While filmmaker Ivana Corsale was growing up in Sicily, the Camorra crime network was slowly transforming a region just north of her home, known as the Campania felix, into a toxic wasteland with decades of illicit dumping.The environmental degradation of the land the Romans named the “happy country” is the…
The title of Juergen Teller’s Dallas Contemporary exhibit, Man with Banana, sounds like a tongue-in-cheek inside joke — you get it, sort of, but not really. A mix of Teller’s personal photos and advertising photos, interchangeably displayed and impossible to distinguish, carries that same insider feel and punctuates it with…
Kurt Johnsen’s happiness comes from being connected to reality, from embracing the things he can’t change and from relishing every moment. And when you’re the official yoga instructor for the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, I’m guessing down dogging with 35 cheerleaders ain’t so bad a reality to be connected to either…
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. For a playwright, getting a new play “up on its feet” is the first step…
Pablo Francisco, master of the movie-trailer-guy voice, is coming through Arlington this weekend, so his press folks generously made him available for an interview the other day. He was quite nice, and is a pretty skilled impressionist, and I suspect he works very hard to put on a show his…
Late Nights at the DMA satisfies art and night owls on the third Friday of each month year-round, but neighbors at the Nasher Sculpture Center have officially returned with Late Nights’ warm-weather, outdoor counterpart, ’til Midnight at the Nasher. The music and movie series kicks off this Friday, with a…
After sinking into self-important tedium with its prior two overstuffed installments, Pirates of the Caribbean seemed destined for permanent burial at sea. And yet the soggy franchise and Johnny Depp’s foppish rapscallion return again for On Stranger Tides—to search for the fountain of youth, no less, a quest that Chicago…
I’m not ashamed — I’ve totally watched Celebrity Apprentice this season. And while I occasionally found myself irritated by the scheming of TV personality, author and lawyer Star Jones, I gotta say, she knew how to play the game when she wasn’t the project manager. Delegate, work below the radar,…
While trying to enjoy America’s pastime at Ranger’s Ballpark, do you suffer from a guilty feeling while shoving your way past little-leaguers in autograph lines? Instead of triumph, do you feel remorseful each time you outrace 9-year-olds down Greene’s Hill for homers? You should. But for all of you overzealous…
We have to admit that we’re not experts when it comes to gardening, just ask our friends who rehabilitate our plants once we’ve sufficiently ignored them long enough. Apparently, Coca-Cola is no substitute for water, but maybe we could learn a thing or two about plants at the Butterfly Plant…
One thing that every person who enjoys literature should make it a point to do at least once is attend a book signing. Having the chance to look and speak directly with an author about their journey through prose is an insightful and interesting experience. And Dallasites have the opportunity…
Cookies. Technology. Is there a need to say more? Saturday, the Sci-Tech Discovery Center will host its inaugural Cookie Caper to raise money for the center’s annual fund. The Caper will feature thousands of homemade cookies prepared by the Sci-Tech Motherboard members. Cookies will be available for purchase by buying…
If you love dogs as much as you love fashion, then you can’t miss the Fashion Group International of Dallas event, Four Legged Fashion: Canine meets Couture, which features pawsitively fabulous one-of-a-kind fashions created for dogs by major clothing designers. Come and see the canine models strut their scruff on…
If you only think Dallas is famous for one team in football, you got another thing coming. Dallas til’ I die, baby! You’ve seen the signs on your way to work, so why not experience the thrill of the game for yourself with FC Dallas? Bringing European football to the…
By our assessment, Addison tastes pretty good. Sure, it has some popular chains linking its restaurant row, but any town with so many good eats in such close proximity gets no complaints from us. Addison is so proud of its edible offerings that it created an annual festival — Taste…
Former MADtv player Pablo Francisco rivals fellow impressionist Frank Caliendo for supremacy of that small, strange niche of stand-up comedy. But where Caliendo doesn’t bother much with a narrative thread to introduce his impressions, usually just saying something like, “Wouldn’t it be funny if so-and-so did such-and-such?” Francisco works his…
We’ve all been there: Dressed in your black-tie best, small forks lightly clanging on miniature plates, light conversation about politics or art, and suddenly…cheese. There, on the waiter’s tray between you and the sophisticate you’ve been struggling to impress all night, and not a label in sight. Parrano or robusto?…
If you are what you buy, then the use of product placement would make James Bond and Carrie Bradshaw (and all of their assorted accoutrements) a match made in heaven. The newest Bond film is setting a record for product placement with $45 million (or 1/3 of the film’s budget)…
If multiple viewings of Black Swan didn’t satisfy your dance yen for the year, Dallas has plenty of opportunity for you to take care of your obsession throughout the end of May — and like Black Swan, it all revolves around a most talented Nina. The Dallas Black Dance Theatre…
If you are looking for interesting and innovative ways to beat the forthcoming summer heat when (not if-this is Texas after all) it rears its ugly head, look no further than the McKinney Avenue Contemporary. This art museum specializes in the exhibition of emerging and established artists whose art stands…
Few things are more depressing than day-old doughnuts. I found this out as part of the custodial staff for the UNT University Union, where the sympathetic employees in the deli store would give us leftover pastries they otherwise would have had to throw out after closing time. They look fine,…
Remember the old public service commercial that told us our brain was an egg, and then showed the egg in a frying pan, “on drugs?” The metaphor’s pretty far out, man, and we’re not sure we completely understand the message. Though, we have been called eggheads a time or two…
