Now that spring is in full swing, you’ll want to spend as much time as possible enjoying the outdoor arts and entertainment before that bastard known as summer shows up. So grab your lawn chairs, picnic baskets and party coolers (BYOB for those of age) and head to the newest…
As far as insular pockets of humans go, perhaps none are more defined by intentional physical alteration than suspension artists. There’s a gritty, otherworldly vibe to the practice of piercing the dermis, and then “relaxing” while being hoisted up by meat hooks. Sure, it looks terrible. Awful. Weirdly German. But…
In the last year, contemporary art space Circuit 12 (1130 Dragon St., Suite 150) has raised the pulse of the Design District, thanks to gallery director/Miami transplant Dustin Orlando and the addition of events like the new vinyl-only monthly, Wax Addicts. To celebrate that year of existence, the bow-tied dandies…
Not one to stick around long, Mary Poppins returns to Fair Park for two short weeks. So if you don’t tackle this performance with the same gusto you approach each and every McRib Farewell Tour, then you, sir or ma’am, are a pinhead. This 14-day run is your opportunity to…
You know ’em, you break ’em, let’s give it up for The Ten Commandments!!! And not the boring old stone tablets. The actual movie starring Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston and Heston’s questionable fake beard. Listed as the 10th best film of all time in the epic genre, The Ten Cs…
A holy glow surrounds Sunday brunch. Serving double duty as hungover confessional and communion, we use the meal to fill in life’s little blackouts. But on Easter Sunday, that changes. We withhold the full flow of our gab and break from our posses to dine out with our families. Since…
At the height of our economic excesses a few years back, you couldn’t throw a stick in this town without hitting a doggy boutique stocked to the whiskers with canine clothing. For some, this was a way to lavish attention on their fur-children, and you’d frequently see Fido lounging at…
Word coming out of the film extravaganza known as SXSW is that the Evil Dead remake is pretty entertaining. And while we don’t doubt that the new flick from Fede Alvarez is great (it is, after all, produced by the original team of Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert)…
Joan Rivers came to town a couple of weeks back with scads of projects to plug. Amidst her talk of the future, she oddly omitted discussion of the one big Hollywood gig that got her where she is today. Fortunately for you, your friends at the Observer and at Sundown…
The Modern (3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth) has a stacked schedule for its Tuesday evening spring lecture series, and sharing dusk with Trenton Doyle Hancock is a good start. The Houston artist’s imaginative work bridges ambient comic book influence with its abstract, future vision with folk art, and one of…
It’s National Poetry Month, and we’re reminded that fewer things are better than seeing a poet read their own work. Yes, there’s a lot to be said for personal interpretation, but sometimes it’s just best to hear the words in the voices from which they came. And when those voices…
We do everything a little differently in Texas, but there are few areas where we veer even further from the norm than we do with our gardening habits and schedules. Calling it a challenge to attain plant success in the Lone Star State is a generous understatement. Here, tomatoes sprint…
You might have noticed a new sitcom is coming out starring Kelsey Grammar and Martin Lawrence. It’s an Odd Couple-inspired thing with the potential to pound a final nail in the coffin for Neil Simon’s 1965 hit play. That singular piece of theater has served as plot fodder for everything…
We love The McKinney Avenue Contemporary because it isn’t afraid to get freaky with its exhibitions, and its newest — a group offering featuring work by Michael Bise, Frank Rodick, Wael Shawky and Shannon Novak — is proof of precisely that, told in four distinct tones. With Bise, a Houston…
At one point or another, it happens to all of us: We look at art and we just don’t “see it.” For Stephen Lapthisophon, artist and art history professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, it’s these moments he enjoys most. “There are works of art that I love…
Houston-based artist and activist Rick Lowe was in downtown Dallas last night, delivering a sort-of inaugural address for a new series of design-focused lectures for the buildingcommunityWORKSHOP, a non-profit that works to remake struggling communities through design. To which you might say, “Great, another week-night lecture by a dude I’ve…
Anyone casually familiar with American art of the past half-century will recognize the eerie, erotically menacing, character-driven photographs that Cindy Sherman began producing in the late 1970s. See also: – At the Nasher, Ken Price’s Ceramics Are Big and Bold and, Lord Reltny, a Little Dirty – At the Amon…
You don’t have to buy tickets, put on a tie or step foot in a concert hall to hear some great classical music in Dallas this week. In fact, half of these eclectic concerts take place outdoors, so you can soak up the fleeting Texas spring and catch some stunning…
File this under way-too-cute: The Dallas International Film Festival just announced a day-long family event at Klyde Warren Park, anchored by a 20-year-anniversary screening of The Sandlot. The free event is Saturday, April 6, and will also feature college dudes singing a capella, storytelling and opera. But mostly it will…
April Fools’ Day is creeping up to us. To celebrate, Gavin Industries and Mixmaster, the future-award-nominated culture blog of the Dallas Observer, have teamed up to bring you Spaceballs on the roof of the Sundown at Granada. Seriously, we swear: Please join us Monday, April 1 at 9 p.m., so…
Art Conspiracy, that annual ode to Dallas’ ground-level art scene, has put out the call for beneficiaries for its 9th annual charity event. If you’re involved in arts education in Dallas, you’ve got until one minute before midnight on April 1 to get in an application. So hop to it…
When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. See previous installations in the Street Style archive. It was hard to miss this denim-clad woman brunching at Garden Cafe this weekend. With the gorgeous…
