We are loving this photo from the weekend’s Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure. It wrapped up yesterday and participant (and regular Mixmaster contributor) Jenny Block tells us that after walking some 60 miles, she and her fellow walkers all took off one shoe and held it to the…
Kristin Chenoweth, star of the upcoming GCB on ABC, was originally scheduled for a NasherSALON appearance on November 18. But filming a new television series means priority goes to, well, filming a new television series… Nasher Sculpture Center has sent word that to accommodate Chenoweth’s filming schedule, the event has…
Musical America thinks what’s been conducted is fantastic, but let’s be honest, it’s focusing on what’s going to be conducted and who will be waving a special Super Conductor baton for the next year. 2012, y’all. The performing arts news organization named Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Jaap van Zweden Conductor of…
AIDS. Is it something to celebrate? Of course not. Is AIDS research and education? Yes. Is the attention paid to HIV and AIDS for three decades within the arts community something to applaud? Absolutely. In 1981, the CDC documented the first cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or what is most…
Corn rigs and barley rigs, not Nicolas Cage. 1973, not 2006 remake. These differences are very important. There’s no shouting for the drone to die. There is no mouth-breathing Cage-face. No, in Robin Hardy’s horror feature, the Wicker Man the build-up is about the story and not about the cast…
After seeing just how much you people love the Palahniuk based on the popularity of our Q&A and his packed house at the DMA, we thought we might engage you with a little interaction book club-style. So it’s gonna be his latest. It’s Halloween weekend so why not, right? Plus,…
Not a baseball fan? Before you read my reasons why Psycho is a fantastic horror film, head on over to Angelika Film Center to get in line for a screening of the Hitchcock classic on the big screen (it starts at 8 p.m. in Dallas and 7 p.m. in Plano)…
Tap dance isn’t really all about 12 pre-tweens with rouged cheeks attempting to ball-change in time with one another, no matter what you may have heard from friends with children. Tap is incredibly athletic, fun even at its moodiest and pretty much universally jaw-dropping. Savion Glover’s brand of tap, that…
It’s time for a preemptive sugar rush, no? That is to say, before you stuff your pumpkin full of delicious fun-size treats, what say you run down the ol’ calorie count via the Watters Creek Second Annual Trek or Treat 5K at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Oh, and there’s a fun…
Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King are a match made in scary, anxiety-inducing horror movie heaven. Oh, no wait. Actually, let’s make that perfect pairing a three-way with Jack Nicholson. Creepy Jack Nicholson, to be specific. The tale is a classic: Isolation (or near isolation) + malicious spirits + person of…
The World Series game has been postponed so you need something new to do. Seems to us that Scott Pasfield’s one-night reception for and book signing of Gay In America at Ilume Galerie is the obvious choice. Why? Because it’s equally American as apple pie and baseball — it’s just…
Tiesto, Girl Talk, Diplo and Neon Indian are just a few of the names taking to the tables at the annual two-night New Year’s blowout better known as Lights All Night. But you knew that. What you may not have known is that the Observer and DC9 are official sponsors…
It’s hard to say which is more frightening — the idea of a murderer with no flesh (traditionally speaking) and fingerblades, or the idea that he only attacks in dreams. Wes Craven again took a basic horror outline and reworked it into something incredibly original and panic-inducing by providing details…
The unfamiliar consider dance a scary thing anyway, so why not shake up expectations with a dance performance both original and modern, all the while ghoulishly delightful? That’s what Contemporary Ballet Dallas had in mind when it created Danse Macabre, a collection of themed performances from company dancers and guest…
OK, seriously. One of this movie’s taglines was/is “You have been warned.” Amazing. Also, if children creep you out in any way, Richard Donner’s 1976 antichrist fright-fest, The Omen, will really send you in a tailspin, because this tyke — Damien — is a tiny boy-suit-wearing devilchild. Literally. Oh, that…
Director Takashi Miike is totally fucked up … but brilliant. In the realm of Asian horror, he’s what many would call “the man.” (He also owns in action — just check out this year’s 13 Assassins for proof.) In 1999’s Audition (or Odishon, the original title), rubber gloves have never…
We’re back! She’s back! The ‘Pants are back! This time we’ve completed Tina Fey’s Bossypants, reading right on through the meaty Second City years, out of SNL and into Sarah Palin’s wig. Also, there was breast pumping during Entourage. What did you think of the second half? Of the whole…
In 1968 Roman Polanski produced a bit of magic that remains one of the best pieces of film to combine the quiet and the horrific. Now, before you say that we should never comment on his work, Rosemary’s Baby was filmed and released before both the Manson Family’s murder of…
Peter Jackson’s 1992 zombified gora-a-thon has been called the “goriest fright film of all time.” Look, it says so right there on the poster. But that’s really not much of a stretch. Dead Alive (originally called Braindead) may have been shot in the Land of the Long White Cloud, but…
Hey, you. Yes, you. We know you know a MasterMind. Have you nominated them yet? We need you to tell us about innovative, cultural landscape-paving Dallas-based artists — those in dance, theater, performance art, visual arts and more. Why? Well, we want to recognize them (in print and at our…
Art Con 7 Artist Lottery from Erica Felicella on Vimeo. Exciting news for those waiting for the big yes or no. Mixmaster received this dispatch from Art Conspirators just moments ago: We the Conspiracy are hard at work sorting artist submissions. Our mainframe is spitting out numbers using the latest…
I credit two people for introducing me to the wonderful world of Dario Argento and to both of them I’ll be eternally grateful. I love a good gorefest, but I especially love an artful one — one that entails vivid colors, ballet (an almost career choice) and the music of…
