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Canine Cribs. These Amazing Dog Houses Were Built In Dallas.
November 01, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Woofcycled, designed and constructed by Marvelous Home Makeovers, LLCYou've caught him chewing on your Design Within Reach catalogs, so you realize that your dog has an appreciation for contemplative construction....
Ticket Giveaway: A Pair Of Passes To The 2012 AIA Dallas Tour Of Homes
October 31, 2012 in The Mixmaster
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Look At These Stunning Pictures From The 2012 AIA Dallas Tour of Homes
October 31, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Photo by Bret Janak, with home designed by architect Tom Reisenbichler, AIADue to its cobbled together nature, Dallas isn't immediately thought of as an architectural hub. We demolish and rebuild,...
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Spend Halloween With The Lost Boys And A Gorgeous Rooftop
October 31, 2012 in The Mixmaster
You've already worn that griffin outfit to a weekend's worth of get-togethers. By now it smells like a pack of Pall Mall menthols and wreckless after party decisions. Good for...
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Art Con 8 Posted the 2012 List of Participants, and There are 150 Of 'Em
October 29, 2012 in The Mixmaster
With 150 folks signed up to donate original artwork for auction, this year's Art Con 8 is shaping up to be a fundraising powerhouse. And in effort to keep the...
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The 15 Best Costumes From The Oak Lawn Block Party
October 29, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Number 15 From the Double Wide to Lee Harvey's, house parties to bar bashes, we saw Dallas power-flex its costuming muscles on Saturday night. But the eye of the storm hovered...
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Wayne White Blends Dali With Dollywood In the New Film, Beauty Is Embarrasing. See It This Weekend At Texas Theatre.
October 26, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Pee Wee's Playhouse was a collage of art forms, where furniture puppets turned into characters and wallpaper sucked you into a cross-dimensional portal. If you cracked open the snow-globe brain...
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A Mystery Solved At The DMA. A Piece Of Artwork's True Author Has Been Revealed.
October 26, 2012 in The Mixmaster
George Inness, Stream in the Mountains [formerly: In the Woods], c. 1850, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, bequest of Cecil A. Keating, 1931.6We don't often hear of...
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Second Chance: The Chinese Lantern Festival Will Reopen On November 1.
October 25, 2012 in The Mixmaster
By Mike Mezeul IIYou never made it past the gate.Remember how you swore that you'd get over to the Chinese Lantern Festival during the fair, but then got sidetracked by...
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13 Awesome Things To Do This Weekend, October 25 to 28
October 25, 2012 in The Mixmaster
It's the final weekend of Lucian Freud: Portraits.Dallas could explode this weekend, there's that much going on. Crazy Halloween parties are cropping up at all of your favorite bars, there's...
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Happy Birthday Pablo Picasso!
October 25, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Pablo Picasso: October 25, 1881 to April 8, 1973 We love ya, Pabs. Here's a little Modern Lovers to help celebrate your birthday, from your friends at Mixmaster....
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Dallas Buys 1.3 Million in Chihuly Merch, The Exhibition Gets Extended Through New Year's Eve
October 24, 2012 in The Mixmaster
The Dallas Arboretum made a bold announced this morning: Dallas, like, really loves Chihuly. The show has brought in 461,332 visitors since opening in early May with the potential to...
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Cheryl Strayed, Author of Wild and Dear Sugar, Speaks In Dallas Tonight.
October 24, 2012 in The Mixmaster
You can now see Cheryl Strayed and Sarah Hepola's program for $50.In my own life as a writer I've pit my shortcomings to things which felt seemingly out of my...
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Tonight's Free Rooftop Movie: Sid and Nancy
October 24, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Sex. Love. Dope. Violence. Rock 'n' roll. Gary Oldman. Sid Vicious and Nancy Spugen set the bar for dysfunction in punk rock coupling. Their violence drove their passion. Their daily...
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Dallas' 20 Best Halloween Events And Parties, October 25 to 31, 2012
October 23, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Don't worry if your Halloween costume hasn't come to fruition -- that'll work out. The important thing is to organize your weekend in advance. You'll want to hit all of...
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Pro Nail Princesa Keeps Dallas' Nail Game Tight
October 22, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Nail art by Pro Nail Princesa, Photograph by Catherine DownesThis is the beginning of our new series on Dallas nail artists, and we're starting if off with a woman who...
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The Ten Best Costumes From Comic Con Fan Days
October 22, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Number 10 The Irving Convention Center was taken over by aliens, intergalactic heroes and nightmare-invading villains last weekend for Comic Con Fan Days. Cult superstars Stan Lee, Bruce Campbell and the...
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Clay Stinnett Is Painting A Collection of Big Tex On Fire Pictures
October 19, 2012 in The Mixmaster
It's his JFK moment, and local outsider artist Clay Stinnett is commemorating the day by adding flames to his collection of Big Tex paintings. He's a huge fan of the...
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Saturday's Girl Show Brings LED Graffiti, Chocolate Painting and Prodigies
October 19, 2012 in The Mixmaster
By Jody PhamArtLoveMagic's longest running exhibtion, Girl Show, unlatches its boudoir doors this Saturday, October 20. It's grown so much in five years that the all-female populated and operated art...
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Our 9 Favorite Pieces of Album Art From Live Fast/Die Slow
October 19, 2012 in The Mixmaster
NUMBER NINE: By Artist Miggy Aguilar Live Fast/Die Slow, the visual component to 45 Fest, opened last night. It's made up of 37 pieces, each designed by local artists attempting to...
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16 Awesome Things To Do In Dallas This Weekend, October 18 to 22
October 18, 2012 in The Mixmaster
BRUCE CAMPBELL WILL BE AT COMIC CON THIS WEEKEND, AND SO WILL STAN LEE! Alright Dallas, I hope you took a powernap and squirreled away a minibar's worth of 12-hour energy...
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Tonight's Free Rooftop Film is Trainspotting
October 17, 2012 in The Mixmaster
THIS VIDEO IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK DUE TO BOOBS Before Slumdog Millionaire and 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle dragged us into Scottish drug addiction with Trainspotting. It's a perfect encapsulation...
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You Can Help Bring This Documentary About Halloween Obsession To Dallas
October 17, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Every small town has one: an unassuming neighborhood house that transforms into a haunted attraction at Halloween. Some are low-budget, with only a walk-through carport of oddities. Others are impassioned...
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Picasso, Matisse, Monet and Freud Were All Stolen Last Night. You Won't See Them Again For Twenty Years.
October 16, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Lucian Freud, Woman with Eyes Closed, 2002, 30,5x25,4 cm, Collection Triton Foundation Kiss her goodbye: Lucian Freud's 'Woman with Eyes Closed" was part of last night's heist.An interesting thing happened...
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ArtLoveMagic Is Now A Nationally Recognized Non-Profit. The IRS Finally Put A Rang On It.
October 15, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Time capsule pic of ArtLoveMagic founders Michael Lagocki, Justin Nygren, and David Rodriguez.In the artistic think tank of ArtLoveMagic's headquarters, exciting news has arrived. After five years of organizing and...
