You probably haven’t heard much about the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Yeah. That’s what we thought. Well, in honor of tonight’s lighting ceremony — taking place between 5:45 and 6:15 p.m.– we thought we’d spare the snark and, instead, talk shop here at the Mixmaster. Controversial from its inception, Dallas’…

The Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas invites you to “Eat Your Art Out” on January 28 during its Mystery Destination Dinner. As the name would suggest, you will receive a surreptitious phone call on January 26, directing you to the yet-untold event location. You’ll have a cocktail – maybe an…

Rural Texas towns tend to have unusual names; it is a well-worn trope. You seen the Eiffel Tower (replete with its own cowboy hat)? Need to get ahold of somebody in Telephone, Telegraph or Dial? They’re locked and loaded in Gun Barrel City and Cut And Shoot. We could do…

Hey hipster. Stop shooting shit with your iPhone and pretending you’re artistic. We’re over it — you and your incessant snapshots of your carefully laid out “best moment ever” scenario, replete with a “Toaster” or “Kelvin” filter. You too, Crafty Moms. Your baby isn’t any cuter in black and white…

Kick off three eclectic new exhibitions at Conduit Gallery on Saturday with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m., showcasing work by North Texas natives Steven J. Miller and Edward Ruiz and Arizona artist John Randall Nelson, three Southwestern artists whose respective styles draw inspiration from European, Asian and…

Long erroneously depicted by Westerners as “evil,” the dragon is the metaphorical epitome of imperial authority, a symbol of good luck whose motto in the Chinese horoscope is “I reign.” This month, The Association of Oriental Arts at the Irving Arts Center asks you to channel your inner serpent at…

On a rare day off recently, I was approached while in the philosophy section at Half Price Books by a gentleman who, very obviously, intended to garner my attention by any means necessary. I’d scoured the tiny u-shaped pen for what seemed like a half hour, trying desperately to locate…

If anything can be said for the news cycle over the last few days, it’s that there has been a conspicuous dearth of 2012 doomsday coverage. It’s almost New Year’s – are we not doing this Mayan calendar thing anymore? Oh, right. Well, even if Mesoamerican eschatology is no longer…

Working primarily in red conté that provides her sketches with a distinct earthen hue reminiscent of sepia photographs, Anne C. Weary brings Californian topography back home in her collection, Where the Pacific Meets the Cliffs at Torrey Pines, on exhibition at Valley House Gallery through January 7. Typically spending six…

If you’re not up on your mid-20th century French philosophy, you could read Roland Barthes’ dense semiotics essay “Rhetoric of the Image” to better understand the nature of image-based thought in communication or you could instead visit Gary Bishop’s exhibition Language … Images and Text at Kirk Hopper Fine Art…

People keep telling me that Christmas is a religious holiday, but judging by the sheer number of commandments broken in the following seasonal pop hits, I’m starting to suspect that Jim Schutze’s assessment of the Park Cities’ celebrating “Baptist Vegas Saturnalia” extends far outside of north Dallas. These lyrics read…

You forgot. And, even if you didn’t, you’re a self-important ass who has already cashed in all of your good will by referring that time to your spouse as the bang maid. You need to go big, and here’s a way to pad that present for your favorite innamorata. Which,…

“The biggest dick in the world … and not in a good way,” says Kevin Rubén Jacobs, of the eponymous gallery owner. Jacobs is laughing before he even finishes the sentence. The truth is, “Oliver Francis” may or may not be a figment of Jacobs’ brilliantly diabolical imagination. Or, he…

Though I am not particularly religious, I can’t say that atheism, as a “movement,” means all that much to me; it is simply not my battle. However, as a lover of words, etymology, elegant syntax, the Oxford comma, philosophy, journalism, trenchant logic, audacity and the “writer mystique,” I cannot help…

Ask a local the best vantage point for viewing the Dallas skyline and chances are you won’t get a single answer. Increasingly colorful, but not like a gauche, glittering Las Vegas, the cityscape is more vertical than horizontal and naturally lends itself to the eye of Austin-based painter David Leonard,…

If you’re the type who puked a little at the idea of a Rick Perry Prayerapalooza, then Earth Rhythms’ 19th annual interfaith Winter SolstiCelebration may be right up your alley this holiday season. Not a religious ceremony so much as a collaborative spiritual event, the two-day celebration blends creative activity…

So, the Wilson Brothers, of Bottlerocket fame, have a fantastically talented Wilson Mother whose photography of Dallas architecture is on exhibition at the One Arts Plaza office building lobby through Wednesday.. Update 3:38 p.m.: It has been extended “through January 12, 2012” as the just-in press release indicates. Photographer and…

We don’t like to be gushing ass-kissers, but Jesse Manley’s the real deal. His poems get us tingly and anxious and thinking about our exes which means that his writing hits us in weird, deeply-repressed emotional soft spots. He’s a writer who understands economy, and his succinct – seemingly harmless…

Origin magazine’s going national, and they’re breaking the metaphorical bottle of Champagne tonight at the Crow Collection of Asian Art. Encompassing the magazine’s commitment to oneness and cultural integration, the evening will begin with a round-robin yoga class from 6:30 until 8 before popping the real bubbly to kick off…