There was nary a nose ring in site at last night’s A Way With Words event at Lakewood Theater. The grammar geeks filed in cheerfully, dressed in springtime pastels and pausing just long enough to order Malbec doubles at the bar. Yes! A Way With Words Comes to Dallas was…
The 10 to 15 artists and musicians who performed at ArtLoveMagic’s first “REACH” event in 2007 wasn’t exactly what co-founder David Rodriguez had in mind. “Since ArtLoveMagic started I had the vision of Underground in my head,” Rodriguez says of the grandiose interactive art experience that returns this weekend. “It…
It’s chicken enchilada night at Ryan Stiles’ house, and he’s manning the stove. Stiles does all the cooking for his family. He is, after all, semi-retired. But he’ll be back on the road again this summer with Whose Live Anyway?, the 90-minute, live version of Whose Line is it Anyway?,…
Denise Prince’s current collection of photographs sprung from four years of psychoanalysis. It was in the final two when the work became strangely experimental, compulsive and packed tight with neurosis. The show, now completed, hangs on CentralTrak’s back gallery wall, as one part of the new group exhibition That Mortal…
This could be you at Strokers on Saturday! William Shatner is back as a special Dallas Comic Con guest — just another excuse for you to dive into three days comic book digging, celebrity appearances and costume one-upmanship. There’s also a fundraiser at a biker bar, a beer pong battle…
Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Amy Schumer at the House of Blues Schumer is the creator, star and writer of Inside Amy Schumer, her Comedy Central TV show that premiered last month. You’ve seen her roast some of…
This weekend, North Texas Beer Pong is hosting its Battle of the South Weekend, a multi-day event of beer pong tournaments at McFadden’s in Addison. It kicks off with the King and Queen of the South, the men’s and women’s singles tournaments, and builds to an eight-round squad tournament with…
“Who are you?” pleads a doomed man as Benedict Cumberbatch looms into his first close-up in Star Trek Into Darkness. The answer is Khan. And that’s not a spoiler — it’s a selling point. A less secretive director (i.e., all save the ghost of Stanley Kubrick) would trumpet that his…
Count on Dallas Children’s Theater to do more than just mail it in with The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, based on the popular kids’ book by Jeff Brown. The musical adaptation, directed and choreographed by Michael Serrecchia (with an assist from Megan Kelly Bates), makes a slick, three-dimensional, 75-minute…
Whole lotta twerking going on in Fela!, the Broadway musical whose national tour is now steaming up the Winspear Opera House. The dancing in this show is hotness on a whole other scale from other Broadway hits. Bill T. Jones’ nonstop choreography fills Fela! with an athletic eroticism centered roundly…
The biggest puzzlement of these early days of the festival comes from Sofia Coppola, one of my favorite working directors. Until now, I have loved every one of Coppola’s movies: I love her sure and delicate touch, and she’s better than any other contemporary filmmaker at capturing the greatness of…
François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful, a portrait of a 17-year-old French call girl, is something else again. This is another story about a family in crisis: Isabelle (played by Marine Vacth, a stunning-looking if ultimately inert actress) is a student who still lives at home with her mother, stepfather, and…
will be talking about. That’s one of the terrible things, too: There’s no one to warn you when you’re about to see a puppy murder, a 12-year-old girl borne away toward rape and misery, or a penis doused with lighter fluid and set ablaze. All three of those things happen…
Nearly everyone I know who has seen the official poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival — a bird’s-eye view of a kiss between a young Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward — has been crazy about it. The couple’s lips meet in the center of a perfect sunburst. She’s two…
Can’t get it up for the average artist talk? Thursday’s lecture at CentralTrak (800 Exposition Ave.) will forever change that as photographer Denise Prince invites her psychoanalyst, Charles Merward, to fly in from Los Angeles and speak on her behalf. Merward has been Prince’s analyst for several years and the…
They summon the footnotes of the Merriam Webster Book of Idioms on demand. They solve your homophonic confusions through etymological dissection. They even exhume the roots of those regional phrases or heirloom colloquialisms that your grandmother imprinted on you — you know, the ones you say that make your friends…
If there’s one thing we know in Dallas, it’s backcombing. And if there’s another thing, it’s fashion. We have malls, boutiques, designers and knockoffs. So it’s only fitting that we have an entire charity dedicated to providing professional attire to underprivileged women. This isn’t an easy city to succeed in…
If you skated out of college with a C average or quit entirely after your third freshman year, chances are you excelled at something. And that something is beer pong. Landing a pingpong ball in a cup of beer is a highly developed skill, and if you’ve acquired it, well,…
If you’re counting the days until Comic Con hits San Diego (or if you just want to save yourself from madness and airfare costs), then get a Texas-sized taste of geek season this weekend at Dallas Comic Con. As a special treat, this year’s con will feature “One Fine Sunday…
Have you ever yearned to try curling, the Olympic sport that originated in medieval Scotland and involves strategically pushing stones across a sheet of ice? Of course you have. Summer is beating down on us, and it’s time to sweep some ice! Your dreams can come true at Ice Training…
This marks the second annual benefit for Brendan’s Wish, a charity that aims to raise awareness for histiocytosis, a skin disease that largely affects children. If you’re feeling extra charitable, they’re looking to collect $1,000 at the door at North Dallas biker bar Strokers (9304 Harry Hines Blvd.), so a…
Put on your good pair of pants, the ones that aren’t covered with Cheeto dust, then go undercover as Dallas’ highfalutin Design District opens its newest collection of shows. It’s a big night, with all of your favorite galleries uncorking bottles and showing off prized names before the summer heat…
