Dallas knows a thing or 12 about being the target of one of Buzz Bissinger’s trademark tirades. So we feel for Peter Berg, creator of the Friday Night Lights TV show and the fictional rallying cry at the center of one of the dumbest campaign feuds this side of Bird…
In Ink Spot, Amy Price stops strangers in Dallas to shoot, and learn about, their body art. Twenty-three-year-old Twisted Root bartender Melissa MacDougall frequently gives out those “best body parts” discounts from the behind bar, but if there was a discount for “most awesome tattoos,” she’d get her meal for…
Sure, the Rangers took your heart and smashed it into a million pieces, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still love local sports. Or funny T-shirts commemorating. Black Ice Tees, a snappy new Dallas upstart, knows that Jerry Jones quotes and T-shirts go together like Josh and Some Overpaying Team…
Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, seem to believe they’re the rightful political heirs to the cache of TV’s Friday Night Lights because Buzz Bissinger, the author of Friday Night Lights, agreed with his politics and endorsed his campaign in the early ’90s. In fact, during his campaign appearances, Romney…
The New York Times best-selling author Kurt Eichenwald will speak at SMU as part of the William J. O’Neil Lecture series, discussing his new book, 500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars. In 500 Days, Eichenwald, a Vanity Fair contributing writer and Dallas resident, focuses on the 18…
The odds are good that you watched The Walking Dead’s season two finale — more than 9 million people tuned in and saw Rick and Carl set that zombie barn to flambé. Now with Halloween lurking in your periphery, the show returns for season three this Sunday, October 14, and…
The new Spring Valley location of Studio Movie Grill marks the company’s seventh dinner theater in Texas and tenth in the country. To celebrate the newest edition to Dallas’ dine-and-watch theater family, Spring Valley’s SMG is offering admission for only $1 throughout opening weekend (October 12 to the 14). Still…
In The Parent Crap, Alice Laussade chronicles life as a mom in Dallas. Worried you’re screwing up your kid? Tweet questions to @thecheapbastard and she’ll confirm that, yes, you’re screwing up your kid. It’s a known parent fact that if you want to be the best parent ever, you’ve gotta…
“Shop local” also applies to B-horror flicks, so pop into the DOA Bloodbath Film Festival on Saturday for Dallas’ newest take on the undead, Pot Zombies II. When it wins an Oscar, you can say you caught it at the premiere. Whether your weekend plans include burnt orange body shots,…
The Dallas Film Society has announced that it will present Val Kilmer, who played Chris Knight in Real Genius, with a Dallas Star Award during its fall fundraising event, The Art of Film, on November 16. It’s slated as a night of intimate conversation and dinner, so you should ask…
Brace yo’ selves. It’s time for that wonderful convergence on our Fair City– the one we used to call the Red River Shootout, but now in gentler times we hail as the impending Red River Rivalry. It will clog our highways with Oklahomans, Austinites and respective alums from far and…
Yesterday we said farewell to the Texas Chute Out, a mild mannered attraction that’s been at Six Flags since 1976. It went out with a glorious bang: the implosion’s force was so strong it rattled our cameraman in his chest. Here’s the video by Mike Mezeul. And yes, I would…
*Advice for dudes. You wanna get laid this Halloween, ladies? Show up. Sure there’s the parties, the drinking, and the overwhelming desire to piss every time you get your goddamn costume on. But Halloween is about much more than that. According to scholars, All Hollow’s Eve initially incorporated traditions from…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar.Dustin Ybarra at Hyena’s in Fort Worth Will he be high? I hope he’ll be high. He’ll be high. A 2009 finalist for Funniest Dallas Comic, Dustin Ybarra has performed at the NBC Diversity Comedy…
Perhaps you’ve lost faith in movies about amusingly digressive criminals. Maybe you believe it’s no longer possible to be pleasurably jolted by inventive swearing, from-no-place head shots, and post-everything structural flourishes. Certainly you have no reason to expect blood-splattered poetry or throat-clearing laughter from yet another movie in which Los…
Perhaps more than any other male American star of his generation, Ben Affleck understands the narrative advantage of having Hollywood on your side. The Good Will Hunting co-screenwriter and co-star won an Oscar at age 25 in large part because he and collaborator Matt Damon, as struggling actors who created…
In Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths, a prune-faced, simian-mouthed sexagenarian sits by the road in an old suit and brown-patterned tie, and cradles a white bunny in his arms. This is precisely what we’ve come to expect of a Tom Waits entrance. Waits has long been one of Hollywood’s favorite sight…
English filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s atypical, impressionistic approach to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is her adaptation’s main hook. As with Fish Tank and Red Road, Arnold’s last two feature-length dramas, the new Wuthering Heights is very much about the act of looking. The novel’s tempestuous plot is thus unmercifully filtered through…
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s remarkable new adaptation of Wuthering Heights comes packing some redoubtable weapons, including the most atmospheric ultra-realism the story has ever seen, an awesome sense of the Yorkshire landscape and no small payload of brooding poeticism. But undoubtedly, its coup de grâce has everything to do with…
They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky. But are they worth a looky? They’ll close before Halloween, but the creepy-kooky-not-really-spooky comedies The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful and The Addams Family Musical have set up camp, in the clutch-the-pearls sense, on two local stages. What frightful disappointments…
On Sunday, the Meyerson Symphony Center plays host to eccentric Canadian-American troubadour Rufus Wainwright. This concert is part of an international tour featuring music from Wainwright’s newest album, Out of the Game. The singer-songwriter produced an opera (Prima Donna) in 2009 and his music is often filled with narrative meandering,…
Saturday is a big night for CADD galleries, with loads of openings happening around town. Over in the Design District, you’ll want to get emotionally stoic and aesthetically stripped down with TEXAS-BAUHAUS, a new exhibition by Photographs Do Not Bend. It pairs three female North Texas photographers’ work with several…
