It’s so uncouth, so un-Dallas to even think to hop aboard public transit when one has a perfectly good Land Rover or Audi roadster at hand, but it seems that DART has agreed to add a couple a words to its downtown Pearl Station at the bequest of the Dallas…
This Thursday at 2 pm CST, Mark Cuban’ll be hanging out on the intertubes. OK, fine, more specifics are needed: Cuban’s holding a Google+ Hangout. What does that mean? It’s means your computer box will become an interactive TV channel box. There’ll be the opportunity to pose questions on Mark’s…
Last Sunday’s Thrashed Swag warmed my crackled, arid heart. In addition to having one of the raddest posters ever, this hip hop/street art/skateboarding showcase was hosted by Big J. and featured music by Topic, Raw Elementz, Human Resources, JT of Brain Gang, Hyper Uppercuti and N.O.V.A. Most importantly, it’s great…
Lucian Freud is the grandson of Sigmund “the couch whisperer” Freud, but through art he found an identity that was perfectly his own. Known for his cool-toned, realism-based portraits, Lucian developed and defined his style well before passing away in 2011 at the age of 88. Earlier in his career,…
Saturday was East Dallas Gallery Day, and while it was a total scorcher out, art appreciators were lured to each gallery by air conditioning, free beer and of course, art. Below are some shots from the event…
Juneteenth is a complicated holiday here in Texas. While it is a national celebration of emancipation, it is too a solemn reminder not only of one of the most shameful periods of American history, but also the fact that slavery did not end in Texas when the Emancipation Proclamation went…
Last night Audra Schroeder, the Observer’s music editor, and I went to Dave Chappelle’s last-minute show at the House of Blues. It had been a decade since we’d last seen the comic — we caught him at the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami back in ’02, so we were curious…
Tonight’s surprise 9 p.m. Dave Chappelle performance sold out so quickly that odds looked good for a second, later show. Ticketmaster’s site even flirted with the idea, popping up a short-lived link to an 11 p.m. performance with no option to buy. The tease lasted for the better part of…
Name: Elaine Sun Age: 20 Location: Deep Ellum Style influences: “I like simple things, and having fun with [my style].” Style breakdown: Urban Outfitters dress, vest from Goodwill, Palladium boots and belt from somewhere unknown…
Final Fantasy and I have had a love/hate relationship over the last 25 years. As I kid, I became something of a connoisseur of the series. In the mid nineties, my Friday nights were spent grinding through the hardest dungeons, fighting and battling until my legion became the biggest bunch…
Studio DTFU is curating a new jam called Shoop, but lest there be any confusion, it is not, in fact, an homage to Cher or Whitney. And, while the term “shoop” can likely be connected to an obscure and physically puzzling sex act (like almost everything else found on UrbanDictionary.com),…
If one were to describe photographer Allison V. Smith’s work with just one word, it would be: multifarious … or, variegated. Vivid, nuanced, resplendent, complicated. Conspicuous, but never ostentatious, never distractingly so. In other words, there’s simply no way to condense a multifaceted artist of Smith’s breadth to a single…
House of Blues released word late last night that comedian Dave Chappelle will perform at 9 p.m. tonight, Monday, June 18. He’s been popping up in venues across the south, surprising fans in Memphis and Little Rock last week. Now he’s giving Dallas die-hards a shot at spontaneity with a…
They say the simplest ideas are often the best. When Brian Gibb noticed that Chicago had a day where all of the galleries banded together and threw a party he thought, “We should have one, and call it Gallery Day.” Saturday, June 16, you get to reap the benefits of…
10. Blame It On Rio In honor of Father’s Day, we put together a list of our favorite daddy issue flicks. The first movie featured is the 1984 “rom-com” Blame It On Rio, an unintentionally creepy gem about a young girl (Michelle Johnston) who becomes infatuated with her Dad’s friend…
Spider-Man is getting the “same great power and responsibility, new great look” reboot this summer in the form of The Amazing Spider-Man. It’s swinging into theaters July 3rd. You don’t have to wait another month for Spidey to come to your neighborhood. The Amazing Spider-Man “Secrets Unmasked” Truck Tour has…
Art is Art posted a little reminder yesterday evening on Facebook that there are only two days left to scrounge up some last minute goods for the favorite father figure in your life. What do dads even like? Bill O’Reilly and steak, probably. Maybe a meat basket, if you want…
For all its flash and bling, Dallas is a pretty easy city to do on the cheap. Take this weekend: With the Oak Cliff Film Fest in town, cinematic scavengers can feast on five freebie scraps at both outdoor and indoor viewings. Over at Strauss Square, you’re invited to RSVP…
There’s this great line in Annie Hall where Alvy Singer notices a book in Annie’s collection as she is moving in with him and says, “Sylvia Plath – interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college girl mentality.” Carefree, gorgeous, ditsy Annie responds with a blithe…
Sooo, Dallas, huh? Yep, that was terrible. Let’s never watch that ever again. In fact, let’s stop trying to resurrect iconic shows entirely. Dallas was all about shoulder pads, wealth and the young power couple JR/Sue Ellen. It doesn’t work in 2012. It got me thinkin’ about other programs I…
As giant hail nuts were hitting my house yesterday, I had a couple of immediate questions: 1) How pissed are people who are walking home right now? 2) Oh no — does that dang Chihuly exhibit have inflatable emergency umbrellas that immediately blow up around the exhibit when shitty weather…
Barry Whistler Gallery announced with sadness yesterday afternoon that visual artist and longtime gallery favorite John Wilcox has passed away. Wilcox lived and worked in the New York arts scene in the late ’80s, and his experiences during the AIDS epidemic there forever informed and impacted his emotional, minimalist work…
