Mama’s Meals Made Easy

Instead of going to stupid Macaroni Garden and ordering a build-your-own, never-ending, disgusting-ass pasta bowl, check out the Easy Italian Dishes cooking class at the Dallas Central Market, 5750 E. Lovers Lane. You’ll learn how to make your own fresh tomato and basil pasta, veal piccatine with mushrooms and marsala…

Kristin Chenoweth Coming to the Nasher for Speaker Series

We just found out our favorite waitress in Pushing Daises and Good Witch of the North in Wicked is coming to town, but it’s not to film scenes for the 2012 midseason ABC series Good Christian Belles. Chenoweth, best known for belting out tunes on Broadway, is set to speak…

Holy Chinese Batman, Batman!

Above (and in full after the jump) is a (loosely) interpreted synopsis for a Chinese (bootleg) release of 2005’s Batman Begins found in an Asian dollar store. Apparently, how they get their bootleg movie synopses in China is by taking the American version, dropping it into AltaVista Babel Fish, translating…

David Mitchell Should Never, Ever Work on American TV

Join me in obsessing about British actor, comedian, writer, commentator and all-around adorable young curmudgeon David Mitchell. He’s worth obsessing over, if you’re in need of a new source of laughs, because he’s as funny as Ricky Gervais. Maybe funnier. And he’s all over YouTube, thanks to the BBC channel…

Ludum Dare to Make the Next Big Game

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. In the past, we’ve culled the blogosphere and assorted casual game sites to find mid-week entertainment for you, but this week we’re doing things a little differently…

This Week, Covers Start Going Full Frontal

  Hey gang. Well, we hope that you weren’t too let down from a missing Weekly Tease about seven days ago. The editorial art department (ahem, this singular guy) has been busy preparing (ahem, pulling one’s hair out) for all sorts of fun stuff (ahem, no, it’s actually fun …..

The Bath House Needs Your Skeery Art

Artists have until 5 p.m., September 14, to paint and sculpt skulls, skeletons, ghosts and goblins for entry into the 25th annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) art exhibition at the Bath House Cultural Center at White Rock Lake. That’s the deadline for artwork to be considered…

After Saturday’s Performance, What’s Next for Liz Mikel?

On Saturday night, actress and singer Liz Mikel performed in concert at the Music Hall at Fair Park. The performance was part of a new series at the venue, and it was Michael Jenkins, President and Managing Director of Dallas Summer Musicals, who called Mikel while she was in New…

No Cover, No Creeps: Ladies Night at Quiggly’s Clayhouse UPDATED

I know what you’re thinking, “Studio 54 and the Disney Channel had a baby?” Close but, not quite. The fine folks at Quiggly’s Clayhouse boast an offering of the perfect environment for children and adults to paint pottery, make mosaics and fuse shards o’ glass. Maybe I exaggerated on the…

Feeling Too Hot? NASA Trees Can Help

Today we here at Mixmaster HQ received the shortest and most seductive press alert we’ve ever received. The single sentence came from the Dallas Arboretum and referenced not only the natural beauty of the Arborteum’s Palmer Fern Dell, but also weather, cooling systems and oddly, NASA.”The Palmer Fern Dell is…

Brian Hiltz’s “Snowy Pier” at White Rock Lake Museum

No matter what the season or climate, White Rock Lake is always a serene destination in our otherwise bustling city. This year the lake turns 100, an anniversary that’s been celebrated this summer with a festival, guided tours and plenty of champagne toasts at sunset. White Rock Lake Museum is…

This Week In Thrift/Antique Store Clowns

If you suffer from coulrophobia – the fear of clowns – then you might want to postpone visits to local thrift and antique stores for a little while. They’re crawling with scary clowns, priced to move. Paintings, prints, dolls, figurines. It’s like a Stephen King novel up in there. Here…

A Little Look At Little Bean’s Christine Visneau

​It’s been a little while, but we’re back with another installment of Profiles In Pictures. Photographer Sara Kerens (who’s been busy these last few weeks in NYC) brings us another peek into the world of a local Dallas creative. This time around, we are given a little look at clothing…

Casa Manana Wigs Out With Hyper Hairspray

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. Under the gigantic dome at Fort Worth’s 1000-seat Casa Mañana theater, the cast of the…

H&M Is Alive, Kicking Its Way Through Its First Day in NorthPark

If you walked into Northpark Center today wondering where you could find the new H&M store, you weren’t the only one. Enormous lines managed by enormous security guards staggered almost all the way back to Dillard’s. An estimated 1200 showed up to take part in the fashion fun. Walking in,…