“It takes a village,” goes the saying. But what if the village is under-developed, infested with violence and depleted of resources from years of neglect and misappropriation? That’s the question Rick Lowe has been addressing since he founded Project Row Houses in Third Ward, a neighborhood that’s been pondering those…
Jeremy Turner, founder of the Vintage Mobile store and purveyor of 3,000 holiday sweaters last Christmas, is taking on another sector of the mobile economy: art. Turner says he has purchased a 1955 Spartan trailer and plans to convert it into an art gallery. “I want to show art by…
I posed this question to a friend last night: Has there been a main character in recent TV series history who has been so irredeemable, so flawed? We came up with Larry David, to whom Dunham’s character has been compared, both for their complete lack of awareness and how heavily…
Somehow I don’t think our Irish ancestors thought the Feast of St. Patrick’s Day would include Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos…
If you knowing in you’re going to make an ass out of yourself, you might as well accentuate that ass: That’s the apparent conclusion the folks above came to Saturday on Greenville Avenue, where Dallas drunkenly did its thing. You can see slideshows from the parade and our Snoop Dogg…
Ayana Hampton, the “Kayne of Cabaret,” has a lot of zingers: For breakfast I had birth control. For lunch I had happy hour. And for dinner I usually get laid. How do you expect me to work when there is so much werk to do? If you love something let…
I bought something from A Pea In The Pod recently, because I’m making a person and I need making-a-person clothes. When you check out at the register at this place, before they let you pay for their super expensive clothing, they ask you a shit ton of questions that may…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Jon Reep at Hyena’s in Fort Worth Born and raised in rural Hickory, N.C., Jon Reep has made his way across the nation, performing in comedy clubs and on TV. He’s been on…
Snoop Dogg Lion Muppet Honey Badger headlines our St. Patrick’s Day Party this Saturday! Gin? Check. Juice? Check. Bailey’s? Yep, got that too. Carb up like you have a big swim meet this weekend, Dallas. The next four days are not for the faint of heart, belly or liver. There’s…
With the Van Cliburn piano competition approaching and the recent death of its namesake, there’s a lot* of talk in North Texas these days about classical piano competitions. This week the Dallas Chamber Symphony gets in on the action with its first annual “DCS International Piano Competition.” All rounds are…
You’ll have to take the afternoon off, and you should, to see the splendid new production of Greater Tuna at the Bath House Cultural Center. One Thirty Productions performs only at 1:30 p.m., and the company has found success with their matinee-only format. The house was packed for the opening…
The 12th annual Out of the Loop Fringe Festival continues at WaterTower Theatre in Addison for one more weekend. Eighteen shows, most under an hour, are on this year’s schedule, which covers three acting spaces. (The Observer is a sponsor.) If you’re there, don’t miss The Ugly One, directed by…
Puberty is sex and sex is murder in Stoker, a Hitchcockian stew of hothouse familial jealousy, sadism and psychosis all tied together by one teenage girl’s homicidal coming of age. Psychosexual imagery permeates every inch of renowned South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s stateside debut. A blood-tipped pencil, or water dripping…
Steve Carell’s gift is for men who might drown in their own obliviousness. Like his Daily Show reporter, or The Office’s Michael Scott, his 40-year-old virgin lived in terror that someone might catch on to the fact that he knows nothing about subjects he purports to have mastered. When his…
In 1988 the fate of Chile and its dictator came down to a ballot as simple as a middle-schooler’s do-you-like-me? note. A referendum offered citizens a simple choice: a “yes” for allowing President Augusto Pinochet to return to office for another eight years, having clung to power since his 1973…
Elisabeth Moss’s face is far from the only reason to savor Top of the Lake, Jane Campion’s smart, bracing, hugely enjoyable mystery rural noir Top of the Lake, which premieres on the Sundance Channel on Monday, March 18. But that pale-to-radiant instrument of hers—a mouth that suggests her characters might…
For a movie as much in love with New York’s outer-borough street life as Adam Leon’s Gimme the Loot, it will not do just to talk about the film. That’s what Leon insists, and so I find myself heading north with Leon on FDR Drive on an overcast Friday afternoon,…
“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” So goes the adage from John Ford’s 1962 classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and so it has gone for Heaven’s Gate, the class-war Western written and directed by one of Ford’s truest disciples among contemporary…
To most of the world, spring break seems like a lot of fun, but people who live in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, or South Padre Island understand the dark side. Damn college kids pass through for a week to drink liquor, trash the streets, and wear T-shirts announcing, “I survived spring…
The Fort Worth Opera just got more dramatic. It’s joining the eclectic ranks of talent at this year’s Out of the Loop Fringe Fest. On Thursday, the company’s Young Artists will present a showcase at WaterTower Theatre, 15650 Addison Road in Addison. Whether you’re an opera fan or an opera…
Spring break is here, but that doesn’t mean you need to let your brain rot. Nope. In fact, what if we were to tell you that you could embrace fair weather, the city’s best culture and even see a wonderful movie outdoors, for next to nothing? (I’m asking because that’s…
Step off, Deb, it looks like Sugar is now doing Dallas, albeit in a completely non-sexual way. Sugar Does America 2 is a Mad Girl Production that crisscrosses the country putting on shows featuring local yet-to-be-discovered female talent. Head out to support your local boob-havers at 8 p.m. Friday at…
