“I just learned how to tie a bow tie in the last year, so I’ve started collecting bow ties.” Name: Angelo Gonzales Occupation: Front man in Gallerycat Location: Dada Style breakdown: “Old Navy cardigan, Walmart oxford, Levi’s from the thrift store, Walmart high-tops and a Max Headroom Coke watch. I’m…
The Exorcist, the original, isn’t a film. It’s a two-hour study of anxiety and dread. Beyond the demonic possession scenes, there’s happy-pappy moments like the ol’ “you’re going to die up there scenes,” or Father Karras’ dream about his mother. For that scene,which is presented with minimal sound, William Friedken…
Walking through Deep Ellum to get to the Main Stage of the Observer Music Awards Showcase, I saw two things: 1. A zombie attacking a mock SWAT Team. 2. A zombie whirling around his enormous zombie penis. So, yes, it’s true, Deep Ellum’s Zombie Walk was in full swing on…
Director Takashi Miike is totally fucked up … but brilliant. In the realm of Asian horror, he’s what many would call “the man.” (He also owns in action — just check out this year’s 13 Assassins for proof.) In 1999’s Audition (or Odishon, the original title), rubber gloves have never…
For the month of October, the Scarborough Renaissance Festival morphs into its creepy doppelganger, SCREAMS Halloween Theme Park. Situated off I-35 in Waxahachie, the park boasts five haunted attractions: 3D Pirates of Peril Point, Arcane Asylum, Unkel Koy’s Klown Maze, Castle of Darkness and the Ghoulish Graveyard. SCREAMS deserves a…
We’re back! She’s back! The ‘Pants are back! This time we’ve completed Tina Fey’s Bossypants, reading right on through the meaty Second City years, out of SNL and into Sarah Palin’s wig. Also, there was breast pumping during Entourage. What did you think of the second half? Of the whole…
You’ve probably noticed those pink banner ads running across our homepage and pretty much every other page when you’re on our website, and if you’ve ignored them, shame on you. You’re going to want to click that tattooed piece of beauty to purchase tickets for this year’s greatest music event,…
It’s only fitting, with The Thing *prequel hitting theaters this weekend, that for today’s entry of our 31-day Horror Movie Countdown we take a look back at John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing – the director’s first major studio film and the third of four Carpenter films starring Kurt Russell…
Linda Dee Guy is a printmaker, a collagist, a painter. But she’s more than that. She’s a historian too. She’s a visionary. And she’s a scientist. Guy’s work is full of patterns: ones she has created, ones she’s found, ones she has manipulated, repeated, and made into something wholly new…
Caravaggio was just 38 years old when he died in 1610, but he initiated profound change in European art with his in-your-face tableaux, his aggressive use of light and shadow (called chiaroscuro, which is fun to say), his use of live models, and the earthy drama of his paintings. Caravaggio…
Little big ago, The Dallas Film Society announced their plans for the second Art of Film at the Hall of State in Fair Park. If you weren’t around for last year’s inaugural shindig with Elvis Mitchell and Robert Duvall, it was apparently a damn good time. Anyway, today the DFS…
Not only is Reindeer Manor Abusement Park in Red Oak the oldest haunted house attraction in the world, having opened in 1974, but it is also the first of its kind, according to property owner Alex Lohmann. In fact, he says, before it opened as a haunted house, there really…
We’re now 13 days into our 31 day Horror Movie Countdown at The Mixmaster, meaning of course that it’s the 13th! And in honor of this most superstitious of numbers, it is only fitting that we take a look back at Friday the 13th (nevermind that today is actually Thursday…
Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford used to create signs for his mother’s hair salon, where he later cut hair. Now, he creates art that’s showing at the Dallas Museum of Art. He holds a BA and an MA from the California Institute of the Arts. But it’s his studies in…
If ever you find yourself pondering whether Dallas could foster a sex-positive feminist hippie art magazine dedicated to poetry, love and ganja, then rest assured that Let It Bleed’s newest issue, “Yield to Hemp-tation,” offers the surfeit you crave. Last night, women and the men who love them met at…
We take the State Fair of Texas for granted. Every fall it comes around, preceded by a few fluffy TV news pieces and food blogger posts about the latest fried snacks to bubble up from the grease. This year it’s fried bubblegum that people are chewing on (it’s actually bubble-gum-flavored…
In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let’s-put-on-a-show musical, based on original songs brought to life in elaborate choreographed numbers, and the later Hollywood model of youth films, perfected in the ’80s by John Hughes and terminally calcified…
Life is a series of constant adjustments to ever-shifting realities in Gun Hill Road, a Brooklyn-set indie about a criminal, Enrique (Esai Morales), who returns home after a three-year prison term to find that things aren’t quite as he remembered them. Specifically, wife Angela (Judy Reyes) is trying to end…
Premiered as a BBC1 telefilm, now flaunting its wasteful widescreen in theaters, Toast adapts the autobiography of Nigel Slater, a popular British food writer looking back in condescension on the Midlands of his youth. The film begins in the middle-class Wolverhampton home where young Nigel is raised on a tinned-food…
A home-invasion movie as instantly forgettable as its title, Trespass is not without disturbing images: namely, Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as spouses. The two Nics play Kyle and Sarah Miller, owners of a sprawling modernist manor and parents of back-talking teen Avery (Liana Liberato). Yet the luxe exteriors cannot…
For Spring Awakening to work its magic, it needs young performers who look hot, sing hotter and radiate sexuality with the heat of a thousand suns. At Addison’s WaterTower Theatre, where the first local production of the Tony-winning musical is now running, the temperature’s rising. It’s exciting to see this…
What better way to break in a new trail than with a casual jog followed by a hearty feast in the park? The extension of the Santa Fe Trail, which links White Rock Lake to Deep Ellum, will premiere with a 5K race on October 13, launching from Lindsley Park…
