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. While the Dallas filmmaking scene may not have the hipster gravitas of Austin, we can claim…
To step into the Dallas Museum of Art this summer is take a peek into the mechanics of a large-scale museum operation. Curators at the DMA are airing out vaults, scouring private collections and presenting new acquisitions, allowing visitors to take pride in the masterpieces in Dallas, but also to…
Chances are, you have a smart phone, and considering the fact that Instagram has over 200 million monthly users, you probably have one of those too. But with that many people using what is essentially a global photo album you might have a hard time avoiding the awkward side of…
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. To say that Thea Temple’s childhood was typical would be an understatement. Early on she was…
Spend Saturday night in the Design District Head to the West Dallas haven of fine art for a few gallery exhibition openings. At Red Arrow Contemporary, catch a modern exploration of printmaking in the latest exhibition Stay Up All Nite, featuring the work of Austin art collective, Industry Wrecking Crew…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Ronnie Claire Edwards still receives fan mail from her time as Corabeth on the 1970s television drama…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Under artistic director Kevin Moriarty, Dallas Theater Center has been acting like a big-time regional playhouse again…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. “You know what I’m excited about this year? Turning 30,” Mina Chang says through her ever-beaming smile…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. He’s the unofficial father of mural art in Deep Ellum, but maybe it’s time we made it…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Before Paco Vique and Javier Garcia del Moral settle into yet another interview about The Wild Detectives,…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. There was a time, not long ago, when the comedy scenes in Dallas and similar cities were…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. UNT professor Ruth West is showing me a diagram of branching lines that resembles a March Madness…
Now, I like Eddie Izzard. I do. Like you, I watched his tapes (yes, they were tapes then) at college while doing things I can’t tell my parents or any potential employers about, and his sheer commitment to ridiculousness endeared me to him in a way it did with few…
Summer is Shakespeare season on both sides of the Trinity River. If you like soaking up your classical works in a steam bath with added sound effects from drag racers, police sirens and cicadas, head over to the grassy outdoor amphitheater at Samuell-Grand Park in East Dallas for productions by…
The Comedy of Errors at Trinity Shakespeare Festival in Fort Worth offers some of one and too much of the other. It’s a weak play by Shakespearean standards, a one-note farce that blows that same note over and over and over. Director Joel Ferrell tries to liven things up with…
Romances are Hollywood’s most anxiety-inducing fantasy. Like superhero flicks or horror films, they exist in a phony world of big scenes and breathtaking climaxes. But while audiences know that geeks can’t meld with spiders and that the bogeyman isn’t real, they still hope to fall in love, and boy, it’d…
A truly punk act, a shout of freedom, frustration, and exaltation, hits about halfway through Lukas Moodysson’s girl-punk reverie We Are the Best! The three 13-year-old protagonists, high on the idea of the three-chord band they’ve just started, find some damp garbage bags on the street that, they discover, are…
Believe it or not, during Transformers: Age of Extinction, Michael Bay’s fourth rattling of the toy box, I felt one moment of near transcendence. Three-fourths of the way through the punishing 165-minute runtime — and 15 minutes after my seatmate took off her 3-D glasses in exhaustion — my brain…
Dallas has been tuned into Oak Cliff for the past few years, in large part because of the gentrification of the Bishop Arts District. Suddenly distinctions like North Oak Cliff and the rise of the culinary arts prove valuable for real estate companies who develop a neighborhood that many might…
If the idea of a “beer dinner” makes you salivate, head over to Addison where the Flying Saucer in conjunction with California-based Firestone Walker Brewing Company is holding an event that shouldn’t be missed. Firestone Walker Brewing Company is featuring five of the brewery’s iconic pale ales and barrel-aged beers…
Human interaction is a weird beast. It inspires a range of emotions from euphoria to awkwardness. It can make people fall in love and develop a deep seeded hatred for one another within the span of a single sentence. It can make people want to spend the rest of their…
Fashion etiquette dictates that there are roughly four months of the year during which white can be worn. And though no one follows the rules anymore, there is one photographer whose one demand is that if you want your picture taken on Saturday, you must be dressed in all white…
