… I imagined how whatever scene I was watching might have been staged and shot and acted out in a more traditional film — and I was inevitably disappointed by what has been lost …
Through the stories of how these teens ended up at God’s Promise, Cameron Post suggests the rigid hegemony of American life, the all-too-common story of religious belief perverted in the service of fitting in
The infamous photo Kathy Griffin released May 30, 2017, in which she held an effigy of President Donald Trump’s severed and bloodied head by its fluffy, blond mop of hair earned her the kind of fame that no former D-list celebrity would ever want. “This was another level,” Griffin says.
BIG3 returns to Dallas for their second round of playoff games.
Last month Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynthia Marshall told The Dallas Morning News that she has ordered more wholesome uniforms and less provocative routines for the Dallas Mavericks Dancers. After a February report from Sports Illustrated detailing a workplace that involved alleged sexual harassment from then-CEO Terdema Ussery, the Mavericks have…
Friday There’s a lot going on at Chocolate and Art Thursday and Friday at Lofty Spaces, 816 Montgomery St. The name may suggest that only two things are to be enjoyed, but it will also have music, dancing and philanthropy. Chocolate and Art started as an underground event series in…
Few humans aren’t amused, awed and amazed by the antics of kittens and puppies in viral videos. It’s Zoloft in video form. Will Braden spends his days collecting and organizing the cutest of the cuddliest as the curator of CatVideoFest.com and tours in movie theaters across America, including the Dallas…
If Nintendo is the family-friendly wing of the video game industry, then id Software and Bethesda Softworks are the cool, older sibling who rides a motorcycle, wears a leather jacket regardless of the weather and blasts speed metal at high volume in his poster-covered bedroom. The hardcore, PC-playing fans of…
Scandal ensues when the charming Nick Young (Henry Golding), secretly heir to a wealthy Chinese-Singaporean real estate fortune, brings his accomplished, lower-class Chinese-American girlfriend, Rachel Chu (Fresh Off The Boat’s Constance Wu), home for his best friend’s wedding
Rent prices in Dallas are known to skew high. The August 2018 National Apartment List Rent Report shows Dallas has a median rent of $894 for a one-bedroom apartment. While that’s nowhere near as high as rents get in the suburbs, the near constant rise of new developments such as…
There are countless excuses one can come up with to not get punched in the face. Jose Quinonez, an amateur mixed martial artist, says a list of troublesome outcomes runs through his head every time he steps into the cage to compete. “When you sign up to fight, especially in…
That’s right. Only zero more days until our six favorite women return for Season 3 of The Real Housewives of Dallas. Today is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Last year D’Andra Simmons said on a podcast that her castmates had an…
The Intern in the Big City for the First TimeThere’s a smile on her face, but the white knuckles gripping the bag on her lap give her away. Her head pops up at every stop to make sure she hasn’t missed her stop, not realizing she’s on the wrong train…
Christian Brooks’ creativity seems to know no end. The leatherworker, musician and now author rattles off projects as fast as he mentions names of the famous people he’s worked with. Best known for his guitar straps, famously beloved by Stevie Ray Vaughan among many others, Brooks is now celebrating the…
This is a portrait of a decades-long partnership coming to a head but also of the American literary community reckoning with what so many know to be true: Women are still not seen as “serious” writers or contenders for major prizes
Talk to Elena Davies for five minutes and it’s clear why her career path includes stints on radio and reality TV. Davies, the former Dallas radio personality turned reality TV babe is equal parts charming and abrasive — at least according to her Instagram profile. On a Monday afternoon in…
Only one more day until our six favorite women return for Season 3 of The Real Housewives of Dallas. Did you think this day would ever come? This writer was starting to think it wouldn’t. (You don’t want to know what her editor thinks. It’ll be a comfortable day in…
Writer and director Augustine Frizzell is riding high on the critical success of her first feature film Never Goin’ Back that got its Texas opening Friday at The Magnolia theater. And it’s nothing like she imagined. “It’s so funny because before you’re at this point, you envision what this feels…
Only two more days until our six favorite women return for Season 3 of The Real Housewives of Dallas. Two. Twooooooooooo. On Aug. 9, Bravo posted a sneak peek of Season 3 on YouTube. Dallas Housewives LeeAnne Locken and D’Andra Simmons are at a meditation class to work on Locken’s…
Riley Holloway assumed someone was pulling his leg. Early this year, he began receiving attention from an Instagram account that appeared to belong to rap producer Kasseem Dean, better known as Swizz Beatz. “I was like, ‘Swizz Beatz?’ Yeah, right,” the Dallas-based painter tells the Observer. But Holloway isn’t skeptical…
Only three more days until our six favorite women return for Season 3 of The Real Housewives of Dallas. Yay! Dallas Housewife Kameron Westcott likes to tweet her “blonde moments” using the hashtag #MyBlondeWife. Here are some: Yes. Yeah. OK. Hi. Good question. Possibly. Good motto. But we came across…
Only four more days until our six favorite women return for Season 3 of The Real Housewives of Dallas. One word: shock. On Aug. 8, Housewives executive producer Andy Cohen tweeted that the new season of RHOD has “EVERYTHING!!!!!” In response, Twitter user @LostEinstein tweeted Cohen to stop trying to…
