Go see that ol’ bitchbag Chelsea Handler on Saturday. Tickets are expensive ($59.50 and $69.50), but they should be. Someone’s gotta pay for Brad Wollack’s perms. Josh, His Giant Forehead and Heather McDonald will be there, too. The whole gang is coming to town to celebrate Lies That Chelsea Told…
Besides being home to kickass BBQ, hot summer weather, and the best team in the NBA, North Texas is home to some classic cinematic history. Starting this weekend, the Alamo Drafthouse, along with Texas Monthly, will be sparking up their yearly Rolling Roadshow series here in DFW. The premise is…
Besides being home to kickass BBQ, hot summer weather, and the best team in the NBA, North Texas is home to some classic cinematic history. Starting this weekend, the Alamo Drafthouse, along with Texas Monthly, will be sparking up their yearly Rolling Roadshow series here in DFW. The premise is…
Dancing With The Stars doesn’t really compare when it comes to the real thing. Watching dancers shake, twirl and hop across the stage can be truly breathtaking. Elledanceworks ends its 14th season with Elledanceworks 14, featuring “Unravel,” the story of a woman coping with her husband’s insanity; “From One Fountain,”…
Sure, it’s fun to go check out the hottest date spot on Friday night- sip a few cocktails and start to feel real sexy, then stare into the eyes of your lover for the next hour or so. But, if you’re looking for a night out with a bit more,…
Modern musical theater, even with all its anthropomorphic cats and pirouetting gang bangers, doesn’t hold a candle to Monty Python when it comes to the absurd. The Tony Award winner Monty Python’s Spamalot returns to taunt Dallas a second time, allowing audiences to join King Arthur and his knights as…
Twenty years from now when our children hear Outkast’s “Hey Ya” on the Oldies station on the radio or Pandora or whatever they’ll be listening to in the future and have to ask us what “Shake it like a Polaroid picture” means, we’ll enjoy a sweet, sad moment of nostalgia…
In the 1970s Elliott McDowell excelled at traditional photography techniques, acclaimed for his keenly printed photographs of unusual, mostly staged shots of comical people and quirky subject matter. The Santa Fe-based photographer’s early black and white images aren’t easily forgotten, and ones like “The Wolf,” “The Bachelor,” “Moonrise Over Rolls…
A man standing in the scalding Texas sun, sporting a mid drift T-shirt with pit stains and back hair sticking to his skin isn’t what you would call picturesque. Fortunately for you, Mighty Fine Arts (419 N. Tyler St.) is featuring some delicious eye candy for your viewing pleasure with…
Every summer, across the country, outdoor amphitheaters roll out the red blanket for the Greatest Literary Figurehead Ever and begin cranking out night after night of sonnets and stanzas. This is no small feat- catering to a populace whose concept of tragedy involves that time that Maks dropped Kirstie Alley…
Imagination is given to you at a tender age. Young and innocent, you use imagination to pretend you’re climbing Mount Everest or swimming the Nile. Your bedroom becomes filled with long lost treasures: rubies, diamonds and emeralds. You’re now a high priestess. You just robbed a bank with Bonnie and…
If there is one thing more relaxing than roaming the galleries of an art exhibit, thrusting your eyes upon beautiful paintings, sculptures and photographs, it’s doing so in the midst of an intense yoga session. Lucky for all you tranquility-seeking art lovers, the Crow Collection of Asian Art will be…
Contemporary art is a mystery. Its definition is nebulous, beyond the qualification that it be created by someone, you know, contemporary. Sigh. Six Arms to Hold You, a female-centered exhibition by three contemporary Dallas artists, seems simple enough to “get” at first glance. But then the gallery throws in descriptive…
High season for musical theater has arrived. Orchestras are tuning up and audiences are turning up to see a couple of vintage and rarely revived oldies, Oliver! and Pippin, and to get their first looks at two hot-from-Broadway hits, Billy Elliot the Musical and Next to Normal. There may not…
When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis set out to create a “master Aryan race,” it wasn’t only the Jews they wanted to do away with. Although Jews were the most significant group of victims of the Nazis’ systematic imprisonment and murder, other targeted groups included anyone with mental and physical…
Dubbed “enfant terrible” after his first runway show in 1976, Jean Paul Gaultier has never been afraid to rebel against the norms in his industry, whether it be in the skewed styling of his designs on the runway or even the models themselves who are often curvier than the typical…
It’s the Wednesday WTF? wherein we randomly select a photo/video/thing that makes us say those three special words. “Fur on fur” may not be new to you. And no, we don’t mean that as dirty as it sounds. If you’re on DeviantArt or are a fanatic of BoingBoing and the…
It’s not often you get to be Dan Cortese for the day, but I did a couple Saturdays ago. I spent my morning at National Rowing Day, my afternoon at NY-TX ZipLine Adventures and my evening stuffing tube socks in my bike shorts and telling people to “step off.” I’ve…
Sure, it was cute when you dressed your little purse-dog in a mini Dirk shirt, but pets aren’t the only non-human fans celebrating the team’s NBA championship. Take a look at how the prehistoric Mavs enthusiasts at the Museum of Nature and Science are showing their support for their favorite…
Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through hump day each week. Trying to decide on what to have for lunch? If you’re anything like Hungry Sumo, you’ll most likely eat massive quantities of rice and then knock about…
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence invite everybody — yes, everybody — to work a red dress and hit the dance floor Saturday at TMC in honor of their Red Dress Party. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) was founded in San Francisco in 1979 and has been leading HIV/AIDS activism…
MAVS WIN! MAVS WIN! Oh, and yes, it’s time once again for The Weekly Tease! With today being press day here at Observer HQ, that means it’s time to take a break from celebrating and bring you a sneak-peek of the cover art for this week’s impending issue.If you’re stumped…
