I don’t care who you are–if you watched the Olympic gymnastic competition you wanted to squash He Kexin like a bug when Nastia Liukin got silver after tying on uneven bars. And your eyes welled up with happy tears when Luikin and Shawn Johnson went one-two in the all-around competition…
Walking through Neiman Marcus I inevitably end up in the menagerie of wonder that is the shoe section. As my fingers run over the Manolos and Christian Louboutins, my mind takes me to my favorite image. The one where I am wearing one of these gorgeous creations and strutting–yes, I…
We all want a scientific cure for AIDS and HIV, but that seems to be a long time coming. The realistic cure is awareness, and with Dallas leading the state in new infections, our city is in need of some. Every year Lifewalk hosts a 5K in order to do…
Oh sure, everyone at the weekend get-a-way despises each other, but what better way to bury the hatchet than with a fresh murder and by joining forces to create a fuster-cluck of a crime scene for the investigators? Agatha Christie’s The Hollow is like hot-potato…with a gun and a dead…
Nathan used to walk me home from school. He was a cute blond-headed boy, and he was sweet to me. I wrote my first love letter to him–I had to ask mom how to spell “love.” But the sleaze-ball was two-timing me with that little twit, Emily. How could he…
When I was in the second grade, I narced on a girl I caught stealing candy from the teacher’s desk. But lo and behold, she had a pretty good thing going, so I started taking those yummy, sugary snacks from the teacher too! I was teacher’s pet, and Mrs. Frost…
Forget Bigfoot, how about Purple Foot? At GrapeFest in Grapevine that is exactly what you will encounter. And actually, in the Grapestomp event there’s an award for the best purple foot. Holy grapes, this thing is huge: wine tasting, a champagne terrace, a culinary pavilion, carnival rides, arts and crafts,…
Artist Richard Wentworth said, “I find cigarette packets folded up under table legs more monumental than a Henry Moore.” Well, I would have to say that Moore’s sculptures are pretty awesome, but cigarette packs under rocking table legs are nothing short of great ingenuity and–I agree–should be highly regarded. Hear…
Dear Bridezilla, As your maid of honor, on behalf of the rest of your wedding party, I would like to make you aware of the Plano Bridal Show. Please spare us your disastrous meltdown later and attend this event now; they promise there are merchants who can help you with…
Momma always told me not to take candy from strangers, but she never said anything about beans. I don’t recall Jack’s momma, of Jack and the Beanstalk, telling him not to take beans either. Why’d she get so pissed? Plus, he’s not going to eat them; he’s going to stick…
Nothing says “Texas is a melting pot” like the Czechfest…er, I mean Westfest, held annually in West, Texas, to raise money for community projects. (Think the Texas State Fair with kolaches at every turn and polka dancing instead of roller-coaster rides.) Westfest has Brave Combo, Grammy winners from Denton, on…
