Dallas Observer Arts & Culture

04/15/2018

Barney responds to Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato calling him hot.

Carey Stinson was a 23-year-old Chili's employee in 1991 when a co-worker first introduced him to Barney, the purple dinosaur. “One of the employees asked me, "Can you work Saturday for me because I have to be Barney?’” recalls Stinson, a Dallas native. “I said, ‘What in the world is...

04/15/2018

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The Oxford English Dictionary, a favorite read among stoners, added a section just below the term 420 last year, officially acknowledging its place in ma*****na 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.....

04/15/2018

:( CC: Art Beef / Beefhaus

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.....

04/07/2018

Grant&Cody are up for a Webby for this video! Read more: http://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/dallas-comedians-grant-redmond-and-cody-tidmore-are-up-for-a-webby-for-sticky-10546097

Private browsing is dirty business. CREDITS GRANT & CODY Grant Redmond Cody Tidmore CAST Alan Douglass Sean Alexander Gabriel Vasquez Jared Berger Trent Tidm...

04/07/2018

Go frolic in a garden, dammit.

If your allergies didn’t already give it away, you might have noticed that spring has officially sprung. Which means it is time to start planning those picnic dates and outdoor Instagram posts. We can’t think of a better place to do that than these six local gardens. Pop a couple...

04/05/2018

The only thing you should read today.

Fixer Upper aired its last episode Tuesday night on HGTV, and everyone was sad. People love TV shows about couples renovating homes together, and when they are denied the privilege of watching them, they become really sad. But there is no need to be sad. Chip and Joanna Gaines, the...

04/02/2018

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS LOL

This Sunday is no ordinary April Fools' Day. It's an April Fools' Day that's also on Easter Sunday. Such an occurrence hasn't appeared on the Gregorian calendar since 1956 and it won't happen again until 2029. This is a perfect time to pull a prank if you're the kind of shameless...

03/30/2018

Texas native and Arlington ISD graduate Todrick Hall got his start in entertainment on American Idol, where he made the semifinals, and went on to become a successful YouTube star. His videos have gotten the attention of Beyonce and Taylor Swift. (He is one of Swift's backup dancers in her...

03/30/2018

Did you know???

Turns out the TV show Dallas isn't the only thing this great city can claim. Plenty of things (and even some people) have been created here — everything from pedal pushers to a bottled scent that makes your s**t not stink. Here's our list of seven things (and one person) made...

03/30/2018

Alia Tavakolian picked up her cellphone and heard an automated female voice saying, “Goodbye from Yahoo.”

Late last fall, a strange voicemail popped up on Alia Tavakolian’s cellphone. It was an automated female voice saying, “Goodbye from Yahoo.” It’s the kind of message you receive when you’ve permanently shut down your account or when it’s been hacked. No cause for alarm. Unless, of course...

03/30/2018

The third guy beside Doug Kenney and Henry Beard was a Dallas businessman.

Viewers will need to be quick with the pause button to catch a mention of late Dallas businessman Robert K. Hoffman in A Futile and Stupid Gesture, the new Netflix film about the founding of the National Lampoon humor empire. The film's name comes from a line from Animal House...