If your stomach growls when you read Hamburger Kunsthalle, I’m right there with you. But we’re not talking about a Dutchman’s beef sandwich. In fact, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is one of the Germany’s most important art museums. And it’s sending paintings our way. The Spanish Gesture: Drawings from Murillo to…
In our film section this week, we take a look at some of the coming summer movies that will offer us a chance to cool off in the dark for a bit. Here on Mixmaster, asked a few local luminaries in the film scene to share some of their favorite…
In our film section this week, we take a look at some of the coming summer movies that will offer us a chance to cool off in the dark for a bit. In that vein, Mixmaster asked Alice to offer a mom’s take on the joy of summer family films…
Long before Adult Swim, MTV’s Liquid Television and even most of the cartoons that penetrated your sugar riddled brain on Saturday mornings, Spike & Mike were traveling the globe introducing audiences to the joy and magic of animation. “We were with Pixar before Steve Jobs was with Pixar,” Spike said…
Summer has officially arrived, bringing along with it a drove of blockbuster films that are usually less than memorable. If you’re looking to while away the hours in a dark, chilly theater without watching a mind-numbing movie, look no further than the Oak Cliff Film Festival. In its third year,…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, the Village Voice’s Alan Schestuhl and L.A. Weekly’s Amy Nicholson are joined by special guest Chris Klimek to discuss the strange career of Tom Cruise, the new X-Men movie, and why Han Solo should die…
Doomsday forecasters have offered plenty of scenarios in recent years, but Kitchen Dog Theater’s upcoming production of Barbecue Apocalypse promises to be a funnier account of the end of times than any you’ve likely heard. The play opens Friday and serves as the centerpiece of the theater’s New Works Festival…
A romance ripped from the pages of Deuteronomy, Frank Coraci’s Blended posits that the best reason for a woman with sons and a man with daughters to get married is that they can take care of each other’s kids. Quel pragmatisme! In the world of this sitcom love story, men…
Why do people buy concert tickets? Maybe they are motivated by the social element. Maybe it’s intellectual or artistic curiosity. Sometimes good old-fashioned boredom is motivation enough. Or maybe — and I’d imagine this is the most common reason – maybe they just really love the music being performed and…
When the season premiere of I Wanna Marry Harry airs tonight, America will watch 12 women compete for the love and affection of Prince Harry. OK, not really. That’s just what the show leads the contestants, including three women from the Dallas area, to believe…
Fandom is an interesting driver. It drives some people to permanently paint their bodies with portraits of their favorite characters or spend scads of money and effort on elaborate costumes and disguises to express their love for their favorite TV shows, movies and comic books. Seeing someone in a full…
In the current issue of the Observer, I take a long look at the creation of AMC’s new drama, Halt and Catch Fire, which was inspired by a local software salesman and co-created by that salesman’s son, Plano-born screenwriter Chris Cantwell. You should totally read it. Really. But you could…
I used to think that I was a nerd, especially in high school. I spent a lot of time watching C-SPAN, reading The New York Times and generally being awkward and ignoring the interests of my peers. I wasn’t into sci-fi or Star Wars or Magic The Gathering, but I…
“School’s out!” may be the collective cry of America’s youth this week, but not us. Not you and me, the paper pushing mid-20’s citizens, who are past the point of the overwhelming freedom that only arrives at the end of a semester, or perhaps the end of an entire college…
Have you ever noticed how funny drunk people are? Danny O’Connor has. In fact, he’s turned it into an entire solo show. Bouncing Ugly chronicles his time as a bouncer at New York City’s infamous club Coyote Ugly. His stories about the bar patron’s revelry and drunkenness elicited ews, aws,…
In Chef, Jon Favreau’s newest movie opening in Dallas theaters today, the title character (played by Favreau) walks through the streets of Santa Monica and stops to stare at a street performer’s puppet. It’s a rock ‘n’ roll skeleton marionette named Mr. Bonetangles, and as the chef pauses to watch…
This week, the Office of Cultural Affairs put out a call for artists to participate in its latest idea for public art. If you’re keeping track, the City of Dallas hasn’t been earning much in the way of positive press concerning its treatment of public art. But its latest commissions…
What-could-have-been has to be a tough subject for the town of Waxahachie. Its biggest claim to fame these days is being the birthplace of Thomas Everett Blasingame, who when he died in 1989 at age 91 was the oldest working cowboy American West. That’s not much to hang a town’s…
No, not the Dallas Observer (we wish!). Dallas’ lovely Perot Museum of Nature and Science launches a partnership this summer with The National Geographic Society. The official announcement of exactly how cool this partnership is going to be arrives next week, but for now they’ve released a few details and…
This is what happens when you — or me, at least — find out that you’re getting a chance to chat one-on-one with William Shatner: You tell your parents that you’re talking to the guy they used to see on TV all the time. You start conversations with friends just…
Usually when you see a celebrity, I’m going to tell you to “be cool.” Act like it’s whatever. Pretend your life is filled with celebrities. But this weekend, things are different. In fact, total geeking out is mandatory. It’s Dallas Comic Con weekend and it’s bigger than ever. For the…
It’s spring and art is in the air! To celebrate, some artists who call Oak Cliff their home, will be opening their front doors and letting you all into their private lives and studios for the 2014 Oak Cliff Visual SpeedBump Tour, this Saturday, May 17, from noon-6:00pm…
