Here’s the problem reviewing something involving Christmas: If you have anything negative to say, you come off looking like a monster. So you think It’s a Wonderful Life is a chore to watch? “Go back to your country!” someone will shout. It’s an unfair sentiment because some Christmas things are…
On last week’s episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas, when it was said that LeeAnne Locken threatened to clone Brandi Redmond’s phone, many of the women were left confused. Turns out, phone cloning dates back to car phones when you could get physically close enough to a phone and…
It’s the early 18th century, there’s a war on with France, and the persistently ill, somewhat childish Anne struggles both to assert her authority and to preserve her kingdom and her crown
After nearly eight consecutive days of rain leading up to Figment Dallas’ scheduled debut on Oct. 20, the storm had finally broken. Unfortunately the event had been canceled the day before, just as the last portable toilet was being unloaded. “The city called us the day before the event at…
Wednesday Grammy Award winner Michael W. Smith and Season 6 American Idol finalist Melinda Doolittle are coming to the Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm St., to perform a night of Christmas songs. According to YouTube, the pair have been singing Christmas songs together since around 2008, and this year, they’ll continue…
Courtney Ann was nearing 1 million followers on her Instagram account @texasthighs when it was suddenly shut down. The fitness — and, well, ass — Instagram model and influencer, who is a Fort Worth mother, has had the account for more than two years. She says that while it has…
Sometimes no matter how hard you try, no matter what videos you watch or how much your special someone tries to help, it’s hard to get in the mood. The Christmas mood. You know you’re being a Grinch while everyone around you is preparing roast beast, but you can’t do…
When Joe Bob Briggs filmed The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs for the streaming service Shudder, he thought it would be the last time he sat in front of a camera as a host for a show. “I’m going to do it one last time,” Briggs said at the…
Friday For parents with hearts cold and dead after one too many princess movies, maybe a production of Disney on Ice: Frozen isn’t high up on your to-do list. But you’d be surprised at the power of a couple of ice princesses to melt your heart (and loosen your wallet)…
In typical Coen fashion, most people in the movie meet ironic or wry deaths, but this time the Coens seem to be actively eschewing any deeper emotional connection between the audience and the characters
The story concerns sort of a play date between the kids fathered by the first generation of Rocky boxers: Creed versus the son of Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago, who in Rocky IV was built up as pretty much the most devastating weapon in the Soviet nuclear arsenal
Volf supports his interpretation of Callas’ personality with sound bites from her understandably guarded televised appearances, all of which devolve into terse discussions about her years-long romance with Onassis (before and after his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
The actual 2018 Robin Hood remains a haphazard action thriller taking place sometime during the Crusades, with Taron Egerton basically reprising his breakout Kingsman role as a scrappy normie getting recruited and trained for skilled combat
Pet Supplies Plus and Natural Balance are raising money for a local charity that gives service dogs to wounded vets.
There’s only one way to open the largest esports complex in the country, and the city of Arlington christened its new esports complex with a virtual competition on a massive screen. The Arlington Esports Stadium hosted its official opening Monday with its first public tour and demonstration of the 100,000-square-foot,…
With the holiday season here, families are bound to spend more time with one another and have even closer conversations. Inevitably, when conversations run too long, the risk of politics being brought to the table increases. There’s always that one relative who feels strongly about politics and wants you to…
Wednesday It’s that time of year when concerts aren’t just concerts, they’re holiday hoedowns – well, at least tonight’s show at Three Links boasts such a yuletide title. The Vandoliers are throwing a “Vandoliers’ Holiday Hoedown” featuring the band’s unique outlaw country-tinged rock ‘n roll as well as Pedigo’s Magic…
Oh yeah, it’s that time of year. Again? Again. Normally it’s time to start panicking, but this year is going to be different. You’ll have more time to panic but not about holiday gift shopping. You got this. What’s better than shopping local? Shopping online. And what’s better than shopping…
If you’ve been scrolling through Instagram in recent weeks, you may have seen pictures of people posing at “The Power of You,” a new female empowerment-themed mural in Victory Park. “The Power of You” is Dallas’ first feminist mural and is part of an initiative by Boss Women Media. “The…
Akhavan created and cowrote The Bisexual (with her Miseducation cowriter Cecilia Frugiuele) and stars (she also directed four out of its six episodes) in this comedy about an American immigrant in London
The holiday season brings good food in large doses, family that are good in small doses and travel that requires a heavy dose of a narcotic to get through. More than a few of you will shove clothes into bags and beg friends for rides as you make your way…
Pike’s Colvin is haunted by visions of carnage she has seen, sometimes imagining that her London home is a bombed-out shell of itself, that a little girl she once saw die is lying in her own bed
