In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. It’s the movie house that Howard Hughes built, and the one a shlub named Lee Harvey forced…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. A little more than three years ago, Nicole Stewart was in Venice Beach, California, and she was…
Back in college, a “power hour” was a drinking game where two very drunk, and likely underage, idiots tried to drink one shot of beer per minute for a full hour. As an adult, we still rock that shit, but now we just call it “happy hour at Goodfriend.” These…
Among some of his less-remembered acts as governor, George W. Bush declared June 20th an official Texas state holiday back in 1999, honoring Audie Murphy. From meager beginnings as a North Texas plowboy to World War II’s most highly-decorated American soldier, Murphy led a life of immense acclaim as a…
Juneteenth is a complicated holiday here in Texas. While it is a national celebration of emancipation, it is too a solemn reminder not only of one of the most shameful periods of American history, but also the fact that slavery did not end in Texas when the Emancipation Proclamation went…
If one were to describe photographer Allison V. Smith’s work with just one word, it would be: multifarious … or, variegated. Vivid, nuanced, resplendent, complicated. Conspicuous, but never ostentatious, never distractingly so. In other words, there’s simply no way to condense a multifaceted artist of Smith’s breadth to a single…
Art is Art posted a little reminder yesterday evening on Facebook that there are only two days left to scrounge up some last minute goods for the favorite father figure in your life. What do dads even like? Bill O’Reilly and steak, probably. Maybe a meat basket, if you want…
First of all, we’re not crazy about tossing around the term “bitch” – at least not outside the context of safe words and “yes ma’ams” – but some asshat writer popularized the phrase in order to capitalize on one of Dallas’ most overwrought stereotypes, and it has unfortunately just kind…
A couple weeks ago, we reported on a panel discussion at CentralTrak, “1.2 Million Stories: State of the Emerging Arts,” conceived by Green Bandana Group founder, Darryl Ratcliff, and featuring such prominent young voices as Kevin Rubén Jacobs, Danielle Georgiou, Jerod Davies and Bryan Embry. Lasting more than 90 minutes,…
I’ll have to break somebody’s legs up in payroll before I make another trip over to Dolly Python, because that place has everything I want, but nothing I (particularly) need. *Not a real threat, payroll; I’m a writer, not a fighter.* Whenever I step through those doors, my staying on…
Dispatch from Cedar Springs, where one community organizer is setting up a red-hot first week of June. Razzle Dazzle Dallas is a volunteer organization with a mission to better the LGBT in any and every way imaginable, and RDD is gearing up for its second annual June Pride extravaganza. Razzle…
Man, I’ve got a thing for cowboys, so it’s unfortunate that I don’t happen to have the right thing when it comes to wrangling one of the fellas-in-tight-jeans at the Round-Up Saloon. But, a girl can still enjoy the scenery on what is one of the city’s most eclectic…
I really want to like Ed Young. Don’t get me wrong: he stands for virtually everything I find offensive. But still, dude’s pro-boning. Yeah, yeah – under his rules you have to be a “married” heterosexual Christian couple in order to get in on the holy foreplay, but I got…
A recent study suggests that you might want to double wash your hands before exiting the restroom of that chain restaurant in Addison. The city tops AshleyMadison.com’s list of philanderers per capita. We can only imagine where they entertain their dalliances. The controversial website caters exclusively to married individuals who…
Furniture lovers, take note. An especially alluring shopping event opens to the public this Saturday, April 14, in the Design District. Dwell With Dignity, a non-profit that helps furnish residencies for families transitioning out of homelessness, knows nesting treasure when it finds it. And by the looks of this month’s…
Think of it this way: it’s like Synn Evans just won Miss America, if Miss America contestants wore leather pants as formal wear and were required to describe a detailed sexual fantasy for a panel of judges. “Oh my god,” Evans said the other morning, calling from her Dallas home…
Budweiser teamed up with FC Dallas and debuted their weirdest newest marketing strategy this afternoon at Dallas’ beloved American Airlines Center. It’s called Poolball and its YouTube video explains the essentials through Budweiser’s requisite B’s: beers, babes, balls and bros. Here’s what it looks like if you still haven’t figured…
When local husband and wife duo Dylan and Pamela join forces, there’s nothing they cannot accomplish. Take for instance the recent refurbishing of their trailer boutique, the Dowdy Studio Wagon. With only 72 square feet to play with, they were able to convert their space into a bright, welcoming retail…
Smoke and Mirrors Gallery is the type of space that you walk into and think “Am I still in Dallas?” Yes, ma’am you are. But it’s easy to forget that when an oil painting of Big Tex is staring at you with laser-beam eyes. This cocoon of the peculiar nurtures…
The only thing better than a shopping success story is an autobiographical shopping success story. Welcome to mine. I popped into Dolly Python on my lunch break and heard them make the decision. Rather than bagging up all of those georgous coats and sweaters they are all marked down by…
Let’s face it, Lula B’s is Dallas’ mecca for living room necessities. They’ve got all the basics covered, from a suspended round TV to a ’70s disco light that flashes to the beat of the stereo it’s connected to. While wandering the aisles of Lula B’s West on a lazy…
If there’s one thing I love, it’s a man who goes by his initials. If there’s another thing I love it’s anyone who will re-create Anthropologie furniture for a fraction of the price. I found both in a local woodworker named Khaki Caekaert. But you can all him K.C. My…
