The DeLorean, Bond’s DB5, the Bandit’s Trans Am. Sometimes it’s an iconic car that makes a movie as much as Reynolds’ mustache or Connery’s brogue. (Did Bullitt even have a plot? Your guess is as good as ours.) Well, this just in, today from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m., you can…
Name: Becky Bruenig Age: 54 Occupation: Senior registered assistant at Merrill Lynch Style blogger Location: Old Downtown Carrollton Style influences: “I pour over every single fashion magazine and blog and I like to create my own, unique style.” Style breakdown: Clover Canyon dress, Bamboo shoes, vintage purse, hand-painted (with nail…
Hey Dallas lady, you seem really sweet but you didn’t need Bethenny’s advice about “shaking things up” today to “shake things up.” You just did it. By Skyping your way onto a national talk show, you have guaranteed that everyone who knows you or your boyfriend of ten years are…
It was highway robbery, but no one called the cops. Sunday evening’s ArtSlam saw walls of high-quality, locally-created paintings, photographs, and schwag walk out the doors of Steve Paul Productions in Deep Ellum for just pennies on their estimated values. However, every name scribbled and every hand raised during the…
Humor is one of the most effective methods of communicating a message, but in the art world it’s often overlooked or dismissed. Occasionally we see someone just nail it, driving home that the two can be attractive and beneficial bedmates, like at the MAC’s recent William Powhida exhibition. Powhida distills…
Dallas actor Cameron Cobb played Hamlet in 100-degree heat in Samuell-Grand Park last summer for Shakespeare Dallas. He portrayed numerous roles, male and female, in Kitchen Dog’s excellent two-hander The Turn of the Screw this spring. Now it’s his manifest destiny to occupy the title role in Theatre Three’s rude…
HOLD UP. This video has a bunch of cursing in it, on account of Youngman’s awesomely filthy mouth. NSFW. It seems like every arts blog in town has been hyping ArtSlam all week. But, if you haven’t yet heard of it, we can understand your confusion at its seemingly violent…
Nestled in a corner of Jackson Armory and adjacent to Snider Plaza, Rosedale Rare Books is as unassuming as, well, one would expect an independently-owned, antiquarian bookstore to be. Due to the nature of its surroundings – the armory specializes in antique weaponry, and its walls are lined with rifles,…
Name: Katie Womack Age: 29 Occupation: Piano teacher/Freelance Observer contributor Location: Single Wide Style influences: “I primarily shop based on the colors and shapes I feel comfortable in.” Style breakdown: Rag & Bone jeans, Plastic Island top, necklace from Dear Holly, bra from Nordstrom shoes and sunglasses from Target…
After last week’s uneven, unintentionally comical premiere (“I never SENT you an EEEEEE-MAIL.”), TNT’s re-launch of Dallas hit a gusher on Wednesday (isn’t that what the oil people say when they do well?). J.R. Ewing, like, TOOK-OVER took over. Asses were kicked, names taken, delicious one-liners uttered. He began his…
Dragon Street is a bit like the Diamond District of Dallas Art. By localizing their galleries in one, walkable zone, art dealers are able to share the same client base. This is especially true on those magical nights when most spaces offer new shows, and new shows means new opening…
Nobody does big American musicals like Lyric Stage, the Irving theater company that does only musicals and only in the biggest way possible. Their season-ender, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 70-year-old classic Oklahoma!, brings the show back to where it started, with all the usually omitted songs back in place, 30 singers…
For Jessica Luther, owner of outsider art gallery Smoke and Mirrors, June 23 will be a kind of rebirth. If you’ve recently driven by the shop’s former location on Haskell, next to the vintage/curiosities boutique Dolly Python, you’ve likely noticed that the windows are taped up and the venue has…
Name: Jason Corcoran Age: 23 Occupation: Member of Gaston Light Location: Sissy’s Fried Chicken Style influences: “I ride the fine line between spotlight and factory light. My style is American classic, my shirts are always tucked in and I like Levi’s 511 skinny’s.” Style breakdown: American Apparel solid button-up, American…
Welcome to Mixmaster’s newest weekly post, Holy Crap, I Need That! Thursdays, where we bring you the best and strangest adventures in consumerism on any given topic. This week, it’s fashion. Here’s my picks for all-around rad things that you’d be crazy not to want. Hats for cats (above): Oh…
I like animals. Having grown up in rural Texas with cows and “cy-otes” staring me down on a daily basis, and despite the fact that my someday procuring a lion skin rug or gallant 12 point buck for my wall will likely not serve my dating life well, I am…
Here’s some quick math to help you get through any given week: If you view the weekend as starting on Thursday, it makes it four days long. By that logic, the work week is only three days long. Totally doable. Let’s toast to math and pour a little weekend whiskey…
The singing, dancing cowboys in Lyric Stage’s Oklahoma! compete for your attention this week with the singing, dancing seventh president in Theatre Three’s Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson. With Jersey Boys and its singing, almost-dancing quartet of lovable mooks back in town for a month-long run at the Winspear, there may…
As one of only 11 EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners, entertainment juggernaut Mel Brooks has been making audiences laugh out loud and pee their pants for more than 60 years. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who’s not a fan of Brooks’ work (after all, the man…
If missing out on the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee is still depressing you, follow the old British rule: Mind the yap. Celebrate all things dog, and vaguely British, at the Royal Wags Pawty at Hotel Palomar from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. With $20 donations for admission benefiting Paws in the…
It was Keats who wrote, “Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud,” but Dallas painter Aralyn McGregor had to make no such request. For the oil, acrylic, watercolor and dry media artist, the inspiration for her new solo exhibition, Muse, resounded from the words of “Lady Lazarus” herself,…
Here’s a fun fact for all you fun-fact nerd types: The Rocky Horror Picture Show invented shadowcasting, which is basically like watching a movie in surround life instead of surround sound. It’s created when the film is played in the background while a cast performs it onstage in the foreground,…
