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  More Shakespeare and More Beer, Please!

  This morning, KERA's Jerome Weeks commented on my Facebook check-in at Shakespeare in the Bar last night with a link to a New Yorker article about Drunk Shakespeare, pointing out that New York did it first. I squinted at the screen, rubbed my aching...

  @ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 30, 2014 @ 10:57 am

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  The Modern's Urban Theater Is a Must See Exhibition This Fall

  Much of the art on display in The Modern's newest exhibition doesn't belong in a museum. The very title, Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, implies the art's original presence in the streets. Even today, after decades of moving the risky stuff...

  @ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 30, 2014 @ 7:20 am

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  Looking for Monday Night Plans? Try Shakespeare in the Bar

  Well, we're pretty sure we've heard some drunken actors (maybe even some of these guys) reciting lines of iambic pentameter over a double whisky on the rocks. Now it's just a bit more premeditated and slightly less slurred. At 7:30 p.m. tonight they...

  @ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 29, 2014 @ 5:45 pm

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  Texas Theatre Screens Advanced Style, Which Teaches Us Fashion Has No Age Limits

  First, we had Scott Schuman and his collection of photographs, The Sartorialist. Then came the onslaught of fashion, DIY, and lifestyle blogs. We loved it. We still love it. Don't tell you don't check Refinery29 every morning (or that you're not fol...

  @ The Mixmaster by Danielle Georgiou on September 29, 2014 @ 10:00 am

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  25 Signs It's (Sort of) Fall in Dallas

  Pumpkins = Fall You noticed. Something about last week felt different. That's cause it's fall, you dummy. Here are 25 signs of the new season. 25. Triple digit weather grows scarce or non-existent on the 10-day forecast. Who knew highs of 90 coul...

  @ The Mixmaster by The Mixmaster on September 29, 2014 @ 9:22 am

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  Rick Steves on Israel, Palestine, and Smoking Pot

  By Monica Hinman "People used to say 'Bon Voyage", comments Rick Steves at the beginning of our phone conversation. It was a way to express excitement and adventure, instead of "Have a safe trip," which suggests fear and danger. Why such an ominou...

  @ The Mixmaster by The Mixmaster on September 29, 2014 @ 7:02 am

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  A Hit and a Myth for Golden Apple - Homer for Lyric Stage with Odyssey musical Golden Apple.

  Lyric Stage has polished up another forgotten gem of American musical theater. And what a gleaming beauty it is. The Golden Apple retells The Iliad and The Odyssey in grand comic operatic style, its characters plunked down in 1910 in a small town...

  by ELAINE LINER on October 30, 2014

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  Love on the Download in Ochre House's Sci-Fi Flower in the Machine

  Ochre House's latest oddity is a new light sci-fi drama written and directed by company member Kevin Grammer. Flower in the Machine takes its time -- about an hour too much, frankly -- to show what happens when romance withers in a world overrun by ...

  by ELAINE LINER on October 30, 2014

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  Five Random Arty Things That (Maybe) Deserve Best Ofs

  Our Best of Dallas 2014 issue rolls out this week. While we can modestly say it's the greatest, most comprehensive city guide ever created, Dallas is a pretty big place that's filled to the brim with best-ness. To cover all the good stuff we might ha...

  @ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 26, 2014 @ 12:04 pm

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  With Its Dallas Debut, Spectrum Dance Theater Proves that Dance Can Be Manly

  Couples Yoga or Spectrum Dance Theater? Donald Byrd has a dance career to would make anyone envious. For more than four decades, he has been living his dream of creating, performing, and educating. Oh, and he cut his teeth working for Twyla Thar...

  @ The Mixmaster by Danielle Georgiou on September 26, 2014 @ 9:57 am

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  100 Dallas Creatives: No. 54 Performance Pioneer Katherine Owens

  Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. Katherine Owens has...

  @ The Mixmaster by Caroline North on September 26, 2014 @ 8:00 am

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  Podcast: In The Equalizer, Denzel Kills, Summarizes Hemingway, Kills Again

  Denzel Washington in The Equalizer: "It's about a guy who is a knight in shining armor, except he lives in a world where knights don't exist anymore." He's talking about Don Quixote but he's really talking ABOUT HIMSELF. As Bob McCall in The Equa...

  @ The Mixmaster by The Mixmaster on September 26, 2014 @ 7:29 am

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  13 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, September 25 - 28

  I'm baaaaaack. It's that time again. Fried food, bird shows, no bird shows (sad face), and a visit with your old buddy, Big Tex. The State Fair of Texas officially opens Friday, and as usual we've got your go-to guide of what to do when you get t...

  @ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 25, 2014 @ 11:42 am

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  Seven Outdoorsy Ways To Celebrate Summer's Last Hurrah

  90 degrees is plenty hot for a day at the pool. Summer's over. Well, according to the calendar. For North Texans, the end of summer can be bittersweet. On the one hand, the mercury will finally drop to a tolerable level, but it also means no more...

  @ The Mixmaster by Amy McCarthy on September 25, 2014 @ 9:19 am

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  Addison Native Adam Hagenbuch Looks Like Ashton Kutcher, Played Him in a Lifetime Movie

  When The Brittany Murphy Story aired on Lifetime earlier this month, articles upon articles slammed the movie for its bad acting, bad wigs, and ultimately bad writing (surprise!). But among all of the negative press, actor Adam Hagenbuch seemed to r...

  @ The Mixmaster by Paige Skinner on September 25, 2014 @ 7:28 am

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  Open Stage Fosters Craziness, but Artistic Openness Above All

  By Michelle Foster On a suburban corner in Plano, across from a llama farm, Celebration Event Center and Ballroom is home to a bunch of oddballs called Circus Freaks who run Open Stage, a weekly romp of weirdness guaranteed to make you feel things....

  @ The Mixmaster by The Mixmaster on September 25, 2014 @ 7:00 am

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  Half Price Books Wants to Be "My Iconic Bookstore," No Matter Which Store I Shop At

  Some weeks in this business feel like shouting upwind. This was not one of those weeks. In the cover story of last week's Dallas Observer, I posed the question, "Other cities have big, iconic bookshops, why don't we?" Apparently, you all have a lot ...

  @ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 24, 2014 @ 4:43 pm

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  Five Best Neighborhoods in Dallas

  The Patio at HG Sply Co, one of many Lower Greenville hangouts. Our Best of Dallas 2014 issue rolls out this week. While we can modestly say it's the greatest, most comprehensive city guide ever created, Dallas is a pretty big place that's filled ...

  @ The Mixmaster by The Mixmaster on September 24, 2014 @ 9:06 am

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  With Mahler 9, The DSO Was Visceral And Emotionally Arresting

  There's someone crying, another...whimpering? But that's it. The Meyerson is a vacuum. There's an odd mood coursing through the rows of seats, a breathless silence, total and creaky. It hangs in the air like an iron blanket. The audience is motionles...

  @ The Mixmaster by Jonathan Patrick on September 24, 2014 @ 8:06 am

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  Back on Badstreet Filmmakers Reflect on the Song That Made Wrestling Rock

  It's also a sport of trends. The staples of the sport have been passed down from generation to generation dating back to one pioneering warrior who dared to pull off the first suplex or sneak a folding chair into the ring behind the ref's back. The t...

  @ The Mixmaster by Danny Gallagher on September 24, 2014 @ 7:58 am