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Caroline Pritchard

Caroline Pritchard studied English at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and in 2012 returned to her hometown of Dallas, where she spends her free time seeking out new places to roller skate and play pinball.

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17 Best Thrift Stores and Vintage Shops in Dallas-Fort Worth

By Caroline Pritchard
Apr 4, 2024

Dallas is a treasure trove of vintage finds and thrifted gems. Here are the 17 best ones.
16 Best Ways To Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Dallas

By Caroline Pritchard
Mar 7, 2024

See if you get Irish-lucky this week with North Texas' best St. Patrick's Day parties with live music.
6 Fetchest Mean Girls Events in Dallas This Week

By Caroline Pritchard
Jan 9, 2024

If you regularly use quotes like, "Danny DeVito, I love your work" and you celebrate Oct. 3, these events are for you.
We Almost Came Up With 420 Things to Do on 4/20, but Got Too High

By Eva Raggio, Matthew Pineda, Raven Jordan, Caroline Pritchard and Jamie Vahala
Apr 16, 2021

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...
Better Than Sex: 10 Dallas Homes on Zillow Worth Getting Worked Up About

By Caroline Pritchard
Feb 12, 2021

Last weekend, Saturday Night Live exposed a secret fetish of many millennials: home browsing. According to the hilarious sketch about Zillow — starring Schitt’s Creek creator Dan Levy — when you’re in your late thirties, sex just can’t fill the void that images of crown molding can. Maybe it’s a...
North Texans Turn to Multi-Level Marketing Schemes and Scams to Get by in the Pandemic

By Caroline Pritchard
Dec 31, 2020

If you spent some time on social media looking for local businesses to support with your holiday shopping, you might have noticed more people selling nail polish strips, candles and skincare products from their homes. “Just in time for Christmas,” Deborah Ines wrote in a Dec. 9 Facebook post. “Scentsy...
Tim, a Dallas Man on 90 Day Fiancé, Says the Reality Show Is 'True and Valid'

By Caroline Pritchard
Jun 25, 2020

At the beginning of June, TLC reality show 90 Day Fiancé introduced a whole new cast of long-distance couples, but there’s one couple viewers have yet to meet. Tim, a 34-year-old account manager from Dallas, and his Colombian fiancée, Melyza, who will make their debut on the show Monday, June...
Bruised but Not Defeated: The IRS Wants Poet Rawlins Gilliland to Pay $40,000. His Followers Aren’t Having It.

By Caroline Pritchard
Mar 10, 2020

Rawlins Gilliland believes in happy endings. And against recent odds, it looks like he may be getting one of his own. Friends and fans are banding together to help the local luminary, who is facing a $36,000 lien placed on his home by the IRS. A GoFundMe page that went...
10 Dallas Parks You Should Visit in 2020

By Caroline Pritchard
Feb 5, 2020

If you stay here long enough, you’ll start to hear it. “Dallas is great, but,” followed by a lengthy explanation of how we don’t have any nature — where nature means mountains or a beach. It’s one of the most common refrains around these parts. And it’s true, we don’t...
Bernadette Peters’ Weekend Show Is the Exact Reason Why You Should Get a Culture Pass

By Caroline Pritchard
Jan 29, 2020

Golden Globe- and Tony award-winning performer Bernadette Peters held the Meyerson in the palm of her hand this Saturday night, and all you needed to see it was your Dallas library card. That’s all thanks to Culture Pass, a new partnership between the Dallas Library and the Office of Cultural...
Forget Expedia: Dallas Millennials Are Still Using Real Life Travel Agents

By Caroline Pritchard
Nov 12, 2019

We’ve all heard about cutting out the middle man, but what about bringing him back in? That’s what many people are doing when it comes to travel, and DFW travel agents are reaping the benefits. The 2019 “Portrait of the American Traveler” revealed that 24% of millennials have used a...
Kacey Musgraves Carelessly Inserts Herself into a Cultural Debate After Wearing Vietnamese Garb

By Caroline Pritchard
Oct 18, 2019

Kacey Musgraves gave a “smooth” and “studio quality” performance on back-to-back rainy nights at Toyota Music Factory last week, and the internet is talking. Unfortunately it’s not her vocal skills they’re discussing. On Friday, the Golden, Texas, native took the stage wearing an áo dài, a traditional Vietnamese outfit that...
Billie Eilish Was an Interesting Part of the Mainstream on Tuesday Night in Dallas

By Caroline Pritchard
Oct 9, 2019

Can we stop trying to make Billie Eilish a hero who’s here to save music, or teens? It’s an exaggeration, and it’s doing the talented 17-year-old a disservice. With the extra room we could appreciate what she does offer: versatile songwriting ability, a gorgeous voice, and an intuition for commanding...
10 Underappreciated Animals at the Dallas Zoo

By Caroline Pritchard
Sep 25, 2019

Visitors have been flocking to the Dallas Zoo all summer to see Bahati, the lion cub who lent his image to the new Lion King. But on their tour of the so-called giants of the Savannah, many people overlook some of the zoo’s most interesting creatures. The Dallas Zoo’s most...
Dallas-Based Film A Ship of Human Skin Garners Awards and Accolades

By Caroline Pritchard
Sep 17, 2019

Plenty of budding actors would kill for a Best Feature win to put on their IMDb page, but as actors Hilly Holsonback and Hannah Weir watch accolades stream in for their eccentric, no-budget film A Ship of Human Skin, they hardly know what to make of it. “It’s kind of...
Dallas Ranks 149th in Arts Vibrancy. Is That a Bad Thing?

By Caroline Pritchard
Sep 3, 2019

Dallas leads the way when it comes to producing data about the arts. But in terms of producing art itself, not so much, according to the 2019 Arts Vibrancy Index released by Southern Methodist University. The annual study — which is the first to measure the level of supply, demand...
After Lemmon Avenue BuzzBrews Closes, Classical Open Mic Changes Venues to Lakewood

By Caroline Pritchard
Aug 28, 2019

Local classical music fans will have to get used to a new Tuesday night ritual. BuzzBrews on Lemmon Avenue shuttered last week, forcing its popular Classical Open Mic event to find a new home. Luckily, it didn’t have to look far. Open Classical co-founder Mark Landson says that, effective immediately,...
Bailey Chapman Talks Pearl Earl, Move to Los Angeles and Having it All

By Caroline Pritchard
Aug 8, 2019

Bailey Chapman wears many hats. Like, we’re talking a graze-the-ceiling pile. You probably know her as the drummer for beloved Denton psych rock group Pearl Earl, which is on the short list to open for pretty much any cool band that comes through town, and has played every major local...
The 10 Weirdest Dallas-Area Thrift Store Finds

By Caroline Pritchard
Jul 11, 2019

Hours of digging through bargain bins produce a unique state of mind. Call it thrift store enlightenment. You’ll know you’ve reached it when you find yourself squinting at some incredibly niche object and can’t remember how long you’ve been standing there, marveling at the fact that a human being put...
Anonymous Skateboarder from Dallas Is Finding Fame as Alter-Ego ‘Ribs Man’

By Caroline Pritchard
Jun 21, 2019

The video starts with a skeleton in a green beanie giving a security guard a high five. Then the skeleton, an Instagram phenomenon known as Ribs Man, hops on a skateboard and does a handful of smooth tricks across the wide steps in front of the American Airlines Center. Toward...
Here Lie Bonnie and Clyde: 9 DFW Places To Get the Truth Missing From the Movies

By Caroline Pritchard
May 30, 2019

Eighty-five years after their deaths, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are inescapable. They’re in The Highwaymen, released this year on Netflix. Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson star as Frank Hamer and Maney Gault, former Texas Rangers who helped bring the Barrow Gang’s gruesome, two-year spree of 13 murders and numerous...
10 Rare and Game-Changing Pinball Machines to Seek Out in DFW

By Caroline Pritchard
May 6, 2019

A couple of years ago, we made a plea for Dallas to step up and produce a cool pinball lounge. A renewed wave of interest in the delightfully approachable game had made its way to other major cities like New York and San Francisco — but Dallas? Nada. Well, unless...