When was the last time you were scared out of your pants? Was it watching a horror film, or something more terrifying like an episode of Hannah Montana? Dun dun dun. Well, if you’re looking to get spooked, look no further than Screams Halloween Theme Park. Admission to Screams is…
Really? There are still kids today who would enjoy posing in a version of Cinderella’s magically transformed carriage? Thought they’d all be busy killing things in Gears of War 3. Amazing what we don’t know about children (damn restraining order). If your little princess — or prince, we’re not judging…
Above, one of the most innovative commercials to grace the small screen — and, what is possibly our favorite commercial ever. It’s especially appropriate, since he gave us products that quite literally changed our lives. The mastermind behind Apple will be remembered by generations for his innovation and inspiration. Rest…
One day, the light bulb comes on above your head. You have a great idea for … something, anything. Cargo pants, maybe. Or sliced bread. The world needs your innovation, but how do you let the planet know about it? A dozen contestants at the TEDxSMU speaker auditions taking place…
I subscribe to lots of blogs but read very few on a regular basis. Except PostSecret, the blog featuring people’s deepest secrets, written on postcards — many works of art — and submitted anonymously. Every Sunday, founder Frank Warren posts 20 secrets, chosen from among the thousand or so he…
Ahoy! Now that this year’s big Best Of Dallas issue is behind us, we’re back with another installment of Profiles In Pictures. This time photographer Sara Kerens pulls back the tiny curtain and shows us where the make-believe comes to life with puppetry artist Kathy Burks. Take another look into the world of…
The show is set in New York in the ’50s. The original Broadway production was in 1957. But sitting in the Music Hall at Fair Park last night, I felt sad at how much the heart of West Side Story still rings true today. Sure, you don’t find many gangs…
There is no body of water immune to the fear from Jaws. Any lake, any pond, any tepid street puddle is a possible place to swim and be eaten by a large, meat-hungry shark. I’d even bet there’s literally no swimming human on Earth that doesn’t, at some point, imagine…
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. If you’re worried about hearing all of Shakespeare’s timeless poetry in an outdoor production of…
So long, Mr. Spock. Actor Leonard Nimoy has appeared at his final Star Trek convention. Nimoy announced his departure at Star Trek’s 45th anniversary celebration in Chicago over the weekend, says the Chicago Sun Times. Nimoy, revered by the Trekkie tribe as the original Spock, was the highlight of the…
We’re watching Bravo’s Most Eligible Dallas every week so you don’t have to. Scene 1: Courtney’s at home, hangin’ in her boudoir (which apparently hasn’t featured new wall decorations since elementary school), chatting with Matty on the phone about her bad mood at the Granada concert (from Episode 6). He…
Poltergeist is the first horror film I can recall seeing as a wee lad, and for that, it will always hold a special and terrifying place in my heart. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a cool October night at grandma’s house. The whole family was crowded…
In “Fall,” part of a series, not surprisingly titled “The Seasons,” Olga Polunin personifies the season as a beautiful, young, Asian woman. She is bare breasted and the composition ends just beneath them, reminiscent of any number of European paintings, in particular the School of Fontainebleau piece “Gabrielle d’Estrées and…
Underrated. Underrated. Underrated. In 1981 Student Bodies took the horror movie genre to task for punishing happy, healthy, sex- and fun-having kids. The movie rips off the opening sequences, music and “the call is coming from…” ploys for one of the best and most disgusting horror parodies around. Filmed in…
In Machine Gun Preacher (out in Dallas now), Gerard Butler plays real life ruffian biker turned gun-toating man of faith, Sam Childers. After a life of crime and drug/alcohol addiction, Childers and his wife (played by Michelle Monaghan) take up the cross in place of the bottle, the needle and…
“My grandma is the woman.”…
I always hear people say there’s nothing to do in Dallas: “Dallas is so boring.” “Dallas? More like Dull-as.” “I think I’ll rip out my toenails with pliers just for a little excitement in Dallas.” OK, fine, that’s a bit much, but I hear what you’re saying, people. It’s just…
Yesterday, James Wallace kicked off Mixmaster’s horror movie countdown with the stupendous slasher-flick Halloween. James mentioned that Halloween’s impact has made it so he can’t remember the exact first time he’d seen the film, but he can always remember the recent viewng. Everyone remembers Antichrist. Whether it’s the first viewing…
Halloween (1978) Most lists about the best All Hallow’s Eve-themed movies, or just the greatest Horror flicks of all time in general, finish it off with John Carpenter’s 1978 masterpiece of macabre but we’re starting this killer list out in style and taking a stab at giving you 31 days…
For our first Bossypants assignment, we were to have read the first “half” of the book (remember, we admitted we had issues with math, and adding in the intro and all that gets so confusing). Simply put, the plan was to read right on up to “A Childhood Dream, Realized.”…
It’s now. It’s live. It’s happening. We want the innovators, the community climate changers, the artists who see, make, and do like no one else. And, well, since you artistic types are already in the spirit of entering things, we figured you wouldn’t mind our online registration form and the…
This weekend is shaping up to be a pretty damn good one. You can eat yourself, laugh yourself and scare yourself silly Friday and Saturday and then walk it all off on Sunday in time for another manic Monday. And, sure, the heat came back for a bit. But with…
