We’ve been hypnotized and we’ve been to comedy shows, but we’ve never experienced both at one time. That’s what Flip Orley, comic hypnotist, is all about. Orley, who tours packed — like sold-out packed — clubs and other venues (including a corporate event here and there), takes a different approach…
As an artist/writer in Dallas you feel a bit like you’re stationed at an outpost to complete a mission. You have a sense of space around your creative work, and I find that crucial.
Rush Week is upon us. Did you hear me? Rush Week. While some of you are responding with, “What the hell is Rush Week?” others are either cringing in fear or donning facial expressions of apathy and disinterest without even trying. No matter your response to fraternities (school-sanctioned or otherwise),…
We’re watching Bravo’s Most Eligible Dallas every week so you don’t have to. The fourth episode finds formerly minor characters becoming thunder thieves. Read on. Most Eligible Dallas made its triumphant televised return on Monday after taking a week off for reasons I know not but support nonetheless. So, I’ll…
Yesterday, Dallas blog Oh So Cynthia tweeted us back to Point A, or rather, how to fold a T-shirt Japanese-style. We were familiar with this trick having failed at it a number of times in the past. What we didn’t know about, however, popped up at the end of the…
The Age of Aquarius may have become the Age of Activia, but Hair, the anti-war “tribal-rock musical,” somehow stays young. The 44-year-old show opens Tuesday, September 20, for a two-week run at the Winspear Opera House. This production is the latest Broadway incarnation of Hair, directed by Diane Paulus (she…
On Sunday, while DC9 at Night was racking up excellent photos of the pretty, folk doll that is Ryan Bingham, Pete Freedman tweeted this: Christian Bale is in VIP for Ryan Bingham’s set. Crowd screams “We love Batman!” He acknowledges. #aclfest Turns out, Pete accidentally photo’d filmmaker Terrence Malick, who…
It’s not often you see an undergarment fashioned out of recycled twisted metal into a beautiful sculpture that’s sturdy enough for children to climb on like monkey bars. But if you happened to be in the West Village Saturday afternoon in the plaza between Mi Cocina and Magnolia Theatre, you…
So, our photographers had a busy weekend. Between Mauskateers, Batman at Austin City Limits (!), Oktoberfest’s Chicken Hats, and the Eyes Wide Shut party at Wish Lounge, we all but exhausted our photo bay. Before you’re filled to the brim, check out a bunch of must-see shots from our contributor…
It’s nearly 2012 and still women are not represented in art, history and any number of other realms as prominently as they should be. As we slowly remedy that, we do what I like to call “add women and stir.”…
After starting our fall fashion series off by interviewing Ken Downing, senior vice president and fashion director of Neiman Marcus stores (and recent guest star on the Rachel Zoe Project), we thought about how fall fashion trends would apply to us here in Dallas. We solicited the help of a…
Name: Callie DeOrdio, 21 Location: Fashion’s Night Out at Galleria Dallas Occupation: Fashion Design student at UNT Influences: Fashion blogs. Oracle Fox, 5 inch and up and fashiontoast. Style Breakdown: Pants from Urban Outfitters, shirt from Forever 21, boots from Buffalo Exchange, Chanel bag and hat from Topshop…
We’re not going to get the picks right, necessarily, but we’ve clocked serious hours watching the tube, so we feel like we’ve got insight into what “the people” want in their Emmy-winners. You know, “the people.” The couch people. The people who have cut their lifespans with a remote control…
Let’s take a second to come together and breathe one huge sigh of relief that it’s not 100 degrees and fall has finally arrived. OK, now let’s talk about what we’re going to do this glorious weekend besides dusting off the bike and going for a ride around the lake…
At 7:15 p.m. last night there was already a line of art fans outside the Quixotic World, ready to enter the custom vinyl exhibition that was Vinyl Thoughts inside. The world of vinyl art toys is ever-growing, partly in thanks to Kidrobot’s highly collectible series of Dunny and Munny toys…
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. A short play starring Marisa Diotalevi and a totally naked man? We’re there. The hilarious…
What if you never knew what Claude Monet’s impressionist masterpieces or Leonardo da Vinci’s famous “Mona Lisa” looked like? As someone who with adequate vision, I can’t imagine what it would be like to miss out on the visually stunning works that masters like Monet and da Vinci created, but…
Back in June, the first trailer for Girl with the Dragon Tattoo landed on the tangled interwebs, teasing those of us who can’t wait for the December 21 release of the film. Well, there’s another movie we can’t wait to see, and thankfully it’ll hit the big screen a month…
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. A few days before the opening of Gypsy at Lyric Stage, one of the co-stars…
The Office is 10 years old. The first episode aired in the UK in the summer of 2001, assigned a 9:30 p.m. timeslot on a Monday because the BBC thought it was a loser. By the time it debuted on NBC in March 2005, it was anything but. (It returns…
Growing up as a nerdy kid on a ranch in rural Texas, there was really only one thing I had in common with my bad-ass, tough-as-nails cowboy dad. We only had two TV channels, both of which he controlled anyway, so we spent most nights wearing out the ribbons on…
Here’s the thing. When you live and work in the hustle and bustle of Dallas, it’s sometimes hard to remember what “not concrete” looks like. Fortunately, there are places like Lake Grapevine and these little vessels called kayaks to remind us there’s more to life than one-upping your neighbor. Now…
