Picture this: You and your sweetheart have been dating for a while, and it’s been going well. You’ve spent holidays with each other’s families. You’re (mostly) OK with each other’s cleanliness habits. You like each other’s pets — and more important, they like you. Things are getting good. You start…
February is the time to celebrate the love in our lives. Now that Leslie Knope (played by Amy Poehler) in Parks and Recreation has gifted us the notion of Galentine’s Day, we can officially recognize that love extends beyond romance. What a relief. There are tons of things in Dallas for…
Move over, Meghan Markle. there’s a new royal couple in town. Fort Worth couple Adam Mandel and Whitney Wicker were the grand prize winners of a “royal wedding contest” from White Castle. Yes, the burger joint. Because nothing says happily ever after like a stack of sliders — at least,…
At 2 p.m. Saturday, Exposition Avenue was completely empty except for a handful of people dressed head-to-toe in mid-’60s garb. As they filed inside Eight Bells Alehouse they were greeted by other men and women who were also decked out in everything from flowery headbands to long, curly wigs; fringe…
You’ve heard Duke Ellington, but never like this. Richard DeRosa, Grammy nominee and professor of jazz arranging at the University of North Texas, co-produced an album of modernized works by Ellington, a jazz legend. It’s called Rediscovered Ellington. Fans of Ellington’s toe-tapping “Hey Baby,” which he recorded with Rosemary Clooney…
If you’re going to the Casey Donahew concert tomorrow, bring diapers. The country music star and his team are collecting items for victims of Harvey the hurricane-turned-tropical storm, which has dumped nearly 50 inches of water on the Houston area alone. In response, Donahew plans to haul an empty cargo…
“Some people are driven to compete and others aren’t,” says Dr. Pamela Mia Paul, the regents professor of piano at the University of North Texas College of Music, says of graduate student Baolong Zhang. The graduate artist certificate student at the University of North Texas in the College of Music,…
For decades The House That Jock Built has been more than just a club; it has been a second home to many in South Dallas. By day it’s a youth hangout spot, and by night it’s a dance club/pool hall for adults. But after surviving 45 years in business, Dallas…
Tift Merritt will play at Three Links on Saturday, Feb. 25. Coming hard and fast on the heels of a divorce, Tift Merritt’s sixth album Stitch of the World could almost be considered a breakup album. Almost, except that seems a little too simple for the poetry Merritt spins, and…
Just trying to talk over the general noise at Opening Bell coffee shop in the Cedars was a struggle for Becky Middleton on Sunday. “I sang for two people last night,” she explained, and then cleared her throat to emphasize the strain. Known for her powerful vocals, she often records…
Who says celebrity status has to be a bad thing? Rhett Miller of Old 97’s is using his name this weekend to raise money and awareness for people who suffer daily from a deadly disease. The Dallas native, who now lives in New York with his family, is headed back…
At 41, classical pianist Eva Brandys just released her first EP to tell the story of her life. It’s an EP that almost never happened, for many reasons, but now she hopes to create many more songs. Brandys, who grew up in communist-era Poland, started playing piano at 8 years…
The newly opened Lounge Here on Garland Road and the boutique under construction next door could be regarded as departures for the woman who owns them, Julie Doyle. She’s the co-manager of the choral rock band Polyphonic Spree, but Doyle sees these new outlets as just another medium to reach…
McKinney resident Ruth Thompson had a dream. Actually, she had the same dream two nights in a row. Her dream was about opening a nonprofit restaurant that employs adults with special needs, and after the second night her husband told her, “We’re going to have to do this.” And that was that…
Move over, Grandma, this ain’t your kind of comfort food. At least not anymore. Sugarbacon Proper Kitchen opened earlier this week in Lakewood Shopping Center, replacing the long-standing Dixie House that occupied the space at the corner of Gaston Avenue and Abrams Road for more than 35 years. After Dixie…
In downtown McKinney, near the end of a long row of antique shops, clothing boutiques and locally owned restaurants, is a large wooden cupboard sitting on the sidewalk. Words painted at the top read, “Little Free Pantry: Take what you need leave what you can.” Inside are hundreds of food…
Demi Lovato With Nick Jonas American Airlines Center, Dallas Monday, Sept. 12, 2016 Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas came home last night, and they’re all grown up. Or, at least, that’s the sentiment they wanted the audience to feel at last night’s Future Now concert at the American Airlines Center. Although…
Max Hartman, the lead singer of the band Mur, turned to his music after he grew tired of losing loved ones. “I’ve been to an amazing number of funerals of people who one way or another took their own lives, or accidentally OD’d or got themselves killed,” Hartman says. “That’s something…
Heart With Joan Jett and the Black Hearts and Cheap Trick Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Thursday, August 18, 2016 Everyone and their mom was at Gexa Energy Pavillon on Thursday night. That’s not just a bad joke. (OK, it is a bad joke, but it’s not only a bad joke.)…
The rock walls of the Old Dirty Basement under J&J’s Pizza in Denton shuddered on Saturday night as the Dallas-based band Triangulum warmed up with some spacey tunes. “I’ve always wanted to play here,” says band member Cody McPhail. “It’s legendary.” This would be the first and last time he’d have…
It’s a good thing Jason Burt has a knack for making music, because he’s not sure what else he would do. “Honestly, I was fired from every job I ever had,” he says, and he’s only half joking. There wasn’t anything else Burt cared about as much as he cares…
It was just before sunset on a weeknight and a crowd gathered on the lawn at the Belmont Hotel, settling onto colorful blankets and low, sloping couches that faced the Dallas skyline. The dress code appeared to be loose fitting, earth-toned clothing. Cigarettes – no vapor, the real kind with…
