In Expo Park an unexpected delight sits, waiting to be adored. Guarded by a T-Rex that’s large by human standards, small by a dino’s, is the studio of artist, inventor and magician Edward Ruiz. This is, quite literally, where the magic happens. Ruiz has begun opening up his art space…
If any athlete deserves a $1 million-plus prize, it’s rodeo cowboys and cowgirls. They voluntarily get on the backs of animals that can break bones in their bodies they didn’t know they had. The worst obstacle that even the biggest and toughest defensive football players have to go up against…
For a day of family entertainment that includes the jokes of a clown, the suspense of acrobatics, the amazement of a magic show and the all-around thrills of vaudeville theater, bring everyone out to Circo Comedia on Sunday afternoon at the Eisemann Center in Richardson. Circo Comedia, featuring Jean Saucier…
The 32nd annual North Texas Irish Festival has always tried to be inclusive and inviting to everyone in North Texas, but this year they are opening their festival to a massive but untapped demographic: dogs. This year’s festival theme is “Erin Go Bark!” in which visitors’ dogs can join in…
Why hear one classical pianist whip his fingers into a fury when you can hear two sets of hands tackle the ivories together? At 7:30 p.m. Monday, the Dallas Chamber Music Society presents acclaimed pianists Daniil Trifonov and Sergei Babayan in a concert at Dallas City Performance Hall, 2520 Flora…
Casablanca was an ordinary film by 1940s Hollywood standards — it wasn’t made to be a blockbuster, nor was it expected to be one. Its star, Humphrey Bogart, wasn’t seen as the kind of actor who could anchor a heavily romantic movie. It went through a series of screenwriters, was…
Yucky Children Charmer, Cereal Killer, Cap’n Corn Starch and Kill Frog’s Sugar Smack are snuggled into the breakfast options. On the next aisle over, the chubby Morton salt girl is trailing toward Hilter’s Helper and Rush Brand Oxycontin while boxes of Tupac bullets remind “firearms sold separately.” At Ron English’s…
If you don’t know of a Jellicle or an Old Gumbie, then you were likely born in the 1990s and aren’t into Broadway. That’s right, folks. We’re talking Cats, a favorite of those who came of age in the wah-pedaled 1980s. Confession: I was a pretentious lit-worm at the ripe…
It was probably inevitable that someone would create a musical based on the works of Queen. The ’70s band’s flamboyant music has a theatrical bent that seems tailor made for conversion to a big, bombastic rock opera, and that’s what you get with We Will Rock You, the musical with…
Channel your inner Who Dat this Friday at Mardi Gras on Walnut in Denton, a totally free NOLA fest’s worth of food and music. The city is closing off Walnut Street’s 100 block for maximum jamming to live Dixieland jazz, and you can stuff your face with hot boiled crawfish,…
It’s been a minute since we here at the Observer put out a notice for local freelance writers for this little arts and culture blog, The Mixmaster. But here we are, looking you straight in the eye with the simple question, are you the one we want? It’s a question…
The Oscars are coming! Yay! I haven’t seen any of the movies, on account of the stupid infant and his inability to take care of himself for three hours, so I have no idea which new movies are the best new movies. I also have no idea what the outside…
Jay Leno must be lonely. What has Jay Leno been doing the last couple weeks?
Playing the Blue Power Ranger was the breakthrough moment in David Yost’s career. Billy Cranston, one of the original “teenagers with attitude,” was the brains of the group, inventing gadgets like the wrist communicators. Yost, along with Walter Jones, the first Black Power Ranger from the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers…
What history will say about George W. Bush is yet to be determined, but in the past few years he’s grown pretty damn good at painting puppies. Last year on Jay Leno, he brought up his art teacher to whom he said, “There’s a Rembrandt trapped in this body…your job…
On Monday night the Winspear Opera House was packed for what was billed as “An Evening of Chamber Music” with Philip Glass and his collaborator, violinist Tim Fain. The concert, presented by TITAS, began with alternating solo appearances by Glass, seated stoically in front of a big, black Steinway, and…
Becoming a millionaire is a short-lived fantasy for a journalist.But that doesn’t mean I can’t drool over fancy MLS listings. It would probably take multiple winning lottery tickets to move me and my 29-inch television into one of these houses, but that won’t squelch my fantasy.
Dallas, meet Performance Southwest. Even if you’re not a performance art fan the name might sound familiar from fits and starts around town, but their mission is much larger than this city. It’s an educational group with constituents all over the country dedicated to educating audiences on the exciting, yet…
In film after film from the late ’70s into the mid-’80s, the slobs — often led by writer-director-actor Harold Ramis, who died today at age 69 — trounced the snobs in each of their face-offs: at Faber College, at Camp North Star, at Sergeant Hulka’s Fort Arnold, against that ginger…
Women are taught by fashion magazines and reality shows to have a deep respect for the designers who make their clothes. But no one warns women that this respect doesn’t go both ways. Spend enough time shopping, and it becomes clear that the fashion industry is made of creepy old…
Washington’s and Colorado’s decisions to legalize recreational marijuana use have created a new, booming tourist industry for businesses and tax collections. Smokers who can’t spark up in their home state without risking incarceration and a permanent black mark on their criminal record are flocking to the states where dispensaries are…
It’s hard to overestimate the impact Philip Glass has had on classical music. Apart from being (arguably) the world’s greatest living composer, Glass almost single handedly brought minimalism into contemporary popular culture — influencing legions of rock and electronic artists while simultaneously introducing classical music to a generation of otherwise…
