We’re trying not to go all TMZ here with updates about celebrities doing things that us normals do everyday like stopping for a burger, buying toilet paper in bulk and berating an intern for bringing us the wrong kind of coffee by giving them third-degree burns with it so they’ll…
We start with the smallest triptych. In the corner of the painting, Masami points out a small plate of multi-colored lipsticks. “When I started this one I had just found out that in Iran, people aren’t allowed to wear lipsticks,” he says. ” I was amazed by this. The girls…
The Rockwall man who gave the world the Vanilla Ice and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reunion it didn’t know it wanted just finished throwing one of the biggest pop culture-themed parties that Dallas/Fort Worth has ever seen. Such an endeavor must have taken an insane amount of planning and preparation,…
Your weekend probably revolves around the drunken parade Saturday. We’re not here to judge. The forecast calls for rain that day, and we have plenty of plan B’s for you. Yes, just like Walgreen’s. Speaking of which, Masami Teraoka’s new exhibit at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary gives the Catholic Church…
Diana Sheehan is an award-winning actress and singer who relocated to Dallas five years ago and found herself following a successful New York career with a shining start in Texas, including winning “Best of the Loop” two years in a row at Watertower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival,…
Matt Tolentino and Danielle Bennignus are a black and white photo brought to life. She bobs her hair, wears trousers and dances the Charleston; he wears swallow-tailed suits and trilbies. But this isn’t a special occasion costume, this is everyday. They’re your friendly neighborhood hep cats, with a mid-century lifestyle decorated with boudoir dolls, 78’s and pocket squares.
For a decade cabaret star Jim Caruso has been lighting up Mondays, traditionally Broadway’s performance-free “dark night,” with his late-night Cast Party. It’s a star-studded open mike at Manhattan’s Birdland nightclub, a time for stars to try out new material and unknowns to try to be discovered. Liza Minnelli likes…
See if this plot sounds familiar: Cranky old Jewish comic whose career is kaput is asked to appear for big bucks on a TV special honoring comedy legends. He balks. He picks fights with his writing partner. They argue, make jokes and make amends, and finally do the act. The…
The spring theater season begins with WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival, which isn’t a “fringe festival” at all but a juried collection of plays, solo performances, dance and music on three stages. This year’s event, running through March 23 (and co-sponsored by the Dallas Observer), features 19…
Leave it to Wes Anderson to make a film about World War II without mentioning Germany. In The Grand Budapest Hotel, a wundercabinet set in the fictitious Eastern European Republic of Zubrowka circa 1932, Anderson captures the collapse of a kingdom and rise of a reich without so much as…
Think adapting War and Peace is hard? Try adapting the race car video game Need for Speed. Tolstoy’s 1,225-page behemoth has nothing on the Electronic Arts franchise’s irreconcilably complicated 20-year, 20-installment history: Sometimes cars are subject to physics; sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes they’re invulnerable; sometimes they break. Maybe you’re in…
According to lore, Liberace used to greet the tourists who’d come by bus to gawk at his bejeweled home with the line, “I hope you like it. After all, you paid for it!” Not everyone has to like Rob Thomas’ Veronica Mars, the feature-length incarnation of his much-loved television series,…
A wise man — or, more precisely, a wiseass trucker named Jack Burton — once opined that “it’s all in the reflexes.” Few actors have had better ones than Kurt Russell, who makes a welcome return to theaters this weekend in The Art of the Steal. Having been largely MIA…
As of this writing, the Netflix Instant catalog boasts more than 10,000 titles available for online streaming — a number that, as per the official Netflix rhetoric, seems colossal. But the landscape of this digital paradise may not be quite so idyllic. As classic film enthusiast Jaime Christley reminds us,…
March 17 may be St. Patrick’s Day, but anyone who’s been out of her house in March knows the month is largely — if not stereotypically — dedicated to celebrating all that is green, served with soda bread or speaks with a brogue. But instead of stopping the fun at…
Spring break is a major calendar destination for kids, marked in big letters in the middle of March and anticipated with an unparalleled zeal. Then you grow up, and spring break means trying to arrange child care or convince your offspring that staying home all day and watching The Muppet…
For most cat owners, purchasing a pet bed is, at best, wishful thinking. You really think Fluffy is going to curl up on some fancy cushioned item when there are perfectly good places already available for his daily 20 hours of napping? Say, for instance, the handmade quilt your late…
The term “chamber music” evokes some serious Eyes Wide Shut-type imagery — all hoods and cloaks and dark rooms bursting at the seams with woodwinds. The whole concept actually does hail from the need for (probably cloaked) royalty to whittle down orchestras to just a handful of folks who could…
The tiny town of Night Vale has been getting a great deal of exposure. It’s not the homemade pie in the local diner or the quaint bed and breakfast run by a lovely elderly couple that attracts such loyal followers. It’s the strange lights in the sky, the high school…
As a fan of daily newspapers, two dark days haunt me: when Bill Watterson produced his last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip and when Dave Barry stopped writing his humor column for The Miami Herald. I can’t tell you exactly what those days were because, obviously, being a newspaper fan…
Sometimes all a gallery exhibition needs is a backdrop of thunder or a quick burst of explosions. OK, maybe art doesn’t usually need those things, but they promise to make the new exhibition at the Reading Room a bit more exciting. Marfa-based artist Nicolas G. Miller’s sound and sculpture installations…
On Saturday, The Dallas Opera Guild presents its 26th Annual Vocal Competition at the Winspear Opera House. Some 20 young semifinalists – all with Texas connections- will sing their hearts out in front of an esteemed panel of judges, each hoping to impress them enough to take home thousands of…
