While last year Art Con doled out speakers for RZN8, this year’s seed event — which raises money and awareness for the annual party — gets more visually freaky. The gang just announced that the June 8 event, MOUNTED, will be all taxidermy-themed. Participating MOUNTED artists have been issued wall…
(Wait through the ad. It’s worth it) Well, now you’re awake. That was just one snippet from tonight’s Found Footage Festival at Texas Theatre. Add another work week to the body count and get ready for a three-finger pour of not-office. Unstuffy art pops up all over Dallas on Saturday;…
Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Marc Ryan at Hyena’s in Dallas From the backwoods of Louisiana, Marc Ryan is a hootin’ and hollerin’ ball of energy on stage. Constantly battling the “stupid hick” stereotype, Ryan is anything but…
There’s a scene in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby in which Leonardo DiCaprio’s hyper-rich, super-awkward Jay Gatsby takes it upon himself to redecorate the bachelor pad of his less-prosperous friend, Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire). Gatsby’s old flame, Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan), is coming to Nick’s house for tea. Eager to…
One of the most beguiling of the many stories all knotted up in Salman Rushdie’s brilliant, baggy, exhausting 1981 novel Midnight’s Children concerns a lovelorn doctor, his beautiful patient and that timeless exemplar of old-world prudishness: a sheet with a hole in it. The patient, Naseem, not yet of marriageable…
“It was 1991. I fly into L.A. I take a cab to Compton. On the phone, Richard [Williams] said, ‘The only thing I guarantee you, you won’t get shot,'” says tennis coach Rick Macci. “I thought he was kidding.” Macci was meeting with Williams and his two young daughters, Venus…
The Fates may finally have sprinkled stardust on Dallas Theater Center’s artistic director, Kevin Moriarty. For years he’s been trying to launch a new musical here, with the hope of turning it into a Broadway success. Giant didn’t do it. Neither did Lysistrata Jones. But his latest attempt, the dreamy…
Why does it always feel like a fluke when Theatre Three does something as polished and well-acted as Enron? The play by Lucy Prebble is running now at the theater-in-the-round at The Quadrangle in a spiffy production directed and designed by Jeffrey Schmidt. Like last year’s staging of Aaron Sorkin’s…
The only thing we English teachers hate more than Sparknotes is a high quality, mostly faithful movie version of a book. Why would a student slog through Pride and Prejudice when she can drool over Colin Firth in the excellent BBC miniseries? And shh! Don’t tell the eighth graders about…
Before making your weekly trip to the Texas Theatre, touch base with Mom and Dad. It’s important to know if your awkward and embarrassing childhood home videos are safely tucked away in the attic, far from prying eyes. If not, you may find yourself nervously watching Thursday’s Found Footage Festival,…
You have one more month to take in Cindy Sherman’s 30-year career retrospective at the Dallas Museum of Art (1717 Harwood St.), which features the photographer in various disguises of her own design. From her early ’80s series of women in distress to her more recent collection of tanned and…
Turns out tassels are having the best week ever, due in large part to The Midnight Ramble: A Sex, Funk & Rock n’ Soul show. Wait, a who and what? Exactly. The Midnight Ramble is a lot of things. It’s burlesque and go-go. Live music and fire. Boobies and, well,…
She’s a top-rated author, lecturer, professor of animal science and is the big, beautiful brain behind the humane reorganization of the slaughterhouse industry for fast-food giants like McDonald’s and Burger King. Also, Dr. Temple Grandin is autistic. She’s dedicated her life to world betterment, and in doing so has shown…
While the masses prepare for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness, his second installment in the Star Trek reboot, real purists (and all children of the ’80s) know that there is only one Star Trek sequel, and that’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Considered by some to be…
Accessories in the Nude (AIN) is a fashion show and showcase where designers buy booths and sell their goods. No doubt they called it Accessories in the Nude so you’d be like, “Va-va-va-voom, naked ladies in necklaces? I’ll take 10 tickets.” Or maybe it’s just based on their catchphrase, “If…
Dallas sure has been in a festive mood lately. The North Texas Beer and Wine Festival continues the trend at the Irving Convention Center (500 W. Las Colinas Blvd., Irving), from 2 to 7 p.m. Saturday, with brewing tutorials from Kelly Harris of Homebrew Headquarters, talks with John Sims of…
He changed everything about our perceptions of music, including the notions that it exists solely outside of our own bodies or must be made with traditional instruments. For those reasons, you should thank avant garde composer John Cage whenever a man in a gorilla suit climbs on stage, pours marbles…
Does the phrase book swap get you all hot and bothered? Then get thee to Fair Park’s tiniest project space, the Reading Room (3715 Parry Ave.), between 4 and 9 p.m. Saturday to find yourself paging through some attractive new (or old) finds. Or, if you’ve got a stack of…
It’s Mother’s Day and you need The Big Idea. The one that will make up for that time you stole the golf cart and crashed it into a neighbor’s mailbox. Something grand enough to forgive when you blamed your bedroom’s weed-smoke stink on funky gym clothes and Uncle Ron. Basically…
Your kids tell you that Mother’s Day is all about you, but they lie. If that were true, you would spend the afternoon going wild with a pitcher of sangria and a cellphone set to airplane mode. Instead, you’re wrangling a 2-year-old into a car seat so you can go…
Right smack between the meandering grittiness of Gaston Avenue and the struggling gentrification of Live Oak Street lies the upper-crust enclave of Swiss Avenue. It’s a lush oasis of early 20th century mansions that defies encroachment of surrounding Dollar Generals and says, loud and proud: “We’re rich, mother effers.” The…
Poor, poor bassoon. No one understands you. They don’t appreciate your double reeds and they’re intimidated by your stature. To be fair, it isn’t every day that someone gets serenaded by a woodwind the size of a 10-year-old. So here’s what you’re going to do: Call up some of your…
