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Dear One Arts Plaza, The Mixmaster Knows How to Fix You
It's a picturesque summer night. My mother is in town for the week. I'm taking her to the theater in the downtown Dallas arts district. With the simple hope that we confab over a cocktail before we settle into our seats at the City Performance Hall, ...
@ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 10, 2014 @ 9:12 am
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Win the Lottery to See Aziz Ansari this Weekend
Hey, Ladies! This weekend, one of the country's funniest foodies stops in at the American Airlines Center. Aziz Ansari brings his latest comedy tour, Modern Romance, to town at 8 p.m. Saturday night and according to him it's so dope, he wants to ...
@ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 10, 2014 @ 8:00 am
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100 Dallas Creatives: No. 59 Adventurous Filmmaker Toby Halbrooks
"Sorry if the reception's bad, I'm headed into a national sequoia forest," Toby Halbrooks says, answering the phone in California. The musician come filmmaker is currently in the golden state to work on his latest venture with fellow Dallas darling, ...
@ The Mixmaster by Caroline North on September 10, 2014 @ 7:00 am
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Merritt Tierce Finds Ingredients for Her First Novel, Love Me Back, in a Dallas Steakhouse
"It wasn't like I would go home and take notes like I thought I would write a book about it someday. I didn't even think of myself as a writer, at least not professionally," Tierce says, sipping an Americano at Oak Lawn Coffee, just "around the corne...
@ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 9, 2014 @ 1:35 pm
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Hear Audioplay of Local Author Darin Bradley's Chimpanzee at Dan's Silverleaf Tonight
Tonight in Denton at Dan's Silverleaf local author Darin Bradley will officially release his second novel Chimpanzee complete with a live rendition of the audioplay of the novel. Bradley released his first novel, Noise, through Random House in 2010 w...
@ The Mixmaster by Jaime-Paul Falcon on September 9, 2014 @ 8:07 am
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Dallas native Marcus Grodd Proposed on Bachelor in Paradise last night, Because True Love
Monday marked the season finale of Bachelor in Paradise and honestly hopefully it was also the series finale because this spinoff of The Bachelor was one big snore. The episode begins with six couples remaining. Until, of course, host Chris Harrison...
@ The Mixmaster by Paige Skinner on September 9, 2014 @ 7:06 am
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A New DC Comics-Themed Dark Ride Is Coming to Six Flags Over Texas
The Six Flags theme parks are known for giant roller coasters and drop rides that are designed to pull whatever you've been eating out of you in new and curious ways. It's an ingenious business model when you really think about it. The less food in y...
@ The Mixmaster by Danny Gallagher on September 8, 2014 @ 1:04 pm
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Venice Update: Ethan Hawke's Good Kill Is an Intimate War on Terror Drama
Ethan Hawke in Good Kill. My last day in Venice always makes me blue. On the way to my final screening, a tourist with an Eastern European accent I couldn't quite identify stopped me a block or so from the sad and shuttered Hotel des Bains and ask...
@ The Mixmaster by Stephanie Zacharek on September 8, 2014 @ 11:02 am
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2013-14 DFW Theater Critics Forum Awards Include Big Wins for New Work
The new play, Booth, was one of this year's Forum winners. It's rare that one of the more difficult categories to choose for the DFW Theater Critics Forum Awards is "Best New Play or Musical." But with Dallas Theater Center leading the charge and...
@ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 8, 2014 @ 9:00 am
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100 Dallas Creatives: No. 60 Rising Talent Michelle Rawlings
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. Michelle Rawlings i...
@ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 8, 2014 @ 7:00 am
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With Hands on a Hardbody, Theatre Three Finally Drives a Musical Home
Like many Broadway musicals these days, Hands on a Hardbody was adapted from a movie. But unlike others, it came not from a splashy animated feature but from an obscure 1997 documentary by S.R. Bindler about an endurance contest at a Longview truck ...
by ELAINE LINER on October 9, 2014
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Local Comics to Perform at Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival
At the biggest comedy event in Dallas/Fort Worth this year, three names on the bill are a little bit more local than the rest. Stand-up comedians Christopher Darden, Josh Johnson and Clint Werth have been touring the local clubs, bars and any other p...
@ The Mixmaster by Danny Gallagher on September 5, 2014 @ 10:33 am
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The Best Classical Concerts in Dallas this September
There's a lot of Beethoven in the bloodstream this month. Just in time too. In the wake of summer's blast-furnace oppression, a whole lot of Beethoven is just the ice bath we need to ready ourselves for another season of classical offerings. We have ...
@ The Mixmaster by Jonathan Patrick on September 5, 2014 @ 8:45 am
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Memories of the Meyerson Symphony Center, Which Celebrates 25 Years in Dallas
The first time I remember classical music, I was sitting in Morton H. Meyerson's box. I was staring, wide-eyed at the organ for one of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's noon recitals. Like most things at eight years old, I was convinced someday I would...
@ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 5, 2014 @ 8:15 am
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100 Dallas Creatives: No. 61 Open Classical's Dynamic Duo Mark Landson & Patricia Yakesch
The couple that plays together, makes Dallas better. 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@dallaso...
@ The Mixmaster by Jennifer Smart on September 5, 2014 @ 7:00 am
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Venice Film Festival: Michael Almereyda Makes Magic with Cymbeline
Almereyda's Cymbeline, as his Hamlet did, takes place in the present: Dakota Johnson -- star of the upcoming 50 Shades of Grey -- is Imogen, a defiant teenage princess in a tank top and cutoffs, who has pledged her heart to Penn Badgley's Posthumus, ...
@ The Mixmaster by Stephanie Zacharek on September 4, 2014 @ 2:04 pm
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Venice Film Festival: Al Pacino Re-Discovers His Inside Voice
Most of us would agree that there's only one Al Pacino. But this year in Venice, there are actually two: Pacino appears in two films at the festival this year, David Gordon Green's Manglehorn, about a lonely Texas locksmith stuck in a romantic dream,...
@ The Mixmaster by Stephanie Zacharek on September 4, 2014 @ 1:54 pm
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Venice Film Fest: Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence Is More Honest Than The Act of Killing
The thugs happily took the bait, relishing the chance to re-live their glory days in front of Oppenheimer's camera. The picture was disturbing, but it also set up an unholy bargain with its audience: Were we supposed to be shocked by the fact that ge...
@ The Mixmaster by Stephanie Zacharek on September 4, 2014 @ 1:42 pm
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Venice Film Fest: In Birdman, Michael Keaton Is Haunted by His Superhero Past
Michael Keaton and Edward Norton square off in Birdman. The gent at the Delta check-in counter back in New York sighed when he saw where I was headed. "Romantic Venezia!" he said, and the comment stopped me short, because film festivals located in...
@ The Mixmaster by Stephanie Zacharek on September 4, 2014 @ 1:33 pm
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18 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, September 4 - 7
The visual art scene reignites for the fall season this weekend, with a plethora of openings throughout Dallas. If you land in the Design District at 6 p.m. Saturday, you can walk in just about any direction and find an exhibition to wander into. Fro...
@ The Mixmaster by Lauren Smart on September 4, 2014 @ 12:55 pm
