The City of Dallas Is Looking for Its Very Own Poet Laureate
This upcoming Thanksgiving, you may finally be able to return home victorious and finally prove your family wrong: being a poet is absolutely a legitimate job.
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The JMBLYA Hip-Hop Festival Is Back, and the Lineup Could’ve Been Hotter
Now that concerts are resuming in 3D, Dallas is once again a primo tour spot destination for music’s biggest artists.
Screw the Deep-Fried Food. This Year’s State Fair Will Have a Free Concert by the Black Pumas.
On Sept. 24, the State Fair is returning after a brief interruption in its 135-year run. And Big Tex is back with all the fixins.
Flaccid in Frisco: North Texas Cities Rank Least Horny in America
It may now seem like a foggy pre-war memory, but there was a time life used to feel like an orgy of instant, rampant, often unexplained horniness — a time where attractions were so plentiful and our excitement so, um, premature we had to deliberately conjure unsexy mental images to keep our libidos in check.
It Was About Time America Got to Know Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel is playing Dallas this weekend, and has added a date for next year. Do you know him?
Grapevine Pastor Asks for Prayers for Israel … by Posting Photos of Devastation in Palestine
The recent devastation in Gaza is horrifying the world, and one pastor at Grapevine’s Fellowship Church is particularly moved by the images, at least when he thought they depicted Israelis.
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Dallas Gets an Obey Giant Water Tower Mural in Deep Ellum
You don’t have to know a damn thing about art to know the work of Shepard Fairey. The street artist’s ubiquitous poster of former President Barack Obama in red and blue, with the word “Hope” stamped at the bottom, is one of the most iconic presidential images of all time,…
Sneaker Con Is Alive and Kicking (and Coming to Dallas in May)
The pre-vaccine pandemic made us revisit a habit we’d long forgotten about thanks to our various streaming services: walking.
Austin Has a ‘Certified Racist’ Comedian With LA Transplant Tony Hinchcliffe
When Joe Rogan made a much-publicized move to Austin during the pandemic, he brought along his friend and colleague Tony Hinchcliffe. Apparently they didn’t get the memo that Austin wants to stay “weird,” not racist. Hinchcliffe is a successful comedian who’s been a staff writer for Comedy Central and currently…
Watch Sarah Jaffe and Keite Young’s Sweet Duet With ‘Clementine’
The events of the past year no doubt stung more deeply without the joy of live music, and this past weekend we got a concrete reminder of what we’d been missing when two of Dallas’ prodigious natives came together at The Kessler.
The Best Things To Do in Dallas April 28 – May 6
Thursday, April 29 Bingo and Pizza Night at Oak Highlands Brewery Still can’t decide whether you want dinner or to hit up the local bingo hall? We know, it’s a tough call to make between filling up on pizza or going hungry to play bingo because it’s been so long…
Artists Rally Behind JD Moore, Whose Free Fort Worth Mural Was Canceled for Taking Too Long
City of Fort Worth city officials may have not heard that old saying about looking a gift horse in the mouth. This is the crux of the recent conflict between local artist JD Moore and the City’s Graffiti Abatement Program. While painting a mural in Fort Worth in September of…
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If You’re Looking for a Disturbing Series to Watch, Try the Truly Sick Little House on the Prairie
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…
We Almost Came Up With 420 Things to Do on 4/20, but Got Too High
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…
Myah Hasbany Is New to the Fashion World and Is Already Changing It
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…
Yes, a Dallas Capitol Crasher Really Got Arrested Wearing a T-Shirt Saying He Was There
Dallas insurrectionist Garret Miller was at the Capitol crashing on Jan. 6, and all he got was a lousy T-shirt. And an arrest warrant. Miller is being held at an Oklahoma City prison after leaving a trail of evidence incriminating him in the January storming of the Capitol on social media,…
Kristin Cavallari Brings a Bit of Orange County to Deep Ellum
If you’re one of those people who have the new saying “Don’t California my Texas” then you might want to stay away from Deep Ellum. Kristin Cavalleri was in town this past weekend to bring some of her signature Golden State sparkle to Dallas with a new jewelry store in…
All 4 Hobbits Will Finally Reunite in Dallas, Precious
“One does not simply walk” into a room and find all four hobbits together — unless you’re in the reverse Tolkien world known as Dallas. Put on your Elfin ears and listen up, precioussses: The original hobbits in the Lord of the Rings films will be attending the FanExpo at…
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Hey There, People Calling for Kirk Franklin’s Cancellation: Have You Met Alec Baldwin?
Think of the worst offenses a Christian gospel singer can commit. Did cursing during an argument come first to mind? Well, church ladies and gents, North Texas-based gospel singer Kirk Franklin is on the verge of cancellation for doing just that. If you’ve braved the storms on social media over…
Do We Really Need Another Selena Gomez Album, Though?
Selena Gomez, an icon of young millennials and Grand Prairie native, recently implied to Vogue magazine that she’s done with her singing career. For a long time, Gomez has — whether by a calculated PR design or by accidental default — been perceived as a celebrity first and a star…
Dallas Music Venues Say They’re Listening to the CDC, Not to Gov. Abbott
Not all Texans were rejoicing at the chance to show their faces in public again after Gov. Greg Abbott announced last week that businesses won’t be required to enforce face masking or limit their capacity come March 2. Abbott’s announcement set Twitter ablaze with backlash, including the trending hashtag RIPTexas,…
RIPTExas Trends on Twitter After Abbott Announces End of Mask Mandate
On Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott announced that the threat of COVID was over. Well, not exactly, but Texans are officially free to put the pandemic out of sight and out of mind In an afternoon news conference from Lubbock, Abbott said he is lifting a statewide mask mandate and allowing…