It’s a wonderful afternoon. You’re sitting in one of Babe’s Chicken Dinner House’s many North Texas locations. A mannequin sits in the chair next to you. Quirky signs depicting John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe line the wall. A young woman asks you if you’ve been there before. Yes, you say,…
The Dallas World Aquarium is gaining international interest, this time for good. As part of its documentary series, Earth From Space, BBC is documenting the DWA’s project in which a team of veterinarians, biologists and conservationists have rescued and released five rehabilitated Amazonian manatees back into their natural environment near Iquitos, Peru…
It’s the only news you need for this gloomy Monday. Country megastar turned pop star and tabloid goddess Taylor Swift has announced her tour for her just-released album, reputation (lowercase r). Swift will headline AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Oct. 6. It’s the last date in the announcement of her…
Straight from his hosting gig at the 41st annual CMAs, country musician Brad Paisley landed in Dallas for a surprise performance during Kershaw’s Challenge Live Benefit Concert. Kershaw’s Challenge is a nonprofit “committed to transforming the lives of children, in America, Africa and the Dominican Republic, through Jesus Christ,” according…
On Monday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas, the show’s producer, Andy Cohen, questioned Housewife LeeAnne Locken about her violent past and an alleged police record. The episode was part one of the second season’s reunion. Highlights from the season were re-aired, including scenes in which Locken is in…
This is not a drill. Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Hearth and Hand with Magnolia line has officially arrived at Target. The Waco couple’s line of home and kitchen decor, with a few random journals thrown in, is kind of hard for us to wrap our minds around. But we are…
Last week, Southwest Airlines announced its plan to have in-flight concerts on about 20 flights per year. The airline partnered with Warner Music Nashville for this concert series, meaning most acts will be country music. Flying is torturous enough, but when you add to the equation a live performance of country…
Rolling Stone published an interview last week with one of R. Kelly’s ex-girlfriends, Kitti Jones, a former Dallas DJ for radio station 97.9 The Beat. The interview follows BuzzFeed’s July article detailing R. Kelly’s alleged sex cult of women. Jones says Kelly forbade her from leaving her room, going to…
During season two of the reboot of the ’90s classic Full House, Netflix’s Fuller House introduced fans to Kimmy Gibbler’s brother Jimmy. Kimmy, whose character has been the annoying neighbor since the original series, now has a ditzy and hunky counterpart. The actor playing Jimmy is Dallas’ Adam Hagenbuch. Jimmy Gibbler…
During season two of The Real Housewives of Dallas, LeeAnne Locken starts a rumor about the husband of fellow Housewife Cary Deuber. “Her husband gets his dick sucked at the Round-Up. I know the boys who did it,” a drugged-up Locken confesses to fellow Housewife Brandi Redmond before a plastic surgery…
What’s it like to have millions of dollars to blow on fantasy gifts from the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book? We don’t have an effing clue. But we used our imagination. Here are four made-up stories about the people buying this year’s fantasy gifts. Get Madame Alexander dolls for a year,…
Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff hits bookstores everywhere today. The book is written by Chip Gaines of Waco, aka one-half of HGTV’s Fixer Upper. We read the book to fully understand how stupid stuff can lead to smart things and more about what the “rugged and handsome”…
The fair is old. About 131 years old. My grandmother is almost as old. She turned 100-and-a-half last month. The fair is also steeped with tradition. Every year, people pile in and trade their hard-earned money for fair coupons, then trade in the fair coupons for fried food that makes…
Before the show began, Kate Beasley, 23, and Lily Mahmoud, 16, began chatting. They both went to the Harry Styles show solo, and bonded over their acts devotion to the former One Direction member. Beasley drove three hours from Oklahoma to see the One Direction member and Mahmoud traveled an hour…
Hunter Allis has always loved playing video games. But unlike some fellow 14-year-olds, Hunter’s interest goes beyond simply playing the games. He dreamed of someday creating them. Hunter was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, in which one side of the organ is weaker than the other. He’s had four open-heart…
Jeanine Amapola is sitting in her Dallas bedroom putting on makeup and talking to the camera about her life — including dating, how she doesn’t feel good enough and her faith. That video will eventually garner more than 48,000 views and pay her bills. A lot of the videos on…
In the season two premiere of The Real Housewives of Dallas, housewife Cary Deuber described new housewife Kameron Westcott as a “real-life Elle Woods.” And nothing in this world has been more accurate. If Reese Witherspoon’s character from Legally Blonde was among us in Dallas, she would be Westcott. I…
Texas country musician Josh Abbott was among the performers on the Sunday lineup of Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas. Around 4 p.m., Josh Abbott Band played a set promoting its new album, Until My Voice Goes Out. Afterward, Abbott, who is from Lubbock, retired to a room at…
When news that HGTV’s hit show Fixer Upper would come to an end after season five, the internet blew up. The stars of the show, Waco residents Chip and Joanna Gaines, announced the decision on their Magnolia Market blog via a video where in which they hold hands and say…
The Waco couple that took America by storm in 2013 by renovating one Waco home at a time announced the shocking decision on their blog Tuesday. In a post on magnoliamarket.com, a somber Joanna Gaines holds hands with her husband, the ever chipper Chip Gaines, to announce their megahit show,…
Brett Eldredge is a star. He’s also 31, unmarried and a heartthrob. Yes, he’s a single white male in country music, and that means he’s not an underdog by any means, but he should be headlining concerts. That became evident Saturday night when he opened for Luke Bryan at Starplex…
Over the weekend, I did something heroic, mind-blowing, but ultimately anticlimatic. Well, it was exciting for me but absolutely no one else. I competed in Funniest Reporter in Texas, and no, there is no video proof of it. This happened because my editor — we’ll call him Joe Pappalardo — forced…
