Dr. Loïs Mailou Jones (1905-1998) was a painter, textile designer, teacher, basketball coach, piano player, and total badass. She made art well into her 90s, traveled all over the world, lived in Paris, traveled extensively through Haiti and Africa, married a fellow artist (in 1952, when she was 47), all…
Onlookers watched as June Covington sat on a short stool and fed a fluffy white mass of silk into the spinning wheel, where it was spun into a neat thread of yarn. No, she wasn’t in colonial Williamsburg. Over the weekend, Etsy Dallas– a collaborative of talented Dallas craft makers…
Yeah, OK. Now I’ve seen Bill Cunningham New York, too. And yeah, it’s cool, passionate and compassionate. Anyone who can’t find something to love about the movie and the man is a bad person. A very bad person. Bill Cunningham is a cool guy. Charming. He’s certainly passionate about his…
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. Intrigued by the title — Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party — I booked a…
You don’t have to look at the downtown skyline to know that theater community in Dallas has grown over the past decade, but what’s in store for theaters in an environment of budget cuts and a decline in major donations? D Magazine is addressing these issues and more in an…
Sarah Dee, 26. Door Girl at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios. “I got my scarf and high-waisted jeans from a thrift store, my shoes are from Target, and I’m wearing my boyfriend’s watch. I’m inspired by the ’70s and hippie culture. I guess I would describe my style as Bohemian-meets-sleek-rocker.”…
Summer’s in full swing, and with it comes two things: Weather so intense it hurts to stand outside, and an insatiable itch to have adventures far away from the cubicle. Lucky for you there’s a way to stay cool while releasing your inner science nerd/aviation buff/culture vulture to explore and…
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. For Shooting Star, the two-person play now running at WaterTower Theatre in Addison, playwright Steven…
You’ve got to love weekends like this. There’s a book festival in the Arts District, a craft festival in Oak Cliff and a tattoo extravaganza where some ink virgin is sure to get a Chinese character stamped on her back, only to find out weeks later it doesn’t translate to…
A couple of things you’ll likely need for the non-stop improv Megaphone Marathon at the Dallas Comedy House on Saturday: a brain full of suggestions and some sort of cheek cream to soothe your laugh-aching face bones. It’s going to be a shotgun blast of good comedy: 19 acts from…
With Father’s Day poking its head around the corner, scrambling to find that gift that fits Dad perfectly comes with lots of pressure. Don’t be that ungrateful kid rushing to snag a Home Depot gift card at the last minute; Dad hates it when you drive recklessly anyway. No, just…
If you spend any time in Twitterville, you’ve probably read puh-lenty on Bill Cunningham New York, the documentary about a beloved New York Times photographer who captures people going stylishly about their business for “On the Street with Bill Cunningham.” The movie opened in March and now everyone who has…
This may be the week of big-budget musicals in Dallas theaters, but a 45-minute play with a $900 budget might be the hottest show on any stage right now. The Hand, which opened at the tiny Broken Gears Project Theatre last weekend, stars just two actors, Jeff Swearingen and Broken…
Amblin Entertainment. It’s the production company founded in 1981 by Steven Spielberg. You have, without any doubt in my mind, seen an Amblin film at some point in your life. The best Amblin films were the ones that took you away from everyday troubles and made you believe in something…
Nattily dressed in a dark suit and red and blue striped tie, serious historian David McCullough let his droll humor shine through last night during his Arts & Letters Live appearance at the Fairmont Hotel. His new book, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, maps the octopus-like reach of French…
Last Saturday morning at 10 a.m. I headed off to cover National Rowing Day. It truly is a national holiday, you know, like all over the United States, or at least in cities and towns with bodies of water fit for rowing boats. I expected to find a bunch of…
The connotations attached to the word “handmade” have changed drastically in the digital age. The rise of online craft bazaar Etsy has opened the door for anyone and everyone to monetize their hobbies, allowing Grandma’s knitted potholders to emerge from their dusty drawer and find a market on the Internet…
It was 1970. I was 12 years old, sitting the dark of Lowe’s 83rd Street, a movie theater in New York City, when I had my first psychedelic experience. No, nobody slipped a tab in my Milk Duds. I was watching The Phantom Tollbooth, the first and so far only…
The only thing this poster for the Josh Howard Weekend Comedy Show is missing is a couple of strippers twerking their asses out at the camera. Otherwise, it’s perfect. The weekend events are a fundraiser for the Addison-based Josh Howard Foundation, which rewards middle- and high-school students’ scholastic and social-work…
A play using only a pair of actors is often called a two-hander. The Hand, the boffo season finale at Broken Gears Project Theatre, fits the description, though between the two men onstage are just three human hands. The fourth is missing in a tale that packs a powerful, dramatic…
A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Opening three weeks before the Fourth of July, this Steven Spielberg-produced, kid-centric 21st-century disaster flick could well hang in at theaters till the 10th anniversary of 9/11—an event that haunts Abrams’ surefire blockbuster nearly as much as…
