When the West Texas town of Marfa saw that one of its major interstates had a giant, metal Playboy bunny logo trying to titillate anyone who drove by it, the town erupted into an angry orgy of outrage. They were shocked that New York artist Richard Phillips would dare to…
That battle for comedy dominance known as the Funniest Comic in Texas is about to get under way and the tributes have received their invitation to join the games. OK, so the annual comedy contest doesn’t have the excitement of a futuristic reality show in which teenagers slaughter each other…
Horror Remix Presents… ROAD RASH The sick, twisted minds behind Horror Remix, the hosts of the mini horror film festival that cut out everything but the good parts from cheesy ’70s and ’80s monster movies and slasher flicks, are bringing some very obscure biker flicks to the Alamo Drafthouse in…
Last week was a strange one for Tattooed Hippie Pirate Mommas founder Stacy Willingham. She was already getting a ton of publicity for the mom group she founded and the calendar she helped create to raise money for charity. It reached an interesting new level when we reported that the…
What’s the best way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of Japan’s greatest animated films? Seeing it on the big screen, of course. Duh. If you said something else like developing psychic powers to start a war in a dystopian metropolis, you’re setting the bar too high. The Alamo…
Just ask any of the regular performers at the Dallas Comedy House or any long-form improv comedy center and they’ll tell you that scenes come and go in their head as fast as the last night traffic on the U.S. 75 overpass that runs over Commerce Street (during non-rush hour…
One of the small and big screens’ biggest performers will be at the Alamo Drafthouse tonight to watch one of his most famous performances. Actor Richard Kiel, the 7-foot-2 actor who played the towering Jaws in a pair of James Bond films, will be live and in person at the…
Longview’s most famous leading man may have made a name for himself as Southern gentleman eye candy for the chick flick crowd, but he’s not just a piece of meat, damn it. Thanks to a Texas drawl that’s so thick that you could pour it on a stack of flapjacks,…
George Fuller and Maylee Thomas said their new concert space The Sanctuary is the result of a dream the two have had long before they first opened their music store in McKinney. They didn’t just want to build a stage where musicians could play. They wanted to create a place…
UPDATE, 2:40 p.m.: Dan Leal, the center’s executive director, emailed us this statement this afternoon: “The Children’s Advocacy Center for Denton County appreciated the generous offer made by the Tattooed Hippie Pirate Mommas organization; however, the money was raised with a pin up calendar that could be perceived by some…
Game demos, whether they are smaller affairs like Sunday’s Xbox One reveal at a Commerce Street warehouse or massive gang bangs of game industry PR, like the annual E3 conventions in Los Angeles, never seem satisfied to be able to assault the human senses with just video games. They are…
Game shows have been one of my addictions since my younger days when wearing sneakers with lights in the heels wasn’t a fashion a faux-pas and eating my weight in Halloween candy didn’t require a defibrillator. It all started at my late grandparents’ house back in the Uptown section of…
Come Halloween time, the fearless will drag their easily scared friends to one of any number of haunted house attractions to enjoy the adrenaline that the body produces when its fight or flight instincts kick in and makes them briefly wonder if they’ve lost control over their digestive systems. However,…
One of the biggest mush mouths of reality television, Duck Dynasty’s Tim “Mountain Man” Guraedy, is an air conditioning repairman who talks like an extra in every John Grisham book-turned-movie ever made. If you’re a fan of the show and Mountain Man, one of your dreams could come true this…
The “Before I Die” project allows communities all over the world to share some of their deepest, dearest and even darkest fears, thoughts and goals about their own mortality and the things they are doing before life catches up with them. University of North Texas music composition master’s student Robert…
The Dallas/Fort Worth music scene has an unusually strong subculture of tribute bands with an even more unorthodox subculture: dedicated tribute band fans. The bands themselves aren’t just background noise for private parties or corporate events or openers for bigger acts to keep the crowds entertained while the main talent…
Dylan Moran, the star of the British sitcom Black Books and actor in movies such as Shaun of the Dead, Notting Hill and Run, Fatboy, Run — and who is now writing a pilot for ABC — spoke to Mixmaster about what topics he plans to tackle when he takes…
This year marks the 75th anniversary of actor, director and noted healthy eater Orson Welles’ infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast. It famously led anxious Americans to believe that aliens were landing and sparked a height of panic and rioting that wouldn’t be seen again until Detroit’s last World…
Depending on your sense of humor and/or level of empathy, you might be amused to learn that a lot of the life and times of the tragic comic figure Karl Welzein, star of the @DadBoner Twitter feed and subject of the humorous journal novel Power Moves, comes from the real…
The North Texas tribute band Back in Black hopped on a plane to Canada last week to play a live performance in Alberta on Friday with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Mike Mroz, the band’s lead guitarist and Angus Young impersonator, Live Nation hooked them up with the 60-piece orchestra. “They…
The scene at First Unitarian Church of Dallas may have seem a little eerie for some rock show regulars, compared to the usual whiskey soaked, smoke filled concert halls their clogged respiratory systems are used to by now. It may have seem like an odd choice, but not for Annie…
Dallas/Fort Worth has served as the home base for a number of major sports championships over the years. Since it doesn’t look like we’re going to get another Super Bowl for awhile because Lord Jerry Jones tried to cram more people into the stadium the way Cinderella’s step sisters tried…
