Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Mitch West at the Dallas Comedy House benefiting the DREAM Fund Comedian Mitch West will perform his half drama, half comedy show (we refuse to say dramedy) “No, But Seriously” this Saturday at the Dallas…
See also: Holy War Horse There’s a Lot of Great Theater Opening in Dallas in the Next Week So a couple of snooty critics and uptight theater patrons are upset about a sketch in The Second City Does Dallas, the new Dallas Theater Center comedy that just opened at the…
See also: Dallas AnimeFest’s 10 Best Costumes In Ink Spot, Amy Price stops strangers in Dallas to shoot, and learn about, their body art. While knocking back fireball shots at Swallow Lounge in Deep Ellum I notice the bartendress, 24-year-old Nathalie Lauren, sports some of the best artwork I have…
It gives us pleasure to confess that Frank Loesser’s snappy show tune “Big D” (little-A, double-L-A-S) helps spell success for two productions that just opened in local theaters. The song is a by-god, knee-slapping showstopper as performed by Catherine Carpenter Cox and Alex Organ in the second act of Lyric…
A critic’s report from a film festival like Toronto, where something like 300 features were unveiled from September 6 through 16, can be something like a Rorschach test — or, at least, it can be something like the Rorschach test depicted in Paul Thomas Anderson’s TIFF entry, The Master, in…
It’s the annual meeting of the He-Man Woman Haters Club! Misogynist-cum-comedian Adam Carolla — whose first book, In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks, was a New York Times bestseller — and conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager — who condemned Keith Ellison for taking his congressional oath on the…
After the last two installments of Vinyl Thoughts, it feels impossible for the party to get better. Weirder. More creative. How do you outdo giant Lego sculptures, dozens of homemade works of collectable art and breakdancing? Oh, by moving to a larger venue and adding a second day’s worth of…
If you’re interested in attending the Pearls & Purses Luncheon at Victory Tavern, you probably have a few questions. Like, one: Do you have to own pearls? No. Naked necks are welcome. Two: Do you have to own a purse? No. A fannypack will suffice. In fact, you can bid…
I have to imagine that Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov would smirk if he saw his 1929 masterpiece, Man With A Movie Camera, played with a live musical score. It feels appropriate, somehow. After all, Vertov added every other imaginable trick into the silent work. It even opens with a scene…
A 25-year anniversary typically demands an elaborate gift. Silver. An Alaskan cruise. The promise of grandchildren. Such is not the case at the Dallas VideoFest kick-off party, happening 7 to 11 p.m. Friday at AMS Pictures Studios (16986 Dallas Parkway). The long-stay festival has brought you experimental video in every…
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. But if you’re prideful and you know it? Take your shirt off, throw on a feather boa, add a pair of glitter nipple tassels and march down the street. That’s right, Dallas Pride is almost here and to kick things…
Dallas doesn’t mind getting messy when it comes to fashion. Or wet, for that matter. One of the most interesting new spins on traditional runway happens Saturday at Wakestyle, a fashion show that tests not only the new line by Billabong, but also the surface tension of water itself. Its…
Beer: That single little word conjures up so much frothy, frosty goodness it almost seems redundant to have a festival celebrating such a, well, festive concoction. But the industrious folks here at the Dallas Observer, as well as at KJKK-FM Jack 100.3 and KRLD-FM The Fan 105.3, never pass up…
Roger Winter might have escaped his Texas roots by relocating to his current dual residencies (New York and Santa Fe), but we refuse to let go of his art. Last Saturday a solo show of his recent work was unveiled at Kirk Hopper (and runs through October 6), and this…
There are galleries that you walk through without saying a word — those places where everything is curated within an inch of its life and the prevailing feeling is one of intimidation. Waxahachie’s Webb Gallery (209 W. Franklin St.) is about as far from that tone as you can get,…
Rainbow stockings, check. Neon tutu, done. Grab your body glitter and don’t be a drag, just be a queen during PRIDE weekend in Oak Lawn! Named in memory of an indefatigable local activist and longtime executive director of the Dallas Tavern Guild, the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade — now…
Grab your cognitive crampons and intellectual wingsuit because film festivals just got extreme. Each year, the juried Banff Mountain Film Festival takes place in November, and its winners — roughly 25 of more than 300 films submitted — hit the road on a fearless world tour, crash-landing in 400 communities…
It’s hand-jive time in Fort Worth, thanks to Casa Mañana’s limited engagement of the smash hit musical Grease. Vince Oddo stars as Danny Zuko and Heather Botts makes her Casa Mañana debut as Sandy Dumbrowski. Joined by Kenickie (John Ashley Brown) and Rizzo (Carrie A. Johnson), the cast will perform…
Considering that last year’s fundraising affair at the Goss-Michael Foundation benefiting MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation banked more than $700,000 toward empowering young people against the “stigma, spread and threat of HIV and AIDS,” it’s reasonable to expect progeny as elegant as its philanthropic predecessor. This year’s event, Re:Define, features a…
The national tour of the Tony-winning drama War Horse is at the Winspear right now, with double matinees on its two Sundays. Based on the 1982 children’s book by Michael Morpurgo, the play tells the story of Joey, a farm horse sold into the British cavalry in WWI and shipped…
Something wicked this way comes in Shakespeare Dallas’ fall production of Macbeth, directed by Stefan Novinski with an all-local cast. Let’s hope it’s not the weather. Cool breezes would complement the Bard’s short but hot-tempered drama about unbridled ambitions. Brave Macbeth murders his way to the throne of Scotland at…
The AT&T Center has released its programming schedule for the upcoming 2012-13 season, and you’re in for it. Entertainment legends Lily Tomlin (Sunday, February 10) and Joan Rivers (March 10) have both been booked to appear at the Winspear, and so has most of the weekend cast of NPR. Tomlin,…
