He has an unassuming delivery, so you don’t expect Los Angeles comedian Tom Segura to bring the belly laughs. Then, while you’re waiting for him to build up, he blindsides you with a jab about the cannibalistic curse of face tattoos. His punch lands, right in the gut. A self-professed…
The Fort Worth Opera has decided to be a bad influence Monday. Just as you’re starting a new work week, planning a civilized evening at home with your Netflix, they beckon you out with the promise of booze and classical music. It’s an aria-in-your-face program called Opera Shots, where professional…
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is so much more than just a beautiful example of architecture filled with a well-rounded collection. It’s a place for conversation and public engagement. In many ways, it’s alive. One of the most exciting programs offered in this land of contemporary masterpieces is…
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science (2201 N. Field St.) recently opened its Hoglund Foundation Theater, a nearly 300-seat space boasting both 2-D and 3-D films, which is the closest Dallas has to an IMAX theater just yet. This bodes well for Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, which closes…
If you like your art against the grain, tricked-out and oozing with local tonality, you’ll want to lose yourself in the visual fragments of 13 Spectrums, a new group show taking over the White Space Gallery (2001 N. Lamar St., Suite 500) on Thursday evening. Here you’ll see a pack…
Every Wednesday, we find you five movies for you to check out over the coming week or weekend, from the latest wide release to weird local screenings to timely classics you can watch on your couch. Did we miss something? Let readers know in the comments. Tommy Runs Thursday through…
MK Asante walked to the stage of SMU’s McFarlin Auditorium last night in a dark, slim fit jeans, a black blazer and a cool-cat hat like your grand dad used to wear. He was there for the sixth installment of the 2012-13 Tate Lecture Series, and his swagger was in…
At last night’s Dallas Chamber Symphony performance a film screen illuminated the front of City Performance Hall. One of cinema’s first haunts — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, came alive again on its 93rd birthday. Below it, a tidy cluster of classical musicians plucked their strings, building suspense. It was…
Today marks the arrival of our new and improved Dallas Observer app, your pocket guide to the city and direct line to our always fair-and-balanced take on things. It features: – Event listings and concert calendars searchable by date, artist, neighborhood, venue or genre – Restaurant listings searchable by cuisine…
Lee Pace isn’t a household name, but you may remember him as the star of the terrific but short-lived ABC series Pushing Daisies. He also appeared on the big screen recently, with roles in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Lincoln. Now it’s being reported that Pace will return to…
The WWE’s weekly Monday-night extravaganza rolled into Dallas yesterday. It was, as you’d expect, the typical ridiculous collection of men in mind-blowingly tight shorts trying to wind up the crowd (“You’ve got as much chance of beating me as Tony Romo has of winning a Super Bowl”), lowbrow insanity (a…
In effort to keep Tex in our hearts and minds, the State Fair of Texas just released this freaky video. They’re rebuilding our iconic corn dog guardian, and this is meant to be a first look at Tex’s new hand. I dunno guys, is the hand weird enough? I really…
Architecture nerds, this one’s for you. On Saturday, March 2, we will remove our shoes and pad through seven of Dallas’ loveliest modern residences. (See our post about the tour and snoop through a few properties here.) In the spirit of southern hospitality, the good folks of the Dallas Modern…
Other children played house. You dreamt of comfort and stillness: lounging on a white, leather shag rug beside a Danish modern boomerang coffee table. Your focal point? The snapping wood in the Malm fireplace, which gently piped controlled warmth through your futuristic ski lodge residence. Art, expressed through multitude temperatures…
Just up the street from Lee Harvey’s in the Cedars neighborhood of South Dallas is the home of a young couple that doubles as an art gallery called Homeland Security. An exhibit there, Windows, Walls and Screens: New Paintings by Brendan Carroll, sees the work of the smart young Atlanta…
Led by the Instant Film Society, nearly 100 photographers, ranging from from beginners to professionals, meandered around Klyde Warren Park — which we love, this ditty aside — in search for the perfect analog shot on Sunday. Here are some of our favorite pics from the event. See also: The…
All photos by Maegan Puetz As Dallas’ artists explore the city’s more transitional areas, we see the lovely visual byproducts created by their friction. Just in the last year, patchy spots on each side of the bridge were commandeered for quick exhibitions — In Cooperation With Muscle Nation and Art…
Non-golfers may not know much about David Feherty, but he’s worth 30 seconds of your allotted daily Google time. A former tour pro (and Dallas resident), he is now easily golf’s best television analyst, calling the game with honesty and wit and humanity that’s hard to find in any sport…
There have been quite a few detours on this season of Girls: Hannah and Joshua’s two-day brownstone romp, Adam and Ray’s trip to Staten Island last week, Hannah and Elijah’s cocaine-fueled trip around Brooklyn. This episode takes Hannah and Jessa on a train out to Manitou, to see Jessa’s estranged…
Considering Dallas’ bustling burlesque schedule, it takes a lot to surprise us. Tarantino-themed productions? Been done. All male revue? Happened last week. Variety shows with disrobing chainsaw jugglers and fire swallowing? The Kessler, two Saturdays ago. And still, the niche market of Nerdlesque remained untapped until Thursday evening. What transpired…
Since his arrival in Dallas in 2008, there’s no doubt that maestro Jaap van Zweden has fundamentally changed the way the Dallas Symphony Orchestra performs. There is a noticeable difference in the delicacy of phrasing, precision, volume control and artistry with this orchestra when van Zweden is at the helm…
GIF by Shebuscus HOMECOMING! Committee, Fort Worth’s most playful art collective, is staging an online arena. There, artists will do combat via the ancient art (1987) of manipulated looped stills. They’ve begun accepting submissions for GIF THE FUCK OUT, the group’s first animated GIF competition, which further narrows its mission,…
