For musical theater queens, it’s high season. Over the next couple of weeks, stages all over DFW will be jammed with big musicals, including fresh-from-Broadway road tours and revivals of great shows at local companies. Here’s a quick look at the opening night schedule: June 3: Alice Wonder, Jubilee Theatre,…
When I am on assignment with my Canon 5D Mark II or shooting photographs for myself with my Hasselblad, chances are I am also making photographs with the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone. It has become my scratch pad for quick, inconspicuous pics. Like any “toy” camera, there are mysteries…
Nancy Kwan was hot. She’s in her 70s now and still very beautiful, but when she started her film career at 20 years old, playing a prostitute in The World Of Suzy Wong, her hotness positively sizzled off the screen. Same thing in her next movie, the Flower Drum Song,…
One of my favorite things about seeing a film on its first weekend of release is the trailers that play before it. I normally try my best to avoid trailers at all cost because I hate seeing too much — I want the full surprise. When I see a film…
The Razzle Dazzle Dallas Steering Committee and Cedar Springs Merchants Association joined forces Wednesday night, and hosted a wine and dog walk down the Cedar Springs strip. The wine walk — which used to take place every first Wednesday of the month, but has since turned into a quarterly event…
(PPT won the theme song contest for the 2006 Playoffs, and it’s still awesome.) More Mavs talk on the Mixmaster? Yes, but we’re not here to talk about statistics or match-up breakdowns or any of that mumbo-jumbo. We’re here to take a look at some of the finest Dallas Mavericks…
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 Bernie Madoff case hovers over Ponzi, the new play by Elaine Romero getting its…
Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum has trumped Tom Hanks and his high-tech Da Vinci Code shenanigans by using Apple’s iPad as a virtual museum guide for their Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912 exhibition. The Kimbell supplies the iPads preloaded with an application called iCubist, created specifically for this…
If you grew up dreaming of partnering up with The Duke for shootouts in the Old West or battles in Japan, you’ll probably want to rethink what you’re going to do with your 401(k) fund. After John Wayne passed away in 1979, his family donated much of his film memorabilia…
A nebbishy screenwriter who longs to publish a novel, Gil (Owen Wilson) is tentatively working on a book set in a nostalgia shop—much to the open frustration of Inez (Rachel McAdams), his all-too-modern rich-girl fiancée, who has a tendency to talk about him in catty, judgey tones as if he’s…
Playing an emotionally asphyxiated illustrator whose cancer-stricken dad comes out of the closet at age 75, Ewan McGregor looks positively yummy in Beginners, a gay-is-OK dramedy from the distributor that brought us The Kids Are All Right. In fact, this semi-autobiographical movie by SoCal skater-boy-turned-graphic-designer-and-filmmaker Mike Mills has no shortage…
The Dallas Heritage Village presents Barnyard Buddies story time for preschoolers and their parents every Wednesday of the month, and this Wednesday, Dallas Heritage Village is offering up the opportunity to climb on board and explore trains with a reading of Choo-Choo by Virginia Lee Burton. The tiny conductors will…
If you’ve ever wondered what an entire block and a half full of about 500 cars looks like, look no further than Forest Lane this weekend. Back in the day, Forest Lane was the local hangout spot, and this weekend will celebrate those good old days. The reunion invites the…
In celebration of America’s 100th anniversary of naval aviation, the War Birds Over Addison Airshow will fill the skies over the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, 4572 Claire Chennault in Addison. The airshow will feature many of the museum’s prized WWII, Korean, and Vietnam-era planes in flight—like the P-51 Mustang, FM2 Wildcat,…
Calling all aspiring green thumbs: Do your plants a favor and swing over to North Haven Gardens for Plant the Town Pink, a fundraiser for the Dallas County affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Garden coaches will advise how to manage and improve your garden during a free…
Come August, anyone with a lawn is faced with the choice of a water bill that would make Jerry Jones choke on his chicken wing or seeing his lawn blasted into fine ash by the Texas sun. The Dallas County Master Gardeners, a volunteer organization dedicated to planting gardening knowledge…
Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Romeo, Romeo. Where for art thou, Romeo? Art thou ready to giggle until thy trousers are wet and willy? Be not afraid of greatness fair Romeo for there is method in the madness of The Motley Player’s Three and you will surely laugh…
Richard Lewis is bringing his “Misery Loves Company Stand-Up Tour” to the Addison Improv, 4980 Belt Line Road. I’ll tell you one thing for sure, if you have something whiny to say, go sit by him. I don’t want to hear your shit, but he probably will. And he’ll likely…
When it comes to some movies, you could kick back at home in front of the high definition flat screen with a bowl of Jiffy Pop, but for a movie of this magnitude? You’re gonna need a bigger screen. The latest installment of the Inwood Theater’s Midnight Madness series resurrects…
Usually Memorial Day weekend ushers in the season of formulaic blockbusters, but if you want to postpone your plunge into the summertime Cineplex vortex for just a bit longer, then the 13th Annual QCinema (Fort Worth’s Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival) is here to save you. Featuring 30 films…
Inspired by stories of early blues guitarists making their own glass slides, we tried a few times to fashion our own from empty wine bottles using their technique. The idea is to soak a string in kerosene, wrap it around the bottleneck, ignite it and dunk the flaming bottle into…
There’s a right way and wrong way to check out legs. Gina Gottlich, sommelier at Bijoux, will show you the right way in the fourth installment of her wine class. You’ll learn to swirl and sip at, uh, Swirl & Sip where Gottlich will be showing off the legs of…
