet and cool one this year, and that can only mean one thing. That we’ve all been be resting and waiting for August to hit and for the performance season to start again. Dancers who have been gone all summer training…
Maribeth Monroe is one busy lady. She’s starring in a new dark comedy for HBO called The Brink about a geopolitical whirlwind that could bring about World War III. She’s gearing up to shoot the new season of Workaholics where she plays the perpetually stressed and enraged boss, Alice. Plus,…
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. If you drove past The Basement Gallery during the day, you might not know it was…
