So long, Mr. Spock. Actor Leonard Nimoy has appeared at his final Star Trek convention. Nimoy announced his departure at Star Trek’s 45th anniversary celebration in Chicago over the weekend, says the Chicago Sun Times. Nimoy, revered by the Trekkie tribe as the original Spock, was the highlight of the…
We’re watching Bravo’s Most Eligible Dallas every week so you don’t have to. Scene 1: Courtney’s at home, hangin’ in her boudoir (which apparently hasn’t featured new wall decorations since elementary school), chatting with Matty on the phone about her bad mood at the Granada concert (from Episode 6). He…
Poltergeist is the first horror film I can recall seeing as a wee lad, and for that, it will always hold a special and terrifying place in my heart. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a cool October night at grandma’s house. The whole family was crowded…
In “Fall,” part of a series, not surprisingly titled “The Seasons,” Olga Polunin personifies the season as a beautiful, young, Asian woman. She is bare breasted and the composition ends just beneath them, reminiscent of any number of European paintings, in particular the School of Fontainebleau piece “Gabrielle d’Estrées and…
Underrated. Underrated. Underrated. In 1981 Student Bodies took the horror movie genre to task for punishing happy, healthy, sex- and fun-having kids. The movie rips off the opening sequences, music and “the call is coming from…” ploys for one of the best and most disgusting horror parodies around. Filmed in…
In Machine Gun Preacher (out in Dallas now), Gerard Butler plays real life ruffian biker turned gun-toating man of faith, Sam Childers. After a life of crime and drug/alcohol addiction, Childers and his wife (played by Michelle Monaghan) take up the cross in place of the bottle, the needle and…
“My grandma is the woman.”…
I always hear people say there’s nothing to do in Dallas: “Dallas is so boring.” “Dallas? More like Dull-as.” “I think I’ll rip out my toenails with pliers just for a little excitement in Dallas.” OK, fine, that’s a bit much, but I hear what you’re saying, people. It’s just…
Yesterday, James Wallace kicked off Mixmaster’s horror movie countdown with the stupendous slasher-flick Halloween. James mentioned that Halloween’s impact has made it so he can’t remember the exact first time he’d seen the film, but he can always remember the recent viewng. Everyone remembers Antichrist. Whether it’s the first viewing…
Halloween (1978) Most lists about the best All Hallow’s Eve-themed movies, or just the greatest Horror flicks of all time in general, finish it off with John Carpenter’s 1978 masterpiece of macabre but we’re starting this killer list out in style and taking a stab at giving you 31 days…
For our first Bossypants assignment, we were to have read the first “half” of the book (remember, we admitted we had issues with math, and adding in the intro and all that gets so confusing). Simply put, the plan was to read right on up to “A Childhood Dream, Realized.”…
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…
This weekend is shaping up to be a pretty damn good one. You can eat yourself, laugh yourself and scare yourself silly Friday and Saturday and then walk it all off on Sunday in time for another manic Monday. And, sure, the heat came back for a bit. But with…
Director’s Notes documents, from planning to performance, the challenges of local artist Katie Toohil as she mounts an original, independent theatrical dance production. Well, it’s time for rehearsal! We hold rehearsal in three separate spaces: SPACE – Mixed Arts Collaborative, Tranquilo and Move Studio. First, please allow me a moment…
“It’s our tenth year of fear,” Darren Robert said. “I thought of that slogan,” he added, looking fondly at a bloody severed head next to him. He gave it a little pat. “It’s 16,000 square feet,” he said, looking around SlaughterHouse, the haunted house he’s run for the last ten…
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. We expect nudity in Hair. That’s what made the “tribal love-rock musical” shocking in 1968…
Outside Tranquilo Yoga Studio in Bishop Arts the community is encouraged to add their own answer in chalk. So far there are some good answers and some great ones. I asked a friend that’s an art teacher what his would be and he said, “Convince a kid that has had…
Around 8:45 a.m. this morning, around the time this author rabbit-punched “snooze” on the alarm clock, the world’s largest zeppelin lifted off into sky. The Farmers Airship, which at 246 feet is 15 feet longer than a Boeing 747 and is sponsored by something, is at Fort Worth Alliance Airport…
Deborah Oropallo’s massive pieces command your attention the minute you enter the Stay ZaZa Art House & Social Gallery, a partnership with Santa Fe’s Turner Carroll Gallery. It’s a relatively small, simple event space with a chandelier interestingly tucked in the back right corner, black floors, and bright track lighting…
Despite only gracing the screen for eight short years thus far, actress Anna Kendrick has starred alongside some of Hollywood’s leading men and made herself into quite the leading lady, not to mention earning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role in 2009’s Up in the Air while…
One single scene captures the tricky tonal balance of Jonathan Levine’s cancer comedy 50/50. Adam, the straightedge radio producer played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has just finished his first round of chemotherapy. It was tough, but the kindly gents IV’d next to him (Philip Baker Hall and Matt Frewer) made it…
Outdoor theater offers scant opportunity for subtlety, but Dallas Shakespeare’s current Hamlet, performed to audiences perched on parched grass at Samuell-Grand Amphitheatre, is overacted with such scorched-earth intensity, you worry it might spark a wildfire. From his first big speech as Hamlet — “O that this too too solid flesh…
