Leave it to musical theater to somehow make a story about widows struggling to find companionship saccharine and upbeat. The Artisan Center Theater performs the Broadway classic Hello Dolly, the tale of widowed matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi and her attempts to ensnare her resistant client, the widowed half-millionaire Mr. Vandergelder…
There is nothing on any local stage right now like Elvis August. Created and performed by Jack Foltyn, the show is part tribute to the King, part impersonation and a whole lotta crazy. Performing on weekends through September 4 at the tiny Theatre 166 in northwest Carrollton (a space that’s…
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary has teamed up again with the art-loving folks at Mercantile Coffee House to showcase the funkiest local art Dallas has to offer. The works of Dallas’ own Julia McLain will be featured through September 10. McLain’s artistic style, which she describes as Cutism, involves “taking broken…
It’s a quintessential scene from a black-and-white western short: a damsel tied up to the railroad tracks as her knight in leather chaps gallops to her rescue. Meanwhile, her shady uncle hasn’t only lost a few teeth, but some marbles as well, and might be plotting to gain her inheritance…
News alert: There’s a jazz scene in Dallas. It may be hard to find if you don’t know where to look, but once you spot it, chances are you’ll be sucked into a rich world of tunes all its own. And to help you spot that jazzy magic, look no…
A few artists are arriving from their home, the mountainous region of Tibet nearly 13,000 miles away, to begin a week-long residency in Dallas. The featured artists, Buddhist monks from the Drepung Monastery, will construct a large sand painting throughout the course of the week, a painstaking process that involves…
As Dallas expands and overcrowds itself, questions about responsible development are more relevant than ever. Last night the Dallas Architecture Forum and CityDesign Studio convened a public panel of urban designers at the Dallas Museum of Art to discuss the importance of public design studios and the ongoing challenges they…
Nobody walks out of a theater humming the scenery. But when it comes to the scenic designs of Tony-nominated Beowulf Boritt, plenty of theatergoers and critics leave shows singing his praises. Boritt has been in and out of Dallas a lot over the past few years, designing sets for Dallas…
But when the makers of Itty Bitty Bra say that “Many whom nature ‘blessed’ with less than a ‘B’ cup size are underserved by today’s bra choices,” we can’t help but want to punch them in their tiny, tiny tits…
Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through hump day each week. You may think we’re a little selfish here at Mixmaster HQ, because this week it’s all about I. But it’s not our fault. See, I wasn’t always…
In the water, no one can see your jiggly parts. That’s one of the attractions of the exercise known as Aqua Zumba. That’s “Aqua” as in swimming pool and “Zumba” as in splashing to a Latin beat. And jiggly as in the stuff on your body you’d rather not expose…
When Jonathan Palant asked me to be a judge in the final round of the Voice of Pride competition, I said yes without giving it a second thought. But the second after I hit send, I was a little concerned about what I had just gotten myself into. To be…
Reading Stephen King’s IMDB profile is like scrolling a Hollywood Greatest Hits & Misses list. The speed in which Hollywood is adapting these stories is nearly becoming a parody of itself, as if Hollywood is buying King’s wild horror pitches straight from his mind. The Dark Tower series is already…
With last night’s premiere of Most Eligible Dallas, a new group of campers arrived at the Bravo-lebrity summer camp. In addition to shining a sometimes unforgiving light on our fair city, the show introduces a possible new franchise. Bravo’s brand-making fixation on the seemingly wealthy (Real Housewives) and the people…
On Saturday night, I attended the opening of import, the new exhibition at Ro2 Art Uptown that features works from Eric Eley, John Frost, and Ryder Richards . The gallery, which opened earlier this summer, is housed in a really cool space in the West Village. Cement floors, light wood…
Chains on the Brain by David Goff largely consists of images of chains wrapped around people’s skulls — as in,”Get these motherfucking chains off my motherfucking brain.” The work is as straightforward as the movie Snakes on a Plane, and maintains the same vague hokeyness amidst some truly decent photography…
Fashion and finance seem irrevocably linked as, over the decades, economists have theorized about a hemline index (they rise as stocks go up), a lipstick index (sales increase as the economy withers), and even a men’s underwear index that says dudes only stop buying new boxers when the economy is…
A sheep and a dragon. A devil and an angel. A tiny icon of sweet dreams. These are the pieces Julia McLain blocks together in a way reminiscent of those puzzles where you slide the pieces around until the picture is whole. Only in “Peace and War,” the lack of…
Dadaist Marcel Duchamp once wrote … well, OK, never mind — there’s truly no quote that can encapsulate the strangeness of this artistic endeavor. According to Wired, Marion Laval-Jeantet spent months preparing herself physically to receive massive injections of horse blood plasma in conjunction with an artistic project “exploring trans-species…
You’d be remiss not to cruise on over to Unfair Park this morning if you failed to see Robert’s weekend post on a pencil sketch by the Dallas Nine’s Ed Bearden. Bearden, a Hilltop art professor, was known largely, but not-too-widely for his Giant portraits. And yes, that’s Giant, as…
Talk about Eye Candy. Tokyo photographer Natsumi Hayashi’s work isn’t just taking off (pun intended) in Japan, as she told the Daily Mail Online back in May, but across the world thanks to this lovely thing that is the Interwebs. In contrast to the “let’s all take a jumping photo…
Welcome! Did you get a chance to check out our inaugural or second MOBC meetings? Did you come this time hoping Erik Larson might join in on the discussion of his book?** It’s cool. We can totally understand that. The reading assignment for this round was to finish Larson’s In…
