Only the biggest and coolest Potterphiles will be the ones queuing up for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 2 tonight as we anxiously wait for the clock to strike 12:01 a.m. As somewhat mature adults, it’s generally frowned upon to go all out with a head-to-toe Harry Potter costume…
Here’s what reality TV does: It takes the worst stereotypes about places and people and rolls them up into one big awful stereotype and then it makes a show about how “real” it is. Meet Texas Women, a new reality series premiering tonight at 9 p.m. on cable’s CMT channel…
Lately, my evenings have been filled with DVR sessions of the Oprah Winfrey Network, and more specifically, with Season 25: Behind the Scenes, the reality program chronicling the backstage business of the mogul’s final season of her syndicated talk show. I’m far from being an Oprah drone, but that is…
There’s a dark uprising on the Internet currently happening. Yesterday a bootleg trailer for The Dark Knight Rises showed up online. Many websites that garner almost a million unique hits per day posted it, some with misleading headlines, and Warner Bros. was quick to put out a cease and desist…
I had a really horrible landlady one time in Northern California. For more than a year after I moved out of that house, I fantasized about slowly and stealthily populating her yard with garden gnomes in the dead of night. It would have driven her slightly mad without being too…
After 10 years and seven movies, we’ve finally arrived: Bespectacled Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) squares off against amphibian-faced Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. It’s a climax of truly epic proportions, not only for its narrative import but for the fact that it…
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Wit. Wit who? Wit more plays like Wittenberg, I’d go to Fort Worth more often. The latest from Amphibian Stage Productions at the Sanders Theatre in Cowtown is as witty as Shaw, as wacky as Stoppard and never as wearying as Shakespeare’s drama about a certain…
Throwing food at actors is frowned upon at most theaters. But not all. The one place you can hurl a foodstuff at the stage is Pocket Sandwich Theatre, which has one of its popcorn melodramas running right now. The show is The Final Adventures of Hercules. The food is dry…
They say those who can’t, teach, but three members of the art faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington are stepping up to prove just how wrong clichés can be. Though Sedrick Huckaby, Carlos Donjuan and Marilyn Jolly are a part of the same professional environment, each comes from…
More often than not, I find any and all things related to geometry wholly unappealing. The mere mention of the term brings back awful memories of poor test scores, unproductive study sessions and disapproving glares from Mrs. Eckles as I’m handed back my pop quiz, freshly showered with markings from…
Get More: Movie Trailers, Movies BlogWinning free tickets to an advance-screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 days before the official release, really satisfies our inner geek. To get the tickets, we entered a contest and invented the curse, Basium Mupa, to disarm you know who by…
The big green house on the corner of Howland and Boll streets, smack in the middle of trendy Uptown, has been the long-time home of Ahab Bowen, a vintage clothing and accessories store that stands as one of DFW’s finest treasure troves of antique wearables. Ahab’s collection of vintage apparel…
Does Jill Zarin have anything in common with June Cleaver? If you watch any of the Real Housewives shows on Bravo, you have to wonder if kids are growing up now not knowing what a “housewife” is. June Cleaver, if you don’t remember black and white TV, was Beaver and…
Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through hump day each week. The Master Theorem is more of a commitment than our usual distractions, but trust us, you want in on this. A members-only, not-so-secret society of puzzle solvers…
For every mush fairy-tale engagement, there’s a proposal gone wrong. Look at the Roy Williams proposal debacle, for instance. We’re not sure what the Dallas Cowboys wide receiver was thinking when he mailed an engagement ring, along with a recorded proposal and $5000 for personal expenses, to his beauty-queen girlfriend,…
We’ve been following the work of actor Brian J. Smith since he was a student at Plano’s Collin College, so it’s a kick to see that he’s been cast as Blake Lively’s new love interest on the TV series Gossip Girl. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Smith grew up…
Forget your butter sculptures, thrill rides and deep-fried hubcaps. For some of us, the State Fair of Texas is an annual adventure in crafts and kitsch. On display in the Creative Arts Building every year are the hundreds of winning entries in competitions for handcrafts, needlework, dolls, hobby collections, quilts,…
It’s a new week; time for another peek. That’s right, friends, it’s press-day here at Dallas Observer. Prepare yourself for The Weekly Tease! As you can see above, this week’s cover will be an illustrated one. Just perfect for the story it represents. But what could it be about? Are those…
Stage Black is back. The midsummer festival of new plays reflecting the African American experience runs Friday through Sunday (July 15 to 17) at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters at the Dallas Convention Center Theater Complex. Six short plays are in the mix. They are: Breaking Vows at…
You read The Onion, right? You want to see The Onion live at the Winspear Thursday night? That’s what we thought. We have a pair of tickets ready to give away … but it’s not that easy. We want you to prove your love for the satirical publication. So, in…
Bass Hall’s 2011-2012 season is sounding pretty mouthy right about now, and that’s not a bad thing. Today’s press release from the venerable venue features some groundbreaking names, for which tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m. Names like television comedy legends including native Texan and variety show…
The Vintage Mobile made its debut this past weekend outside the Belmont Hotel, and we over at The Mixmaster hopped on the opportunity to check out the green school bus-turned-mobile shop, being avid thrifters and all. We arrived at noon to a handful of folks; some were browsing, others were…
