Director’s Notes documents, from planning to performance, the challenges of local artist Katie Toohil as she mounted an original, independent theatrical dance production. The last two weeks of Grieve was one of the most intense times in my entire life. There remained so much to complete and I can’t say…
Name: Andi Harman, 20 Occupation: Blog editor for 35 Denton Location: Dallas Contemporary Style Breakdown: “The dress is from a thrift store in Brooklyn, actually, everything is from thrift stores.” Influences: “I am a student, so I want to be comfy but I also want to stand out. I like…
While people everywhere try to figure out how to run the fastest or eat the most, we’re trying to figure if we could take the GWR for the most slowly chewed bite or painstakingly styled hairdo. If those fail, we have memories of Sam Merten and Pete Freedman competing to…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. Theatre Three and its downstairs lair, Theatre Too, are on a John Bucchino kick. The…
Good thing it’s an Art Crawl, drunkie, because you won’t even need a DD to get to all of the fabulous events on Friday night in the Arts District. Besides, if you’re anything like us, “Lights, Camera, Bollywood” at the Crow will start to make a lot more sense after…
In comedy timing is everything, but it’s especially hard to nail the punch line when you don’t know exactly what your next line will be, which is why improvisational comedy is particularly difficult. But we’re guessing the six-man troupe of Four Day Weekend doesn’t have problems with comedic timing. The…
As life-or-death dramedy, The Descendants poses several important questions: Why has it taken Alexander Payne seven years to follow up on his critically beloved, box-office boffo, merlot-squelching Sideways? And what has blunted this gifted writer-director’s edge? Payne topped his debut feature, the provocatively obnoxious abortion comedy Citizen Ruth (1996), with…
November is early for valentines, but at Theatre Too love is in the air with It’s Only Life, a 30-song revue by composer John Bucchino. Performed by five attractive young singer-actors, accompanied lovingly on grand piano by Terry Dobson, the 100-minute show begins as a look into quirks of the…
The single advantage the awful Twilight movies have over Stephenie Meyer’s awful-but-gripping novels is that, unlike the books’ sad sack, movie Bella Swan is a spiky, populist heroine. On film, Kristen Stewart beautifully underplays (or, for all I know, overplays to the absolute peak of her abilities) Bella’s deadpan ordinariness,…
You may remember him from his aborted run for the 2008 Libertarian presidential nomination, from his fight-provoking confrontational 2004 Austin set when he followed the political bombast of Alex Jones or from the riots that occasionally ensue at his shows when he touches a particularly sensitive nerve in his audiences…
Each year, on the third Thursday of November, Beaujolais Nouveau, red wine from the Beaujolais region of France goes on sale. As part of a national Beaujolais celebration called Nouveau Expression, winemaker Georges Duboeuf is throwing “a party of the senses,” a food and wine tasting that takes place at…
All hail this hot-as-shit state called Texas. The upside of one million 100-plus-degree days is the sweet jeggings weather we get clear through fall. (Just as soon as I say that, we’ll have an ice storm with sleet and a chance of frozen solid.) But let’s go back to that…
Doing the seemingly impossible, Etsy Dallas improves upon the winter holidays by ensuring that the handmade fun comes twice per year with its biannual shopping parties in spring and fall. The “independent local craft collective” (inspired by, but unaffiliated with Etsy Inc.) announces this year’s fall Jingle Bash, a free…
Today, thanks to the ubiquitous nature of the cell phone, just about everyone has a video camera on hand. We document everything with it, from popular revolutions to playful kittens, but it was not that long ago that capturing live events took a lot more forethought and a great deal…
Many games require more skill and mental prowess than bingo, but we suspect nothing’s as entertaining as a game of chance that includes drag queens, costumed players and more attitude than your grandparents’ bingo tournament. GayBingo is wrapping up its 10th year as “the most outrageous game in town,” and…
We find this time of year a little dark. Yes, the world is wrapped in tinsel and has a festive soundtrack, but we are also trampling and getting trampled for discounted electronics. That strangeness can be found in the classic holiday ballet The Nutcracker, which itself is both beautiful and…
Taking a break from the holiday cooking can be tough, especially when the extended family has decided to pin your home as this year’s Thanksgiving hub. Sure, baking pumpkin pies and thawing out the turkey are weighing down your holiday to-do list, but what’s better than dropping those duties for…
Pink is a fun color. Pink is vibrant and bold. Some people like hot pink while others prefer tickle-me-pink. Light pink and dark pink are possible options too. But what happens when your passion for putting a pink pep in your step goes too far? Just ask Pinkalicious. When she…
While our favorite thing on ice is whiskey, we’re guessing most kids (hopefully) have a different opinion. Of course, we’re talking about Disney On Ice, which skates its way to Allen (the suburb squeezed between Plano and McKinney) in the form of Mickey & Minnie’s Magical Journey just in time…
When it comes down shaking up old traditions and busting down cultural barriers, nothing does it like ’60s haircuts and copious amounts of shimmying and twisting. The beloved musical Hairspray doesn’t pull punches when it comes to mixing up old-school pop and loads of hair products. It’s the story of…
No, Post Pop Punks at Cohn Drennan Contemporary isn’t a DIY concert in the Design District. Instead, the show is a group exhibition revolving around the passing of time and the movement of ideas between artists. While some of the nine artists in the exhibition are relatively new acquaintances, others…
The sucky thing about Snowpocalypse 2011 was that all of the Dallas area screeched to a halt for a few days. Sure, everything was nice and pretty outside, all covered in that rarity called snow, but it was next to impossible to go anywhere, much less do anything fun, so…
