Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, all. We told you Thursday that The Real Housewives franchise is heading to Dallas. Bravo is staying hush-hush on the cast, teasing everything in front of our faces like we are damn dogs begging for a treat. So we took it upon…
We’ve gotten used to the idea that the highest-quality, most innovative television lives on premium cable channels like HBO and Showtime. But two of the most delightful and inventive series to premiere in the past year have come from an unexpected place: the CW. Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend…
The drama is so big in Texas! Prepare yourself, Dallas. Everything is about to get more ignorant up in here. Bravo announced two new Real Housewives cities and Dallas is one of them. “The Real Housewives of Dallas follows a group of sophisticated southern socialites, as they claw their way…
Thursday, Nov. 12 Noir at the Bar You’ve probably packed away all your spooky decor and scary movies now that Halloween is over, but you can still indulge in the delightfully dark at Thursday night’s Noir at the Bar reading at The Wild Detectives. Authors from Dallas and beyond will…
Sherwin R Tibayan/IndexYou ready for a bit of mind-blowing trivia? Susan Sontag’s tour de force, On Photography, doesn’t have an index. I know, it sounds impossible, but if you dust off your copy from college, you’ll find that it’s true. Although, I suppose in some ways that bit of trivia…
Art Conspiracy is by far the biggest annual art party in Dallas every year. Bigger isn’t always better, but in this case it’s an indication of an event’s ever-increasing popularity; a sign of something grown from the ground up in Dallas;`and proof that it’s just a fun night. If you…
Here’s a sentence you didn’t expect to read today: There’s a recent Simpsons that’s entirely worth your time. Seriously. “Halloween of Horror,” the fourth episode of the series’ 27th season, is a rarity: a late-era Simpsons rich with feeling, sharp jokes and the sense that this family and their story…
You hear a lot of things about Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, namely that it’s the city’s all-around-best music event, and that it’s a different and specifically less corporate type of festival. We can agree with the former — its 10th anniversary this past weekend functioned remarkably well despite rain…
Love it or hate it, makeup is a fact of life for most women. Call it a cruel reality of the patriarchy or a fun way to improve your appearance, most of us have to at least apply a little foundation and eyeliner to be taken seriously as grown-ass, adult…
Wanna look cool? Wanna impress your Internet friends? Wanna be social media famous? These are all silly, rhetorical questions because we know the answer: You do. Instagram is important. We know that because we will do anything to make sure we have the perfect shot. Climb on top of a…
How do you dramatize the unthinkable? On August 5, 2010, 33 Chilean miners were trapped when the 100-year-old gold and copper mine in which they were working collapsed around them. For weeks, no one knew if they were alive or dead. But 69 days later, after a team of international…
It’s clear why Angelina Jolie Pitt became a star. She was a sexpot with talent, and, just as crucially, her feline beauty was a sexpot breed we’d never seen. Past glamazons like Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner and Jayne Mansfield trailed a whiff of insecurity. We could sense that they were…
Newspapers are dead, except in the hearts of anyone who has ever loved them — which means there are still narrow slivers of hope. One of them now comes to us in the form of a movie: Tom McCarthy’s bold, shirtsleeve-sturdy newsroom drama Spotlight, which shows how a team of…
Favorite Five is a new series where we’ll go into the homes of some of Dallas’ coolest kids and document their five favorite things. Know someone worthy of a nom? Type it in the comments below. Erin Stanley is adorable and so is everything about her – her house, her…
Winning a Pulitzer Prize for drama doesn’t mean a play deserves to become a classic. Horton Foote’s The Young Man from Atlanta (Pulitzer 1995) and Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive (1998) dated themselves quickly and were weak choices to start with. In this decade, Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park…
We have a precious few weeks before the craziness of the holiday season really kicks into full gear, which means that you’re going to need to get in as much culture as you can before you’re inundated with reindeer and mediocre holiday music. Now that Thanksgiving and Christmas are fast-approaching,…
Once again, bodyslams and suplexes were put alongside comedy, music and tacos at this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin. Local wrestling promotions Inspire Pro & Anarchy Championship Wrestling set up their ring in between the blue & black stage and were each allocated one hour of wrestling per…
In its very first scene, Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix series, Master of None, presents something never before seen on TV: an Asian-American male romantic lead at the center of his own series. Granted, that scene is hardly sexy: A broken condom puts the brakes on a bar hook-up between Dev…
Monet, Degas, Cezanne, and Renoir are all familiar names to even the casual art lover. Impressionism remains extremely popular and no other museum in the area has given viewers more opportunities to see some of the masterpieces of the movement than the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth. And they’ve done…
It was a big slobberknocker last night at AT&T Stadium as Stone Cold Steve Austin and the WWE kicked off their “Road to WrestleMania” the only way they know how, with a great big wrestling party. On hand for the rumble were retired wrestlers Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mark Henry,…
Arthur Muhammad got to make a movie about what happened to him in high school. Carter High is now playing in Texas theaters and will expand to screens in other cities over the next two weekends. The film tells the emotionally charged story of one of the greatest—and most infamous—high…
Thursday, Nov. 5 The Instigators The Kettle Art gallery is not pretentious. There is no veneer. The difference between a “snobby” art gallery and Kettle Art is like the difference between going to an expensive department store where you can’t afford anything and shopping at Dolly Python. The setting is…
