In Ink Spot, Amy Price stops strangers in Dallas to shoot, and learn about, their body art. Not every tattoo has to be some artistic masterpiece. Some tattoos, as rough as they are, tell trying stories of where their wearers have been and the experiences they have gone through. Earl…
Commissioned by The Joule Hotel as part of the MTV:REDEFINE fundraiser and auction, this newly completed piece of public art is also a temporary one. Impossible to photograph, the mural runs on the narrow length of the pedestrian walkway bridging Elm and Main, across the street from Neiman’s front entrance…
Tod Machover is half composer, half mad-scientist. Equally at home writing elegant code and composing operas, Machover has spent his career at the intersection of music and technology. He looks the part, too. With wire-rimmed glasses and wild, curly hair, it’s easy to picture him at home in Cambridge, at…
This is Eric Trich’s “Augmented Reality” and you’ll play with it on Saturday night at W.A.A.S. gallery. If you’ve ever fancied yourself an artsy type, this is your weekend. Saturday night is a full-on assault of creative activity: there’s Eric Trich’s iPhone interactive experiment, “Augmented Reality” at W.A.A.S.. An immersion…
Early last month, in honor of our 2012 Best Of Dallas Issue (which hit newsstands yesterday), we asked you to send in Instagrams of your favorite people, places and things in Dallas. We put together a slideshow of some of our favorites. You can check it out here…
In honor of The Heckler Show this Thursday at Dallas Comedy House, we thought we’d compile a video list of asshats who think they know better than the comedians on stage. No, dumb asses, we aren’t laughing with you. But you are entertaining…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar.Frisco Comedy FestivalThis three-day event runs from Thursday to Saturday at the Frisco Discovery Center and features everything from improv to stand up to comedy workshops. Thursday even features a comedy contest, like Battle…
There’s something startlingly noncommittal about many of the initial reviews of The Master that leaked out following the impromptu screenings writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson organized in 70mm-equipped houses across the country, and later in response to the film’s official bow at the Venice Film Festival. This is perhaps the natural,…
“I’ve made six movies, and I feel like I’m only just finally figuring out how this business fucking works,” Paul Thomas Anderson says on an unseasonably mild August afternoon in the Astoria section of Queens, where later tonight he will preview his latest film for an invited audience at the…
An amiable, seriocomic high-school-reunion movie, 10 Years succeeds in pulling off a fine varsity talent show. Although some performers (notably Channing Tatum, who also produced, and Ari Graynor) are more appealing than others, the film is admirably consistent in its nostalgia-averse exploration of the uncertainties that define one’s late 20s…
Typically, the creators of comic book adaptations assume that ingratiating themselves to anyone unfamiliar with their characters/properties demands boilerplate origin stories where protagonists exhaustively declare who they are in no uncertain terms. This is, thankfully, not true of Dredd, whose creators have the confidence to treat their narrative like just…
Honey Boo Boo, reality TV’s hillbilly kiddie diva, has nothing on Puddles Johnson, a tiny titan in the world of glitzy tots with fake tans and snap-in flipper teeth. As Puddles and her adorable rival, Chevrolet Corningfield, battle it out to become “Miss Alabama Haystack” and “Miss Texas Twinkle,” their…
There is a scene in last year’s Moneyball in which Brad Pitt’s Billy Beane is confronted by a long conference table of dreary-looking, uncomprehending, stick-in-the-mud veteran scouts. Trouble With the Curve, Clint Eastwood’s first on-screen role in four years, is those scouts’ revenge, casting the Sabermetrics nerds as nemeses. Eastwood…
The Fort Worth Avenue Development Group might actually be a pack of superheros. They combine over a love of West Dallas, improving the pedestrian conditions through beautification, public works programs and increasing the general surface area of the sidewalks and, sigh, someday bike lanes. What we forget about superheros is…
The role of fashion in art is an interesting one. While certainly a medium all its own, the industry of fashion is also a bit insidious. We seek it out for inspiration, but if told the wrong way it can be a source of misguidance for many. Local-turned-Brooklyn artist K8…
So you hear the name Chong, and what do you think of? Drugs? Laughs? Federal prison? More drugs? Well, if you like prison, you’re strange. But if you’re into drugs and laughs, you’ll want to visit Hyena’s on Saturday night to bro down with Grammy winner Tommy Chong, of the…
The DADA Gallery Walk and bike swarm is the SXSW of Dallas arts. Here, you’ll have an entire day (well, 2 to 8 p.m. anyway) to explore 40 of DADA’s participating art nooks, big and small, throughout the area. DADA has so many members that whether you’re in Uptown, Downtown,…
In the Latino Cultural Center’s three-day one-act play festival, a trio of theater companies present pieces telling stories from the perspective of women. Opening night Thursday features Cara Mía Theatre Company’s workshop of The Dreamers Trilogy — Part 1, a new play written by Cara Mía’s artistic ensemble, directed by…
Dallas has seen more than its share of conventions this year, with something for almost every geeky interest there is. For the literary nerd who scoffs at A-Kon and those other low-brow affairs, there is FenCon, which will be in Dallas Friday through Sunday. FenCon caters to the fans (or…
Without James Bond movies, the world would be totally different. Can you imagine? There would be no argument over the best Bond, a dearth of spy gadgetry, no Bond-girl ranking scale and a lack of Bond impersonations. OK, we could probably do without the last one. But luckily we get…
In Texas, there are few occasions when donning lederhosen seems like a good idea. I mean, they’re velvet shortalls — in this heat? Just try it mid-August: You’ll be the Mayor of Chafed Thigh City. But about this time every year, the temperature drops. Instantly, the clock strikes lederhosen, with…
The time between seasons sucks for any television show’s fanbase, but for Supernatural’s dedicated legion it’s positively unbearable. With a month left before the season-eight premiere, how will a superfan get his fix of the Winchester brothers? Instead of daydreaming over the newest in the multitude of fanfics out there,…
