Arts & Culture

You might have already heard of this movie even though it doesn’t hit mainstream release until March 30. Bully is a gnarly-hard look at the generated cycle of child-on-child violence. Tonight, you can see it for free at 7 at Studio Movie Grill (11170 N. Central Expressway). Go early, these…

RO2-Downtown was buzzing this past Saturday with TJ Griffin’s new show, Remove Your Mask. The show teased enough subversive content to pique my interest, so I arrived and was instantly immersed in a seedy study of identity and sexual politics. Griffin’s sculptures and canvases filled the room, each featuring older…

Name: Bethany Burke Location: Lower Greenville Style influences: “Edie Sedgwick mixed with Stevie Nicks. I’ve been dressing pretty dark lately. I like dead things a lot, my look is ‘dark ’70s.'” Style breakdown: “American Apparel disco pants, Chloe boots, boutique shirt, Alexander Wang bag, an old creepy Pagan necklace that…

When Dallas Observer intern and contributing writer Sarah Calams told us that she was going skydiving over spring break we A.) ruined her holiday by turning the experience into a reporting assignment, and B.) hugged her hard and tight. She’s a slip of a thing and we’d half-expected her to…

Arts education shouldn’t be an elite luxury, but schools can barely afford chalk and teachers to push it around, so financing for those fundamental programs is dissolving. Plus, Mom and Dad are broke. Now forced to trade expensive cultural outings for more pocket-comforting activities like video games and television, parents…

Reorganizing departmental staff and hiring new talent aren’t the only changes happening at the Dallas Museum of Art. Maxwell L. Anderson, the DMA’s new Eugene McDermott Director, launched DMA Dashboard last Friday. The sub-site gives an at-a-glance fact list ranging from monthly over-all endowment value to more obscure details, like…

Jonah Lehrer, a boyish 31-year-old with a striking resemblance to Tintin, is a science writer of no small repute, with one bestseller under his belt already (How We Decide) and likely another one in the making with Imagine: How Creativity Works. His appearance at the DMA Friday night as part…

“Reach for the stars” and “follow your dreams” was the rhetoric when I was growing up, but they failed to mention that when “everybody’s special,” it’s a hell of a lot harder to make it in a creative industry. See, I’m a kid of the ’90s: The economy was baller,…

Name: Disco (Kitten, Disco-tech, Cute’n) Age: 1 1/2 years Owner: DJ TraDeMarx From: SPCA Likes: The smell of peppermint, ice cubes, asparagus, pens, bouncy balls. Dislikes: Moombahton and glitch house (they make her ears go back). Click below for more photos of Disco, and stay tuned for more local pet…

Let’s talk about 50 Shades of Grey. Everyone else is. And by “everyone,” I mean middle-aged ladies getting re-blonded in the nicer salons of Manhattan’s Upper East Side (according to a friend who tweeted me about overheard conversations there), girlfriend book clubs on the Right and Left Coasts (and some…

Students at Woodrow Wilson High School in East Dallas performed the musical Les Misérables in 2005. On Wednesday afternoon, the creators of that long-running Broadway hit, lyricist Alain Boublil and composer Claude-Michel Schönberg, borrowed the Woodrow stage for a couple of hours to rehearse their enormous concert Do You Hear…

Hey Dallas, ain’t it beer-thirty yet? (Sound of can cracking open… *fizz*) Let’s tease our hair and hit the town! There’s a whole mess of great things happening, like three astounding art shows on Thursday night, a pinball convention all weekend and the Dallas Comedy Festival next week. So don’t…

The animated movie How to Train Your Dragon taught us that flying monsters can be pretty helpful and damn cute, just as long as we don’t go all Viking on their asses. Just don’t tell that to Sir David Attenborough. Not one to stray into fantasy, the face and voice…

Remember when you were in third grade and one stray toot enveloping the classroom was enough to keep the whole class buzzing for hours? You tried to deduce who did it. Then you discussed all the other memorable gas clouds you could think of (like what the dog did last…

Jagger is free to do what he wants, any old time. You? You have a slight budgetary restriction now and again, and the McKinney Avenue Contemporary has the perfect idea to keep you from fiscal free-fall with its Free Art Party on March 22. As a financially liberated libertine, you…