Behind every glammed-up woman with Botox on The Real Housewives of Dallas, there’s a husband sighing his way through the show and life. It’s clear: He just really hates it here. Some husbands hate it more than others. Some husbands actually don’t hate it all — they’re eager for the…
Some people tend to look back longingly at the “good old days,” back when America was, they say, “great,” with a romantic, revisionist, and white gaze. It hasn’t been great for everyone, and clearly still isn’t, as made evident by months of protests in 2020 declaring that Black lives matter…
This weekend, Denzel Washington and Rami Malek will be combining their wits as they hunt down a serial killer (Jared Leto) in the new HBO Max thriller The Little Things. Hollywood has often been attracted to the allure of serial killers, as villains with even the slightest bit of plausibility…
Some men have trouble committing. Jason Collier is not one of them. In fact, he loves commitment so much that he has a wife, two fiancées, and one alleged girlfriend. At this point, it seems, the whole world has heard of three-timing (maybe four-timing) police chief Jason Collier from a…
You may have heard of geocaching, a high-tech treasure hunt; geocachers, often just called “cachers,” like to say they “use multi-million-dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the woods.” And actually, that’s pretty accurate. Geocaches are all around you. You’ve probably parked your car next to one more than once and…
The opening scene of the new action-drama Run Hide Fight produced by Dallas-based Bonfire Legend, formerly Cinestate, features a pivotal moment establishing the film’s two leading heroes hunting a deer at dusk. The film’s principal stars Thomas Jane and Isabel May are walking into a forest clearing where they spot…
The Whippersnapper’s newest pop-culture pop-up bar based on the AMC TV series Breaking Bad is one of the few positive things to come out of the coronavirus pandemic. “Under COVID conditions, what a better way to remind people about masks than to start a fake meth lab?” says Philip Schanbaum,…
Did you have to read that headline seven times? Yeah, us too. We tried to fit “Dak Prescott” into it as well, but had to cut our losses somewhere. Irving-based 7-Eleven is getting into the short-term rental business. On Monday, they announced a Game-All-Night Experience through Airbnb that allows a…
Kareem Campbell has been making moves in the skateboarding world since the early ’90s — literally and figuratively. While he was building a career as a skateboarding celebrity, his business pursuits earned him a range of success as a mogul in equipment, fashion and real estate. He is also credited with…
Jenna Ellis, former President Donald Trump’s lawyer who spearheaded the efforts to disprove the results of the 2020 presidential election, is campaigning to become the most obnoxious public figure on Twitter, going head to head with Ted Cruz. Only six months ago, she purposely misgendered Pennsylvania secretary of health and…
If you’ve been keeping up with the latest season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, you’ve probably seen contestant Elliott With 2 Ts slay some challenges while looking fabulous. On the show, she is representing Las Vegas, her home of the past three years, but Elliott hails from Dallas-Fort Worth, as her…
If you come across a beautiful college-aged brunette on a dating app who seems too good to be true, it’s because it is. And she is. Even though Isabela Becker, a Dallas native and Texas Tech student, appears to be on dating apps, she actually has a boyfriend and has…
Processing the collective trauma we’ve endured in the last year may be a difficult task, and local artist Yesi Fortuna wants to shine a light on the Black community by showing solidarity in the form of art. As a self-proclaimed ally, Fortuna knew she had to reach out to those…
The silence of comedy stages has been deafening. The coronavirus outbreak has made it hard for comedy venues (and all others) to pack the house for headlining comedians and for local comics to open for traveling acts while working on new material. “Until we get a vaccine in the majority…
Facebook and Twitter are riddled with opinions and posts that sit on a shaky foundation of conspiracy and hearsay. It’s only after almost four years of baseless claims, outright lies and a violent insurrection at the center of our democracy that these platforms are starting to take serious action against…
If it wasn’t for the critically acclaimed and fan-beloved AMC show Breaking Bad, methamphetamines would not be an acceptable theme for any gathering place — except, of course, at actual meth dens. The Whippersnapper on McMillian Avenue in the Henderson Avenue development is getting the Heinsenberg treatment with a new…
There’s a certain experience that you’re probably familiar with at this point in the pandemic: You log into a Zoom meeting and are greeted by your own horrendous face. You needed a haircut a month ago, and it shows. The cruel, uncontrollable lighting does you no favors. Beauty is lost…
Given the wide accessibility of Blu-Ray special features, YouTube behind-the-scenes videos and real-time social media updates, film fans have more knowledge than ever before about how movies are made. Sometimes, the story of a film’s creation is enough to justify a story of its own. Last year’s Mank is one…
Some people will show up to the opening of an envelope. Such is the case, it appears, with Mark Sahady and Brandon Navom from Massachusetts, who were recently called out on social media for answering President Donald Trump’s call to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Navom and Sahady have a…
Although they have never met, artists Kelsey Heimerman and Dudley Sanders have more in common than they know. At the same time, the two Dallas based painters could not have more contrasting lifestyles: Heimerman lives and paints in a beautiful loft in the hip part of Exposition Park, while Sanders…
It only takes 15 minutes for Kara Cannella to choreograph a dance seen by millions. Addison Rae Easterling and Charli D’Amelio, the two most-followed creators on TikTok, recently performed Cannella’s choreography to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cry Baby,” granting Cannella a few thousand extra followers and bragging rights. “It was definitely crazy to…
The immigrant experience varies, but those who arrive in a new country are met with many of the same hurdles: trying to learn the lay of the land, in a new language no less, with little support. Local artist Natalia Padilla wanted to alleviate some of the burdens on immigrants…
