Think you can get out there and shake your pom-poms and smile every time Jerry Jones says something? Think all it takes is a high kick here and there? Each season during CMT’s show Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team, panelists and judges ask potential cheerleaders a round of questions…
Wow, has it already been 29 days since our six favorite strangers turned three favorite couples got married? Time flies when you’re watching a TV show about strangers getting married in Dallas. If you haven’t been watching but are still curious about this public social experiment and you’re relying on…
Wednesday Def Leppard and Journey are halfway through a massive North American tour. Co-headlining each night, both acts are leaning heavy on the hits. If you want the most familiar, you’ll not come away disappointed. You’ll hear “Hysteria,” “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Rocket” from the Lep while you’ll…
Weitz’s film, concerning a Mossad team’s 1960 hunt for Eichmann, is a sort of Argo Goes to Munich, blending heist movie jollies with some moral inquiry into justice, revenge, torture and execution
Carrollton’s Java Gaming Café was among the last three cities to host an Electronic Arts Sports-sanctioned Madden NFL 19 Classic Satellite: Dallas Open qualifier tournament on Sept. 22-23. However, EA announced they have canceled the remaining tournaments due to the events of a gunman, who opened fire at a Madden…
In Spanish-speaking countries, it’s tradition for a girl who turns 15 to celebrate a quinceañera. The celebration symbolizes a girl’s transformation from childhood into womanhood. As part of Hispanic Heritage month, The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden will allow selected participants to embrace the tradition by hosting the first Quinceañera…
Barefoot, nearly naked, sweating and seemingly disoriented, local artist Xxavier Carter carried a heavy weight on his shoulder during his Saturday performance of “Sweet Jesus.” He walked 10 miles from The Great Trinity Forest to White Rock Lake wielding a wooden cross almost twice his size. The performance was a…
Actor Barry Corbin’s Internet Movie Database (IMDB) page doesn’t do him justice. He’s starred and performed in more than 200 TV shows and films, including beloved classics like WarGames, Northern Exposure and No Country for Old Men. He’s acted in roles for best-selling video game franchises like the Tex Murphy adventures, the…
You’ve gotten into a rut. Every date is exactly the same. You go to the same restaurant. You order the same thing. Date night has become a monotonous chore. That ends today, because if there’s one thing the Dallas Observer does better than anyone else, it’s saving relationships. You need…
America will get another look into Dallas drag queen Alyssa Edwards’ life. Netflix announced the docuseries Dancing Queen will be added to its queue. It will follow Edwards, aka Justin Johnson, as he tackles drag life, home life and owning a dance studio in Mesquite. In 2010, Edwards was named Miss…
Filmed in black and white in the wintry countryside of Görlitz, Germany, Schwentke’s vision of a man who would be posthumously named the Executioner of Emsland is chilling and yet, at times, almost farcical
Bujalski frames most of Support the Girls as an almost real-time delineation of chaos, but his storytelling elegance — delicate, nearly invisible foreshadowing; cogent evocations of backstory — adds reflective layers to the surface anarchy
Happytime Murders, though, demands that we take its world somewhat seriously, that we invest ourselves in the tensions between people and puppets, that we buy into its by-the-book serial-killer narrative …
The story follows a gang of misfit criminals escaping to a hideout carved into the rocky Italian cliffside, where an eccentric, society-hating artist, Luce (Elina Löwensohn), and her guests sunbathe and make bullet-ridden art
For months, people have wandered the halls of the Sweet Tooth Hotel snapping photos, taking selfies in a tub and posing with giant lollipops on a bed made from leftover Nike shoe tread. Built By Bender, a Dallas-based custom fabrication shop, crafted five of the rooms for the Sweet Tooth…
Friday It’s not so much the securing of a designated driver. No, when it’s time for a group outing, the big problem is deciding on the destination. Which bar? Does it have food? Whose house is the meet-up? The Party Bus Bar Crawl from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday removes…
This new version, directed by Danish filmmaker Michael Noer, brings to the story a refreshing intensity and sweep, and even a sense of adventure
At its best, the show was a canny deconstruction of contemporary late-night comedy, which has been swamped with political satire since Stewart, the former Daily Show host, turned Bush-era liberal outrage comedy into its very own TV genre
Secrets get exposed, cultural barriers get smashed and re-erected, and every apparent villain will prove heroic and every hero something of a villain
A profile on Nick Florez, a DFW native who has worked as a dancer, choreographer and artistic director for everyone from Celine Dion to Katy Perry.
Jeff Smith, festival director of Texas Terrors Film Festival and Dallas filmmaker, believes short horror films don’t get the attention they deserve. He decided to organize the inaugural Texas Terrors fest that will showcase 20 independent short films Tuesday, Sept. 18 at Texas Theatre. “I wanted to have a lot…
Bare-knuckle boxing has a 173-year history that was put on pause back in 1892. A little over a century later, this legacy picked back up where it left off. Dallas-Fort Worth’s own mixed martial artist, Johnny Bedford, competed in the first regulated bare-knuckle event earlier this summer.
