Kanye West put it best when he rapped, “I sent this bitch a picture of my dick / I don’t know what it is with females / But I’m not too good at that shit.” Thanks to a bill from Texas state Rep. Morgan Meyer that Gov. Greg Abbott signed…
Father’s Day is like a second birthday for dads and one of the highlights of parenthood. But instead of gifting him (another) neck tie or shave kit, ditch the prepackaged gift sets and show the dad in your life that he can do much better with any of the following…
Fort Worth screenwriter and producer Iver Jallah is quickly working his way into the Hollywood landscape. Last year, Jallah premiered a short series called Rich Africans on Amazon Prime Video, on which he served as a writer and executive producer. Following the series’ success, Jallah is in the post-production stages…
During last week’s episode of America’s Got Talent, judge Simon Cowell gave The Emerald Belles a standing ovation after their audition. Melissa Page, the instructor for Carroll Senior High School’s drill team, says the reality talent show reached out to her and her team about auditioning after one of their routines…
Wednesday With elements of classic rock, soul, gospel and R&B, Anderson.Paak throws pretty much every style against the wall. Surprisingly, it all sticks. In February, he won his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance, an honor that served as a crescendo for an impressive past couple of years, growing…
On Sunday evening, the Granada Theater was packed to the brim with fans ready to see Ilana Glazer. Hot off the end of her breakout Comedy Central series, Broad City, Glazer is on the road for her nationwide The Planet is Burning Tour. While her Broad City character, Ilana Wexler,…
The Dallas Art Museum’s annual murder mystery, which took place this last Friday, was a sellout attended by hundreds of sleuths who were anything but clueless. Among those armed with helpful hints — on whodunnit with what weapon and in which room of the museum — were Sara Kazzi, 30,…
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…
The real drama of DreamHack, the annual esports tournament that brings some of the world’s biggest fans and players who compete for hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes, isn’t just made by the pixels on the screen. It’s also made in the stands like any great spectator sport. DreamHack…
Until recent years, with the wake of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, public consideration for the female struggle was regarded with the turn of a cheek or the draw of a blind. Though women continue to grapple with inequality today, most certainly with the recent abortion restrictions, the fortitude…
As Deep Ellum continues to grow in business and in opportunities for artists, the more necessary the means to accommodate various forms of transportation. Earlier this year, Deep Ellum implemented plans to help reduce traffic by designating certain intersections as rideshare drop-off and pick-up spots. Shuttles from downtown Dallas offer…
Film events like the Oak Cliff Film Festival aim for diversity and variety in their movie offerings, in order to offer the dream afternoon for the raging cinephile. “We’re looking for stuff that’s a little off the beaten path,” says Barak Epstein, the co-owner of Aviation Cinemas, which runs the…
If you were watching the closing melees of the nail-munching minutes of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Masters tournament at the DreamHack Dallas esports conference, you were probably screaming your head off in frustration. If you were watching the crowd, you were probably laughing your ass off at the last-minute madness…
There’s a new mural in the Bishop Arts District that towers over anyone who walks past it. It’s an explosion of color that would otherwise be a dull cluster of bricks on the side of an apartment building. The mural took about a week and a half to finish. During…
On a cruel early summer day two weeks before his gallery’s latest show opens to the public, Michael Bivins glides up, down and across the space that will soon become Psychedelic Robot 2.0, the second coming of Bivins Gallery’s wildly visited pop-up. The show occupies two floors of real estate…
On Oct. 25, 2018, seemingly out of nowhere, it was as if a bomb had been set off in the Victory Park studio of 1310 The Ticket. BaD Radio, the highly rated sports station’s popular midday show starring Bob Sturm and Dan McDowell, was winding down its noon to 3…
An indigenous woman bending over a loom. A bleeding heart with a political message. An altar with a Hamsa Hand, a snake, a candle. A tangle of cut braids of hair. A naked female torso. A projection of digital illustrations with a dream-like quality. These symbols and images from the…
Wednesday Sculpting a seemingly timeless vacuum between noise, metal and classical minimalism, Earth’s music is nothing if not brutally austere. This is metal ruthlessly denuded. With all the superfluous components deleted, all the ornate plumage slashed and burned, rock is given a new form, a sound-for-sound’s sake gauntlet that’s equally…
The folks at last weekend’s DreamHack, the annual esports gaming convention held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, had something to marvel at besides virtual warriors trying to punch each other’s faces in with their fists. A good portion of them spotted actor, writer and film star Jeff Goldblum…
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…
This Wednesday, the Wyly Theatre will premiere an original play written by Dallas’ Jonathan Norton. Inspired by true events, Penny Candy takes place in Dallas’ Pleasant Grove neighborhood in the late ’80s and depicts the effects of the crack epidemic during the Reagan-H.W. Bush era. The play, which runs until…
In its nearly four decades of performing, the Turtle Creek Chorale has used music to shine light on various contemporary issues. This weekend, Dallas’ famous men’s chorus will perform a set of songs in a concert series called You Are Light, which aims to bring attention to mental health issues and…
