Dallas Life

You work hard and life comes at you fast. Sometimes you just need a little extra help wrangling your seemingly ever-growing to-do list.

One change that comes from the waning days of the pandemic is that our dating life is no longer confined to phone conversations or screen calls that feel like we’re in some kind of maximum security prison. We can and should actually meet the people we’re interested in dating now.

This summer, Legacy West (7800 Windrose Ave., Plano) hosts a free sunset movie series every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

Last year Jared Guynes was all set to launch his fifth Jared’s Epic Nerf Battle — the annual Nerf gun war that started in 2016 at AT&T Stadium that set and still holds a Guinness World Record.

Like most artists, Tokyo-based Tomoo Gokita spent life during the pandemic lockdown working on his craft, and breaking the boundaries of his own art by abandoning his usual monochromatic and grayscale figurative paintings for vibrant pastels — with motifs ranging from pin-up models and female wrestlers to Donald Trump and socially distanced individuals — for a series titled Get Down.

It may now seem like a foggy pre-war memory, but there was a time life used to feel like an orgy of instant, rampant, often unexplained horniness — a time where attractions were so plentiful and our excitement so, um, premature we had to deliberately conjure unsexy mental images to keep our libidos in check.

Dallas native Luke Wilson wasn’t initially aware of the story of the Mighty Mites, but he quickly learned that it was a sports saga he should know about.

The Pocket Sandwich Theater presents the 80th birthday celebration for Jay Ramsey and Jerry Brown, the original members of the Dallas-based award-winning group Back in Times Blues Band of the ’60s and ’70s

The pre-vaccine pandemic made us revisit a habit we’d long forgotten about thanks to our various streaming services: walking.

The Republican right is splintering on every government level. Sen. Liz Cheney made the mistake is siding with the truth over her party by calling former President Donald Trump’s big lie that he won reelection a “big lie.” Even our own governor, Greg Abbott, is being criticized for not being Republican…

It’s noon on a sunny Monday when Elena Davies calls the father of one of her Very Important Titty Seers (VITs). “Hello?” answers the dad from what sounds like a gas station.

Maintaining a relationship with one person can be a challenge, but some people find that a lifelong (or even temporary) commitment to only one person is even harder. While polyamory isn’t a new phenomenon, exploring the lifestyle is becoming increasingly less taboo. According to a 2020 study by YouGov, 23…

After last season, when former cast member LeeAnne Locken called cast member Kary Brittingham a “chirpy Mexican,” many thought The Real Housewives of Dallas couldn’t get any lower.  Yet Season 5, the latest in the franchise, had a racist undertone throughout the entire season.

HBO announced Monday that Elizabeth Olsen will play Candy Montgomery, the Wylie woman who killed her best friend with an axe, in a new limited series called Love and Death. The series is based on Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs, as well as…

Inside Alice + Olivia in Highland Park Village, dozens of mainly white Highland Park women sip cocktails and chat among themselves. A DJ is blaring pop music, while nicely dressed men walk around offering Champagne to the guests. Everyone is seemingly relaxed while the night’s guest of honor, Nicky Hilton…

Whether it’s Mexico’s cultural history, song and dance or peppery cuisine, there’s lots to revel about during Cinco de Mayo 2021. As North Texas readies to ring in Cinco de Mayo, we’ve found a few festive venues that’ll join the celebration, offering everything from vibrant dancers to a heated boxing match…

It didn’t take long for Shelby Hall to realize this guy wasn’t for her. The two had matched on dating app Hinge, but when the time came to see each other IRL, he asked to meet her in a private location. He was “weirded out,” he said, by meeting someone…

Thursday, April 29 Bingo and Pizza Night at Oak Highlands Brewery Still can’t decide whether you want dinner or to hit up the local bingo hall? We know, it’s a tough call to make between filling up on pizza or going hungry to play bingo because it’s been so long…

We’ve come to expect celebrity endorsements during national elections — think George Clooney endorsing future President Barack Obama or C-listers backing President Donald Trump — but we don’t expect Oscar-winning stars to throw their support behind a candidate running in a local school board race. Neither did Tonya Derrick, who’s running for…

Wednesday, April 21 Lotería Night Have you ever wanted to play lotería but don’t know Spanish? Well, now’s your chance. Oak Cliff Brewing Co. is hosting its own Loteria Night. All the lotería cards will be projected onto a big screen, so no need to know the difference between El…

There was a time long, long ago when the world didn’t have a magical cloud that stores every file they own. Data had to be stored on hard drives or something called a floppy disk, a form of hard copy storage in which small plastic discs, covered in magnetic material…

Wednesday, April 14 Dynasty: The Peculiar Search for TotalityThis multimedia exhibition offers photography, poetry and history to tell the story of an African family’s journey to freedom. The stories of seven women will be conveyed, and amplified, through augmented reality. The event starts at 12 p.m. at the African American Museum of…