The world is a hostile place. We know it to be true of human beings, but it’s also true of the entire animal kingdom. And sometimes it takes a tragedy or devastating natural event for us to work together. Soul Rep Theatre Company’s new show, Hostile Holiday, is about the…
Among all the brassy Broadway numbers, loud and glitzy productions, and over-the-top musicals, there’s this little gem of a sleeper that eschews the usual bombast and goes straight to the heartstrings. Once is the quietest of Broadway hits, enlisting an ensemble of musicians playing their own instruments on stage to…
Thank God for the French and poor white Southerners. In this politically correct age, marginalized groups can get mighty huffy about stereotyping, even if it’s sort of good-natured and just for laughs. Seriously, just try to put on a traditional minstrel show and see what happens (really seriously, do NOT…
It’s highly possible you’ve seen the French idiom: entre chien et loup. It rougly translates to Between Dog and Wolf, inspiring the name for artist Danny Williams exhibition at Barry Whistler Gallery (2909-B Canton St.). It refers to the way dusk can obscure the outline of a friendly dog to…
Barney has played an influential role in the lives of Americans. Not the big purple dinosaur or Neil Patrick Harris’s character from How I Met Your Mother. No, no. We’re referring to the dog of Former President George W. Bush. Yes, dog, cats, birds, and any and all critters have…
Lauren Woods’ art can be difficult to pin down. In medium, she’s all over the place, her work is varied, but very interconnected. Combine her dynamism as a conceptual artist with the track record of Zhulong Gallery (1302 Dragon St.), and this is an exhibition you’ll want to catch. In…
We love our e-readers because they are convenient and because we’re never stuck without reading material while delayed in a waiting room, carpool line, or lame conference call. But despite the convenience of the digital versions, we’ll never give up our paper tomes. We love the smell of crisp new…
BY INKOO KANG Despite its sumptuous displays of feudal opulence — cavalries, silk gowns, all the naked female extras money can buy — Netflix’s Marco Polo feels distinctly like scraps. Turgid, fatuous and humorless, the streaming site’s newest series is a grave miscalculation of what has made Game of Thrones,…
Confession: Billy Collins is the reason I’m a writer. As a community college student, I once met him during a poetry workshop my English 101 professor had organized. It was inspiring. His poetry is straightforward in its language, with beautifully precise revelations. There were no snooty sonnets or obscure, hundred-dollar…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Oak Cliff native Stefan González has been honing his craft since grade school. The now 29-year-old auditory adept has pushed his skills, into a Bermuda Triangle of emotional experimentation. While most commonly associated as one-third…
Between Dog and Wolf It’s highly possible you’ve seen the French idiom: entre chien et loup. It roughly translates to Between Dog and Wolf, inspiring the name for artist Danny Williams exhibition at Barry Whistler Gallery (2909-B Canton St.). It refers to the way dusk can obscure the outline of…
We begin this week’s Voice Film Club podcast with a Thomas Pynchon story, before hosts Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, and Amy Nicholson of LA Weekly, move onto Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie adaption of his novel, Inherent Vice. It’s “in some ways a godawful mess, indulgent…
It wasn’t that long ago that the world’s focus was on our little corner of the globe thanks to a retail cutie named “Alex From Target.” Don’t know who that is? Good for you. The important thing is this: He’s from Frisco and became inexplicably famous enough to appear on…
These days, video games aren’t a social experience. Sure you can talk to people online while you play with or against them but a true social experience requires proximity. Usually, you’re dealing with people who don’t have good microphones that pick up everything but their own voice, or you end…
‘Tis the season to shop local and shop well. Just don’t buy your gifts at Walmart, capiche?…
Here on Mixmaster it’s not often enough that we embrace our girly side. As your friendly neighborhood culture editor, I nerd out about art openings, must-see plays, and classical music on the daily, but it’s far too rare that I bring you news of places to do your hair, or…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Heyd Fontenot is the director of CentralTrak, the artists’ residency for the University of Texas at Dallas. He curates all of the shows in the gallery and manages CentralTrak’s gaggle of residents, which makes him…
Remember last week when we told you of Dave Chappelle’s sneak attack show announcement? By the time we got wind of it and blew it down to you (don’t overthink the metaphor), tickets were already in limited quantity. I imagine you dashing from our Web site to livenation.com, only to…
I’m not sure anything more needs to be said. Last time the tickets went on sale, they were gone in a matter of hours. This South Park-based, Tony Award-winning hit musical keeps audiences laughing from beginning to end with its story of two Mormon missionaries who head to Africa on…
Holiday music is easily one of the best parts of the season. Even if you haven’t darkened the door of a church in decades, there’s still something stirring about those old Christmas carols that you grew up on. You know that you still get a little teary-eyed whenever “Little Drummer…
When I reached out to Katherine Bourne, one of the key organizers of Shakespeare in the Bar, she mentioned in passing that one of their actors is sick and they’re trying to decide whether to have a sock puppet or an audience member fill the role. I voted sock puppet…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. He’s young, but he’s already got the critics raving. Adam A. Anderson is one of the rising talents in the Dallas theater world. He’s won the DFW Theater Critics Forum Award for best actor and…
