Tonight, the Kessler Theater (1230 W. Davis St.) is presenting BedPost Confessions, “a fabulous and diverse group of sexy writers, readers, and actors with performances about sex, sensuality, and the steamy side of life.” “Fabulous and diverse?” We haven’t been to one of these shows before, but it sounds like…
As the song in Cabaret goes, what good is sitting alone in your room? Not when there’s a big, wide world out there where you can star in your own imaginary reality show. Shoot, you may already be in one. There are three new reality shows — CMT’s Texas Women,…
Tuesday I did Sunrise Yoga. It started at 6:15 a.m. which means I got out of bed at 5 a.m., which means I’m sleep-typing right now. It also means I might wander off and pee in your fridge so don’t forget to lock your doors. Sunrise Yoga was pretty awesome,…
After our inaugural MOBC meeting, or, rather live discussion in the comments, we looked back and felt pretty good. Unlike the vets over on Unfair Park, we were all fairly new to the live commenting scene, but once it began, the discussion was a flurry of replies, liked comments, expanded…
Buy a seat in one of the movable “pods” available at The Wiz, the musical Dallas Theater Center and Dallas Black Dance Theatre are doing together at the Wyly Theatre, and you’ll spend a good chunk of the show being rolled around by sweaty stagehands. It’s kind of fun wondering…
Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic books intended as an explicit work of patriotic, political propaganda: The cover of the first edition, available months before Pearl Harbor, famously featured the titular costume hero punching out Adolf…
Project Nim, James Marsh’s documentary biopic of the ’70s chimp picked to endure an “experiment” in simian sign language and general neglect, pulls human heartstrings as wrenchingly as any creature feature in nearly half a century. Following brown-eyed beauty Nim, by turns cuddly and ferocious, from an Oklahoma cage to…
Terri, directed by Azazel Jacobs, concerns an obese 15-year-old, a de facto orphan, living in a ramshackle home with a dispirited, perhaps mentally ill uncle for whom he has to care. Although a near-pariah at school, Terri — played by Jacob Wysocki in an impressive debut — is comfortable with…
In Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Nina (Li Bingbing) is a Shanghai career girl who drops plans to move to New York when she learns her estranged bestie, Sophie (Gianna Jun), is in a coma. Soon Nina discovers the manuscript of a novel that Sophie had been writing, which…
The man-eating plant is in on the joke in WaterTower Theatre’s production of the musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors. Everyone else onstage, however, seems to think they’re doing Threepenny Opera. This stage adaptation of a famously bad 1950s fright flick has a catchy doo-wop score and the amusing visuals…
Among the grim parables of Heinrich Hoffmann’s nineteenth century children’s book, Struwwelpeter, is the story of Harriet, a little girl who likes to stare at match flames because she thinks they look elegant. That is, until she accidentally sets herself on fire and burns alive in front of the family…
Some say beauty is fleeting, others say it’s in the eye of the beholder, but one thing will always be true: Titian’s “La Bella” is an awe-inspiring example of what beauty can be. One of the most celebrated Renaissance artists, Venetian painter Titian’s works have been revered for centuries, and…
If you’ve ever moved away from Texas — or just went on a really, really long vacation — there are certain images that come to mind when you think of the Lone Star State. Those idyllic countrysides speckled with longhorns or a dynamic sunset that turns the sky crazy shades…
Though we deal with time every day in the form of deadlines, appointments and alarm clocks, the passage of time can be difficult to visualize. From one point of view, that of geologic time, humanity’s time is less than a fraction of a blip. From another point of view, that…
Welcome back to another installment of our ongoing series Profiles In Pictures, where photographer Sara Kerens gives us another look inside the world of a local Dallas creative individual.This time around, we’re invited into the home and workshop of one Tony Barsotti. You may know the name from his past…
Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through hump day each week. As members of the Mixmasterati, we know that sometimes you want a bit more to your interactive experiences. Pointing, clicking and button mashing are always enjoyable, but…
Remember we told you about the movable pods of seats at the Wyly Theatre for Dallas Theater Center’s The Wiz? Sit in one of those high-priced sections — top ticket price in the pods is about $80 — and you get rolled around the stage about 15 times during the…
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. You don’t have to know everything about Shakespeare, the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation or…
Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection, a traveling exhibit from the Fenimore Art Museum of Cooperstown, New York, at the Dallas Museum of Art, gives a glimpse of the cultural, social and military traditions practiced by native tribes that roamed a borderless North America. The 111-piece collection includes…
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. Throwing food at actors is frowned upon at most theaters. But not all. The one…
If you picked up last week’s Dallas Observer, you may have noticed a little nod to what many consider to be the best movie of all time. The cover story is on a young Joey Daubin, a self-celebrated wunderkind and aspiring media mogul who’s amassing his own empire. Not…
Start the presses! It’s time for the Weekly Tease!This week’s sneak peek at the forthcoming print product’s cover is something of an eyeful. It might be easy to figure what this small piece is a part of, but who or what is at the other end of that laser-beam gaze?…
