Isis Brantley fought a fight that few in Dallas even know existed. A leader in the underground hair-braiding movement, Brantely was arrested in ’95 for practicing her craft without a cosmetology license. Known throughout the international hair community as Naturally Isis, she refused to accept the charge, arguing that cosmetology…
The House of Blues over the weekend hosted the LOL! comedy showcase, which brought together four local comics for one home-grown show. Here’s what you missed, from Obed the Intern: – Aaron Aryanpur opened with homey quips about his 7-year-old son and Whataburger. Aryanpur joked with the audience about how…
“I’m looking through the pink of the water, through my own blood, and taking huge, huge, breaths of air,” Rodney Fox says, “and through it, I see the head. Getting bigger.” It was December 1963. Fox was taking part in a spearfishing competition when a Great White shark plowed into…
Robert Rodriguez is shooting Machete Kills, the sequel to the 2010 film Machete (which was a feature based on the fake trailer used in Rodriguez’ Grindhouse). The film will feature two important things: Charlie Sheen as the President of the United States and Lady Gaga as La Chameleon. The Austin-based…
Find more theater at dallasobserver.com/calendar. In good farce, there shouldn’t be time to breathe. Farce moves. Its momentum picks up speed. When you’re watching well-done farce, you should be laughing so hard at the sheer pace of the comedy you get mad at yourself for missing some of the dialogue…
.gif credit: Alfredo Salazar-Caro While we highly recommend getting out-of-doors for the absurdly awesome marathon of culture happening this weekend, Saturday night presents a rare opportunity for those of us shut in with Kleenex boxes on our feet. Like Congress, but well-deserved, Oliver Francis Gallery is opting for a summer…
Thought we were just being bitchy with that headline, didn’t you. Thought it was run-of-the-mill Mixmaster snark. Not so fast. Larry Hagman’s eyebrows have been charming audiences with their devilish flourishes since the late 1980s, but they — and their stylist — are finally receiving their due thanks to an…
Find way more events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. It’s finally happening: The world record title for most shaving cream pies thrown is on Tuesday! Any week with pie-chucking is already a winner, but you aren’t limited to competitive slap stick. There’s a beer pong tournament, Design District Gallery Day (with free beer!),…
Despite our initial concerns, “gluten intolerance” — and banning the offending protein composite from your menus — is not, in fact, a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As such, Company Cafe has firmly established itself with two locations, catering to the seemingly niche market and revolutionizing our…
Galleried out? Spend Saturday raiding the Gypsy Wagon instead. Even for veteran gallery hoppers, getting to every opening is limited by time available. We wind up picking and choosing between favorite spaces, artists with the biggest buzz, and which gallery doles out the heaviest pours. (What can I say? I’m…
Sometimes your brain, just like your body, needs to be flushed of all the toxins you’ve been dumping into it, especially if you’ve been streaming a lot of Netflix. No remedy for that at Whole Foods, but the Dallas Film Society, along with Morning News critic Chris Vognar and the…
It’s well known that Snoop Dogg wasn’t “born” in the traditional sense. Instead he materialized, a wee Snoopling, in a hot tub on the set of a rap video, blunt tucked into his diaper. Still, one woman argues this. Her name is Beverly Broadus-Green and she insists that she pushed…
It was Poison Ivy that made me love the Cramps and then garage-rich rockabilly as a whole. She’s a menacing female sneer in a male-dominated genre; her hair hides half a dozen switchblades and damn can she shred. Now that the group has dissolved, we miss her desperately. With her…
We’re taught over years of feminist literature, self-help books and Gilmore Girls episodes that women need to be comfortable with themselves to feel beautiful. We know logically that beauty is only skin-deep and that the real goods are on the inside, but dang if it doesn’t feel heavenly sometimes to…
Michael Malone is half cartoon, half observational comedian. He takes the stage with his ever-present bedhead to banter with the audience and tell jokes about everyday relatable things. Pretty common stuff for a comedy club, until he infuses them with cringing, elastic expressions and a stream of one-off character voices,…
Escape the brutal Texas sun this weekend and take your ears and imagination to a galaxy not so far, far away. On Saturday the Metropolitan Winds present a free concert composed of some of film’s most time-honored movie themes: cowboys and aliens. The concert will be held in the cavernous…
Some people run marathons just to get a free t-shirt. Others donate blood. You can circumvent the lightheadedness associated with both by simply viewing a relative marathon of gallery exhibitions, guzzling free Brooklyn Lager and crunching noms from Dallas’ finest food trucks (after 6:00 p.m.) during the Design District Gallery…
It’s been a few years since it’s happened, but House of Blues has cornered Dallas’ most pedigreed comedians and trapped them together on one stage. It’s also demanded that they use their skills to make otherwise rational human beings laugh like Anderson Cooper. Yes Dallas, you’re welcome. First up is…
On the day of his death last February 15, Bandele Tyehimba, proprietor of the Pan African Connection art gallery and book store in South Dallas, spoke to a friend, Aaron Cottrell, about his desire to launch an annual consciousness raising festival on the parking lot of the gallery. Now Cottrell…
Women who talk to God, to a coyote, to a therapist and to the world at large speak their minds in four plays, three of them world premieres, that hit the stage over the second weekend of the month-long Festival of Independent Theatres at the Bath House Cultural Center. There…
North Texas is full of artistic stars this summer at the Irving Arts Center, which hosts its 12th Annual Art Connection Member’s Exhibition, a non-juried celebration of local artists from a variety of media. Judged by Cheryl Vogel, Curator of Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden, the exhibition shows up…
There are obnoxious barbecue enthusiasts and there are insufferable beer enthusiasts, but between them is the rarest breed of all, known around eating circles as Mega Food Beer Dork. Thanks to the so-called beer knurds at the Flying Saucer Draught Emporioum, this Mega Food Beer Dork is in luck. The…
