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The Mixmaster
3:35 pm
May. 24, 2013
Dallas Art News
Tonight You Can Get Down and Dirty with the New Rococo in the Cedars As a French princess or prince in the early 18th century, if you wanted to shit in a golden toilet, you simply commissioned a golden toilet. And from lavish latrines alike bore the tropes of the R... More >>
The Mixmaster
12:25 pm
May. 24, 2013
Dallas Art News
The Conspiracy Thickens: Art Con 9 has Selected its Talent Roster for Mounted Art Conspiracy has released its list of selected artists for Mounted, the taxidermy-inspired fundraising auction happening on June 8, at Life in Deep Ellum. Look out: It's full of local the tale... More >>
The Mixmaster
9:35 am
May. 24, 2013
Dallas Art News
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra Played a 300-Year-Old Violin Last Night. Then it Got Loud. Last night the Dallas Symphony Orchestra went out with a song and a bang. This weekend marks the final performance in the orchestra's 2012/2013 classical season and they chose a showy finale, max... More >>
The Mixmaster
9:00 am
May. 24, 2013
Dallas Art News
"True Stories: Behind the Music" Wants to Absolve Your Sins, Do Shots Twin Shadow's touring in support of his 2012 release Confess, but for this go he's doing things a little differently by bringing his dad along. The pair will collaborate, telling different real-l... More >>
The Mixmaster
8:01 am
May. 24, 2013
Dallas Art News
The Wild Detectives: How This Little House in Oak Cliff Will Become Dallas' Newest Bookstore Just a few porches east of 8th and Bishop in Oak Cliff sits an unassuming 1940s home. Surrounded by residential properties, the white 2/1 doesn't appear fated for grand ambitions. But if local li... More >>
The Mixmaster
7:00 am
May. 24, 2013
Dallas Art News
Your Complete Guide to Experiencing the Cliburn, aka the Olympics of Piano-Playing On Wednesday morning, the lobby of Bass Hall in Fort Worth was crammed with photographers, reporters, and news crews buzzing around the 30 young pianists gathered from around the world to compe... More >>
The Mixmaster
10:47 am
May. 23, 2013
Dallas Art News
Great Scott! Back to the Future Will Screen for Free in the Arts District The greatest film ever made about a time-traveling DeLorean soundtracked by Huey Lewis will screen for free in the Arts District's Strauss Square on Sunday, June 2. It's the next installment of ... More >>
The Mixmaster
9:07 am
May. 23, 2013
Dallas Art News
18 Awesome Things to Do this Memorial Day Weekend in Dallas, May 23 to 27 Arrested Development Season 4 starts Sunday. Prepare for extreme leisure, Dallas. The next four days are filled with drag queens, water balloon battles, brewery celebrations, rotten tomato chucki... More >>
The Mixmaster
7:00 am
May. 23, 2013
Dallas Art News
The Five Best Comedy Shows in Dallas This Weekend, May 23-26 Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Jon Reep at Hyena's in Fort Worth North Carolina native Jon Reep has been ... More >>
Stage
12:00 am
May. 23, 2013
Dallas Art News
Kind of a drag: Priscilla Queen of the Desert at DSM High camp: Mae West in a feather boa in She Done Him Wrong. Low camp: Jamie Farr in a dowdy dress on M*A*S*H. Camp adjacent: Every cock in a frock... More >>
The Mixmaster
1:57 pm
May. 22, 2013
Dallas Art News
The Long, Hard Road to the Van Cliburn for Young Dallas Pianist Alex McDonald The audience swelled with pride as Alex McDonald took his seat at the grand piano and lifted his long, slender fingers to the keys. Tall, blonde and clean-cut, 30-year old McDonald carries himse... More >>
The Mixmaster
1:46 pm
May. 22, 2013
Dallas Art News
TEDxSMU Wants to Open Up the Idea Piñata that You Call a Brain So, you've got a Big Idea. Is your patented 3D printing technology destined to create onsite dwellings for impoverished, war-torn regions? Will the planet become more sustainable due to your hybr... More >>
The Mixmaster
9:42 am
May. 22, 2013
Dallas Art News
Classical Music Rock Star Jennifer Higdon Didn't Know What a Major Chord Was Until College It's been three years since composer Jennifer Higdon won both a Grammy and a Pulitzer for her music, but she stills seems a little shocked by the onslaught of attention and fame those awards ine... More >>
The Mixmaster
8:00 am
May. 22, 2013
Dallas Art News
The Chicken Dances of Arrested Development: A Celebration in GIFs This weekend marks the glorious return of Arrested Development, which means we've been drinking heavily and reflecting on the great cultural legacy the Bluth family has left, mostly in the form of... More >>
The Mixmaster
7:00 am
May. 22, 2013
Dallas Art News
These 10 Gil Elvgren Pin-Ups Are Being Sold through Heritage Auction (NSFW) He's the most recognizable pin-up painter in history, and ten of Gil Elvgren's famous dames in peril are either about to be, or are now, available through Dallas-based Heritage Auction. But rem... More >>
The Mixmaster
7:00 am
May. 22, 2013
Dallas Art News
Sex Ed the Alice Way: Four Tips for Keeping Your Teenage Daughter Boner-Free Welcome to Alice Column, in which Alice Laussade writes stories about things on (roughly) the same day of (roughly) every week, making it (roughly) a column. Got an idea for a column? Start your ... More >>
The Mixmaster
10:00 am
May. 21, 2013
Dallas Art News
This New Dead White Zombies Theater Project Takes Place in an Old Drug House (Video) T.N.B. preview from Thomas Riccio on Vimeo. Hellbent on keeping it left-of-center, Dead White Zombies leaked this teaser video for its new show T.N.B., which opens for previews at the end of the... More >>
The Mixmaster
9:00 am
May. 21, 2013
Dallas Art News
In Search of the Oak Cliff Art Scene's Best Bathroom Art (Photos) Saturday's Oak Cliff Visual Speedbump Tour was proof that decorative inspiration doesn't end with throw pillows. Not for 'Bump artists, anyway. Each home was such a vivid representation of its ow... More >>
The Mixmaster
8:00 am
May. 21, 2013
Dallas Art News
The Most Interesting Looks from 'til Midnight at the Nasher (Photos) When we see you on the street and think you put some thought into your style, we may take your picture and ask you things. See previous installations in the Street Style archive. It was a humid ... More >>
The Mixmaster
7:00 am
May. 21, 2013
Dallas Art News
An Arrested Development Drinking Game Not only are we, like we're sure you are, genuinely excited about the return of Arrested Development on May 26, we also have absolutely no idea what will happen. The family, those blowhards, could... More >>
The Mixmaster
6:00 am
May. 21, 2013
Dallas Art News
ArtLoveMagic's "Underground" Party is in a Basement but Doesn't Live Up to the Name Do-gooders and art promoters ArtLoveMagic held their annual art party in the basement of South Side on Lamar over the weekend. The heat and an overkill of art-centric activities conspired to kept... More >>

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Kind of a drag: <i>Priscilla Queen of the Desert</i> at DSM Kind of a drag: Priscilla Queen of the Desert at DSM

High camp: Mae West in a feather boa in She Done Him Wrong. Low camp: Jamie Farr in a dowdy dress on M*A*S*H. Camp adjacent: Every cock in a frock… More >>

Dallas Children's Theater Delivers a First-Class Version of <i>The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley</i> Dallas Children's Theater Delivers a First-Class Version of The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley

Count on Dallas Children's Theater to do more than just mail it in with The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, based on the popular kids' book by Jeff Brown. The… More >>

<i>Fela!</i> Shakes It (and You) at the Winspear Fela! Shakes It (and You) at the Winspear

Whole lotta twerking going on in Fela!, the Broadway musical whose national tour is now steaming up the Winspear Opera House. The dancing in this show is hotness on a… More >>

<i>Fly by Night</i>, the Dallas Theater Center&rsquo;s Dreamy New Musical, Sparkles at Kalita Fly by Night, the Dallas Theater Center’s Dreamy New Musical, Sparkles at Kalita

The Fates may finally have sprinkled stardust on Dallas Theater Center's artistic director, Kevin Moriarty. For years he's been trying to launch a new musical here, with the hope of… More >>

In T3&rsquo;s <i>Enron</i>, Chris Hury is Electric as Jeff Skilling In T3’s Enron, Chris Hury is Electric as Jeff Skilling

Why does it always feel like a fluke when Theatre Three does something as polished and well-acted as Enron? The play by Lucy Prebble is running now at the theater-in-the-round… More >>

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