Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. You’ve seen his photography. Justin Terveen takes stunning pictures of the Dallas skyline. He’s got a knack for recognizing the opportune moment to capture an image and the drive to climb to the best vantage…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Susan Sargeant is a force in the Dallas theater scene. As the founder and artistic director of WingSpan Theatre, a company dedicated to producing plays by women or featuring strong female roles, she’s an advocate…
Odds are you could probably do a better job writing this calendar blurb. If you know anything about hockey beyond that it involves big, tough men skating on ice, using sticks to chase down a puck and slam it into a goal, then you know more than I do. Aside…
There was plenty of cowardice and ass-covering in the Sony Pictures debacle surrounding the release of the slacker, bromance comedy, The Interview. Do I need to remind you that this is the movie about a TV personality who’s recruited by the United States government to assassinate Kim Jong-un? Hackers broke…
“Legends of Their Time, featuring the newly established Dicterow- deMaine- Biegel Piano Trio in their premiere concert performance. The concert will be held in the Renzo Piano Pavilion of the Kimbell Art Museum. The pre-concert discussion will begin at 1:15 pm prior to the concert.” Sat., Jan. 3, 2 p.m.,…
Sexy comic characters battle it out onstage in sexy burlesque routines. It will be Viva Dallas Burlesque’s last show at the historic Lakewood Theater, so you can’t miss it. Fri., Jan. 2, 8 p.m., 2015…
I had the startling realization yesterday that the past two new year’s eves have been complete letdowns. One year a group of friends went to a warehouse party where we drank cheap liquor, shared the flu with mouth kisses, and left just after midnight a little bored and completely disappointed…
Sometime in early December an interesting status popped up in my newsfeed requesting votes for the “DFW Art Awards.” I’d never heard of these things, but then again, I don’t know everything that happens around Dallas. I started asking my art friends and contacts. My questions were immediately met with…
It’s a compliment or an insult, depending entirely upon how you feel about Dallas. After taking the temperature of the city for the last few years, I’ve found that to describe something as “so Dallas” is usually pejorative. The highest compliment you can pay something in this city, it seems,…
With 2015 swiftly approaching, it’s easy to look back on what could’ve been better in Dallas art, theater, dance, and music this year. You’re probably doing the same thing in your own life and then creating those tricky resolutions for the new year. I want to work out more and…
Now that the visions of sugarplums are long gone, replace them with aerial silks and acrobatic tricks at Oh La La!, presented by Lone Star Circus at Dallas Children’s Theater this week. Don’t let the word circus fool you. There won’t be any clowns or prancing horses — just human…
Perhaps one of the most lovely art exhibitions in town this year was Provocations at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Featuring the design work of the UK’s Heatherwick Studio, it featured small scale models, or bits and pieces of designs from around the globe, all of which demonstrated the company’s humanistic…
If after a long day with your loved ones, a tequila shot and a $3 PBR chaser sounds appropriate, head over to The Rustic (3656 Howell St.) in Uptown. They’re drumming up post-holiday business by offering that ultra-specific combo. Nothing says Christmas like being wasted at a bar in Uptown,…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. One of the first people I added to this list of 100 Dallas Creatives was Wylie H Dallas. And then I took him off for a little while because finding 100 cultural entrepreneurs and creatives…
Here are a few sprinklings of awesome things to do when you’re not spending quality time with your family this Christmas week…
Earlier this month, Merriam Webster Dictionary declared 2014’s word of the year to be “culture.” Which simply means that more people looked up the definition of that word than any other in the past 12 months. At first glance that may seem ludicrous. Everyone can define culture. But if I…
This year the Dallas art scene felt rebellious. While one museum exhibition paid homage to a wonderful Dallas-based painter, another had me wanting to commit acts of destruction. At galleries and other exhibitions, the work dripped with anarchy and frustration with the system — a sentiment felt across the country,…
If you missed the 2007 film that made Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová famous, you missed one of the most compelling soundtracks ever made. The songs in Once turned the quiet drama into a hit, which eventually found its way to Broadway, where it answered its showy neighbors with intimate…
Perhaps one of the most lovely art exhibitions in town this year was Provocations at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Featuring the design work of the UK’s Heatherwick Studio, it featured small scale models, or bits and pieces of designs from around the globe, all of which demonstrated the company’s humanistic…
You’re running out of time to spend with the rat king. With Christmas swiftly appraoching, there are only a few days during which the viewing The Nutcracker is appropriate. It’s a longstanding tradition for families to drag Dad to the theater for the dancing sugarplums. And for 30 years, it’s…
You’re late to the game. We hear you. And making a last minute trip to NorthPark to buy your mother something overpriced and destined to be underused from Williams Sonoma will only take up more time than you have. Let’s face it, you’ve been running a bit behind all year…
Cognitive Dissonance is something most adults understand, and relate to. That two things you believe or value could be in direct conflict with one another is a frustrating, anxiety-filled way to live in this gray-shaded world. The new series of work by Dallas-based artist Gaeb Cardinale shares a name with…
