Book Versus Film: Eight Major Misfires In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Warning: Spoilers ahead!
Arts & Culture
Showing 15027 - 15048 of 28514Today in Antique/Thrift Store Paintings That Kind of Look Like Celebrities
Create your own wall of fame with these fine, only marginally frightening works of art currently for sale at two of our favorite Dallas thrift stores. As of yesterday afternoon, all of these paintings were still looking for homes. Most could be had for less than $60. We found them…
The Five Funniest Slides From The Onion PowerPoint Live
If you missed The Onion Live last night at the Winspear Opera House, you are not one of the 1,300 people who comprise the entirety of the city’s intelligentsia, according to Onion editor Joe Randazzo and head writer Seth Reiss. But at least it’s easy to recreate the experience. Just…
The First Meeting Begins Now Was A Success!
Welcome! As we said before, the first reading assignment for the first Mixmaster Online Book Club selection, Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts, was the first two sections. Below, in the comments, please feel free to jump in with replies, questions, opinions, historical observations, etc. If you’re a reader,…
The Master List: The Best Things To Do In Dallas This Weekend, July 15-17
It looks like it’s going to be quite a busy weekend as gallery exhibitions open and a theater festival kicks off. If that doesn’t grab your attention, maybe a sexy car wash at The Lodge will. Are you interested now? We’ll get to that later, but first let’s delve into…
Buffalo Exchange Becomes a Gallery With New Showcase of Local Art
Last night, Buffalo Exchange kicked off its first artist showcase, hosting a reception for local artists Justin Allen, Lucy Kirkman and Paul Windle. Art lines the upper walls of the neon blue resale shop, and each artist had a table near the front door and was eager to discuss the…
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Eight Harry Potter Characters Who Deserved Way More Screen Time
It’s officially Harry Potter Week. And, as you may have guessed, we’re totally celebrating. For those of us who have waited in line for countless hours to receive our copy of the latest Harry Potter book, wore our favorite house colors to a midnight movie premiere and even plastered a…
Before Friday Night Lights Ends (Again), Some Predictions for the Finale and Beyond
The Emmy nominations came out yesterday. Since I don’t have HBO, and since the Emmys are pretty much an HBO cast party, I didn’t spend too much time with the nominations, but I did take a moment to control-find the names of my two favorite shows: Community, NBC’s ode to…
The Amazing Race Is Looking for Adventurous North Texans Tomorrow
Reality television shows are always scouring Dallas for potential cast members for shows like The Bachelor and American Idol because, let’s face it, there’s no shortage of camera-ready talents (and crazies) to fill hours of network programming. If you keep complaining that producers are missing out on a reality pot…
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Seven Harry Potter-iffic Accessories to Add to Your Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Ensemble
Only the biggest and coolest Potterphiles will be the ones queuing up for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 2 tonight as we anxiously wait for the clock to strike 12:01 a.m. As somewhat mature adults, it’s generally frowned upon to go all out with a head-to-toe Harry Potter costume…
Tonight on CMT, Texas Women Start Embarrassing Us
Here’s what reality TV does: It takes the worst stereotypes about places and people and rolls them up into one big awful stereotype and then it makes a show about how “real” it is. Meet Texas Women, a new reality series premiering tonight at 9 p.m. on cable’s CMT channel…
The Best and Worst of Oprah’s Season 25: Behind the Scenes
Lately, my evenings have been filled with DVR sessions of the Oprah Winfrey Network, and more specifically, with Season 25: Behind the Scenes, the reality program chronicling the backstage business of the mogul’s final season of her syndicated talk show. I’m far from being an Oprah drone, but that is…
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Bootleg Movie Trailers: To Leak Or Not To Leak? That Is The Question
There’s a dark uprising on the Internet currently happening. Yesterday a bootleg trailer for The Dark Knight Rises showed up online. Many websites that garner almost a million unique hits per day posted it, some with misleading headlines, and Warner Bros. was quick to put out a cease and desist…
Art Conspiracy Presents “Better Gnomes and Gardens,” This Friday at Sons of Hermann Hall
I had a really horrible landlady one time in Northern California. For more than a year after I moved out of that house, I fantasized about slowly and stealthily populating her yard with garden gnomes in the dead of night. It would have driven her slightly mad without being too…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
After 10 years and seven movies, we’ve finally arrived: Bespectacled Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) squares off against amphibian-faced Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. It’s a climax of truly epic proportions, not only for its narrative import but for the fact that it…
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Witty History Lessons Make Wittenberg Grade A Comedy
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Wit. Wit who? Wit more plays like Wittenberg, I’d go to Fort Worth more often. The latest from Amphibian Stage Productions at the Sanders Theatre in Cowtown is as witty as Shaw, as wacky as Stoppard and never as wearying as Shakespeare’s drama about a certain…
Pop On Over To Throw Some Popcorn
Throwing food at actors is frowned upon at most theaters. But not all. The one place you can hurl a foodstuff at the stage is Pocket Sandwich Theatre, which has one of its popcorn melodramas running right now. The show is The Final Adventures of Hercules. The food is dry…
Teacher’s Paint
They say those who can’t, teach, but three members of the art faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington are stepping up to prove just how wrong clichés can be. Though Sedrick Huckaby, Carlos Donjuan and Marilyn Jolly are a part of the same professional environment, each comes from…
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Worth Studying
More often than not, I find any and all things related to geometry wholly unappealing. The mere mention of the term brings back awful memories of poor test scores, unproductive study sessions and disapproving glares from Mrs. Eckles as I’m handed back my pop quiz, freshly showered with markings from…
Our Inner Harry Potter Geek Needs to Tell You Something, and It Involves the Deathly Hallows
Get More: Movie Trailers, Movies BlogWinning free tickets to an advance-screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 days before the official release, really satisfies our inner geek. To get the tickets, we entered a contest and invented the curse, Basium Mupa, to disarm you know who by…
Vintage Clothing Haven Ahab Bowen to Close After 35 Years
The big green house on the corner of Howland and Boll streets, smack in the middle of trendy Uptown, has been the long-time home of Ahab Bowen, a vintage clothing and accessories store that stands as one of DFW’s finest treasure troves of antique wearables. Ahab’s collection of vintage apparel…
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What the Hell Has TV Done to Real Housewives?
Does Jill Zarin have anything in common with June Cleaver? If you watch any of the Real Housewives shows on Bravo, you have to wonder if kids are growing up now not knowing what a “housewife” is. June Cleaver, if you don’t remember black and white TV, was Beaver and…