Juicy Fruit. That’s the answer to the question I’ve had since I first read (and then reread) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. So I’m grateful to the person who asked author Erik Larson about his inspiration for the book…
I simply must stop starting stories with, “So the other night I met Design Star’s Vern Yip,” but now is not the time. So the other night I met HGTV Design Star’s Vern Yip. He was in town offering design tips and exchanging pleasantries with local yocals at I.O. Metro…
Artists seeking inspiration need not look far past the Bath House’s storied tapestry. Designed in 1930 by local architect Jon Carsey, the building was one of the first Art Deco pieces in the southwest. Before becoming a cultural center, the Bath House served as a recreational center for visitors seeking…
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 talking pig opens the show The Butcher, the dark new musical written and directed…
Apologies for not updating you sooner, but things (of course) did not work in my favor when I arrived in France. We were expecting to cover the whole festival, but Gordon and the Whale’s sponsor for the festival intended for us to cover only a few films. My associate, Joshua…
While filmmaker Ivana Corsale was growing up in Sicily, the Camorra crime network was slowly transforming a region just north of her home, known as the Campania felix, into a toxic wasteland with decades of illicit dumping.The environmental degradation of the land the Romans named the “happy country” is the…
The title of Juergen Teller’s Dallas Contemporary exhibit, Man with Banana, sounds like a tongue-in-cheek inside joke — you get it, sort of, but not really. A mix of Teller’s personal photos and advertising photos, interchangeably displayed and impossible to distinguish, carries that same insider feel and punctuates it with…
Kurt Johnsen’s happiness comes from being connected to reality, from embracing the things he can’t change and from relishing every moment. And when you’re the official yoga instructor for the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, I’m guessing down dogging with 35 cheerleaders ain’t so bad a reality to be connected to either…
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. For a playwright, getting a new play “up on its feet” is the first step…
Pablo Francisco, master of the movie-trailer-guy voice, is coming through Arlington this weekend, so his press folks generously made him available for an interview the other day. He was quite nice, and is a pretty skilled impressionist, and I suspect he works very hard to put on a show his…
Late Nights at the DMA satisfies art and night owls on the third Friday of each month year-round, but neighbors at the Nasher Sculpture Center have officially returned with Late Nights’ warm-weather, outdoor counterpart, ’til Midnight at the Nasher. The music and movie series kicks off this Friday, with a…
After sinking into self-important tedium with its prior two overstuffed installments, Pirates of the Caribbean seemed destined for permanent burial at sea. And yet the soggy franchise and Johnny Depp’s foppish rapscallion return again for On Stranger Tides—to search for the fountain of youth, no less, a quest that Chicago…
I’m not ashamed — I’ve totally watched Celebrity Apprentice this season. And while I occasionally found myself irritated by the scheming of TV personality, author and lawyer Star Jones, I gotta say, she knew how to play the game when she wasn’t the project manager. Delegate, work below the radar,…
While trying to enjoy America’s pastime at Ranger’s Ballpark, do you suffer from a guilty feeling while shoving your way past little-leaguers in autograph lines? Instead of triumph, do you feel remorseful each time you outrace 9-year-olds down Greene’s Hill for homers? You should. But for all of you overzealous…
We have to admit that we’re not experts when it comes to gardening, just ask our friends who rehabilitate our plants once we’ve sufficiently ignored them long enough. Apparently, Coca-Cola is no substitute for water, but maybe we could learn a thing or two about plants at the Butterfly Plant…
One thing that every person who enjoys literature should make it a point to do at least once is attend a book signing. Having the chance to look and speak directly with an author about their journey through prose is an insightful and interesting experience. And Dallasites have the opportunity…
Cookies. Technology. Is there a need to say more? Saturday, the Sci-Tech Discovery Center will host its inaugural Cookie Caper to raise money for the center’s annual fund. The Caper will feature thousands of homemade cookies prepared by the Sci-Tech Motherboard members. Cookies will be available for purchase by buying…
If you love dogs as much as you love fashion, then you can’t miss the Fashion Group International of Dallas event, Four Legged Fashion: Canine meets Couture, which features pawsitively fabulous one-of-a-kind fashions created for dogs by major clothing designers. Come and see the canine models strut their scruff on…
If you only think Dallas is famous for one team in football, you got another thing coming. Dallas til’ I die, baby! You’ve seen the signs on your way to work, so why not experience the thrill of the game for yourself with FC Dallas? Bringing European football to the…
By our assessment, Addison tastes pretty good. Sure, it has some popular chains linking its restaurant row, but any town with so many good eats in such close proximity gets no complaints from us. Addison is so proud of its edible offerings that it created an annual festival — Taste…
Former MADtv player Pablo Francisco rivals fellow impressionist Frank Caliendo for supremacy of that small, strange niche of stand-up comedy. But where Caliendo doesn’t bother much with a narrative thread to introduce his impressions, usually just saying something like, “Wouldn’t it be funny if so-and-so did such-and-such?” Francisco works his…
We’ve all been there: Dressed in your black-tie best, small forks lightly clanging on miniature plates, light conversation about politics or art, and suddenly…cheese. There, on the waiter’s tray between you and the sophisticate you’ve been struggling to impress all night, and not a label in sight. Parrano or robusto?…
