Leonard Volk has always liked capturing images, and a camera has been his weapon of choice. He’s spent a lifetime taking photographs, and now he’s complied those images in one single collection: a book titled everyday. The images inside are just that – moments of the everyday that somehow rise…
If you remember flopping on the divan in your flannels and scuffies to watch TV Christmas specials starring Perry Como, the King Sisters and the Osmonds back in the day, you’ll feel right at home at WaterTower Theatre’s Rockin’ Christmas Party. The show is a nostalgia-filled musical cheese ball, rolled…
Oh, they don’t want a lot for Christmas… just for you to lip sync your little elfin heart out on camera. But not just any lip sync: The Dallas Comedy House would very much like you to film your sync to a very specific song, and a specific version, by…
For its eighth season, Second Thought Theatre, the small-ensemble company founded by Baylor grads, will move back to where it started — or close to it. Second Thought is leaving the Addison Theatre Centre’s black box studio and relocating to 75-seat Bryant Hall, across the parking lot from Kalita Humphreys…
Christmas this, Christmas that. You know what would really piss off Bill O’Reilly this holiday season? Learning about religious and philosophical traditions outside of the dominant paradigm. Tomorrow presents a perfect opportunity with a “Perspectives on Buddhism” talk by David Sunshine, owner of Dallas Yoga Center. Perhaps a crash course…
Look who’s got some brand spankin’ new shoes. Like the rest of us, the Deep Ellum “Traveling Man” sculpture’s been a little chilly this week. And being made of metal, can you imagine how much worse that must be? Finally, someone took pity on his big robot feet and sized…
FOX Network’s Follow The Money has discovered the origin of Occupy Wall street protests: the liberal brainwashing of Hollywood’s films. In this important discussion with Follow the Money host Eric Bolling and Media Research Center guest Dan Gainor on the viral ideas commie leaders like Kermit The Frog and Gonzo…
We never shy away from an opportunity to imbibe before noon, so Saturday was the perfect opportunity to check out the installation, Pictures of Me, at Photographs Do Not Bend’s Annual Holiday Brunch. For those who haven’t heard, Pictures is just what it sounds like – an assemblage of photographs…
You may have noticed: there was a lot of happenings in Dallas this weekend. The White Rock Marathon pushed on in the midst of a rainy, cold Sunday morning. Which, many of us here at the Observer missed as we nursed our splendid Artopia hangovers. Before that, our photographer Stephen…
First let me say: it was a pleasure cracking nuts with you at the Dallas Contemporary. Lots and lots going on last night to talk about–from the installation pieces (curated by Brian Gibb of the Public Trust) to the fashion show–but the night certainly kept-on with the bright rock-pop of…
Now that we’ve all had our fill of leftover turkey and football, it’s time to party, and there ain’t no party like an Observer party and that’s not just because we have booze and no curfew. You know it’s the party season, so before you have to attend that mandatory…
Are you there, readers? It’s me, Merritt. Did you finish Chuck Palahniuk’s Damned like a good Mixmaster Online Book Club member? Good! That’s exactly what we’d hoped for. Dilly dally no longer and get down there in the comments to discuss lying about causes of death, if you were feeling…
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. There’s always humor and elegance in the shows performed at Dallas Children’s Theater by the…
If you haven’t spent a lot of time in the up-and-coming Design District, Saturday’s brunch at Photographs Do Not Bend is a perfect opportunity to traverse streets with names like “Inspiration” and “Dragon” and to check out the burgeoning neighborhood. Just like you preferred Bieber when he was underground (okay,…
Part of the fun of Dallas Theater Center’s huge production of A Christmas Carol, opening Friday night for a three-week run at Kalita Humphreys Theater, is seeing who plays the ghosts that visit Ebenezer Scrooge. In the spooky adaptation by Richard Hellesen of Charles Dickens’ immortal story of greed v…
Today is World AIDS Day and just one of the ways we’re observing the 30th anniversary of AIDS — an issue important to many of us here at the Mixmaster, in the Dallas arts community, and, of course, everywhere — is creating our own little panel on the digital (2015)…
Steven Culbert is one of those artists who eschews the idea that there’s any limit to the number of ways you can paint. You can see that in his current show, Big and Small, at Jacques Lamy Gallery. Upon viewing the show, you might not even guess that all of…
It’s on the stands and on-the-webs now: the finalists of our second annual art awards (the MasterMinds). That’s right, we’ve named ’em, and it’s all a big ol’ countdown to our fancy pants Artopia party on Saturday at the Dallas Contemporary. If you’re not going to that, shame on you…
Steve McQueen’s first two films both star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles and are nearly as grueling to watch as they must have been to make. But where Shame might be nearly as excruciating as 2008’s Hunger, it’s a lot less exalted. In Hunger, Fassbender’s imprisoned Irish revolutionary Bobby…
Frustratingly opaque, Australian novelist-turned-filmmaker Julia Leigh’s debut feature opens with an unforgettable image: A young woman, earning some extra cash as a medical-research subject, patiently sits as a long tube is threaded down her esophagus. Sharp and precise as its tableau might be, though, Sleeping Beauty never burrows into the…
The title of WaterTower Theatre’s revival of Rockin’ Christmas Party is missing its “g” for a reason. Throughout the two-plus hours of singin’ and dancin’, you’ll keep thinkin’ to yourself, “Gee, what does that song have to do with Christmas?” and “Gee, why are those ladies wearing Conehead wigs and…
Soledad O’Brien is a seasoned journalist who has time and again probed complex issues regarding race and identity in America. In her Black in America series on CNN, O’Brien brought topics seldom discussed in the public forum to a broader audience. So who better to speak to budding journalists of…
