Here’s what you didn’t see if you aren’t from there. Here are the voices you didn’t hear if you didn’t go there. Here’s the pain you can’t fully comprehend if you’re white, as I am, if you’re just watching on TV, if life has taught you that just saying sir…
The Defenders premieres on Netflix on Aug. 18 Look, you don’t need to have watched Iron Fist to enjoy the brisk, brawling silliness of The Defenders, a team-up adventure that’s something like a surprising return on an investment you thought had soured. In fact, not knowing all the plot details…
Why would anyone quit his or her job making six figures a year? If you ask Doc Wright, he’ll say to make some of the greatest slab tables and desks Dallas has ever seen. “This isn’t normal,” Doc Wright says, turning to look at a pile of sawdust and grey…
OpTic Gaming, a hugely successful Call of Duty eSports team that’s based in Chicago, announced on its website that the team plans to move its headquarters to Dallas sometime this year. The news of the team’s move comes on the heels of OpTic Gaming’s big win Saturday at Major League…
On Saturday night, as America continued to fight Nazis and Dallas saw its first substantial rain in what felt like decades, Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay and her new fiancé, Bryan Abasolo, were just two gushing lovebirds doing what lovebirds do: stand in an elevated VIP section in a bar surrounded by fellow…
Photo Editing for Social Media Lewisville Public Library 1197 W. Main St. 7 p.m. Tuesday Free Posting the perfect photo to Facebook and Instagram is tough for those who haven’t acquired the skills of an amateur photographer. The Lewisville Public Library, 1197 W. Main St., has some free help to…
Before City Council killed the Trinity river toll road Aug. 9, the project was like a flailing cockroach on its back: unable to move yet unwilling to die. The council’s 13-2 vote marked the end of a 20-year squabble over the long-planned $1.9 billion project that would have built a…
Besides your discomfort, one effect of writer/director Justin Chon choosing the title Gook for his electric, impassioned second feature is a suggestion of definitiveness, a suggestion that, for better or worse, this isn’t just the story of its characters but that of a people. The film, a comic drama tinged…
Clive Revill will appear at Infinicon at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Addison this weekend. Actor Clive Revill has more than 180 acting credits in films, television shows and video games spanning practically every genre of entertainment. Besides being a renowned theater actor with more than 60 years of acting experience,…
Friday Over beds of pillowy instrumentals and trim percussion, Mexican pop singer Cristian Castro’s delicate voice soars. Pulling from disparate sources — from alternative rock to ’80s pop to traditional Latino music — Castro’s songs speak mostly about romance and its complications, glimpsing love through a wistful, rose-colored haze. Maturing…
Female comedian Ever Mainard caught some flak years ago for a joke about walking alone at night and feeling uncomfortable around a man who was acting strange. The joke became controversial because the man in question was black and Mainard is white. However, she touched on some thing that almost…
Yesterday, Elm Street Tattoo unveiled a new, even more adrenaline-pumping way to get inked. The store has stocked a coin-operated vending machine with images of tattoos. It costs $100 for a turn, and whatever comes out is what you’ll get. But you don’t have to worry about drawing a turd…
Rick and Morty airs on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim Here’s a great joke. An unhappy married couple get the chance to view, through the goggles of a dimension-hopping mad scientist, how their lives have played out in an alternate reality. The husband, an insecure drip, goes first. Turns out in…
On Episode 6 of the rebooted The Gong Show, Melissa Arleth chases her cat as it runs off the stage. Arleth has been performing her act, Cirque Du Sewer, in fairs across the nation, including Waxahachie’s Scarborough Faire, since about 2008, with the cat’s cooperation. But during her Gong Show performance,…
Michelle Mackey: Double TakeHolly Johnson Gallery 1845 Levee St., No. 100 Closes Saturday, Aug. 12 Free Paint, canvas, watercolors, paper, multi-media collage – these are all familiar components in making art. Michelle Mackey’s joint compound, however, is a bit of a surprise to the uninitiated. Holly Johnson Gallery, 1845 Levee…
Thursday Kendra Greene is a small-talker’s dream come true, a woman whose response to “So, what do you do?” yields stories about an Icelandic phallological museum, bottle feeding baby boars and creating a costume for a model of an Ice Age giant ground sloth. Her writing evokes that feeling of…
In the 1980s, four-quadrant studio comedies (i.e. for the whole family) peddled in relentlessly dark premises that directors then brightened up with wholesomeness: Three Men and a Baby features an orphaned infant who is mistakenly given away to drug dealers; Ghostbusters boasts multiple fatalities at the hands of an accountant…
Dallasites like to keep their fingers on the pulse of this city, keeping up with Instagram feeds. What to do. Where to go. Where to eat. Many of these decisions are fueled by Insta-inspiration. As they say, take a photo or it didn’t happen. So we’ve rounded up 10 of…
Taylor Sheridan isn’t afraid to embrace genre. His Wind River plays more like an unusually well-made episode of CSI: Wyoming than the highly anticipated directorial effort from the screenwriter of Hell or High Water (which may well have been last year’s best-written film). Set in the desolate, snow-covered Wind River…
Across from Cold Beer Co. in Deep Ellum sits a solid orange building surrounded by bright blue concrete. Social media users have wondered for weeks what’s going on with the seemingly abandoned building. Scott Rohrman is the man behind the mural. “Orange House in a Blue Field” is part of…
Riders took off almost everything but their helmets and shoes Friday for an underwear bike ride hosted by Red Star Bicycles of Dallas. More than 30 riders attended to promote body positivity, a healthy hobby and their equipment. Riders congregated at Red Star Bicycle Shop off Parkhouse Street in the…
As of this summer, slick, modern, slate and yellow bicycles have begun to dot Denton, Dallas and Irving. VBikes is an app-based, station-free bike-sharing service based in Garland, and the startup has ambitions of expanding beyond North Texas. Think of VBikes as two-wheeled versions of Zip Cars. To use a…
