You’ve probably never noticed that the original 1931 Frankenstein film starring horror icon Boris Karloff as Mary Shelley’s infamous shambling corpse has no music or score because so many people were gasping and screaming the first time you saw it. Composer Michael Shapiro said the lack of a soundtrack was done…
Like many others in Dallas and across the nation, Allison Russell found herself glued to the news on the evening of July 7, 2016. Shots were fired during a protest in downtown Dallas, and her husband Dan Russell was among hundreds of cops on the scene where four Dallas Police…
Thanks to a new app the Perot Museum of Nature and Science launched globally this week, armchair explorers can virtually discover ancient bones deep inside a South African cave. The museum went live Tuesday on Facebook to announce the global reach of its virtual reality app created by Groove Jones,…
We live in an age that’s ripe for biting satire fueled by a sea of bottomless negativity. It seems like it would be hard not to just spend an hour on stage yelling into the mic about how much things suck. Comedian Tom Papa makes the art of positivity look…
While children in neighborhoods everywhere might consider their bags of candy a treasure this Halloween, Lyft drivers are coming up the big winners. Last year during Halloween weekend, Lyft drivers made over $10 million in tips. The heftiest tip in the DFW area clocked in at $60, which was clearly…
The first time you have sex will most likely be a memorable one. The anticipation, the awkwardness, the fear, the excitement — all of these emotions make even the slightest details of the night crystallize in your brain. My First Time, a comedy being performed at Theatre Too one night…
Friday Most stand-up comedians who find a career in movies and television just put their stage life behind them. I’m looking right at you, Tim Allen. Comedian Kevin Hart is one of the most recognizable comedy stars on the big screen right now, but he hasn’t turned his back to…
Called back into active duty after a cyberattack reveals the identities of all current MI7 agents, the decidedly out-of-date English uses his old-school knowledge to track down Volta and unplug him from the world’s power grid
For Nic and his family, rehab becomes sobriety becomes relapse, a pitiless cycle of hope and disappointment too many of us will experience at one time or another, either as addict or loved one
Next month, it’s game on for Arlington and its new esports stadium. The city of Arlington announced that the Esports Stadium Arlington will open to the public on the weekend after Thanksgiving, giving the city the right to brag that they are home to the largest gaming and esports facility…
Celebrities come to Richland College to encourage them to vote. Richland’s SGA had already been getting the word out though.
German conductor Claus Peter Flor was the last person to have the title of principal guest conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He left the role in 2008 after a nine-year tenure. Now, 10 years later, the DSO has announced that 31-year-old New Zealand native Gemma New will take the…
The depictions of drug and alcohol use, sex (Stevie getting it on with an older girl) and violence (both self-inflicted and by others) are difficult to watch, as Hill brings a fly-on-the-wall candor to his depiction of youth and the film’s era
For the last 30 years, your television has been able to access at least one episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, whether it’s a rerun, a DVD or an unauthorized upload to the internet from the show’s original seven-season run. The critically acclaimed comedy creation concocted by writer and comedian Joel Hodgson,…
Wednesday No one ever really dies. Just when you think you won’t ever see your favorite rock star in concert again, someone goes and makes a hologram of the singer and suddenly you’re paying $35 to see a hologram sing. Singer Roy Orbison, who died in 1988, is back in…
After 48 years of picnics, carnival rides and school field trips, Sandy Lake Amusement Park has permanently closed its doors. Last Wednesday owners of the long running Carrollton amusement park announced that the property had been sold, making the park no longer available for public use effective immediately. In a…
Last week, all three Dallas couples on Married At First Sight chose to stay married after eight weeks of wedded bliss hell. We can’t seem to get an update on where the couples are now — Lifetime won’t respond to our emails, and the stars of the show have declined…
Youth group teenagers laughed and chatted while wrenching their feet out of a trail of mud, freshly stomped in by the hundreds who’d come before them. They step onto the pliant wet wood porch of what appears to be a cabin in the woods. Volunteers shout warnings for liability’s sake…
Every haunted house ad looks the same. Each one was voted the scariest house of the year by some group that votes on things like that. You don’t have time to compare each one because you’re too busy reading Dallas Observer articles while at work. Knowing that’s what you do,…
Friday Everybody’s a fan of something, and that means you’ll find something worthy of your fan love at the annual Dallas Fan Days convention at the Irving Convention Center. The annual, three-day convention celebrates everything that the modern fan loves and can’t get enough of, from television, movies, music, video…
A lot can change in 20 years, and the Crow Museum of Asian Art is flaunting what’s new. “We’re actually coming up on our 20th anniversary this December, so I think it was the right time for us to consider renovations and construction,” says curator Jacqueline Chao. “It’s all leading…
Netflix has recently offered two modest stabs at this stabbing-est of genres, a pair of animated series, one of which bristles with promise
