It’s not as if aspiring photographers unwrap gallery shows and feature spreads for their 18th birthdays. It usually takes years of cultivating talent, creating a series and generally busting ass in the art world to even get noticed. Prix de 1814 MAGAZINE — 2013, a photography contest, could change that…
Remember the sad pop-up books of your youth? Their pull tabs failed immediately and their 3-D trees only popped once? Those dreary pages have been replaced with amazingly intricate ones, thanks to the work of author, illustrator and paper magician Robert Sabuda. He’s added new life to the pages of…
If you think Sasquatch is hogwash, then you’re in for one rude, hairy-assed awakening. First and foremost, there’s an entire not-for-profit concern dedicated to the scientific research of said beast: The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy. Second and secondmost, it’s hosting the 12th Annual Texas Bigfoot Conference this year at the…
As a child, it was Christmas morning that sparked your fascination, causing you to stir early, excited about the day’s unlimited potential. As an adult living in Dallas, we have our own special holiday: Super Drunk St. Patrick’s Day Parade Afternoon, Now With Potential Vomiting. It has everything you’ve ever…
Before you load up on green beads and beer and get too drunk to remember your phone number, we suggest you stock up on good karma. And what better way to get some than with a little bit of early-morning charity? On Saturday you can jump into St. Paddy’s Day…
We’ve spent the past year impatiently awaiting the arrival of the DMA’s newest art exhibition, Cindy Sherman. One of the most beloved and influential photographers of the last 50 years, Sherman is well-known for portraiture work that tackles everything from feminism and societal issues to cinema and performance, and her…
Look at your calendars, Dallas — we are lucky, lucky bastards this year. We’ve been blessed with the rarest of St. Patrick’s Day parties: the one-two punch of the St. Patrick’s Parade on Greenville Saturday followed immediately by St. Patrick’s Day proper on Sunday. It’s like God himself sanctioned hair-of-the-dog…
It’s tough being a coin-op addict in 2013. Despite being the nation’s No. 1 resale hub for the things, most of Dallas’ pinball machines are preserved in the caring homes of collectors, rather than in the corners of bars and laundromats. For 51 weekends of each year, that is a…
Y’all ready to savor some bites, people? Good … let’s just hope you have a quality bike, or some gas money. That’s right, it’s the time of year when we cherish the delish food and drink of Dallas in the respectable, yet slightly distant, settlement of Irving. But wait! This…
Bradly Brown is a founding member of Homecoming!Committee, that art collective out of Fort Worth that’s held our attention with their avid puzzle-making, solving and smashing. When he isn’t co-organizing aesthetic cage matches and serving as a local sculpture freedom fighter, Brown is an MFA candidate at TCU. We saw…
Billy Joel sang about them years ago, so you know they’re legit. I’m talking about Uptown Girls. Of course, these UGs are putting on the longest-titled fashion show in American history: the First Annual Uptown Girls Poolside Miami in Dallas Fashion Show hosted by Glitzy Glam Cocktails. At the show…
Man, you think Texas weather is a bear? Try vacationing on Titan. They’ve got liquid methane rainstorms which National Geographic assures us are just as bad as they sound. In the new IMAX film, Wildest Weather in the Solar System, you’ll soar through a 400 year old hurricane in 3D…
We’ve got four major league sports teams in the metroplex, but have you ever wondered what there is for the gamers? You know, the types who’d rather point and click rather than pass and shoot? Never fear, my geeky brethren, Major League Gaming is here. The Major League Gaming Winter…
Every Wednesday, we find you five movies for you to check out over the coming week or weekend, from the latest wide release to weird local screenings to timely classics you can watch on your couch. Did we miss something? Let readers know in the comments. Ministry of Fear Now…
They summon the footnotes of the Merriam Webster book of Idioms on demand. They solve your holophonic confusions through etymological dissection. They even exhume the roots of those regional phrases or heirloom colloquialisms that your grandmother imprinted on you — you know, the ones you say that make your friends…
It’s tough being a coin-op addict in 2013. Despite being the nation’s No. 1 resale hub for the things, most of Dallas’ pinball machines are preserved in the caring homes of collectors, rather than in the corners of bars and laundromats. For 51 weekends of each year, that is a…
The Goss-Michael Foundation wants you to bring your laptop and cell phone and set up shop at their gallery tonight. And while you’re at it, use both to create some art. They’re even bringing in a lecturer to teach you how. Artist, musician, editor and activist Andrew Blanton will give…
In Ink Spot, we stop people in Dallas to shoot, and learn about, their body art. Know an interesting human canvas? Leave a tip in the comments. Joshua Stephens is a self-proclaimed “corporate ladder climber by day and aspiring musician by night” whose full left sleeve makes up the bulk…
Much of Big Pictures, the Amon Carter’s large-format photography show, is about drama. It’s approached from an oblique perspective and covers lots of historical ground, and it would have you believe (if you read the little essays posted on the exhibition walls) that the camera-recorded moment — the still shot…
A bitterly Good Night. The full list is posted, and it includes an earlier teased category of Italian films. In that showcase you’ll get a dusting off of two classics, Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful and Fellini’s 8 1/2, along with three newbies. Probably the buzziest film In the Texas…
Over here at the Observer, we love a good convention. Last weekend’s All-Con was a thing of exceptional beauty — After all, when else can you walk through an Addison hotel and see men and women, bounty hunters and storm troopers, dressed down to suits and helmets partying in a…
Before he became the entrepreneurial Tom Haverford on Parks and Rec, he starred in the video sketch series Human Giant. And before both of those things, the major venue stand-up comedy tours, television specials and wildly enthusiastic reviews by music publications Rolling Stone and Pitchfork, Aziz Ansari was a gangly…
