Somebody queue the Wilson Phillips! Hold on for one more day, you guys. Things will go your way. Just look at this list of amazing events: Brian Posehn is at Hyenas, Green Day made a Broadway musical, somebody combined your two favorite words at Beerfest and Diorama-O-Rama is back. You’ve…
Wanna get boozed up and make poor choices? Go to a bar. Wanna get moderately tipsy and stroll through a mid-renovation at The Parks at Arlington? Go to A Walk in the Parks. It’s special deals for special people like you. Oh no, not you…the other one. Okay, fine, you…
No word if there will be lattes and arugula served by the twenty-one North Texas movie theaters slated to simulcast This American Life – Live! on May 10, but it is a rare chance for you “Limousine Liberals” to see Ira in his element, as his weekly radio show broadcasts…
She may be big and mad but she sure does want you to have a good time, ya’ll. So bring the whole family, because Tyler Perry is presenting his new play Madea Gets a Job at the Verizon Theatre. Packing a lotta spunk and spark in an old lady’s bod,…
Baseball debacle or no, everybody still wants to be like Mike. In fact, artist Sergio Garcia has been wearing Air Jordans since the 80s. When it came to choosing an iconic cultural image for his upcoming exhibition, Social, the signature kicks couldn’t have been more appropriate for his silk-screen series…
Who wants to go to a three year-old’s birthday party? You do. Especially when it’s not for a booger-eating toddler, but actually for Art This Week (ATW). There won’t be any ponies, but we are promised drinks, eatables, music and, according to the website, “artfully juvenile games.” Fingers crossed it’s…
Get uncomfortably close to the canvas at Circuit 12 tonight, I dare you. Really smell its breath, artistically speaking. The group show is a challenge, one that challenges its work’s creators to roughhouse with juxtaposition. Surface Pattern calls form, color and line into question, abstractly altering each just enough to…
Last year’s inaugural North Texas Beer Festival showed signs of an event with the right idea and a good heart, but still wasn’t quite sure how to hit one out of the park. The fest offered long lines for brew samples in a section of the Plano Centre that seemed…
It seems almost kismet: the Nasher Sculpture Center (2001 Flora Street) has a new exhibition opening this weekend, and you have an art-loving mom. This Sunday (before you get too blinded by the light of Museum Tower), surprise your favorite lady with an afternoon of bites, art and music. Start…
Don’t repeat last year: those pathetic weeds you yanked out of the neighbor’s garden bed and gave your mother didn’t properly express your fondness and gratitude. (But in your defense, how could you have known their sap would cause a rash?) This year you will be prepared; we’ll see to…
For all of the pancakes she’s flipped for you, shouldn’t you take mom out for a delicious Mother’s Day brunch? Yes, you should. Because second to you, brunch — prepared by someone else — is mom’s favorite thing. Here’s a couple of stand-out menus to salivate over. Komali in Uptown…
There’s a recognizable, tall metalhead who wears black glasses and is super nerd-funny. You may not know his name (you should—it’s Brian Posehn), but you’ve seen him in pivotal roles. No, not the ones on Mr. Show and the Sarah Silverman Program. Too easy. Those were great and all, but…
About this time one year ago, one crazy, mixed-up team was hauling a gorilla suit, an 8-inch foil ball and two homemade meat helmets around Dallas in a desperate attempt to complete the Video Association of Dallas’ 24-Hour Video Race. That team—our team, made up of Dallas Observer staffers, former…
If honesty and authenticity is required for art to truly blossom, then Nicole Stewart’s Oral Fixation series of open-chested spoken-word performances from folks sharing personal, sad and humorous stories is indeed a fully formed rose. Operating off a single phrase, a handful of brave and entertaining participants take the stage…
This week the Rangers face off against the Oakland A’s in a game that, even in a community of amateur statisticians, has commentators checking their numbers. Oakland’s record has been hit and miss (no pun intended) for the past season, but after the team broke an 18 loss streak at…
American pop culture is a Frankenstein monster, pieced together by whatever backgrounds have merged within the nation’s borders. But the appropriation of another culture is rarely a smooth feat. The Broadway musical Memphis tells the story of Huey Calhoun, a 1950s DJ on a mission to popularize black music, and…
Nothing strikes dread into the heart of a parent like a birthday party. They’re ominous affairs, whether you’re hosting or attending, full of questions like “Should I serve gluten free cupcakes?” or “Is $20 too much to spend on a gift for someone my kid won’t even know in a…
A significant portion of Tim Burton’s output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the “Burton treatment” to susceptible texts: Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — and now, Dark Shadows. A supernaturally themed daily daytime soap,…
Something bugging you? Hop over to Dallas Children’s Theater to catch the regional premiere of the delightful Diary of a Worm, a Spider & a Fly. The 20-song “feeler”-good musical by Joan Cushing, directed by Bob Hess, adapts three eco-conscious children’s books by Doreen Cronin. In 105 minutes of creepy-crawly…
This video is NOT SAFE FOR WORK. It’s barely safe for life. The Fort Worth Modern really has its act together. In addition to knocking out killer exhibitions, they also do great events. Needless to say the art culling, at least, is due to well-executed curatorships. Tonight you can visit…
Yep, this clip is super old and rather dated, but it’s still funny. This brassy lady is part of Chelsea Handler’s clique of touring broads. You’ve seen her as the semi-evil waitress in Are You There Chelsea? and as a recurring panelist on Chelsea Lately. Known for her whip-smart approach…
Nobody took opera more seriously than Wagner, and no dork culture is more dedicated than hard-core Wagner fans. This is due largely to his famous Ring Cycle, a series of four operas seen as the most ambitious work any set of performers can execute. In the nerdiest of music circles,…
