The Suicide Crisis Center of North Texas has been in operation since 1968, and it offers a 24-hour crisis hotline that receives about 1,500 calls per month, as well as trained counselors to serve in a suicide survivors support group. In 2007, Yvonne Crum met Margie Wright, the executive director…
Now Broadway’s longest-running musical, The Phantom of the Opera is a classic that every theater nerd knows well. Revamped by Cameron Mackintosh, the musical theater-producing legend, this year’s North American tour is a fresh take on Broadway’s classic. The cast and 52-piece orchestra are here thanks to the Dallas Summer…
With Tim Tebow’s celebrity influence and his brother Robby Tebow’s guidance and football expertise, Jake McEntire’s script about two brothers growing up in the South was coming to life at a live football game. “When you have Tim Tebow as one of the producers … it’s very helpful,” says Jake…
What is there to say about Taylor Swift that hasn’t been said before? She’s the princess of pop, the queen of open letters to streaming services, the goddess of breakup and beef songs. There’s nothing she can’t or won’t do at this point. But even with all she’s accomplished, it…
NF was in a cage. Bebe Rexha’s top fell off. Calvin Harris was nowhere to be seen. This was Tuesday night’s iHeart Radio Jingle Ball 2018 in a nutshell as the nationwide star-studded tour kicked off with a bang in Dallas at the American Airlines Center. Some of the best…
Scotty McCreery was humbled from the first moment he won Season 10 of American Idol. The 17-year-old at the time had to fly back home to North Carolina right after the show’s season finale for an AP English test the next morning. “I guess that kind of grounded me pretty…
People still recognize Jeff Timmons at the grocery store all these years later. “A lot of people come up to me and say, ‘Hey, where do I know you from?’” Timmons tells us over the phone. “I’ve got like a 98 Degree tattoo on my arm, so it’s pretty obvious.”…
Whether you know her powerful voice and curly blonde hair from pop hits like “Should’ve Been Us” and “Dear No One” or her soulful duet with Ed Sheeran “I Was Made For Loving You,” or maybe as the voice of the shy elephant in the animated film Sing, Tori Kelly…
Sue Sylvester would be horrified at Jane Lynch’s fight for the arts in schools and communities. Or so we think. Lynch, who played Sylvester, the musical-hating cheerleading coach in the hit show Glee, is hosting Dallas Summer Musical’s Best of Broadway Gala. Lynch is joined by none other than Matthew Morrison, who…
In 2009, Lauren Chism was an accountant who decided to design her own wedding invitations. “I still to this day don’t know why I thought I could do this, but it changed the course of my life,” the Lake Highland resident says. Now an award-winning card designer, Chism does what…
Ed Sheeran is a powerhouse. On Saturday, a scruffy, once-homeless ginger in baggy jeans wowed 60,000 people at AT&T Stadium. Now one of the biggest artists in the world, Sheeran filled the Cowboys’ home with his record-breaking hit songs, and all with just a guitar. And what he did with…
If we could hear God sing, he would probably sound like Josh Groban. “I’m a Pisces, I like Japanese food, I play the piano sometimes, I don’t know,” Groban says, laughing at his own attempt at describing himself. “When it comes to my music it’s kind of been hard to…
NEEDTOBREATHE is “the biggest band that none of your friends know of,” said the band’s lead singer, Bear Rinehart, during their sold-out show in Irving on Friday. The group introduced themselves as a rock ‘n’ roll band, but truthfully they are often categorized as a Christian band. In an interview…
Troye Sivan’s voice both in the studio and onstage is killer. The man is radiating with star power. Yes, he’s a successful YouTuber. Yes, he’s a gay icon. But above all, Sivan is a brilliant performer. Sivan started The Bloom Tour on Friday night in Dallas at the Toyota Music Factory…
The video of Troye Sivan strutting through the Rose Bowl with Taylor Swift as a guest at Swift’s concert reached more than 7 million likes on Instagram. But Sivan is now back onstage with a new woman by his side — a newbie to stardom. Kim Petras is a force…
The world’s biggest a cappella group is coming back to its hometown. Three out of five of Pentatonix’s members were classmates at Martin High School in Arlington, but it seems the entire group is excited to return. “Oh, my gosh, we’re always excited to come back to Dallas. I mean, that’s their…
Eight years have passed since Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush released their last album as the country duo Sugarland, but they’ve come back with a real treat — a collaboration with Taylor Swift. Together with Swift they released “Babe,” and all three appear in the music video, which has generated…
Craig Wayne Boyd won The Voice Season 7, the show’s highest rated season, singing a song that hit No. 1 on Billboard’s American country music charts. The Dallas-bred country singer, who won the singing competition with Blake Shelton as his coach, is returning to his hometown Sunday for a benefit…
The owner of Oak Cliff bookstore The Wild Detectives became aware of literary gender inequality and wanted to do something about it. He approached Lauren Smart, who was then the arts editor for the Dallas Observer and now works as a professor at Southern Methodist University, to program an entire month…
The trio Haim proved its undeniable talent Thursday. Sisters Este, Danielle and Alana put on an unforgettable show at Southside Ballroom. They stood out from their opening act, Lizzo, who, accompanied with her leotard-clad dancers and DJ, gave the audience an eyeful of twerking that it was not quite ready…
Fans still have to wait two months to hear 5 Seconds of Summer’s third album, but that didn’t stop the boys from giving Thursday night’s audience a sneak peek of what’s to come. “We have a third record coming, out and we just couldn’t wait,” says Michael Clifford, the lead…
Stephanie Johnson may or may not have gotten married at the airport to a man she just met and then spent a month traveling with. Lifetime’s new show Love at First Flight brings together four perfectly matched couples to meet for the first time and then sends them off on…
