The stroke of midnight brings different feelings depending on your age. For kids, it’s a thing of wonder—a magical hour that we get to see during sleepovers and covertly on Christmas Eve. For young adults, it’s just part of the day; two hours ‘til closing, and the time when they…
At the corner of Ross and Peak Avenues there is a furniture store with a permanent sign reading, “Everything Must Go.” The fervor-raising, marketing scheme, no-holds-barred sale is not a novel approach to getting things off the shelves. Shrewd businessmen have been doing it for centuries. The new version of…
When it comes to space exploration, there’s just no room to be jaded: Space is…well, it’s scary as hell, and nothing short of super-rad. The moon? Flying from Earth and landing on the freaking moon?! Seriously. How can anyone debate how unbelievably cool that is? They can’t. Which is why…
Unless you’re immersed in the urban erotic poetry scene or a fan of HBO’s Real Sex you probably aren’t familiar with Jessica Holter, activist, author and founder of The Punany Poets theatre company. Curious Dallasites can finally get a taste of Punany 8 p.m. Saturday when Holter brings her show…
If you’re not a Z-list celebrity, you’re probably never going to make it onto Dancing With the Stars and if you’re tone deaf, American Idol is probably out too. Well, at least the “you’re going to Hollywood” part. But if you have at least $36 to spare, you can head…
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…
Basically, the Fine Arts Chamber Players’ annual Basically Beethoven Festival is a great way to try out a classical concert on the cheap (read: free). It’s also the perfect post-Sunday-brunch activity; its cool and dark inside Dallas City Performance Hall, the music is lovely, and you don’t even have to…
Games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake transformed the video game universe from a tired collection of happy pixels into a bloody orgy of gaming greatness. The industry wouldn’t have produced modern FPS giants like Borderlands, Far Cry, and Call of Duty without id Software’s legendary vision for blood, beasts…
Are you looking for some comfort? Well, end your woes like the evening sun and take in a show at Samuell Grand Amphitheatre (1301 Tenison Parkway). The opening night of the latest Junior Players summer production starts 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. The kids will be strutting the boards in a production…
Stage designer Peter Wolf had a long, prolific career creating elaborate sets for Broadway productions, but he was famous locally as the chief stage designer at the Dallas Summer Musicals for more than 30 years. His name should be household, but it’s sadly lost in the spotlight’s shadows. Fortunately, as…
From the comfort of a coffee shop, or while you’re eating your tuna fish sandwich at your desk, it might be difficult to imagine what a day in the life of a Jewish ghetto was like. It’s probably not something you enjoy contemplating on your lunch break at your boring…
Remember those long days stuck inside a cold cement-block room listening to your college professor drone on about the rules of financial accounting as you dreamed about laying out by your apartment’s pool? Ok, so maybe I was a business major as an undergrad and sucked at accounting, so I…
It doesn’t sound like there are a lot of perks to being First Lady: the President’s wife can only be passionate about what’s politically correct and has to deal with being called FLOTUS, which sounds an awful lot like some sort of menstrual malady. But one perk that the First…
For four years, Uptown Players has taken a week to celebrate its existence as the city’s LGBT-centric theater. In every season, the company presents shows that that connect with or describe the gay identity, but during the Pride Performing Arts Festival, the shows are more unabashed. This week, Uptown Players…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we hear from L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson, who’s intrigued by the bizarre universe of Pixar’s Planes movies. We also hear about the film critic’s background and how she became interested in the movies by way of subliminal advertising and photography…
Some Dallas residents don’t even know it exists. The Great Trinity Forest, a lush 6,000+ acre woodland, is a hideout worthy of Robin Hood’s Merry Men that sits just beyond East Dallas. And it’s one of the subjects of the photography exhibition that opens at Sun to Moon Gallery this…
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. Running a gallery is not easy. Sisters Elissa and Erin Stafford knew this when their father…
Expanding your horizons is a pretty popular pastime nowadays, and plenty of folks decided to spend this past Sunday, blazing cultural trails at the Angelika Dallas, for the centerpiece showcase of the 13th annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas. The theater began to fill as showtime neared. Some moviegoers were…
Not everyone knows that Dallas is one of the hub cities that shaped modern video gaming. Pong started in a tavern in the heart of Silicon Valley; Pac-Man was put together by a team of programmers in another country; but here in Dallas, we gave gaming something it didn’t even…
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, better known by first name only, are the radical comedy duo that speaks directly to the sensibilities of an entire generation of fans, while the generation before it struggles to understand just what the hell is so funny. It can be fun to observe parents…
The contemporary art world has arrived in Dallas and it’s landed at Zhulong Gallery. Jeremy Couillard is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work in different media for Viscous Valley transforms this Dragon Street space into a futuristic landscape that is like stepping into an abstracted video game.Toss what you thought you…
Dallas photographer Daniel Driensky caught this image of the “supermoon” rising above Reunion Tower over the weekend. A supermoon, also called a perigee moon, occurs when a full moon coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit. NASA says the moon may appear somewhat larger and…
