It’s a Thursday night in Expo Park and a quick duck into the Amsterdam Bar accidentally becomes an art experience. A small group has gathered on the sidewalk in front of Beefhaus (833 Exposition Avenue) to watch a projected video of lobsters staring back at them. It’s part of Gregory…
When attending a fashion show that promises to satisfy artistic inclinations of all types, skepticism is the name of the game. At Thursday evening’s Man as Machine at Three Three Three First Avenue fashion, dance, music, makeup, body painting and all types of fine art were broadcast as the draws…
The Internet is full of hatred and bile-spewing comments about video games. Hell, I’m guilty of it myself. If you shelled out money for the Duke Nukem Forever: Balls of Steel Edition, you’re entitled to throw out a couple of curse words in front of someone’s children at a Best…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. There’s a consistent trait shared by creators: the fear of not creating. When most people think…
What happens when you take live music, a fashion show and an indie film screening and shove the whole package into the Lizard Lounge? Well, that’s effectively what’s happening Friday at Panorama, the latest in a series of events thrown by RAW Dallas, a branch of the Los Angeles based,…
Baron Batch is one passionate man. The artist, writer, salsa maker and former Texas Tech star running back spoke to us over the phone while he traveled to Lubbock for its First Friday Art Trail. And with each question we asked, Batch answered with a detailed story. And a passionate…
I would’ve chosen a theme other than school house, if I were decorating the Warby Parker storefront in Dallas, which opened this week. This is not to say that I didn’t appreciate the oversized pencil sticking out of the roof, or the kitschy school bus parked out front. I love…
The Oak Cliff Film Festival happens this weekend. Allow me to offer a few reasons you should care: Movies, drinks, bike rides, dance parties, and croquet. If you need more convincing, head over to Jamie Laughlin’s preview of how it all happens this weekend. If you’re like me, the above…
For all the Fox News fear-mongering that Hollywood is out to indoctrinate us with liberal values, when it comes to pregnancy, the movies have for years been curiously conservative. If a woman gets knocked up, she either loses the baby by accident (cue waterworks) or carries it to term (cue…
The Rover, Australian filmmaker David Michôd’s follow-up to the brutish family drama Animal Kingdom, is a post-apocalyptic Western from the Outback, a stretch of land that already looks like the world’s been blown away. All Michôd needs to convince us of the devastation is a title card pegging the events…
If you think summer movies are clamorous, try a current Broadway musical. Watching Jersey Boys onstage is like soldiering through some extreme eating contest where you’re force-fed dessert for three hours. It’s all falsetto heroics and hustled-through character drama, every beat of every scene over-scored, over-rehearsed and overbearing. And it’s…
This isn’t the maiden voyage for the musical Titanic at Lyric Stage. The company did it in 2003 using the same staging by director Drew Scott Harris and the same stripped-down set designed by Scott Osborne that merely suggests, with three levels of steps and metal railings, the gleaming decks,…
Instead of producing the American premiere of British musical Soho Cinders, Uptown Players should’ve taken script and score and burned them. What a tawdry, creepy adaptation of Cinderella. If a musical could carry an STD, this one would come with a warning from the CDC. With music by George Stiles,…
David Lindsay-Abaire’s two-act dramedy Good People at WaterTower Theatre argues both sides of the same argument. Are good choices or good luck the reason why some people succeed and others don’t? Struggling South Boston single mom Margie (marvelous Jessica Cavanagh), desperate for work, begs old high school boyfriend Mike (James…
Six weeks before opening night for the next show at Fun House Theatre and Film, it is audition day, nervous time for the 40 actors lined up on a late mid-May afternoon in a crowded hallway outside a tiny rehearsal studio in Plano. Some fan themselves with “sides,” short pages…
Recently, Star Wars fans, along with much of the planet’s pop-culture collective, nearly ruptured the Internet in their enthusiasm to share set-building photos from next year’s long-awaited new feature film. But these weren’t shots of just any set. They depicted the construction of the Millennium Falcon. You’ve never heard of…
Comedies about the battle of the sexes tend to have one clear loser: the audience. Driven by an oppositional view of romance that proved outmoded and seldom funny, Think Like a Man introduced us to six men living in Los Angeles and their corresponding flames. Some of these entanglements were…
Do you like sitting outside in 100 degree heat, skinny Brando and craft beer? The Design District Market is holding a Brew & View. That’s right, come watch the outdoor screening of the classic 1953 film, The Wild One. “What about the brew?” you ask. Well, you’re in luck because…
It seems as if the thing to do these days is host excessively diverse art parties. Well, basically, the people at Dallas Fashion Art were throwing progressive art events before they were cool. This year’s Dallas Fashion Art part art event part fundraiser party’s theme is ‘Man as Machine.’ What…
Think back to the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the dancers who “magically” painted a large-scale intricate landscape of mountains and waters with just their hands and feet. Do you remember who choreographed that? Probably not, but TITAS and the Crow Collection of Asian Art are ready…
With a Friday the 13th freshly tucked under our belts and Mercury spending some serious time in retrograde this month, it’s easy to feel that everything is all black cats and bad luck lately. Air conditioner failures, car wrecks … it’s all going south and you gotta pin it on…
Everybody loves Dirk. Including other athletes. That’s why he’s the perfect face to slap on a charity. This weekend, he invites his famous friends to join him in a friendly game of catch at Dirk Nowitzki’s 2014 Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game. The proceeds benefit his nonprofit organization that offers sports…
