Email AuthorJamie Laughlin
Featured Entry
Ten Awesome Things To Do This Week: March 22 to 27
March 22, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Work by Bill Haveron on display at the MACHey Dallas, ain't it beer-thirty yet? (Sound of can cracking open... *fizz*) Let's tease our hair and hit the town! There's a...
Featured Entry
Three Awesome Thursday Night Art Parties That Cannot Be Missed (Free Booze, People)
March 21, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Work by Bill Haveron on display at the MACTweet up your friends because tomorrow night, March 22, the artistic stars align: It's the painterly equivalent to buying a McRib and...
Featured Entry
Alice Does Dallas: 1976 Musical Comedy Porno Alice in Wonderland Being Rereleased Locally
March 21, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Oh dear lord. There were just too many cranked-out uppers and psychedelics circulating in 1976 for anyone to make good decisions. This film, an X-rated (though by modern standards, an...
Featured Entry
Go Swank: Free Screenings of Mad Men Season 5 And Vintage Clothing Giveaways, Each Sunday At The Angelika
March 20, 2012 in The Mixmaster
"You can trust me: I'm in advertising."Those excavators of fallen frocks over at the Vintagemobile have rotary-dialed the Angelika Theater and planned a date. Beginning this Sunday you can plummet...
Featured Entry
The Immortal Tour Comes To Dallas. Our top Ten Musicians For New Cirque Du Soleil Productions
March 20, 2012 in The Mixmaster
The word is out: Cirque du Solieil returns to Dallas in June but this time it's thrusting its collective pelvis to an all-Michael Jackson soundtrack. The Immortal Tour was created...
Featured Entry
Tuesday Night Trash: Penitentiary III Comes Out Swinging Tonight At Texas Theatre
March 20, 2012 in The Mixmaster
I know what you're thinking: "Penitentiary III? But Penitentiary II has Mr. T." Oh, you weren't thinking that? Well, that's because you have a life and a soul and that...
Featured Entry
Welcome Mark Leonard, The DMA's New Chief Conservator
March 19, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Mark Leonard, hard at work.Maxwell Anderson has stayed busy since taking the reigns as The Eugene McDermott Director of the DMA. Staff restructuring has become an almost daily procedure. Last...
Featured Entry
Cheapskate's Guide to St. Patty's Day: How To Hijack a Parade Float
March 19, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Don't worry throngs of partiers; we'll throw you something.Being on a float in the St. Patrick's Day parade feels like being a minor celebrity for about an hour. People cheer...
Featured Entry
Go Green! St. Patty's Day Party Spots That'll Shake Your Shamrocks
March 16, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Ryan Bigham and The Dead Horses headline the Observer partyGreenville: After the obvious (Greenville St. Patty's Day parade, and the Dallas Observer concert with headliner Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses...
Featured Entry
The Art Of Play: Last Night's Vinyl Thoughts Toy Show
March 16, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Karolina Phillips made this Gizmo, but do keep it away from water.Quixotic World was waist-deep in geek love last night as Vinyl Thought presented its newest show "The Next Level."...
Featured Entry
DIFF Completes Its 2012 Line Up With Celebrities, Shorts and Sci-Fi
March 15, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Dallas International Film Festival has completed its selections for this year's star-soaked offerings and posted the final list. While early documentary picks and features have been slowly filling out the...
Featured Entry
Nasher Sculpture Center Is Throwing A Free Party On Friday. Dance Around Picasso.
March 15, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Emerald City wants to make you click your heeelsScorsese's Hugo swept the Oscars this year, taking home five of those little golden men. The 3-D creation is spooky, imaginative and...
Featured Entry
The Eleven Best Things To Do This Week, March 15 to 20
March 15, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Let's all be Irish, okay?Dallas, commence fist pumping. It's St. Patty's Day weekend! We've kept the party monster well cared for, but hungry, and we're about to release him from...
Featured Entry
Dates Announced For Dallas Opera's Season Finale, The Magic Flute
March 14, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Those of us who already snatched up free tickets to the simulcast of The Magic Flute at Cowboys Stadium suspected the show would also be held at the Winspear Opera...
Featured Entry
Addison Youth Win SXSW High School Short Film Category
March 14, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Boom from Daniel Matyas on Vimeo.Twenty-three selections were accepted into the SXSW Film Festival's High School Short Film category, but only one was able to win the prize. It went...
Featured Entry
Bust A Gut: Dallas Comedy Festival is Almost Here
March 14, 2012 in The Mixmaster
FrankenMatt dares to be clingy.Dallas Comedy House took a bath in funny pheromones then baited in talent from across the country for this year's Dallas Comedy Festival, which runs from...
Featured Entry
Calling Dallas Artists: Sell Your Work And Fund A Microloan
March 14, 2012 in The Mixmaster
The bat signal is up. Whole Foods in Fairview is searching for artists. The event, Whole Foods Market Art Fair, is being held on March 31 from noon to 6...
Featured Entry
Teach Your Dog Good Manners At These Inexpensive Training Classes
March 13, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Meet my dog, Nacho. He's currently devouring Dallas.Adopting that dog was such a good idea... until you got to know each other. He is a Tasmanian devil of destruction, consuming...
Featured Entry
SYTYCD's Courtney Galiano Discusses Dancing Into Adulthood
March 13, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Courtney mid-jump, photo by Michael HigginsCourtney Galiano, is one of those amazing women that got started early and never slowed down to nap. When faced with leaving high school and...
Featured Entry
Texas Theatre Screens New Troma Flick, Father's Day, Tonight. Resolve Your Daddy Issues.
March 13, 2012 in The Mixmaster
THIS VIDEO IS NSFW. Working for Troma is the adult version of your childhood "I want to go to Space Camp!" dream. When your family explained how much the astronaut...
Featured Entry
Major Rager: The Anger Room Wants You To Destroy Stuff.
March 12, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Dallas, you've allowed your rage to build up like an emotional credit report and now you've got to work through it. You could try therapy, but that requires effort and...
Featured Entry
Rare Film Posters That Kept An Attic Warm, Now Fetching Hundreds of Thousands at Dallas Auction
March 12, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Grey Smith knew that he'd stumbled upon something glorious when he first got the call: batches of old movie posters were found in a Pennsylvania attic during an estate sale,...
Featured Entry
See Russell Young's Collection And Spy On The Artist, Simultaniously
March 12, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Dirty Pretty Things, Russell YoungRussell Young's career started off with a bit of Faith -- an album sleeve's worth, in fact. He shot the photographic insert for that famous George...
Featured Entry
Welcome Robert Stein, New Deputy Director Of The DMA
March 09, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Welcome Robert Stein, the DMA's new Deputy DirectorWell Dallas, we've lassoed in another one. Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, Maxwell Anderson, has brought his former collaborator...
Featured Entry
Rad Time-Lapse Music Video Of Nintendo Graffiti Wall
March 09, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Kid NES and co-conspirator Eder gave Deep Ellum the gift of Nintendo last month when they painted the promotional mural for Vinyl Thoughts' newest collectable toy show, The Next Level....
