This is the first trailer released for Dallas Buyers Club, the new drama based on the life of Ron Woodroof, who smuggled and sold unlicensed medications when he was diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-’80s. Naturally, it’s set in Dallas and stars our favorite paper doll, Matthew McConaughey, who lost…
Lara Almarcegui attracted international buzz when she filled the Spanish Pavilion with construction materials at the 2013 Venice Biennale. The 1922 building became the casing for its own eventual decay, with mountains of smashed rubble, bricks and building tiles authentic to the pavilion’s composition piled within. It’s work like that…
Name: Justin James Age: 23 Occupation: Student Style influences: Justin Timberlake Style breakdown: Shirt from H&M, jeans from HotTopic, shoes by Levis, watch from Kenneth Cole…
We’re not sure what each was up to when they got the call, but when we heard that the original cast of Dukes of Hazzard agreed to reunite for an All-Dukes weekend at Galaxy Drive-In? Well, more than a few beer cans hit the ground here at the Observer. They’re…
By the time I muscled through the traditional Fair Park gridlock traffic and made it inside Gexa Energy Pavilion for last night’s Oddball Comedy Festival, the place was flooded, with thousands splayed on the lawn waiting for the main stage and hundreds more in the concession area. The “Curiosity” part of the…
Why is a billboard advertisement for 2-year-old Norman Rockwell exhibition at Irving’s National Scouting Museum lately beaming down on Lemmon Avenue, just shy of Wycliff Avenue? Earlier this year, the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America reversed a long-held ban on admitting openly gay Scouts. But only a few short weeks…
The room we’re in looks like a bigger version of a high school art studio. There are sculptures clothed in plastic wrap, rows of Grecian urns, a worktable where staff was assembling mounts for a buffalo mask, a 3D printed lamp and ancient Roman jewelry. A lot of Jesus paintings…
Local burlesque babes the Lollie Bombs held their annual breast cancer benefit show at Pocket Sandwich Theatre on Friday night, simultaneously satisfying its audience’s desires for snacks, do-gooding and boobs errywhere. We sent photographer Ed Steele to capture the action in photos and he came back with a whole slideshow’s…
Those scamps at Oddball Comedy Festival still haven’t leaked the comedian line-up for tonight’s show, leaving many to wonder exactly how early they really must arrive at Gexa, where beers cost exactly one hundred million dollars. Well, we don’t know for sure, but we did find the schedule from Friday…
David Lowery’s newest, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, opens in wide-release today, and naturally he’d like you to see it. As luck would have it, three of his filmmaking buddies also have big releases dropping. Since promoting just his own would be very Un-Lowery of him, he’s designed a challenge, complete…
Charles Long’s futuristic XChange sculpture could be science fiction source material. Housed in NorthPark Mall, an area that’s already established itself as an art and commerce amalgamate, Long fuses new media with ritual, then tosses in an element of monetary exchange. The end result will be a large, chalice-shaped wishing…
Comedian Hannibal Buress has a lot of items on his to-do list these days. He’s not only shooting a new pilot for Comedy Central but he’s also part of their episodic remake of the Broad City web series and the sidekick for the insane Adult Swim talk show The Eric…
Almost two years ago, Donna Alexander came up with one of the weirdest business proposals to ever land on the Dallas Chamber of Commerce’s desk. She wanted to charge people to stand in a room with a blunt object filled with appliances, furniture and other breakable objects and let them…
I dare you to find an imperfect moment in this promotional video for the Texas Association of Magicians conference. Go ahead. Just try. It’s impossible. 1.) Opens with mindbending alternative title sequence from Battlestar Galactica? Check. 2.) White gloves frozen in time over classic top hat? Check. 3.) Feathered haired,…
Usually Dallas contracts a case of the sleepies before Labor Day weekend, but not this year. No way. Unh uh. We’ve got Flight of the Conchords, Dave Chappelle, Hannibal Buress and more rolling in for Sunday’s Oddball Comedy Fest. The Observer makes you remember why you grew up at Brew…
The laddish pleasures of The World’s End, Edgar Wright’s comedy about a group of middle-aged guys drinking beer and facing mortality, come with a bittersweet edge. In the old days, the lead character, Gary King, used to be the coolest kid in school, at least in the outlaw sense: He’d…
In David Lowery’s sublime new film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck), who’s serving 25 to life for armed robbery and wounding a cop during a shootout, frequently puts pencil to parchment paper and writes love letters to his girlfriend, Ruth (Rooney Mara). Bob’s aching, lovelorn voice can…
Director Shola Lynch has been mining the rich terrain of black American history for a while now, notably in the award-winning 2004 documentary Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed, about the 1972 presidential campaign by the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American and the first woman to mount a serious,…
It’s being called Scooby-Doo meets Evil Dead, which are two of your favorite earthly delights. And while Saturday Morning Massacre went VOD last month, Thursday’s screening at Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) is your only chance to see the thing on a big screen in Dallas. The comedy/slasher was…
Aside from being the wet dream of every prepubescent boy, Nerdlesque Strikes Back just might be your wet dream, too. The ladies and at least one gentleman of the show bring pop culture, anime and comic book characters to life and then they take it all off in traditional burlesque…
This ain’t your mother’s charity event. No ladies lunching or cakewalks here. Instead, expect a lotta leg, a ton of tassels and a glut of glitter at the Lollie Bombs Burlesque Fourth Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Show at Pocket Sandwich Theatre, 5400 W. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 119. At 11:15 p.m…
There are few things more intimidating than a roller derby league, but one of those more intimidating things is a roller derby league that’s themed off of the JFK shooting. With teams boasting names like Lone Star Assassins, Special Ops and Dirty Little Secret Service, you know Assassination City Roller…
