The dog days of Dallas theater are upon us. With A Dog’s Life at Theatre Three, we have the sweetest musical comedy of the season. Up the street at Kitchen Dog Theater is the world premiere of Sick, one of the best new American plays to come this way in…
John Edwards might see two Americas, but this simpleminded little game enthusiast is more preoccupied with America’s two Wii owners. One is the Nintendo fan: the cat who bought a GameCube, Nintendo 64, every incarnation of the Game Boy — and anything Nintendo releases with a “Mario” or “Zelda” in…
You never forget your first time watching Eddie Izzard do stand-up. I remember watching the DVD of Dress to Kill years ago and wondering, what is the deal with this guy? He’s just confusing on so many levels. He talks with a British accent, dresses like a woman and defines…
So after washing my hands with what’s probably antibacterial soap in our fully automated touch-nothing bathrooms here at Dallas Observer headquarters, I sat with my immune-boosting yogurt cup and read headlines—which included one about the latest antibiotic- and soap-resistant superbug. Appropriate, as Zayd Dohrn’s play Sick made its National New…
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve watched Dazed and Confused, man, I’d be loaded. My friends and I watched it over and over, incessantly quoting our favorite lines. Initially released on fewer than 200 screens, Richard Linklater’s flick about coming of age in the summer of 1976…
For those who can’t get enough, another movie festival hits Dallas, but you might need a pooper scooper for this red carpet. The SPCA of Texas Pet Flix 2008 Film Festival gets going with a showcase of films, docs and videos where all the stars need in their trailers are…
The United States, though special for many reasons (the invention of rap-rock being just one of the litany), is not known as a cultural mecca. We’re in no way culturally bereft; it’s just that we lack the centuries of honed tradition and societal cohesiveness to really back up our cultural…
It’s nice when you can take what some would consider a silly and substandard television show and elevate its artistic value by taking it into the lofty realm of musical theater. As an aspiring writer of musicals myself, I was just tickled pink when I heard that Rover Dramawerks in…
The city of Addison believes that We Are Marshall is one of your “favorite sports movies of all time.” Fortunately for Addison, if you are a woman, aged 8 to 80, blind, crippled or crazy, it probably is. Unfortunately, the reason this is true has less to do with the…
Anyone who’s ever been on the wrong end of an attorney’s bill (to wit: not the money-receiving end) has wondered: What precisely am I paying for? Sometimes you know right off. Like if you’re paying Jim Adler, you’re paying for daily personal training so that Mr. Adler, Esq., can continue…
What makes a Texas romance different from any other romance? Old-fashioned values, cultural ignorance and other Lone Star stereotypes. A Texas Romance concerns a widow courted by a younger man. Her sister (who calls the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald “dirty books”) considers the romance inappropriate. I bet the sisters…
We’re being watched. Observers are constantly scanning our planet from space. Collectively, they are called the EOS, and they monitor everything. The EOS, or Earth Observing System, is NASA’s primary satellite mission and The Museum of Nature & Science’s Eyes on Earth is a new, interactive science exhibition that explores…
I don’t lose time. When hours leap from my schedule like old shoes from the roof of a car, I can see right where they are–mocking me and inaccessible. Time is a relative thing, after all. There’s the eternal fourth-grade-gym-class minute and the whole-life-montage minute you experience when your car…
One reason I don’t want kids—having to get them ready every morning. I’ve seen the ordeal that parents go through every day, and my heart goes out to them. Many brunches have been missed because of morning tantrums, wardrobe malfunctions and lost sneakers, but the crew at Sweet Tomatoes has…
My new thing with iced tea is I drink it with absolutely no sweetener. No sugar, no Splenda, no Sweet’n Low, no Sugar in the Raw, no Equal…you get the idea. To me, it’s got plenty of flavor without adding in the sweet stuff, and I think this preference gives…
Michael Jackson turns 50 years old this year. I know what you’re thinking: “But MJ doesn’t look 50.” And you’re right. Because in order to look 50, our dear aging King of Pop would have to look human, and it’s been a good long while since anything like that has…
Prior to the announcement of the And/Or Show #17, I had never heard of Brooklyn artist Cory Arcangel. So I did some research…and I laughed my ass off. I checked out “Things I Made” on Arcangel’s Weblog and discovered a Doogie Howser, M.D.-related search engine hack, a log of timecodes…
Photographer Nell Dorr was best known for her explorations of the relationships between mother and child, capturing enduring images of newborns and the women that spawned them. She was no one-trick pony, however, also dabbling in moody pictures of cowboys and abstract light experiments. Nell Dorr: From Everlasting to Everlasting…
Business travelers have it rough, being in strange lands, sleeping in strange places for days or weeks at a time. But, NYLO Hotel in Plano eases the transition of the weary business traveler with an event that’s fun at home or away: movie night! They’re scheduled on Thursdays through the…
There’s nowhere like New York, especially if you’re looking for a club full of hot Navy dudes in whites or a threesome with a nerdy couple. But hey, what the hell. If you’re going to see Sex and the City: The Movie, you may as well work a few cosmopolitans…
Somebody forgot to tell Nintendo that “strenuous indoor exercise” does not top anyone’s summer fun list. This, of course, does not explain why poor suckers everywhere are lining up for Wii Fit, an exhausting personal trainer disguised as a video game. Me? I’ll be kicking back with Mario Kart Wii…
Oh, please—spoiler alert? Fine, I won’t tell you whether Carrie Bradshaw ties the knot with Mr. Big, even though you’ve already seen that gown winging its way around the Web. Given the Sex and the City vibe, some fans might be more interested in whether the frock—which looks as though…
