Opinion & Commentary

In 1982, a show about friends who work at a bar made its debut, and it opened with one of the greatest songs in television history.

There are awards for all sorts of art forms: movies that suck, reality shows, poorly written sex scenes in fiction (which is still more accurate than any reality show).

While many pundits and social critics are arguing that cancel culture is seeping into every crevice of society and spreading like a nuclear shockwave,

Frisco realtor and self-described protected Caucasian Jenna Ryan is living the embroidered pillow motto, “Living well is the best revenge” – even if that means the rest of us has to suffer for it.

We’re so close to Thanksgiving we can almost smell the turkey roasting, honey-glazed ham simmering and pumpkin pies baking.

For better or worse, the tragedy that unfolded at Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival in Houston Friday night – which left eight attendees dead and hundreds injured after a crowd surge – brought forth an overdue reckoning of “rager” culture.

The Dallas Police Department currently has officers on payroll facing allegations of plotting murders, turning a teenage girl over to immigration officials who wrongly deported her, arresting African Americans at a higher rate for low-level crimes and running a pyramid scheme.

In the most recent episode of HBO Max’s The Other Two, aspiring actor Cary Dubek (Drew Tarver) tries to persuade agents to sign him on to a talent agency, only to be told they strictly represent “multi-hyphenates” (actors who can write, singers who can act, etc.).

Name any type of descriptor for a human being – or, any object, trend, place, verb, animal, mineral, vegetable, or even the most abstract of concepts – and there’s probably a category of porn dedicated to that very thing.

Billie Eilish’s greatest talent is undoubtedly her stare.

Drake Bell, former teen star on Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh, was sentenced this Monday to two years probation after pleading guilty to charges of child endangerment.

We’re well-aware at this point that every time we talk shit about the flare-decorated punching bag that is Kid Rock

As you might’ve heard, esteemed U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert recently had a novel idea for addressing global warming.

No matter where you come from or what you believe, there is one thing we can all relate to over this past year and a few months: cancellations.

Lisa Simpson isn’t the character Smiths fans thought they’d relate to this week, but thanks to an episode of The Simpsons that aired Sunday night called “Panic on the Streets of Springfield,” this is where we are. And, due to the incredibly satirical and irreverent nature of the show, heaven…

Thanks to the pandemic, some trends solidified into routine parts of our lives: Zoom meetings, outdoor concerts, online shopping and an insatiable thirst for bloody crime. As if the world wasn’t scary enough, gorging ourselves on the goriest and most shocking crime stories became a common pandemic pastime. The genre’s…

Many parents rely on kid-centric entertainment to get through the days, much of which involves screens and speakers. They’re the new and improved (and non-narcotic) mother’s little helpers: Sesame Street, Disney +, Kidz Bop, etc. Child-appropriate entertainment that lets mommy or daddy have a little time to relax. In fact,…

Stephanie Drenka is the communications director for Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation and a Korean adoptee. She is a 2021 Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project. Be careful what you wish for, the old adage warns. My wish was for more Asian American representation in media, to have…

A lack of imagination caused the ERCOT grid failure. No one imagined a weeklong extreme cold spell, despite Hollywood blockbusters imagining extreme weather events and much, much worse. Neither the regulators nor the risk managers across the bulk power system thought much about the 200-page report issued in 2011 that…

As primates, human beings are part of the most socially adept order in the entire animal kingdom, and our need for relationships and interaction is so ingrained into our being that it is the third tier of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. It’s largely for this reason that the COVID-19 lockdown…