On Aug. 13, 2017, Wall Street Journal writer Neil Shah wrote an article titled “What Happened to the Negative Music Review?” in which he stated, “[N]egative reviews are so few and far between that they rarely impact overall scores from an aggregator like Metacritic.” Despite this, online magazine Pitchfork has…
Last year’s ’til Midnight at the Nasher series, the popular (and free) Friday evening concerts at the Nasher, looked different from years past. For the first time, it seemed as if the music, which even the Nasher bills as the primary focus of these events, had been carefully curated. Since…
I don’t think there’s a way I can possibly talk you out of going to the latest rainbow-colored, unicorn vomit, sweet-toothed photo booth, anachronistically futuristic, cotton candy-headed, pop-up “art” exhibit, is there? After all, it’s time for you to stir up some FOMO with your #squadgoals real-life friends by duck-lipping…
Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalbán sing the song in 1949’s Neptune’s Daughter. In 2010, now-married singer-songwriters Karyna Micaela and Zach Balch stepped on stage together at the now-closed Art Six Coffee House in Denton. Although they were dating other people at the time, the duo decided to collaborate on a…
You’ve been ignoring the fact that Christmas is only a few days away, and you’ve still got nothing for that family member or friend in your life who consults crystals instead of a gastroenterologist and believes non-homemade toothpaste is equivalent to cyanide. You don’t have the nerve or inclination to…
Somewhere out in the dark, vast vacuum of space, two golden phonographic records holding sounds of our civilization plunge farther and farther into the cosmic ocean. They are on board Voyager spacecraft 1 and 2, which were launched in the late-’70s. The records act as time capsules, a message in…
There are some very famous Dallas-area restaurants missing from our Top 100 Dallas Restaurants list. Our ranking is radically different from those by critics at other publications, or from the ratings on websites like TripAdvisor and Yelp. Why? There are two main reasons. One is that metro Dallas has over…
Magnificently coiffed, sleeves rolled to indicate that he means business and also that his arms are pretty tanned, Pete Delkus is the only name in America when it comes to weather. Towering at 7 feet, 5 inches, he stands before that vast green screen night after night to deliver North…
There are few things that can shock a viewer when it comes to reality television. Housewives throw champagne glasses. Strangers get married at first sight. Other things happen that we can’t think of right now because it’s that hard to shock us. But Thursday night, exactly one week ago, our…
There were rumors that FC Dallas manager Óscar Pareja was to interview for the head coaching position for the U.S. men’s national soccer team. Pareja, who is in his fifth season with FC Dallas, denied the rumors of the interview and is focused on the current MLS season. “I just…
Is Post Malone Cursed? That may be the explanation on why Post Malone, the Grapevine-native rapper, has been having a bit of bad luck during these past couple of weeks. In August, Malone was onboard a privet jet to a London concert when two of the plane’s tires blew out,…
Ashlee Simpson (you may know her as Jessica Simpson’s sister) and her husband Evan Ross (you may know him as Diana Ross’ son) have a new docu-series on E! Simpson is from the Dallas area, so as a dedicated Dallas journalist, I began watching the show to see if she…
Each morning on 96.3 KSCS, host Hawkeye on his show Hawkeye in the Morning takes a call from a listener who went on a (seemingly great) date with someone, but they are sad because they never heard back from said date. Hawkeye takes it upon himself to then call said…
Let’s discuss Dallas restaurant inspection scores. In the past we’ve talked about the inflation that plagues scores, and the workload that can set inspectors weeks behind schedule. But today we’ll stick to one very simple question, which doesn’t require any investigative digging. What does a restaurant’s inspection score even mean?…
So your friend’s 21st birthday is here and the world of Uber surge charges and artisan cocktails are officially part of your playground. The only thing standing between you and your $11 ginger vodka soda is the door person who is hell-bent on preventing you from getting in, right? Not…
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but affronts to architectural pulchritude live in infamy on Kate Wagner’s blog McMansionhell.com. McMansion Hell highlights a certain type of enormous, aesthetically baffling dwelling constructed across the country in recent decades. Wagner wants to unveil the worst offending home in Texas, her…
On Tuesday morning, the music section of the Dallas Observer published an article on local musicians talking about addiction following former Colleyville resident Demi Lovato’s recent drug overdose. The writers of the article (myself and Stephanie Salas-Vega) shared the article on our personal Facebook pages, as writers normally do in…
As the lights go down, the curtains open and the band reveals itself onstage. Phones and cameras show up in the audience, too. Lit screens swerve back and forth, and instantly, there are hundreds of recordings of the concert on social media. More artists are encouraging camera-free experiences by banning…
Sexist service is bad service. I hope that we can all agree on this. A server who treats a woman with condescension is doing his job badly. More broadly, a server who treats customers differently based on sex, sexual orientation or race is failing the basic standard of hospitality. I’m…
Half a billion people scroll through Instagram daily. And to some of those peoples’ dismay and others’ envy, a small percentage of Instagrammers have made a career out of it. They are a select class of mostly millennial model-types whose interesting lives and devoted followers have made them attractive allies…
The internet has brought the world closer together — so much so that we’re finding ourselves lacking personal cyber space. Every day, people add millions more photos, tweets, comments, videos, gifs, memes and various other forms of content to the web, where it can be collectively sorted through by whoever…
Four white crosses projected on thin silk curtains draped in front of the stage slowly began to turn upside down. An eerie electric guitar riff echoing through massive speakers behind the curtain acted as a soundtrack to the descent into hell that awaited the sold-out Slayer crowd Tuesday evening at…
