By The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News culture podcast
The Dallas Book Festival is Sat., April 30 at the Dallas Public Library. We discuss Lauren Smart's piece on the city's ongoing ambitions to become a literary city. Also, culture critic Chris Vognar and arts and culture editor Christopher Wynn...
'Mixed Media' listeners get an exclusive first listen to co-host Christopher Wynn's new pop-up podcast, 'Strange.' In this debut episode, four Texans tell their true stories of an encounter with the strange. Author Virginia Savage McAlester reveals for the...
We dive into Ben Ratliff's new book 'Every Song Ever,' a listening guide for the age of musical plenty.
Dallas Morning News pop music critic Hunter Hauk, DMN culture critic Chris Vognar and Dallas Observer arts & culture editor Lauren Smart talk shop with DMN arts and culture editor Christopher Wynn about the new music (and old acts) they...
Dallas Morning News culture critic Chris Vognar talks with 'Bernie' screenwriter and 'Texas Monthly' executive editor Skip Hollandsworth about Hollandsworth' new book 'Midnight Assassin,' the story of Austin's infamous serial killer.
The so-called 'Cliburn curse' is being recalled after a virtuoso pianist's wife was charged with killing their 2 daughters in a Fort Worth suburb. ' Dallas Morning News' contributing classical music critic Scott Cantrell discusses the strange tragedy and the...
Listen to 'Dallas Morning News' theater critic Nancy Churnin's conversation with actors Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw. From 1970's ‘Love Story’ to 2016's ‘Love Letters,’ feelings still linger between the friends and actors. O’Neal laughs, listens, teases and flirts with...
Listen to 'Dallas Morning News' writer and 'Mixed Media' contributor Michael Granberry's exclusive conversation with 81-year-old screen icon Sophia Loren. Loren has shared the silver screen with Charlton Heston, Peter Sellers, Clark Gable, Marcello Mastroianni, Paul Newman, Cary Grant...
Dallas Morning News pop music critic Hunter Hauk files this audio report from Austin. "What you're hearing behind me is Sixth Street, South by Southwest," Hauk says. "The least melodic mashup of sounds you could ever hear — and it...
Even the Speed Metal band playing outside his Austin hotel room can't stop 'Dallas Morning News' culture critic Chris Vognar from filing his latest dispatch. Vognar reviews the new documentary 'Dream is Destiny' about Texas director Richard Linklater ('Boyhood,' 'Dazed...
Dallas Morning News culture critic and Mixed Media co-host Chris Vognar files his first short report from Austin's South By Southwest 2016. This episode, he talks 'Sidemen: Long Road to Glory' and 'Miss Sharon Jones!' Follow him on Twitter...
On today's show: Days before #OscarsSoWhite, Dallas Morning News interactive editor Dana Amihere has studied the last 20 years of Oscars acting data - she'll discuss the surprising results. We'll examine the "People Vs. O.J. Simpson" mini-series. Will Marcia Clark...
We take a look a the life of David Bowie and the influences he had on local artist. We take a look at the Netflix serie "Making or a Murderer" and the buzz it has generated. We talk to co-owner...
On our final episode of 2015, we discuss the year in culture including our favorite books, movies, TV shows and, yes, podcasts; Dallas Morning News pop music critic Hunter Hauk joins us to talk memorable songs; and we offer our...
We talk with Dallas filmmaker Steven Pomerantz on his documentary "Taking Back Oak Lawn" after the latest string of attacks and robberies in the neighborhood. Then, a review of Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq," hitting theaters on Friday, December 4th. Finally,...
We talk with Dallas native son Rhett Miller about the myth of being a rock star, his new album and his concert this Saturday. Then, how does placing art in a museum change its context? The 'Dallas Observer's Lauren Smith...
Mixed Media's Christopher Wynn previews a segment from his pop-up podcast 'Strange' featuring a true short tale by 'Welcome to Night Vale' co-creator (and native Texan) Jeffrey Cranor.
On a special Halloween episode, North Texas author, 'monster hunter' and UFO expert Nick Redfern discusses the mysteries lurking around Dallas and beyond. Next, scary movies. We love them and so does 'Dallas Morning News' staffer Dawn Burkes, who...
Writer, director and University of Texas at Dallas professor Thomas Riccio and actor Eddie Khan discuss "DP92," a new metaphysical sci-fi thriller from Dallas-based experimental performance group, Dead White Zombies. Next, the new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
Curator Aja Martin brings us inside Friday's Aurora Dallas art exhibition. Chris Vognar and DMN Books Editor Mike Merschel preview the Texas Book Festival, happening Saturday and Sunday in Austin. And Vognar breaks down the new monthly science fiction film...
Dallas composer Donald Fowler discusses the debut of his long-awaited Jack the Ripper-inspired musical, '#Creep.' 'Dallas Morning News' architecture critic Mark Lamster talks about museums, architecture and the #Nasher Prize. And 'FD' magazine's Christopher Wynn revisits his story about Dallas...
'Tinker Belles and Evil Queens' author and SMU film professor Sean Griffin discusses the rise in LGBT themes and characters in entertainment and the new Queer cinema. Next, Dallas Contemporary's Justine Ludwig talks about her curatorial mission to add heat...
Award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist Mary Karr joins us to talk about her new book, 'The Art of Memoir.' Next, Dallas' Sarah Hamilton discusses directing Upstart Productions' new play, 'Dry Land', about female friendships and abortion. Finally, Chris Vognar talks...
Dallas Morning News staff writer Avi Selk joins us to talk about his story that broke the internet involving a Muslim boy, a homemade clock, and handcuffs. Next, we journey into Dallas’ underground world of lucha lubra, the masked-and-costumed Mexican...
On this special episode of the Mixed Media podcast, Dallas Morning News writer Avi Selk discusses his story about Irving ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed, a Muslim boy who was arrested for bringing to school a homemade digital clock that some thought...
Lauren Smart talks about her Dallas Observer cover story on how Dallas libraries are striving to survive in a digital world. (Hint: A library podcast called Street View for downtown's homeless citizens. We're not kidding.) Next, workout culture — is...
Host Chris Vognar calls in from the Venice Film Festival and Dallas independent filmmaker Jason Reimer takes his spot in the studio. We consider the continued fallout from that promotional video for Alpha Phi at the University of Alabama. (You...
Dallas Morning News staff writer Alan Peppard talks about his interview with Kidd Kraddick Morning Show co-host Jenna Owens for the September issue of FD magazine (including Owens’ racy Instagram account and her obsession with serial killers). Next, ready for...
On episode 13 of Mixed Media: Dallas royal Owen Wilson is taking his career down a new path in No Escape, a movie Wilson says being a father helped define. We talk about it all with writer Michael Granberry, who...
We review the new film, 'Straight Outta Compton,' about the controversial rise and fall of Compton, California gangsta rap group N.W.A. Next, Dallas Morning News intern Emma Court joins us to discuss her essay for the Modern Love column in...
On episode 11 of Mixed Media: Dallas filmmaker Barak Epstein talks about the 10th anniversary release of his campy sexploitation comedy Prison-A-Go-Go! Then, Dallas Morning News investigative journalist Doug Swanson discusses the paperback release of his book, Blood Aces:...
On today’s show, Dallas Morning News pop music critic Hunter Hauk and News staff writer Brandon Formby help us overanalyze things. Formby attempts to explain “Deez Nutz” and how Snoop Dogg and Dallas' Central Expressway are involved. Then, the fifth...
We geek out with Dallas Morning News super nerds Britton Peele and Mike Merschel. First, the group chats with 'Ready Player One' author Ernest Cline about his new book, 'Armada,' and what it feels like to have Steven Spielberg anoint...
'Go Set a Watchman,' the much-hyped companion novel to Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' dropped yesterday amid Harry Potter levels of hoopla. We discuss the book, the backlash and how 'Watchman' may complicate Lee’s legacy. Next,...
We discuss the new documentary, 'Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot,' about Dallas Mavericks superstar Dirk Nowitzki. Next, we learn some new tricks from Dallas magician Confetti Eddie, who is making waves in Exposition Park with his irreverent blend of magic, illusion,...
Dallas Morning News restaurant critic Leslie Brenner and Al Dia managing editor Alfredo Carbajal join us to talk about producing the paper’s first-ever completely bilingual interactive about the rise of new-wave Mexican cuisine in Dallas. Next, we have our first...
Nasher Sculpture Center director Jeremy Strick talks about the new exhibit by British artist Phyllida Barlow, ‘Tryst’, and the announcement of a $100,000 Nasher Prize for Sculpture. Next, thanks to historic flooding, the Trinity River is suddenly a hot cultural...
Author Jacob Silverman talks about his new book, 'Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection.' Next, Will Evans, the founder of Dallas indie publisher Deep Vellum is here to talk about what’s next with his growing...
Chris Harrison, longtime host of ABC’s hit shows 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' joins us in studio to talk about love, life and his debut romance novel, 'The Perfect Letter.' Joining us for that conversation is the new editor of...
Dallas writer Sarah Hepola talks about her new memoir, 'Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget.' Then, physician and Dallas Morning News staff writer Seema Yasmin discusses her new story about the trend in so-called “intimate” plastic surgery for...
Award-winning Texas writer Merritt Tierce talks bout her new profile FD magazine of transgender synthesizer artist Liz Larsen. Next, we talk about Ochre House Theater's new play, 'The Egg Salesman,' and consider the anomaly of the small theater company in...
