Displayed on the walls of Kettle Art Gallery were snapshots and video footage from the 25 years of Dallas band Old 97’s. Jason Janik, a local photographer, curated Friday’s show filled with concert photography and Old 97’s fan art. It coincided with the group’s annual Country Fair. People began to…
For the last nine years, Dallas Comedy House has provided Deep Ellum with its only entertainment venue dedicated solely to comedy, but the planning for a 10-year anniversary party might be cut short. The new landlord, Black Market Investments LLC, notified its tenant it needs to vacant the property by…
Most seasons on Ru Paul’s Drag Race, some queens on the show are looking to be seen and gain a bigger audience by being contestants. Dallas native Asia O’Hara says her reason for being on Drag Race has more heart and meaning behind it. O’Hara began her drag career at…
The Trials of Sam Houston, by playwright Aaron Loeb, centers on the 1832 trial of Sam Houston after Houston attacked a congressman on the streets of Washington, D.C., with a cane. The two-act play will premiere Friday at the Dallas Theater Center. The theater commissioned the play, directed by Kevin Moriarty,…
In the Dallas Opera’s production of Don Giovanni, there are moments when the women appear flattered by Giovanni’s compliments and advances. After all, Giovanni is a rich, powerful man; the lyrics of one aria ask “How can a nobleman be guilty of such a crime?” But every sexual encounter devolves…
When you watch the Trailer Park Boys live, you’re not always sure if you’re in reality. The cult comedy creations of Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, who have run on Canadian TV and Netflix for 12 seasons, are always in character, even in press interviews. This is the third time we’ve…
A collective of five artists called Art Beef opened the white-walled gallery and performance space Beefhaus in 2012. But as the Exposition Park gallery rounded the corner on six years, the collective decided to pull the plug. “It lived out its natural life cycle,” says Luke Harnden, one of the…
Raising children can feel like the world’s most thankless and demanding job, especially if you’re new at it. You cater to the whims of a demanding human being who can’t take care of his or her basic needs and is immune to reason, logic and the construct of a speakable…
The film opens with a dreary series of fake-outs and fantasies, culminating in a gunfight and car chase that suggest Broken Lizard would rather be making a different kind of movie
… What makes O.G. so fresh and appealing is how, while it’s a laugh riot, the characters are both written and portrayed as grounded, fully realized folk
Lost in Space is nearly Steven Spielberg airy, telling the story of a super-smart family selected to populate a Utopian space colony but who get lost somewhere along the way
It’s a fairly simple concept. On Friday night, five women will strip down, get onstage and crack open some books. It’s a game plan that Naked Girls Reading has played out across since its first event in 2010. It’s not an act of tantalization, at least not in the way…
Fresh ideas are rare in the horror game, so it’s not surprising that Truth or Dare quickly devolves into a riff on the Final Destination films, which had Death wittily and methodically hunting those it failed to nab in plane crashes and other disasters
… You Were Never Really Here follows the disjointed, tormented inner journey of Joe (Joaquin Phoenix), a former soldier and law enforcement official who now works as a kind of hammer-wielding vigilante-for-hire, finding missing people (usually, it seems, kids)
Comedian Margaret Cho has never been afraid to tackle tough subjects. So naturally, her new Fresh Off the Bloat tour covers subjects like the #MeToo movement, the rise of Trumpism and Asian-American representation in entertainment, including her controversial ABC sitcom All-American Girl. The challenge has changed, though. Thanks to social…
The Oxford English Dictionary, a favorite read among stoners, added a section just below the term 420 last year, officially acknowledging its place in marijuana culture. Whether taken as a date or time, or simply screamed from a high school graduation stage, those in the know have responded to the…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s guest star this weekend, 25-year-old Italian concert pianist Beatrice Rana, has never played with the orchestra before, but five years ago, a weekend in North Texas changed her life. Rana took home the silver medal in the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, an award that…
… This is a movie where everyone in Johnson’s radius accuses his character of hating humanity, when the actor himself can’t help ingratiating himself to everything …
Brad Anderson’s talky-smartish thriller Beirut, like the first half of Million Dollar Arm, sets Hamm’s sharpie loose in a country — in this case a fractious Lebanon — where the rules aren’t his
Oftentimes artists find themselves in situations in which they have to take matters into their own hands, like when the system fails them in some way. That’s where the women of the Texas chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art found themselves last year when they weren’t getting the support…
For nearly seven decades, the house at 314 W. Eighth St. in Oak Cliff was merely a domicile. Nothing more than a place to keep your stuff dry when it rains and plug in your refrigerator. That was before Javier García del Moral and Paco Vique owned it. Four years…
Consider this your annual Real Housewives of Dallas update. At least three of the Housewives have been spotted filming a new season of the show. Observer reader Nick Hance saw Stephanie Hollman, LeeAnne Locken and Kameron Westcott with a film crew at Lark on the Park. Hollman and Locken together?…
