Nigel Cooke lives only part-time in what most of us call reality. The rest of the time — well, let’s just say he falls down the rabbit hole. On the other end are characters and images and experiences that Cooke paints and sculpts. Cooke even refers to the figures in…
Name: Brandy Adams, 34 Occupation: Owner of W.A.A.S. Gallery Location: Dallas Contemporary Style Breakdown: “Anthropologie dress, the boots might be Steve Madden, Michael Kors purse, Gant glasses, vintage necklace, We Are All Stars jacket.” Influences: “I dress to express myself, I’m not following a particular fashion trend, mogul or starlet.”…
With her dark unibrow and shadow of upper lip fuzz, Dallas actress Elizabeth Evans looks eerily like the title character in the Ochre House’s latest production, Ex Voto: The Immaculate Conceptions of Frida Kahlo. Her resemblance to the iconic Kahlo isn’t why Ochre House founder and artistic director Matthew Posey…
Tags: Gay Video & Lesbian Movies, Logo: Fierce TV Sorry for the delay this week, punkins. Logo TV and my DVR are having a lover’s spat right now. I missed the first airing of Episode 5, and am just now catching up. Not that there’s too much to catch up…
A couple of weeks ago, our sister paper The OC Weekly, had the esteemed nerd-gasm-pleasure of reviewing the Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring in Concert. Damn you, OC. In addition to wanting to use our Ocarina of Time to get there, we were officially jealous of the…
Quilts have long been misunderstood. People have considered them craft, pretty blankets sewn by women with too much time on their hands. Although many quilts are quite beautiful, they are also incredibly powerful. Frontier women crafted them to shelter their families from the dangerous cold. Slaves created them as creative…
Co-writer/director Drake Doremus is a bit of a film fest vet, having had most if not all of his features and shorts premiere at festivals. Two in fact at Sundance — 2010’s Douchebag and his latest, Like Crazy. But it was Crazy that earned Doremus one of the highest honors…
After seeing this snapshot of Dolly Python’s lovely Gretchen Bell with the legendary Jean Paul Gaultier pop up on the store’s Facebook page, we had to call the store. Mixmaster: “Is he still there?” Dolly Python’s Brian Green, without so much as a pause: “No, he left about 15 minutes…
People stood outside on a mild November 5 evening lifting up signs, chanting. No, they weren’t there to express the struggle of the middle class, or to protest unfair, corporate America. These people were trying to get the crowd to eat their Paneer Tikka Rolls-a popular Indian dish. The Cotton…
From the no-surprise department, Dallas City Council voted unanimously yesterday to grant a developer special exceptions to a “No Commercial Signs” rule in the Arts District for a proposed high-rise development on Ross Avenue. Arguing that it was a matter of cultural development, and that the economic benefits for the…
Get a bunch of local musical theater stars together and there will be singing. Plus some gratuitous kissy-face, lots of hugs and a little gossip about who’s got what role where. Monday night at Kalita Humphreys Theater, dozens of DFW’s busiest professional actors mingled with family and friends at a…
Yesterday marked the Dallas Running Club’s 35th annual half marathon, better known simply as the DRC Half. One of the country’s oldest half marathons, the DRC’s signature 13.1 mile race was first organized in 1976, and this year literally thousands of runners, spectators and volunteers descended upon the trails at…
We are loving this photo from the weekend’s Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure. It wrapped up yesterday and participant (and regular Mixmaster contributor) Jenny Block tells us that after walking some 60 miles, she and her fellow walkers all took off one shoe and held it to the…
The Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, located in the Design District, hosted photographer Harvey Stein, who conducted a book signing for his fans this weekend. I sat with Stien at a large table surrounded by 12 photos featured in his book, Coney Island 40 Years. Stein started the project in…
You may have noticed over in our slide show section–we ate a lot of delicious, delicious things this weekend. The event was Diwali Mela, the Hindu festival of lights, at the Cotton Bowl. Oh, [squee!] and there was an elephant for the riding. So, we ate Kulfi and spicy chickpea…
Afterimage Photo Gallery is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the 40 Exceptional Photographs exhibit through Tuesday, November 15. Ben Breard opened the gallery in the fall of 1971, and while Afterimage initially catered to local photographers, it quickly expanded to represent nationally known photographers. Forty years is a long run,…
Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. this Saturday, which is only really important to those in the agricultural industry and college kids who know it means the bars are open for an extra hour. The only benefit we see is the extra hour of sleep we’ll get, which means…
Kristin Chenoweth, star of the upcoming GCB on ABC, was originally scheduled for a NasherSALON appearance on November 18. But filming a new television series means priority goes to, well, filming a new television series… Nasher Sculpture Center has sent word that to accommodate Chenoweth’s filming schedule, the event has…
“Oh, that sounds awesome! Let’s see that.” “It’s only open in New York and L.A.” “I guess we’ll just have to stay home and watch reruns of Hoarders all weekend. Lame.” Don’t let this happen to you. Again. Every Friday, Opening Credits will provide you with a peek at what’s…
Musical America thinks what’s been conducted is fantastic, but let’s be honest, it’s focusing on what’s going to be conducted and who will be waving a special Super Conductor baton for the next year. 2012, y’all. The performing arts news organization named Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Jaap van Zweden Conductor of…
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. Once again, Irving’s Lyric Stage has found gold in an old, rarely done American musical…
AIDS. Is it something to celebrate? Of course not. Is AIDS research and education? Yes. Is the attention paid to HIV and AIDS for three decades within the arts community something to applaud? Absolutely. In 1981, the CDC documented the first cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or what is most…
