Lauren Woods’ art can be difficult to pin down. In medium, she’s all over the place, her work is varied, but very interconnected. Combine her dynamism as a conceptual artist with the track record of Zhulong Gallery (1302 Dragon St.), and this is an exhibition you’ll want to catch. In…
We love our e-readers because they are convenient and because we’re never stuck without reading material while delayed in a waiting room, carpool line, or lame conference call. But despite the convenience of the digital versions, we’ll never give up our paper tomes. We love the smell of crisp new…
BY INKOO KANG Despite its sumptuous displays of feudal opulence — cavalries, silk gowns, all the naked female extras money can buy — Netflix’s Marco Polo feels distinctly like scraps. Turgid, fatuous and humorless, the streaming site’s newest series is a grave miscalculation of what has made Game of Thrones,…
Confession: Billy Collins is the reason I’m a writer. As a community college student, I once met him during a poetry workshop my English 101 professor had organized. It was inspiring. His poetry is straightforward in its language, with beautifully precise revelations. There were no snooty sonnets or obscure, hundred-dollar…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Oak Cliff native Stefan González has been honing his craft since grade school. The now 29-year-old auditory adept has pushed his skills, into a Bermuda Triangle of emotional experimentation. While most commonly associated as one-third…
Between Dog and Wolf It’s highly possible you’ve seen the French idiom: entre chien et loup. It roughly translates to Between Dog and Wolf, inspiring the name for artist Danny Williams exhibition at Barry Whistler Gallery (2909-B Canton St.). It refers to the way dusk can obscure the outline of…
We begin this week’s Voice Film Club podcast with a Thomas Pynchon story, before hosts Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, and Amy Nicholson of LA Weekly, move onto Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie adaption of his novel, Inherent Vice. It’s “in some ways a godawful mess, indulgent…
It wasn’t that long ago that the world’s focus was on our little corner of the globe thanks to a retail cutie named “Alex From Target.” Don’t know who that is? Good for you. The important thing is this: He’s from Frisco and became inexplicably famous enough to appear on…
These days, video games aren’t a social experience. Sure you can talk to people online while you play with or against them but a true social experience requires proximity. Usually, you’re dealing with people who don’t have good microphones that pick up everything but their own voice, or you end…
‘Tis the season to shop local and shop well. Just don’t buy your gifts at Walmart, capiche?…
Here on Mixmaster it’s not often enough that we embrace our girly side. As your friendly neighborhood culture editor, I nerd out about art openings, must-see plays, and classical music on the daily, but it’s far too rare that I bring you news of places to do your hair, or…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Heyd Fontenot is the director of CentralTrak, the artists’ residency for the University of Texas at Dallas. He curates all of the shows in the gallery and manages CentralTrak’s gaggle of residents, which makes him…
Remember last week when we told you of Dave Chappelle’s sneak attack show announcement? By the time we got wind of it and blew it down to you (don’t overthink the metaphor), tickets were already in limited quantity. I imagine you dashing from our Web site to livenation.com, only to…
I’m not sure anything more needs to be said. Last time the tickets went on sale, they were gone in a matter of hours. This South Park-based, Tony Award-winning hit musical keeps audiences laughing from beginning to end with its story of two Mormon missionaries who head to Africa on…
Holiday music is easily one of the best parts of the season. Even if you haven’t darkened the door of a church in decades, there’s still something stirring about those old Christmas carols that you grew up on. You know that you still get a little teary-eyed whenever “Little Drummer…
When I reached out to Katherine Bourne, one of the key organizers of Shakespeare in the Bar, she mentioned in passing that one of their actors is sick and they’re trying to decide whether to have a sock puppet or an audience member fill the role. I voted sock puppet…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. He’s young, but he’s already got the critics raving. Adam A. Anderson is one of the rising talents in the Dallas theater world. He’s won the DFW Theater Critics Forum Award for best actor and…
So far in our quest to find the fugliest building in Dallas, we’ve attacked the AT&T corporate office in East Dallas and the Dallas World Trade Center building. Two strong contenders for sure. But is the next one fugly enough to take top standing? I’m talking about the ever-popular Turley…
Theatre Britain’s annual British “panto” fairytale at the Cox Playhouse in Plano is always a holiday treat. This year Beauty & the Beast, not the talking furniture Disney musical, but a campier comedy by Jackie Mellor-Guin, uses all the traditional gimmicks we now know to expect. Kiddies will latch onto…
Surprising his fans is kind of Dave Chappelle’s thing. I’m not sure I fully understand the marketing strategy of announcing things out of nowhere, but it must be working for him. In 2012, he announced it day of, which meant swiftly canceling plans with anyone who didn’t want to move…
I was running late last night, as 8 p.m. approached swiftly and I was still not on Greenville Avenue. I wasn’t meeting people for dinner or drinks, and it was unlikely my night would last past 9 p.m. I was headed to a podcast listening party. Because exactly two weeks…
By Anita Riot If you aren’t familiar with the decade-long rise of modern roller derby, you may not know that teams, officials and fans from 30 different countries have already taken over the concrete floors of the Dallas Convention Center. The Roller Derby World Cup, hosted by Blood & Thunder…
