Our Dallas girl is engaged! Sound the alarms. Tell the person in the next cubicle. Call your grandmother. The first-ever black Bachelorette and Dallas native Rachel Lindsay has found love. ABC announced in February that Lindsay is the object of attention for the thirteenth season of “The Bachelorette.” Since then, she…
Your dreams have come true. There is a Real Housewives of Oak Cliff on YouTube. But it’s unclear what’s happening in any of the episodes – there are two seasons, each with seven – so please do us a favor and sit down and watch them and let us know…
There are two sides to Miranda Lambert. One minute she is holding up her fingers in the shape of a gun, singing about shooting an abusive boyfriend and the next she is alone with her acoustic guitar singing a soft, slow song about wishing away her broken heart. Lambert came…
The former mayor of Colleyville is now a sexpert. Well, kind of. In 2007, after several years of marriage, Donna Arp Weitzman and her husband divorced. No longer the mayor of Colleyville and looking to start over, Weitzman moved to a high-rise in Dallas and began dating. She was 55…
When the beat drops, it doesn’t matter where you are or what you’re doing. Your body needs to move. There are the typical places to dance in Dallas, but they are not the only places. Here’s a look at some of the usual and unusual places to dance in Dallas. As…
Once again, someone broke into Oak Lawn Coffee on Tuesday night. The two baristas who opened the independent coffee shop Wednesday found rocks and a shattered door frame. Inside, digital tablets used for a loyalty program had been taken. This is the fourth time that the establishment has been targeted by…
Wedding planning is such a chore. Well, we wouldn’t know because we are super single, but all our friends who are planning their fairytale weddings make it seem like one. There are so many people to hire and boss around, and sometimes you just want to do all of your…
Mermaids are real. At least that’s what one Austin-based company wants you to believe. Sirenalia is an all-inclusive mermaid production company. That means they sell mermaid tails and tops and hire out mermaids to attend your events. Starting at $275, a mermaid can – and probably should – be the…
Ivy Awino knows everybody in American Airlines Center. And that’s not much of an exaggeration. It’s 5 p.m. Tuesday and the Dallas Mavericks will take the court in roughly three hours to play their last game of the season. Awino, the team’s DJ — now better known by her DJ…
RaeLynn performs at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Klyde Warren Park. Admission is free. When RaeLynn’s debut album WildHorse went No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart, her husband didn’t know it even happened because he’s deployed. RaeLynn doesn’t name his location or which military branch Josh Davis serves, but…
The staff at the Dallas Zoo named their newborn lion cub Behati Moja, which means “lucky one” in Swahili. The cub, the first African lion born at the zoo in 40 years, earned the name. We spoke to Lora Baumhardt, a mammal specialist at the zoo, about the cub and her mother, about the dramatic late March delivery and the careful plan to introduce Behati to her father.
Little Women: Dallas first invaded our homes last November. Now the spinoff series of Little Women: LA is back to finish what it started. Season one capped off in December with eight episodes, but there is more to show. Will Asta Young and her husband open a bar? Will Tiffani Chance…
Rumors of young drug dealers pressuring classmates swirled in Oak Cliff schools after an 11-year-old student at Stockard Middle School killed himself last week. In response, DISD officials sent out a drug detection dog to middle schools. The dog’s first stop was March 20 at Stockard Middle School and there were no…
Last week, 11-year-old and L.V. Stockard Middle School student Julio Ortiz killed himself after being bullied. Last night, more than 100 people gathered inside a church in Oak Cliff, to discuss hot to stop it from happening again. The Hope City Dallas church and its nonprofit, volunteer Hope City Dream Center hosted the…
CHiPs, the 1970s TV show starring Erik Estrada as Ponch and Larry Wilcox as Jon Baker, has gotten a movie update starring Dax Shepard (Baker) and Michael Pena (Ponch). Shepard also wrote and directed the action comedy about two California highway patrolmen, which opens in theaters nationwide today. Shepard and Pena were…
Good news for people who love shows about shows starring married couples who remodel homes in Waco. Chip and Joanna Gaines, the stars of HGTV’s Fixer Upper, are about to invade your TVs for another hour or so with Behind the Design. The Gaines’, who are currently in New York,…
As I sat in the Applebee’s booth surrounded by old women wearing gloves in 80-degree weather, my heart pounded. Mandy Moore’s “Only Hope” from the movie A Walk to Remember played over the restaurant’s speakers. This was my only hope. Applebee’s promotion for the month of March is the flailing…
Last week, a 6-month-old infant died after his babysitter used her cellular phone to call 911 three times without getting an answer. When someone picked up, the babysitter languished on hold for a half hour before getting assistance. The City of Dallas labeled the issue as “ghost calls” from phones on the…
On TV, Kitty Carter is harsh and abrasive and honest to Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders hopefuls. In real life, she’s the same. But the TV only shows the cruel words, not the hugs she gives after. Kitty Carter is a former DCC, a dance studio owner, wife and mother of three…
Country Living, a magazine that sits in a pine needle basket in your mother’s sewing room, is giving away a trip to Waco as part of its sweepstakes prize. Yes, Waco, the town you pass through to get to other cities. The one that has recently been rocked by sexual…
Two robots made debuts in Dallas last week, each promising ways to help humans with automation — or at least save them some legwork. One is called Knightscope, a police robot that serves as one part pack mule, one part guard dog. Stacy Stephens is a former Coppell PD police officer and co-founder of…
Every time a vehicle passes over a pothole, as we feel ourselves bounce in our seats in slow motion, we die a little. And then we cuss the city of Dallas, the mayor, construction workers, God, etc., saying that we don’t deserve this kind of hell. Potholes seem to be everywhere in…
