This summer may go down as the season of printmaking. Thus far, we’ve had parties dedicated to the often over-looked art form, as well as live displays of the complicated process of paint, emulsions, scraping and pressing. The upcoming exhibition at Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Prints!Prints!Prints!, features the work of University…
You can’t slow time down; you can’t speed through life. You have to take it as it comes, repeating mantras like “It is what it is” or “C’est La Vie.” Resisting time is futile, but that won’t stop Melissa Dickenson from wrestling with it in her art. The San Francisco-based…
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. As you drive down the streets of Knox-Henderson’s residential area, it’s hard to imagine that behind…
What started as an innocent email chain among three of his buddies, turned into a full-time job. Dallas-based Reality Steve has been spoiling ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette endings since 2009…
Any list of the best classical concerts to hear in Dallas this August is going to be a short one. Toward the end of the month, the Fort Worth Symphony is putting on a mini festival of music by Brahms and Dvorák (featuring guest soloist Augustin Hadelich on violin). But…
On a blistering Saturday morning, a few runners peek into the doors of 521 E. Lawther Drive. They’re halfway through a nine-mile jog around White Rock Lake and this unassuming cream colored building looks like it has a bathroom and air conditioning. But the Bath House Cultural Center also looks…
Six floors up in the Wyly Theatre, there is a black box theater that has been sorely underused; Nine floors up there is a rehearsal space that rarely sees an audience. Both the Winspear Opera House and the Wyly will enter year five this fall, which makes them ripe for…
“It’s like I can feel our electrons falling so love with each other’s positive particles…Because chemistry is the only thing deep enough to explain this.” This the last line in the trailer for Chipping Smooth, the inaugural work from Pipe Dream Productions, a rag-tag organization of artists founded just this…
Over the weekend, a post popped up in my newsfeed from the Festival of Independent Theatres. “…Elaine Liner suggests that we be put out of our misery. Do you agree? We welcome your thoughts on the matter!” It linked to her stage column this week, which bears the heady title,…
WWE returned to American Airlines Center this Sunday, and this being a culture blog, we asked Jaime-Paul Falcone to go and send a sketch of what exactly goes at a WWE Live event. Drama, that’s what. Lots of drama, plus merchandising. ACT I Scene 1: Thousands of neon-clad children run…
The myth of Dallas often eclipses the actual city. Thanks to Dallas the TV show, Dallas the city lives in the shadows of oil rigs, oversized cowboy hats and big money. Stereotypes aside, we’re creating our own identity that is actually pretty awesome. It’s time to put down the cowboy…
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. Save for his disarming charm, were you to meet Michael Cain in person you’d never guess…
Shuffle, ball, change. Aaaaaand, dig! Those are the only tap dance words that stuck with me from the beginner adult class I took last fall. Turns out, you need rhythm to tap, and I’ve got zero. But it just looks so darn fun when dancers fly around the stage creating…
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. Taylor “Effin” Cleveland (not his real middle name, obviously, but he’s badass enough to call himself…
Saturday is National Dance Day, another day that you can celebrate through clever Facebook status updates, Instagram hashtags, and throwback photos to your drill team days and those terrible costumes your dance teachers used to make you wear. Or, you could actually get off your butt and dance. Novel idea,…
Summer is the perfect time for road trips and staycations, which might be how you’re choosing to spend this weekend. And if you’re looking to do that, we’ve got a few recommendations for both (see Road Tripping, Staycations). But if you’re planning to spend the weekend in Dallas and want…
Project Runway struts its way back onto the television Thursday night for season 13. It’s your classic reality competition show that narrows contestants down with each episode until there is a grand prize winner. It’s a favorite among fashion lovers or aspiring designers, and anyone else who just loves watching…
Fandom is a weird beast. It can make otherwise sane individuals do things that not even a lifetime of drinking will erase from memory. Some extreme fans of Supernatural seem to fit into that category. For those of you who aren’t in the know, it’s a show on The CW…
It used to be that when you wanted to get rid of old junk that inevitably accumulates in the home, you had to host a yard sale. Yard sales are colossal pains in the ass and require setting up a bunch of card tables and sitting in the hot sun…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Amy Nicholson of the L.A. Weekly and Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice interview film critic and author Karina Longworth, who’s just launched a fascinating new podcast on the history of Hollywood called You Must Remember This. Karina talks about the movies and…
Philip Seymour Hoffman is an island of rumpled calm in Anton Corbijn’s urgent A Most Wanted Man, a glum-out-of-principle espionage story based on a John Le Carré novel. The role demands that Hoffman be quiet, steady, occasionally frustrated, and that he hold secrets — often from us, which is a…
Like an old actor no longer able to remember his lines, maybe the Festival of Independent Theatres needs to be led gently out of the spotlight for good. The annual FIT fest, as it’s redundantly known, was conceived 16 years ago to give small companies a chance to produce new…
