They wield trash cans, sling chairs and toss two-by-fours. They have names like Nasty Boy and Tiny Terminator. They’re midget wrestlers. The Extreme Midget Wrestling Foundation is putting on The Baddest Little Show on Earth Saturday night at the Turkey Creek Bar & Grill in Alvarado. Like their taller, over-muscled,…
Besides having more than one plate of fried chicken skin at the State Fair of Texas, there are some good scares in Dallas for Halloween. The events range from family-friendly strolls through autumnal gardens to holy-shit-that-zombie’s-gonna-eat-me scary. Luckily, we’ve culled those events in one happy place for you over in…
Last night brought us the premiere of The A-List Dallas on the gay-centric network Logo. It’s the new edition of a franchise that began in New York City and follows the lives of five gay men and one straight woman in the same social circle. And, unlike its distant second…
Irritation and pity are not the expressions I imagined a shark would wear upon being captured or killed. But that seems like precisely the expression it has in Dallas and Union Valley, Texas artist Pamela Henderson’s piece “One of Eight part of the series Ellipsis and Hatchet Acrylic.”Three people, presumably…
Thus far, we’ve featured films from Carpenter, Craven, Cronenberg, Hooper and other masters of Horror but no month-long celebration of all that is scare-tastic would be complete without one name synonymous with the genre: Raimi. The Evil Dead trilogy’s impact and influence is immeasurable (spoiler alert: so much so that…
Outside of Murray Street Coffee Shop in Deep Ellum a neon spray painted mannequin sits, chained to the base of a tree. Aurora is spelled out across her chest and right leg in stickers, and a presumably once legible date sits across her upper abdomen. There’s a QR code smack-dad…
[Editor’s note: This post is best when read with the music from the haunted house’s website playing in the background.] A nimble devil beat-boxes from behind a fiery face at the Ross Avenue entrance gates while another cloaked in red busts hinge-jointed moves that would make Michael Jackson proud and…
When I heard the Women’s Museum was closing, I felt a deep sense of…culpability. It was one of those places I always intended to go. I went when it opened, and possibly once more (or possibly not), but never again. Even when it had an exhibit of Annie Leibovitz photos,…
While in town promoting another film, Gerard Butler gave us a little preview of his character in Movie 43 — a feature film comprised of various comedic shorts directed by Brett Ratner, Peter Farrelly, James Gunn, Elizabeth Banks, Bob Odenkirk and other Hollywood heavy hitters of comedy. The film features…
Peter Jackson’s 1992 zombified gora-a-thon has been called the “goriest fright film of all time.” Look, it says so right there on the poster. But that’s really not much of a stretch. Dead Alive (originally called Braindead) may have been shot in the Land of the Long White Cloud, but…
Dear David Cronenberg, You permanently re-wired me. Not sure if it was the scene when Jeff Goldblum, who becomes a massive, bipedal fly, dissolves a man’s hand with battery-acid vomit, or the scene where the baboon blows up from the inside-out, but I’m permanently fucked. Toodles, Young Nick. David Cronenberg…
Hey, you. Yes, you. We know you know a MasterMind. Have you nominated them yet? We need you to tell us about innovative, cultural landscape-paving Dallas-based artists — those in dance, theater, performance art, visual arts and more. Why? Well, we want to recognize them (in print and at our…
Before doth protests, we are well aware that this is an arts and culture blog, therefore a post lauding so-called rejected political campaign ideas shouldn’t be seen here, right? Well, in the spirit of democratic debate, YOU ARE WRONG!How so? Allow us to rebut: These are not real.The REAL story,…
It may be a little too clot with blood now to see — given the less than killer fourth sequel this year and the countless copycat films in the years prior — but Scream was pretty groundbreaking for the horror genre upon its release in 1996. Heavily influenced by films…
Well, folks, it’s that wonderful time of the year when hoards of college football fans invade our fair city, and chances are a bunch of those fans will be tossed into a cab outside a bar in Uptown, which isn’t as bad as spending the entire weekend in the Lou…
Art Con 7 Artist Lottery from Erica Felicella on Vimeo. Exciting news for those waiting for the big yes or no. Mixmaster received this dispatch from Art Conspirators just moments ago: We the Conspiracy are hard at work sorting artist submissions. Our mainframe is spitting out numbers using the latest…
Name: Heather Clark, 25 Occupation: Graphic Designer Location: Meddlesome Moth Style breakdown: “My shirt is from Anthropologie, tank top is from Target, pants and shoes are from Urban Outfitters. I have no idea where I got my socks but I’m glad they match, the necklace is my mom’s and the…
I credit two people for introducing me to the wonderful world of Dario Argento and to both of them I’ll be eternally grateful. I love a good gorefest, but I especially love an artful one — one that entails vivid colors, ballet (an almost career choice) and the music of…
Today, there’s a flurry of Steve Jobs-related Tweets and news posts and mournful consumer images. For some it’s quickly reaching the point of saturation, while others are posting tributes on the steps of Apple stores around the world (our sister paper is talking the Foxconn factory suicides in a must-read…
We’re back here with another installment of our local comedy series, First Times Are Funny. This time around we’ve put local Andy Franklin on the hotseat — partly in anticipation of tonight’s Stand-Upish Evening with Franklin, Jude Sutton and Dante Martinez at the Dallas Comedy House, and partly because we…
It was all cowboy boots and even a few hats at last night’s Avant Garde Society event “Art Y’all” at the Nasher Sculpture Center. White lights were strung through the trees; the Josh Weathers Band played Texas tunes; and the Center’s own Nasher Café by Wolfgang Puck put out an…
If there’s anyone we’d like to see be funny for a continuous 48 hours, it’s Dallas actor and improv comic Jeff Swearingen. He’s a funny guy on and off a stage, but especially on. And starting at 8 p.m., Friday, October 7, he’s going to try to be funny and…
