We’d heard it was coming, then forgot. Then remembered. Then got bored and chose to forget again. Then ate some Donettes we keep in our emergency snack hutch and wondered why ALF didn’t hold up with syndication and time. BUT THEN, JUST NOW, the official email arrived assuring us that…
The World Affairs Council of Dallas and Fort Worth has announced that former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Henry Kissinger, will speak in Dallas on Friday, March 15. No specifics as have been announced regarding the precise topics the Presidential Medal of Freedom winner will discuss…
Sifting through photos to learn more of who’s involved with Wigwam, the pop-up shopping experience launching on Thursday in Oak Cliff, has tipped us into a dangerous level of excitement. It’s the type of fervor that makes you rethink the phrase “emergency fund” and question who really needs a 401K,…
D Magazine announced yesterday that it will team up with the local TV station KTXD and rebrand it D-TV. The new station will continue to broadcast KTXD’s current offerings, including the news show The Texas Daily and the lifestyle show Texas Living, which will be renamed D Living. It will…
Over the weekend, area cats, dogs, birds, reptiles, rodents and horses flocked, mostly chaperoned, to the Automobile Building in Fair Park for the Holiday Pet Expo. We were there to capture the adorable chaos, and have put together a list of some of our favorite critters. You can view the…
Tickets just went on sale for Artopia, the Dallas Observer’s experimental mash-up of the Party Arts. Happening on January 26, 2013, the Dallas Contemporary and your friends at the Observer join forces in the name of sensory immersion. (The video above is from last year’s event.) A $30 general admission…
Conduit Gallery opened three solo shows last weekend, so this is a review in three acts. Robert Barsamian’s canvases are proportionally like television screens: Some are square, like the little sets propped on kitchen counters, and some follow the mold of the mini-movie screen. He has mastered a great range…
UPDATE: There’s only 40 of these posters, selling at $50 a pop. They’re officially for sale, along with tshirts. Get ’em, right now. There’s a newish artist promotion company in town and it’s repping some of our favorite creative forces. SZOAS was formed by husband/wife powerteam Aryn and Cheri Dalton…
This ornament had a Twinkie inside, ’cause you might get peckish during the pending Hostess apocalypse. Each year the MAC puts on a killer holiday party/fundraiser called Blue Yule. The event’s main draw is the quasi-competitive ornament sale, where guests politely booty check each other to reach the piece they…
With as much control as we exercise over our own existence, its retelling is left to those who follow us. In some instances, like Christopher Columbus, an inordinate amount of fame is lavished. For others, like Marie Antoinnete, the story would water down a different tributary, and its path of…
Tomorrow, area ankle biters, on two legs or four (including dogs, cats, rodents, birds, reptiles, and children), can get their photo taken with Santa at the Holiday Pet Expo in Fair Park. The event includes a ton of retailers, an obstacle course for dogs, costume and talent contests, pet adoptions…
After following the Perot Museum’s grand construction and getting little peeks inside, we’re full-blown excited about opening weekend. Adding an extra flame to our nerdy fervor is this new video in time lapse by EarthCam. It shows the exterior and interior construction, documented and compressed, complete with dinosaur installations. Have…
The Dallas Observer operates under a strict “work hard/play hard” policy, so when we throw a party, everyone shows up. Our annual Artopia event takes things even further by blending the best of Dallas’ visual, performance, and fashion arts together into one, illuminating showcase. It’s our chance to give back…
The Dallas Opera this week announced a big influx of cash by way of the National Endowment for the Arts. The $30,000 N.E.A. grant will go directly toward production costs for a high-tech regional premier in 2014. Basically, all this money means that a robot opera is coming to Dallas…
That up there is a video, from the visual wizards at You+Dallas, chronicling last year’s Artopia, the annual Dallas Observer art party. The event, at the Dallas Contemporary, celebrates art, fashion, design, music and the rest of the cultural color wheel, and it’s where we unveil the winners of our…
Free movie screening crowds are an odd beast, and the crowd at AMC NorthPark for last night’s screening of and Q&A for Judd Apatow’s This Is 40 was the epitome of a Free Movie Crowd: film nerds, Apatow fan boys and people who just love free things. See also: Before…
As the announcement sunk in, so did comprehension: The Dallas Museum of Art will do away with general admission fees and offer free memberships beginning in January of 2013. But how? The last 10 months of Maxwell Anderson’s stint in the director’s chair have been a barrage of smaller successes…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Gabriel Iglesias at the Addison Improv The fluffy funny-man himself will be here this weekend at the Addison Improv. Iglesias (and that’s Iglesias with an I, no matter what the hotel clerk says)…
Get excited, Dallas! You’ve entered the final weekend countdown hours. Soon, you’ll have it all — fancy pants art shows, mustache shaving parties, free concerts at that new Klyde Warren Park, and a bizarre rock musical about a time traveling Marie Antoinnett. Man, life is just that good. Be a…
Fine people of Dallas, pull up a chair. Don’t worry, most of you aren’t in trouble. We need to have a discussion about full transparency during a public Q&A. It isn’t a talk I like having, but after Tuesday night’s unfortunate incident at Texas Theatre, it seems that sliding a…
Early in Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins) walks the red carpet at the premiere of his 1959 chase film, North by Northwest. “You’re 60 years old!” shouts a reporter to the corpulent master of suspense, then nearing his 40th year of filmmaking. “Shouldn’t you quit while you’re…
An adaptation of George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground economy of junkies, killers and administrators to indict a present-day mainstream world by suggesting that the criminal satellite economy and the “straight” superstructure are functionally the same. Dominik’s last film, the…
