Denton’s historic Wright Opera House went on the market yesterday, with a whopping $2,699,000 dollar price tag. The lavender accented building is more than a city landmark and town square anchor, it’s home to Recycled Books and Records, a beloved temple for all things analog. Naturally, folks didn’t take kindly…
Texans flipped for last year’s Chinese Lantern Festival, which occupied Fair Park’s lagoon after the midway’s close and into the New Year. Well, great news: Not only is the festival back for 2013, but it’s developed 17 new scenes — making 24 total — and one of the recently constructed…
Both the DMA and Nasher offer free admission and extended hours tonight, so there’s already a cheapskate incentive to pop over for a visit. But here’s what you may not know: These spots don’t skimp on the frills. They’ve organized a full night of can’t-be-missed events, which is why Late…
TCU started its rush week on August 10 and many other Texas universities are about to follow suit. If you’re a GDI (goddamm independent) wondering what it takes to make it into the sacred sisterhood we’ve rounded up a few things you need to know. For best results, start preparing…
WARNING: The following post contains an excess of the Food and Drug Administration’s daily recommended allowance of vegetable puns. Since this story is about a vegetable rally and I’m still buzzing about Jason Jones’ hilarious story about a California raisin farm “raisin” some hell with the government on the Daily…
Shake out your matching cowboy outfits: The Nasher shows The Three Amigos for free in it’s beautiful courtyard on Friday. But that’s not all. No way. There’s a bodybuilding expo, complete with MMA bouts and a massive arm wrestling competition — an event perfectly counterbalanced by Thursday’s thumb wrestling battle…
The first thing you see in David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, after the IFC logo, are the words, “This was all in Texas.” What observant viewers will notice in the end credits, though, is that, for a movie set in Texas, a lot of it was made elsewhere, specifically…
Now that Alamo Drafthouse has opened its Richardson location, here at Mixmaster we were curious: After all the hype and popularity Alamo enjoys, how does it measure up? So they chose me, a humble Louisianan who has no bias toward (and until recently not even knowledge of) Alamo, to investigate…
Despite the giddy, gory ridiculousness of Kick-Ass 2, this summer’s most violent yet least punishing comic-book movie, there’s a kernel of ugly human truth at the core of the Kick-Ass fantasy. In the first issue of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s Kick-Ass comic, from 2008, a lonely high school…
Hey, Hollywood can still do romance! Ever since the marketeers worked out that the kiss kiss bang bang formula could be profitably split, with bang bang movies getting wide releases and the kiss kisses sold only to that slim niche demographic called “American women,” movie love stories had gotten frustratingly…
Like so many screenplays, The World’s End has its origins in a Starbucks. As director Edgar Wright tells it, the ideas for next week’s sci-fi action-comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost came to him while shooting the trio’s last film, the buddy-cop parody Hot Fuzz. That film takes place…
Until 2005 or so, no one thought much about modern piracy of the high-seas variety. But then Somali pirates began attacking merchant ships with increasing frequency, seizing vessels and holding their crews hostage for outlandish sums. Danish director Tobias Lindholm’s wiry, neatly crafted thriller A Hijacking wrests fact into the…
No matter how literary you are, we could all stand to be more well-read. Helping out with that is The Dallas Morning News, which hosts its seventh annual Points Book Club. For the first time, it features a Dallas-based author. Up for discussion is Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, the…
RO2’s Downtown space could barely house the last public offering of “Pizzicato Porno,” a new piece of dance and performance by Justin Locklear and Danielle Georgiou. It wasn’t the gallery’s fault; only so many giant weather balloons, video art projections, pieces of DJ gear, sweaty convulsing bodies and eager audience…
Growing up in Texas’ dust bowl throws a distinct filter on adolescence. As the good, God-fearing, Lions Club-sponsoring businesses shut down each evening, the day simply ends. Well, unless you mash-up your own fun, like watching a league of traveling amateur wrestlers set up at the rodeo grounds. That’s an…
They say that all you need is love. They sound pretty sure about that, and we have to hope it’s true — because Dallas residents will need a lot of the stuff to get through the cavalcade of media attention focused on our fair city during the 50th anniversary of…
Considering the cost of a specialty craft cocktail hovers somewhere in the $8 to $12 range, you’ll get absolutely plastered during Cocktail Evening at The Modern (3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth), because reservations cost $60 and you’re no fool. Gargle beautiful drinks featuring Reyka Vodka, Hendrick’s Gin, Milagro Tequila, Solerno…
Most ladies nights aren’t lady-centric. They don’t promote bonding, betterment or an inner glow that stems from learning new things. Instead, they’re man magnets, designed to alert fellas that drunk chicks will soon pass out at a bar near them. That changes on Friday at Show Me How You Burlesque,…
After wrapping production of the wonderfully titled Gruesome Playground Injuries, Second Thought Theater shows its latest project, In a Forest, Dark and Deep by Neil LaBute and directed by Regan Adair at Kalita Humphreys Theater (2400 Flora St.) at 7:30 p.m. Friday. In a Forest, Dark and Deep is about…
There is something very joyful and calming about seeing a sky full of colorful balloons, floating in the air. Don’t believe it? Then consider yourself dared. Go on, just try and visit the 26th Annual Lions Club Balloon Festival and Fair without feeling the effects of happy serenity. All weekend…
The most twisted film created by the screenwriting cerberus of Randy Newman, Steve Martin and Lorne Michaels is also one of the most quotable. The Three Amigos remains the greatest film about three silent film actors who mistakenly travel to Mexico to accidentally battle a brutal villain due to an…
Sometimes we need a little motivation to stop binge-watching Star Trek on Netflix and engage in some relatively healthy behavior. Or at least give our futons the chance to breathe and fluff out the ass grooves left behind from said binge-watching. But if you still can’t muster the energy to…
