It’s nearly 2012 and still women are not represented in art, history and any number of other realms as prominently as they should be. As we slowly remedy that, we do what I like to call “add women and stir.”…
After starting our fall fashion series off by interviewing Ken Downing, senior vice president and fashion director of Neiman Marcus stores (and recent guest star on the Rachel Zoe Project), we thought about how fall fashion trends would apply to us here in Dallas. We solicited the help of a…
Name: Callie DeOrdio, 21 Location: Fashion’s Night Out at Galleria Dallas Occupation: Fashion Design student at UNT Influences: Fashion blogs. Oracle Fox, 5 inch and up and fashiontoast. Style Breakdown: Pants from Urban Outfitters, shirt from Forever 21, boots from Buffalo Exchange, Chanel bag and hat from Topshop…
We’re not going to get the picks right, necessarily, but we’ve clocked serious hours watching the tube, so we feel like we’ve got insight into what “the people” want in their Emmy-winners. You know, “the people.” The couch people. The people who have cut their lifespans with a remote control…
Let’s take a second to come together and breathe one huge sigh of relief that it’s not 100 degrees and fall has finally arrived. OK, now let’s talk about what we’re going to do this glorious weekend besides dusting off the bike and going for a ride around the lake…
At 7:15 p.m. last night there was already a line of art fans outside the Quixotic World, ready to enter the custom vinyl exhibition that was Vinyl Thoughts inside. The world of vinyl art toys is ever-growing, partly in thanks to Kidrobot’s highly collectible series of Dunny and Munny toys…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. A short play starring Marisa Diotalevi and a totally naked man? We’re there. The hilarious…
What if you never knew what Claude Monet’s impressionist masterpieces or Leonardo da Vinci’s famous “Mona Lisa” looked like? As someone who with adequate vision, I can’t imagine what it would be like to miss out on the visually stunning works that masters like Monet and da Vinci created, but…
Back in June, the first trailer for Girl with the Dragon Tattoo landed on the tangled interwebs, teasing those of us who can’t wait for the December 21 release of the film. Well, there’s another movie we can’t wait to see, and thankfully it’ll hit the big screen a month…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. A few days before the opening of Gypsy at Lyric Stage, one of the co-stars…
The Office is 10 years old. The first episode aired in the UK in the summer of 2001, assigned a 9:30 p.m. timeslot on a Monday because the BBC thought it was a loser. By the time it debuted on NBC in March 2005, it was anything but. (It returns…
Growing up as a nerdy kid on a ranch in rural Texas, there was really only one thing I had in common with my bad-ass, tough-as-nails cowboy dad. We only had two TV channels, both of which he controlled anyway, so we spent most nights wearing out the ribbons on…
Here’s the thing. When you live and work in the hustle and bustle of Dallas, it’s sometimes hard to remember what “not concrete” looks like. Fortunately, there are places like Lake Grapevine and these little vessels called kayaks to remind us there’s more to life than one-upping your neighbor. Now…
A strong Patti LuPone vibe buzzes through Lyric Stage’s Gypsy, running through September 18 at the Irving Arts Center, and not just because the company purchased all the costumes from the most recent Broadway production, the one that starred LuPone as that mother of all stage mothers, Momma Rose. The…
As stripped-down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most “American” movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding Refn. The film, for which Refn was named best director last May in Cannes, is a sleek, tense piece of work that, as a vehicle for Ryan Gosling, has…
What I don’t know: why these movies keep getting made. I Don’t Know How She Does It is based on Allison Pearson’s 2002 diaristic comic bestseller and directed by Douglas McGrath. But its real auteur is screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, scripter of wan workplace romantic comedies such as the limp…
If you’re one of the sad plebes who doesn’t have toys on your desk at work, then either you have a sucky, soul crushing job or you just haven’t had a chance to get your hands on some cool vinyl toyage. Well, if you fall in the first camp then…
The Tour de France is a bicycle race full of gruesome crashes as thousands of riders trek in and out of a mountain range for three weeks. We lose our breath just thinking about it. Compared to that professional cycling event, the Tour de Fleurs is a walk in the…
We’re not usually keen on pampering our pets since we don’t dress them up or spoil them homemade, organic meals like Tara on Most Eligible Dallas. But we don’t mind treating Fido to an afternoon of fun at the Wags & Waves pool party. The pool party is open to…
The Ochre House earned the “Best Place To See A Weird Play” distinction in our 2009 Best of DallasTM(r)(c) awards, and it doesn’t look like Matthew Posey’s theater is giving up its hold on that claim any time soon. The current production, written and directed by Posey, concerns the dysfunctional…
The Midwest town of Blaine may have made a name for itself during the great stool boom, but years later the “bastard people” on its city council couldn’t even afford to give Corky St. Claire a penny for his thoughts, much less the $100,000 he requested to produce a small…
Just thought you should know: If you put on lipstick or blush today, you may have reddened yourself with pulverized insects. The dye carmine (also called crimson lake, natural red No. 4 and E120) is made by crushing the tiny cochineal beetle, a cactus parasite common to Central and South…
