The New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham has haunted the streets of New York City for decades, snapping shots of the best dressed of the rich and famous and down and out in The Big Apple. In his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours,” Cunningham chronicled fashion trends for…
Lord Naritsugu (Gorô Inagaki) is a royal terror, and the court fears Caligula-like horrors should he come into his royal succession. Samurai Shinzaemon Shimada (Koji Yakusho) is secretly recruited to preclude this possibility with his sword, leading the title’s dirty baker’s dozen on a hit-job quest. Set in 1844, in…
Cinematographer Tat Radcliffe’s gray Turin sets the monotone of The Double Hour, while director Giuseppe Capotondi softens promising material to mush for the refined digestion of sophisto audiences. Guido (Filippo Timi, Vincere’s Mussolini), a retired policeman turned security guard, is a habitué of speed-dating events, where he meets Sonia (Ksenia…
Nature has always inspired artists to create beautiful works. Claude Monet created approximately 250 different artistic variations of water lilies in his flower garden, and it’s easy to understand why he produced so many of those paintings: Water lilies are undeniably beautiful, unlike, say, the West Texas desert spotted with…
Turns out Half and Half isn’t about cyborgs at all. It’s about marriage, but before you fall asleep at least read the description. Half and Half is a comedy that takes a look at two couples. The first couple is set in the 1970s with the husband in the role…
Race and racism: powerful words that can make human blood boil. These words have come up in conversations at breakfast tables, in classrooms and on political power fronts for centuries. Race and racism are words that make people passionate. They ignite historical and controversial moments and provoke Americans to define…
We all take notes or scribble things down from time to time, but when Annabel Daou does it, it’s not on a Post-it note or napkin. She does it on a gigantic scale. Lebanese-born and New York based, Daou’s America takes the written word and explodes it across the 20…
The Sound of Music is the pinnacle of musicals filmed during the golden age of Hollywood musicals in the ’60s. The sizzling combination of Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer is impossible to duplicate, but a live performance can be as satisfying as the classic movie. The Artisan Center Theater is…
The latest abstract expressionist to captivate art enthusiasts is, of course, 4-year-old Australian painter Aelita Andre, who currently has her own solo exhibition in New York City. Not surprisingly, many Andre fans find her work reminiscent of Jackson Pollock’s paintings, but they are also seemingly influence by the works of…
The good people at the Belmont Hotel support the arts, they really do. Every six weeks, the Belmont selects a new artist from around the region to serve as artist-in-residence at the ritzy North Oak Cliff hotspot. From there, the hotel’s lobby, bar and select hallways transform into a top-notch…
Since most of your favorite shows have already aired season finales, you’ll probably be spending your weeknights going through your Netflix queue, but why sit at home when you can enjoy free screenings of films in the Arts District? AT&T Performing Arts Center and Dallas Film Society are kicking off…
It’s the Wednesday WTF? wherein we randomly select a photo/video/thing that makes us say those three special words.While some of you Internet savvy cat people out there may have already discovered the joy that is Meowmania (the link’s been around for a couple of years), we at the Observer can’t…
A short film by two Texans that’s played on the festival circuit from San Francisco to Sarasota, including South by Southwest and Dallas International Film Festival, is a finalist for Oscar’s little brother, the Student Academy Awards. Fatakra (Firecracker in Gujarati), the brainchild of writer/director Soham Mehta and producer Ninaad…
In honor of E3, aka every game nerd’s favorite trade show of the year, we’d like to introduce you to a new weekly feature, Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way though hump day each week. When you can’t bring yourself to look at…
For our on-going feature where we Question The Artist, today we hear from the multi-talented outfit QuickHoney. We turned to tap their pixel-y goodness to illustrate a story where the control and fate of a particular neighborhood was the topic, not unlike the control one has in developing your very…
With Game Four of the NBA Finals gearing up for tip off at 8 p.m., the Dallas Mavericks have a chance to tie the series 2-2. We know that Our Dallas Mavericks are the team of comebacks and have the ability to keep us on the edge of our seats…
That’s right, friends, time again for The Weekly Tease! Today is press day at Observer HQ, when The Mixmaster brings you a sneak-peek of the cover art for the issue about go to be printed and hit the streets later in the week.So whether you’re a long-time DO reader, or…
First it was her Fosse-esque dance steps in the “Single Ladies” video. Now the digital effects and dancing for the video of Beyoncé Knowles’ new single “Run the World (Girls)” have some critics and fans buzzing about similarities to other artists’ work. With “Single Ladies” and its wrist-popping, hip-swiveling choreography,…
You don’t have to eat ham and jam and Spam a lot to prove you’re a Monty Python fan, and if you’re indeed a fan the quest for the Holy Grail begins right now. Dallas Summer Musicals is bringing Monty Python’s Spamalot to the Music Hall at Fair Park on…
What if there was a bulbous bearded man from generations ago, and then his head was splattered in such an excited rush of sporadic color that somehow the form of Popeye made it’s way into the mix as a momentarily logical inclusion? What if there was an unidentifiable animal corpse…
Don’t have a space for an art gallery? Don’t have a venue for bands? The Bolivar Arts & Music Collective proved all you need is a forest of bamboo, your mother’s spare bed sheets and beer. Make that lots of beer. The most recent of the monthly events proves that…
Saturday night’s Cirque! Anything Goes! event at Edison’s proved to be a very successful fundraiser for TCC. They raised $60,000 plus. (They’re still shy of the $100,000 they need since 60% of their budget is from donations and the Meyerson costs them $10,000 a pop to use.) The place was…
