The Tiny Fuppets website describes the creatures as “so small, they could only be friends!” The strange mistranslations are part of the charm of this new animated series from Scott Gairdner (a member of the Funny or Die team and creator of the brilliant Scott Meets Family Circus). So, they’re…
We were all saddened when we learned that community philanthropist and arts patron Charles Wyly had been killed in a car accident on Sunday morning in Colorado, and we here at Mixmaster send our condolences to the Wyly family. Robert has the details of Wyly’s passing and initial reactions from…
If you find yourself in the Hotel InterContinental up north this week and hear a bizarre, intermittent rattle coming from the second-floor ballroom, worry not. It’s not a rattlesnake handlers’ convention. It’s just the world’s best Scrabble players shaking for Qs and Us. That’s right: There’s a national championship of…
People packed into The Kessler this past Saturday for Hotter Than Hell Burlesque, but it wasn’t just the scorching temperatures that made it a night that was truly hotter than hell. After the jump, read about a performance from a 67-year-old dancer and see photos from the burlesque show…
This is a moment when the phrase “it seemed like a good idea in theory” rears its ugly head. At first glance, this seems like an over-the-top couture dress, but upon further investigation, you realize that the shiny material is actually rubber. Yeah, it’s an effing balloon dress. Since Thelma…
“I remember when cotton candy was twenty-five cents,” my dad said as I shelled out $12.00 for a bag at the AA Center for the circus, Barnum and Bailey’s show, Barnum 200: Barnum’s FUNundrum. “We’re going to need another bag,” my daughter said as I handed her the puffed-up bag…
Marshall Barnes can make stuff go faster than it should, in warp drive, in fact. Sounds insane, I know. But apparently it’s true, and he was Dallas to talk about his discovery and all of the current electromagnetic field research at the 14th International Mars Society Conference this past weekend…
“I don’t understand the divide between men’s and women’s clothes…” Location: VICE magazine party at the Double Wide Name: Fred Holston Occupation: Creative and Social Media at Independent Artists Agency Influences: Keith Richards, Patti Smith, Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale and glamorous old ladies. Style Breakdown: Versace boots circa 1992,…
The actor’s nightmare is to step onstage and suddenly realize he’s in a show he’s never rehearsed, with everyone looking to him to say the next line. The producer’s nightmare is to get a call from an actor in a leading role saying he’s unable to get to the theater…
Planking is so two weeks ago. Now it’s owling. Looky here if you haven’t been paying attention to the meme of the moment. For us, though, owling will always mean making a big-eyed bird of prey out of macramé, string art or cheap ceramic. Decorative owls were perched in lots…
While not generally regarded as a big science city, Dallas is, however, a hotbed of entrepreneurial innovation, and behind every big business swarms a bevy of nerds, locked away in laboratories churning out prolific data. Should you find your interest piqued through a rare spotting out-of-doors, track down a Mad…
Remember those Sundays you spent as a kid thumbing through the Sunday paper, looking at the latest Calvin and Hobbes? Comic strips aren’t filling up the pages of the paper like they used to, but they’re still out there on this newfangled thing we call the internet and popular with…
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. The man-eating plant is in on the joke in WaterTower Theatre’s production of the musical…
The Dallas CityScape LEGO exhibit has returned, this time at the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science, where they are raising cash for East Dallas Community Schools, a nonprofit school, and just debuted a new addition to the CityScape collection, a scale model of the yet-to-be-completed Perot Museum of Nature…
The woman stood in the back of the theater, watching a porno flicker across the screen. Disgusted, she walked backed to her dressing room to pack her costumes. She confronted the manager in his office. “I’m not following that,” she spat, referring to the porno. “I want my money.” She…
This week’s cover story on one incarcerated Don Hardge focuses on the weapon of choice he fired into a crowd of Oak Cliff teenagers on what turned into a violent evening back in 2008. You can read all about the local tragedy here.Handling the tragic tale of one kid’s irresponsible action…
The latest descendant of the half-century old de-evolution concept that began with Pierre Boulle’s novel, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is an origin story. Predicting an ape-supremacist future, Rupert Wyatt’s film is set in a contemporary America so preoccupied with the Chinese and the coming Singularity that it’s…
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. The stage version of the 1982 Blake Edwards movie Victor/Victoria takes what was a B-level…
This morning I got an alert from Google telling me I was mentioned somewhere on the Internet. Naturally, I clicked on the link so I could read what nice or horrifying things were said. In this case, it was an article posted by my pal Russ Fischer over at /Film…
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. The 1961 musical How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying is like Mad Men…
Director’s Notes documents, from planning to performance, the challenges of local artist Katie Toohil as she mounts an original, independent theatrical dance production. Shortly after I decided to go forward with this Grieve project, a nagging question poked its head to the surface: “Will anyone want to dance in this…
We get it, OK? We live here too, and we know what’s going on. We’re not even going to mention what everyone keeps talking about. So, by all means keep updating your Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter (and giving us reason to drink), but ask yourself this: Is your bitching going…
