New Quarantine Dating App Is Taking Off With College Kids

As universities across the country switch to online classes to prevent the spread of COVID-19, a new need has risen for the college students of today. In comes the dating app for the age of the coronavirus shutdown. OKZoomer already has over 12,000 users signed up and has been featured by Rolling Stone, The…

Game Not Over: Arcades Are Struggling to Stay Open

Video game arcades used to be filled with beeps and boops and faces glazed with the neon glow of pixelated images. These days, they’re practically empty and the machines aren’t operating. They’ve been unplugged, and the only faces inside are the few remaining staff members looking after the place while…

What to Watch: The Dallas-Produced Films of S. Craig Zahler

We know. There is a surplus of streaming choices, and now it’s coupled with unlimited free time. Movie-watching has never made us so anxious. If you’re on a quest to discover the best of Texas filmmaking or uninterested in Tiger King (as you should be), or already finished it,  let us…

Dallas Engineer Is Teaching People How to Make Their Own Medical Masks

There’s been a wealth of misinformation surrounding the spread of coronavirus, and until Friday, there hasn’t been a consensus among official sources on whether medical masks are effective in preventing contagion. One thing we do know is that the best way to avoid contracting or spreading coronavirus is to stay…

Your Kids and Dogs Are Stressed, Too. Here’s How You Can Help.

With Dallas’ shelter-in-place order in full effect, dogs truly are man’s best friend. While most dogs are used to their owners going to work for about eight hours per day, now they’re finding themselves bombarded with attention, and several walks a day. Of course, the abundance of newly shared time…

Swingers Are Setting an Example in Social Distancing

The idea of social distancing, sheltering in place and even the more medical, nightmarish sounding “quarantine” might seem like business as usual — even a relief — for those tortured by social anxiety. For extroverts, however, the same ideas evoke the lonesome grief of solitary confinement. Some are so dependent…

The Way We Were: The Best Reality Shows Based in Dallas

While actual reality seems doomed to hell, we are all stuck at home binging on reality shows (like that trainwreck Love Is Blind) and true-crime documentaries like Tiger King. But what about shows that take you back specifically to Dallas? You know, that city we used to know and love…

Global-Mindedness Is the Key to Everything for Kristin Colaneri

Kristin Colaneri is a self-described renaissance woman. An Italian American visual artist with degrees in film and theater, she has spent time in both Dallas and New York and logged countless hours in the worlds of fashion, makeup and theater. Since 2015, she’s taught fine arts at Brighter Horizons Academy,…

Woman Crush Wednesday: Artist Melissa Tucker

Melissa Tucker has conquered many mediums. As a sculptress her work is shockingly lifelike, and as a clarinetist, she’s rocked audiences with former band The Orange. The swing-dancing, vintage Mustang-driving, vampy, elegantly cool, old-time-influenced artist is also one of Dallas’ best-dressed personalities. Tucker opened up about up about her screen siren…

North Texas Film Festivals Are Now Taking Place in Your Living Room

The coronavirus has mostly eradicated traditional crowds, but that’s not stopping some film festivals from creating virtual marquees to ensure that the shows will go on. Thin Line Fest will be happening Wednesday-Sunday, March 25-29, and Dallas VideoFest’s Alternative Fiction will take place April 3-5. Josh Butler, founder of Thin…

What’s God Doing About the Coronavirus?

In Jeremiah 29:11, the namesake prophet wrote, “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” It’s difficult for believers to reconcile this verse with the constant onslaught of human…

How to Quarantine Like an Influencer or Celebrity

Coronavirus has taken over the world and to help stop the spread of the deadly virus, the government has advised everyone stay inside. But there’s no way you’re quarantining as fabulously as social media influencers are. Have you seen their posts? They’re wearing makeup and they’re on boats in thong…