When Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess premiered at the Oak Cliff Film Festival, Texas Theatre paired it with a lobby chess battle: a tiny war waged and fought by humans. For its theatrical release weekend, they’ll hit the return key with “Texas Theatre Speed Chess Tournament: Man vs. Machine,” a series…
Things are getting pretty crazy in Dallas’ art scene. Museums are handing keys over to inspired and innovative artists; houses are converting into galleries; one-off group and solo exhibitions are popping up in vacant Deep Ellum properties; and artists are adopting multiple roles as curators, musicians and publishers. We want…
David Lowery’s newest film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints formally opens in Dallas Friday at the Magnolia, but many locals have already caught a viewing — either through a leaked screener or June’s surprise Oak Cliff Film Festival airing. Even if you haven’t, let me assure you: Lowery’s gritty love story…
It’s following has grown so large that Oral Fixation, Dallas’ only night dedicated to true stories, sells each show out in advance. From an intimacy standpoint, that’s been nice. Those with the foresight to plan ahead and reserve their seats get an evening of memoirs, shared in a small room…
Last year Good Magazine rolled through town and dared Dallas visionaries to improve the city they inhabit. Improve they did, and one of those teams hellbent on doing such improving was GO Dallas, which focused its efforts on transforming urban trails to better Dallas’ collective quality of life. (For example:…
This weekend the Europa Expo came to the Dallas Convention Center, and we went in and weeded through all the whey isolates and CrossFit challenges to find the weirdest things to report back to you. Here are the top five things that made us go, “What?” Megatron World Wrestling Championship…
The New York Times Magazine featured the art collection of Dallas’ Joule Hotel in a recent June spread, calling the boutique lodging an “art destination to rival its neighbors in the nearby Arts District.” Bold words? Certainly. But Joule, it seems, isn’t interested in going toe-to-toe with its neighbors. Instead,…
She’s known as much for her rebel rousing as her art work, so we’re excited to learn about Black & Blue: Cultural Oasis in the Hills, Vicki Meek’s Nasher XChange contribution. Meek is the only local artist creating a solo work for the series, which runs from October 19, 2013…
Denton’s historic Wright Opera House went on the market yesterday, with a whopping $2,699,000 dollar price tag. The lavender accented building is more than a city landmark and town square anchor, it’s home to Recycled Books and Records, a beloved temple for all things analog. Naturally, folks didn’t take kindly…
Texans flipped for last year’s Chinese Lantern Festival, which occupied Fair Park’s lagoon after the midway’s close and into the New Year. Well, great news: Not only is the festival back for 2013, but it’s developed 17 new scenes — making 24 total — and one of the recently constructed…
Both the DMA and Nasher offer free admission and extended hours tonight, so there’s already a cheapskate incentive to pop over for a visit. But here’s what you may not know: These spots don’t skimp on the frills. They’ve organized a full night of can’t-be-missed events, which is why Late…
TCU started its rush week on August 10 and many other Texas universities are about to follow suit. If you’re a GDI (goddamm independent) wondering what it takes to make it into the sacred sisterhood we’ve rounded up a few things you need to know. For best results, start preparing…
WARNING: The following post contains an excess of the Food and Drug Administration’s daily recommended allowance of vegetable puns. Since this story is about a vegetable rally and I’m still buzzing about Jason Jones’ hilarious story about a California raisin farm “raisin” some hell with the government on the Daily…
Shake out your matching cowboy outfits: The Nasher shows The Three Amigos for free in it’s beautiful courtyard on Friday. But that’s not all. No way. There’s a bodybuilding expo, complete with MMA bouts and a massive arm wrestling competition — an event perfectly counterbalanced by Thursday’s thumb wrestling battle…
The first thing you see in David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, after the IFC logo, are the words, “This was all in Texas.” What observant viewers will notice in the end credits, though, is that, for a movie set in Texas, a lot of it was made elsewhere, specifically…
Now that Alamo Drafthouse has opened its Richardson location, here at Mixmaster we were curious: After all the hype and popularity Alamo enjoys, how does it measure up? So they chose me, a humble Louisianan who has no bias toward (and until recently not even knowledge of) Alamo, to investigate…
Despite the giddy, gory ridiculousness of Kick-Ass 2, this summer’s most violent yet least punishing comic-book movie, there’s a kernel of ugly human truth at the core of the Kick-Ass fantasy. In the first issue of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s Kick-Ass comic, from 2008, a lonely high school…
Hey, Hollywood can still do romance! Ever since the marketeers worked out that the kiss kiss bang bang formula could be profitably split, with bang bang movies getting wide releases and the kiss kisses sold only to that slim niche demographic called “American women,” movie love stories had gotten frustratingly…
Like so many screenplays, The World’s End has its origins in a Starbucks. As director Edgar Wright tells it, the ideas for next week’s sci-fi action-comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost came to him while shooting the trio’s last film, the buddy-cop parody Hot Fuzz. That film takes place…
Until 2005 or so, no one thought much about modern piracy of the high-seas variety. But then Somali pirates began attacking merchant ships with increasing frequency, seizing vessels and holding their crews hostage for outlandish sums. Danish director Tobias Lindholm’s wiry, neatly crafted thriller A Hijacking wrests fact into the…
No matter how literary you are, we could all stand to be more well-read. Helping out with that is The Dallas Morning News, which hosts its seventh annual Points Book Club. For the first time, it features a Dallas-based author. Up for discussion is Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, the…
RO2’s Downtown space could barely house the last public offering of “Pizzicato Porno,” a new piece of dance and performance by Justin Locklear and Danielle Georgiou. It wasn’t the gallery’s fault; only so many giant weather balloons, video art projections, pieces of DJ gear, sweaty convulsing bodies and eager audience…
