Halloween Yard Art Tricks Out Our Streets

There are ghosties in the treezies all over town. Halloween yard decorations are adding spookily Goth touches to lawns, especially in Highland Park, where not a few elegant mansions are under attack by giant spiders and haunted by specters dangling from tree limbs or dancing in circles by the driveway…

Boy Meets Girl in Mattia Traverso’s One and One Story

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. Sometimes boys screw up pretty badly. Sure, they could buy some flowers, send a singing telegram or even grovel like there’s no tomorrow, but with this…

Go Ahead, Suggest the Future of the Women’s Museum

When I heard the Women’s Museum was closing, I felt a deep sense of…culpability. It was one of those places I always intended to go. I went when it opened, and possibly once more (or possibly not), but never again. Even when it had an exhibit of Annie Leibovitz photos,…

Bring Out the MasterMinds, Y’all

Hey, you. Yes, you. We know you know a MasterMind. Have you nominated them yet? We need you to tell us about innovative, cultural landscape-paving Dallas-based artists — those in dance, theater, performance art, visual arts and more. Why? Well, we want to recognize them (in print and at our…

Give Us Your Artists, Your Creatives, Your … MasterMinds

It’s now. It’s live. It’s happening. We want the innovators, the community climate changers, the artists who see, make, and do like no one else. And, well, since you artistic types are already in the spirit of entering things, we figured you wouldn’t mind our online registration form and the…

Here, Have a Bit of Sketchy Fun With Sketch Quest

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. Sitting in meeting after meeting all week, your mind probably wanders a bit. Chances are there are some pretty sweet doodles to be found in the edges…

Six Fall Decorating Trends That Are As Dead As Dried Flowers

Labor Day might mark the unofficial start of fall, but fall really begins this Friday. We’ve suffered through record-breaking heat and, maybe worse, Pete Delkus’ tweets about it, for months, but now with football season in full swing and the State Fair just around the corner we can officially get…

Holy Gigantic Dinosaur, Speedboat Hero!

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. With the cool weather creeping in, we’re getting a little twitchy in our seats. Unfortunately, being stuck at our desks all day means we need a virtual…

You Too Can Be a Coinbox Hero

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. We’ve been playing video games as far back as we can remember. Once upon a time we had to save up quarters and go to the arcade…

Days and Days of New Plays, Starting Right Now

Every few months Dallas-area theaters pile on the new shows. This is one of those weekends, with 10 productions opening. One of those, Dallas Pride Performing Arts Festival at Uptown Players, is a multi-show offering filling several performance spaces at Kalita Humphreys Theater. So go see a show. Tickets start…

Take A Shot at Experimental Shooter

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. When you see this week’s selection for Geek-Off, you’re probably going to think we called it in because we were too busy out enjoying the weather to…

North Haven Gardens Offers Ground Advice for Fall Planting

No, it’s not exactly fall yet, but apparently, it’s time to start picking out plants for cool weather planting. Thing is, we here at Mixmaster HQ don’t know a damn thing about fall planting. Actually, come to think of it, we don’t know too much of anything about planting in…