Fourth of July is one of the most stress-free holidays. You don’t have to worry about buying anyone gifts, prep and cook a smorgasbord of food or break out your fancy clothes. While it’s a bummer that fireworks are illegal to set off in your backyard, the Dallas-Fort Worth area…
It’s press-day once again here at Dallas Observer HQ, so it’s also time for the Weekly Tease! (Cue boom-bada-boom music.)Here’s this week’s sneak-peek of the cover that’s headed out to the press today. Grab your copy of the issue when it hits the streets on Thursday. You will see then…
We suppose you could call it a drive-up movie theater. This Friday, the Filmmobile, a straight-outta-LA school bus catering to all things cinematic, sets up shop outside the Kessler Theatre for a night of solar-powered film screenings, live music, and bingo under the stars. Currently in the midst of a…
Remember when you were a kid and your parents told you not to play with matches? We’re almost certain David Sena’s parents forgot to tell him that fire is dangerous, but that’s only served him well. The Dallas native has made a name for himself as a renowned tattoo artist,…
Through September 5, a special exhibit at the Dallas Holocaust Museum is dedicated to some of the lesser-known victims of the Holocaust: gay men. Paragraph 175 was a provision of the German Criminal Code that made homosexual acts between men illegal, and roughly 140,000 German men were convicted under this…
Once upon a time, we were in a high school English class, staring off into space or sleeping during those obligatory Shakespeare lectures. This dead guy has been popular through hundreds of years of English literature, but thou aren’t as witty as he. Lucky for us, Collin College is presenting…
Looks like the pop-up shop might be the next food truck. Last week, a vintage pop-up shop landed in a vacant building next to the Double Wide on Commerce, and now another pop-up shop is springing up at The Belmont Hotel this weekend. Junkie Brand Apparel is selling their line…
In the Saturday afternoon heat, 11 teams of costumed “idiots” mushed their modified and decorated shopping carts across roughly 5 miles of the city’s streets as they competed for kitschy, homemade prizes in the first Dallas version of the urban shopping cart race. (Read our preview from Saturday for more…
The night began mildly enough, though that would change quickly. Motorcycles lined the side-street outside of Lucky 7 Cycles on Haskell Ave; their owners mingled in and out of the garage, pouring beer from a couple kegs, swigging sips of Jager from the bottle. It was last weekend’s celebration…
Today, just after the 1 p.m. launch of Idiotarod Dallas 2011, bands of costumed “idiots” will mush their modified and decorated shopping carts across roughly 5 miles of the city’s streets as they compete for prizes in the first Dallas version of the race. Clearly inspired by Alaska’s annual 1,150-mile…
The final show of Second Thought Theatre’s seventh and so far strongest season is Christopher Shinn’s Dying City (reviewed in this week’s paper). The two-actor (Grace Heid, Rhett Henckel), three-character drama was directed by Dallas Theater Center company member Lee Trull, his first time staging a full-fledged production. Trull’s been…
Sure, centenarians are special. Hell, anyone who makes it to 100 and can still do gardening or enjoy the early bird special is impressive in our book. White Rock Lake turns 100 this year, and even after a slew of festivities that started in March, the lake apparently can still…
I’ve been looking at your photos. I see them on Facebook, Twitter, Path, instagram and Flickr. Occasionally, I plan to post a few that I like, with your permission, in what I like to call, the Smallest Group Show, ever. This installment: scenes from Texas summer. View the show after…
The Turtle Creek Chorale’s 31th anniversary season is about to come to a close. Last night, at the Meyerson, they performed their final offering, Night and Day: The Music of Cole Porter. But you still have a chance to see the final performance at 8 p.m. Sunday. Audiences will be…
Mary Anne Cox, 28. Purchasing Manager for Lights Fantastic. Coal Vines, Uptown. “I’m wearing jeans from Urban Outfitters, a necklace from Buffalo Exchange, vintage shoes, and a shirt from Ross, yes, Ross. I’m inspired by Free People, music, Pintrest.com, art, street fashion and my best friends, Carla and Jen.”…
For our latest installment of Question The Artist, we’re proud to be working with and talking to the award-winning editorial illustrator Brian Stauffer. Stauffer’s work has graced our pages before, and we’re fortunate enough to have him grace our pages once again. Coming off of a recent gold medal win…
So you’ve got your Dirk Is My Homeboy shirt and tattoo, but do you have this? Local artist Cabe Booth created this oil on wood masterpiece appropriately titled “Dirk Nowitzki,” and it’s available for purchase for $750 or the highest bid. As of last night, the highest bid was $500…
Before being cast as Georgeanne in Contemporary Theatre of Dallas’ current comedy hit, Alan Ball’s Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Dallas actress Barrett Nash had played a lot of angst-y teenagers. Looking a decade younger than her real age (27), Nash, a UT-Austin grad, had been a standout playing…
The second season of Louis C.K.’s latest half-hour comedy, Louie, starts up at 9:30 Central tonight on FX. If it’s anything like his stand-up, his first show (Lucky Louis on HBO), or the first season of Louie, it will be a wonderfully and purposefully disjointed driving tour of C.K.’s head…
“Accio Pottermore!” For a full week, hundreds of thousands of Potter Heads have uttered this command as they waited for the unveiling of JK Rowling’s website and wondered what it would actually be. The time finally came today. Pottermore is an exclusive interactive website for fans of all ages, and…
For most people, Mondays suck, but not for playwright Kristoffer Diaz who got to do triple the celebrating this past Monday. First, The New York Times crowned him as the 2011 New York Times Outstanding Playwright, and then The Public Theater in New York awarded him with the first Gail…
Derek Dilday is a really big Mavs fan. He recently got the above tattoo. Here he is talking about why: The inspiration came from being a huge Dirk fan, obviously. Knowing how much Dirk wanted this championship and the struggles he has been through with this team for the past…
