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. You don’t have to know everything about Shakespeare, the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation or…
Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection, a traveling exhibit from the Fenimore Art Museum of Cooperstown, New York, at the Dallas Museum of Art, gives a glimpse of the cultural, social and military traditions practiced by native tribes that roamed a borderless North America. The 111-piece collection includes…
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. Throwing food at actors is frowned upon at most theaters. But not all. The one…
If you picked up last week’s Dallas Observer, you may have noticed a little nod to what many consider to be the best movie of all time. The cover story is on a young Joey Daubin, a self-celebrated wunderkind and aspiring media mogul who’s amassing his own empire. Not…
Start the presses! It’s time for the Weekly Tease!This week’s sneak peek at the forthcoming print product’s cover is something of an eyeful. It might be easy to figure what this small piece is a part of, but who or what is at the other end of that laser-beam gaze?…
Dallas author David W. Menefee has written a new book that inspired his publisher enough to submit it for a Pulitzer Prize. It’s a long shot, sure. But with his unlikely career, he just might have a chance. Menefee, who was once a writer for the Dallas Morning News, has…
You could say a printer is the most important tool for Texas artist Terry Hays. After years of teaching scenic painting at SMU’s theater department, Hays left to pursue his own art full-time, and now his work, along with the work of his wife, Kathy Robinson-Hays, is on display at…
When breasts are compared to cantaloupes, it’s usually a stretch of a metaphor. I mean c’mon, most are peaches … mangos, at best. Not so at Gay Bingo, where one of the night’s hostesses, Jenna Skyy, is so well endowed up top that a shimmy of the shoulders leaves the…
Most people know Crispin Glover as Marty McFly’s father, the Thin Man in Charlie’s Angels or Willard, the rat loving psychopath. What he isn’t known for is performance art. Until now. Glover has been touring the world with his wildly weird two-night, one-man show, Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show,…
Editor’s Note: Kevin Moore sat down to discuss his role in Little Shop of Horrors. What follows is his account as told to Elaine Liner. Back in March, WaterTower Theatre in Addison announced auditions for the musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors. There was a role for the manipulator of…
Art Conspiracy’s Seed Event, Better Gnomes and Gardens, wasn’t quite your average Tuscan garden party replete with sundried tomato risotto, red wine and truffles, but the garden dresses, suspenders and large hats were all still present. And who could resist a friendly round of croquet?…
The End had a good weekend. According to BoxOffice.com, Harry Potter’s final, holy-shit-epic installment has already made astonishing 168 million dollars in the United States ($475.5 million worldwide). That’s a new record. On its midnight screening, Harry Potter raked in over $43 million. And there was some good movie dying…
Denton is a college town, home to two major universities, so it’s no surprise that UNT on the Square gallery welcomes an exhibition from the “Dean of Texas painting,” artist Frank Reaugh (1860-1945). The gallery presents Frank Reaugh: Master of Pastels and the Plains of Texas, a collection of Reaugh’s…
As Warner Bros. and JK Rowling finally put away the wands and golden snitches for the last time (while peeling our death grip off the books as we bawl in denial), we’re taking a look at the final installment of the Harry Potter franchise. I was fortunate enough to see…
Create your own wall of fame with these fine, only marginally frightening works of art currently for sale at two of our favorite Dallas thrift stores. As of yesterday afternoon, all of these paintings were still looking for homes. Most could be had for less than $60. We found them…
If you missed The Onion Live last night at the Winspear Opera House, you are not one of the 1,300 people who comprise the entirety of the city’s intelligentsia, according to Onion editor Joe Randazzo and head writer Seth Reiss. But at least it’s easy to recreate the experience. Just…
Welcome! As we said before, the first reading assignment for the first Mixmaster Online Book Club selection, Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts, was the first two sections. Below, in the comments, please feel free to jump in with replies, questions, opinions, historical observations, etc. If you’re a reader,…
It looks like it’s going to be quite a busy weekend as gallery exhibitions open and a theater festival kicks off. If that doesn’t grab your attention, maybe a sexy car wash at The Lodge will. Are you interested now? We’ll get to that later, but first let’s delve into…
Last night, Buffalo Exchange kicked off its first artist showcase, hosting a reception for local artists Justin Allen, Lucy Kirkman and Paul Windle. Art lines the upper walls of the neon blue resale shop, and each artist had a table near the front door and was eager to discuss the…
It’s officially Harry Potter Week. And, as you may have guessed, we’re totally celebrating. For those of us who have waited in line for countless hours to receive our copy of the latest Harry Potter book, wore our favorite house colors to a midnight movie premiere and even plastered a…
The Emmy nominations came out yesterday. Since I don’t have HBO, and since the Emmys are pretty much an HBO cast party, I didn’t spend too much time with the nominations, but I did take a moment to control-find the names of my two favorite shows: Community, NBC’s ode to…
Reality television shows are always scouring Dallas for potential cast members for shows like The Bachelor and American Idol because, let’s face it, there’s no shortage of camera-ready talents (and crazies) to fill hours of network programming. If you keep complaining that producers are missing out on a reality pot…
