Besides taking place during a global pandemic, this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony made history for another reason: an actress of East Asian descent received an Oscar for the first time in 63 years. South Korean Yuh-Jung Youn was named Best Supporting Actress for the film Minari, and the 73-year-old began…
As we look back on a pandemic-long year, we are left to reflect on the many changes that disrupted our lives. The extra time alone has allowed us to reassess our priorities and, in particular, the type of people with whom we want to spend our time. Romantic relationships have…
Just like everyone else, entrepreneurs have had their ups and downs during the pandemic, but a group of Dallas women has managed to pull through. In fields from music to fitness and literature, these Black female entrepreneurs are leaving their mark on Dallas and helping others in their community and…
A new show from the Freeform network is about to become your latest television obsession. Filmed almost entirely in Dallas, Cruel Summer tells the story of Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt), a popular young blonde who goes missing one day, and Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia), an awkward outcast who becomes the…
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…
Unlike last year’s virtual celebrations, this year’s 420 festivities could allow a good smoke circle among vaccinated friends. We’d also guess that setting up a Zoom meeting might be a challenge depending on how high you are. Disappointed stoners may have flocked to weed-centric movies last year when they couldn’t…
Photographer Tyler Shields is familiar with controversy and cancel culture; his widely controversial images included the “severed” Donald Trump mannequin head (famously held by Kathy Griffin) and a lynching of a KKK member by a Black man, earning him the nickname the Bad Boy of Photography. But his latest series,…
Our favorite quarantine-style reality competition is back. This Wednesday, Netflix released the first four episodes of the second season of The Circle. Last year, we saw Dallas native Chris Sapphire become an audience favorite by charming us with his vibrant, luminous personality. He took fourth place, but was a winner…
The holiest of all holidays, 420, is coming up sometime soon, but we couldn’t tell you exactly in how many days. Some of us have been celebrating early — since last April 21, to be exact — so our sense of time is a bit warped. We did put our…
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…
Madison Mask is an artist but doesn’t have a formal background in art. He went to school for business and works in marketing, where he gained familiarity with in-person experiences: trade shows, conferences and experiential marketing design. This backlog of experience inspired Mask to create Frosty Rainbow, an interactive art…
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…
The mysterious author and illustrator of an obscure booklet about a psychedelic toad are revealed.
After months of speculation, Matthew McConaughey revealed last month that a run for the Texas governorship was something he was “giving consideration.” This wouldn’t be the first time the Academy Award-winning actor has hinted at political aspirations, but his recent comments inspired an onslaught of that routine response many performers…
About six years ago, Chris Tock attended an anime event dressed as an assassin in a get-up that he made himself. This was just the beginning of an extreme side hustle. “I started sewing because I wanted to cosplay,” he says. “I didn’t want to stop after my first convention.”…
One of the grandest collections of Spanish art outside of Spain can be found in Dallas, in the halls of Southern Methodist University. Building on the Boulevard: Celebrating 20 Years of the Meadows’s New Home and the companion exhibition Fossils to Film: The Best of SMU’s Collections are on display…
The term “fashion statement” can be entirely overused, but not in the case of Myah Hasbany, whose wearable knitted art softly screams for attention. Her most recent works are showstopping displays of human creativity, consisting of amorphous lumps of wool that transform the wearer into strikingly surreal characters in a fashion…
Wednesday, April 7 Love & Kindness in the Time of Quarantine Theatre Three, one Dallas’ oldest theaters, is hosting a unique online set that’s curated by actress and playwright Regina Taylor, who’s best known for her roles in Jordan Peele’s Lovecraft Country, David Mamet’s The Unit and the ’90s series I’ll…
Professional wrestling has long had an audience in Texas, most particularly in Dallas. The home of World Class Championship Wrestling and the Dallas Sportatorium, which began hosting wrestling matches in the 1970s, Dallas is the lucky city that first watched legends such as The Undertaker and Stone Cold Steve Austin…
Years before the hashtag #StopAsianHate was created to bring awareness to the rise in violence against Asian Americans, Rosaura Cruz was already looking for ways to partner with Asians in the Dallas community and around the globe. In 2019, Cruz developed a fashion show, Discover Runway Dreams, with Mopai-China Dreams,…
Dallas radio personality TC Fleming co-hosts a podcast exposing abuse, trauma and survivor stories from the notorious Excel Academy.
Are movie theaters back? Well, maybe. The pandemic may have given Dallas audiences more time than ever to sit around and rewatch their favorite movies at home, but it’s no secret that everyone’s been itching to get back to the theater for a big-screen experience. With a wider rollout of…
