The Jonas Brothers come home but can’t tell anyone because Diplo hacked their Instagram. The pre-show energy was electric Wednesday night, as a packed American Airlines Center got ready to welcome back their favorite band of brothers. Maybe you could partially attribute the vibes to the openers, Olivia Somerlyn and…
Oh, Caroline Calloway. She’s trending on Twitter. The Instagram influencer’s drama has reached every major publication in the country. But is she likable, or just another person we can’t stop watching? Calloway is fresh out of her viral tour, the one we compared with Fyre Festival early this year, recovering…
If you ever wished you could go to Coachella in your yoga pants, there’s a new festival for you. “The funny thing is people love to use that phrase, ‘Coachella meets fitness festival’,” says Mai Lyn Ngo, founder and CEO of the Dallas Fitness Ambassadors. “And I wish I could…
The American Airlines Center’s sidewalks are spray painted with the words: “Backstreet’s Back in Dallas.” Fans are filing in sporting “YOU ARE MY FIRE” t-shirts and other ’90s memorabilia. They’re lining up for pictures with a giant poster of the Backstreet Boys, wearing all-white, from their legendary “I Want It…
School’s in. Maybe you’re a freshman and you’re in a new, exciting place, or maybe you’ve been around awhile. It’s your third, fourth, 10th year at a university, and it’s getting hard to sit in dinky lecture halls and pretend you care about the syllabus. Maybe you need some motivation,…
That’s it. You’ve found the one. As the sun sets in the horizon, you can hear a triumphant love ballad playing in your mind like the end of a rom-com as you stare into the eyes of your new forever. You feel like a freaking Disney Princess, it’s so perfect…
Madison Whitehead stared at the 40-foot shipping container sitting in her backyard. The drywall wouldn’t stay up, it leaked when it rained and she was way over budget. The plan was simple. She was opening the women’s fitness studio of her dreams. Whitehead’s dad told her he’d let her use…
You get three wishes. And if your three wishes are all to watch Aladdin, you’re in luck. If you live in Dallas, there are three ways to do so right now. Obviously, there’s the original 1992 Disney film in all its animated glory, with a genie brought to life by…
While the rest of us blame autocorrect for our misspellings, kids are still taking spelling to new competitive levels, and for the first time ever in its 92 years, the Scripps National Spelling Bee Championship had an eight-way tie. Three of the winners came from the North Texas area, and…
Thanks to social media, better camera phones and misleading filters, it seems like everyone these days thinks that they’re professional photographers. But on platforms like Instagram, populated by millions of amateurs insulting your sophisticated visual taste with insipid pictures of food and selfies with cat filters, the professionals stand out…
Sophie McGuire is a 17-year-old blogger living her best life in Highland Park. You can find her shopping at the Highland Park Village, taking pictures for her fashion blog, Much Love Sophie, or for her Instagram, which has close to 16,000 followers. We asked McGuire to meet in a thrift…
If you’re looking for a light laugh or some stress relief from a hard week’s work, Dallas Summer Musicals’ Miss Saigon is not for you. The musical embraces heavy themes that leave your heart pumping, your eyes tearing and your mind racing. This year’s run at Music Hall at Fair Park…
Most days, you could spot Truman Wilson skateboarding home from his Highland Park middle school, in a rush to play Fortnite or to tend to his homework, and you might recognize his spiky blond hair and black-rimmed glasses from the logo on the Truman Bar chocolates. This 14-year-old might be…
We’ve all felt that awkward freezing feeling creep in when facing a homeless person, as a plethora of questions form quickly into an inner monologue. We ask ourselves whether we have spare change, whether it’s safe to roll down the window and whether the light will turn green before we…
Toyota Music Factory filled up two nights in a row this week to see one of the biggest names in Christian music. Religious or not, you might know them from their biggest hit, “Oceans,” which spent 13 weeks at Billboard’s Top 100 in 2014, going certified double platinum. With Kardashians…
During the 15th annual Diversity & Leadership Conference last week, actress and activist America Ferrera came to talk about inclusion. The event was a Most Powerful & Influential Women Breakfast on Thursday morning, toward the end of the conference that would later feature President Barack Obama. The Golden Globe and…
Is Hamilton overhyped? The musical created by some guy from Puerto Rico about a treasury secretary in the 1700s set to hip-hop sounds a little strange. With all the buzz around it, it seems bound to be. Dallas doesn’t seem to think so, though. We’ve been waiting for this hit…
On Sunday mornings across the world, thousands of people in thousands of churches worship through song. They sing songs like “The Stand,” “Hosanna,” “So Will I” and “Oceans” — all written by Hillsong UNITED. Hillsong UNITED is a band formed in Australia through youth group meetings. Jonathon Douglass, one of…
The rumors of St. Petersburg have finally arrived in Dallas. The beloved tale of the Princess Anastasia is touring for the first time and has set up shop at the Music Hall at Fair Park. But swap out Rasputin and the talking bat with communism. “We think of it as…
Caroline Calloway’s infamous workshop tour is making a stop in Dallas. Calloway, an Instagram influencer who is known for sharing the most intimate moments of her life, has detailed her ups and downs, her relationships and her heartbreaks with lengthy Instagram captions for a few years. The captions got her…
Justin Timberlake brought sexy back. Three times. His Man of the Woods tour stopped in Dallas last May for two dates and came back around for a third time, eight months later. We apparently just couldn’t get enough. Timberlake threw a party. Literally, he had his stage set up with…
Jesse McCartney. Remember him? Listen to “Beautiful Soul” and it might ring a bell. Chances are someone you know had a poster of him, a CD of his or at the very least, a crush on him. McCartney was the king of Radio Disney in the early 2000s, singing his…
