You probably know this, but beer is, like, a thing right now. Of course, beer’s never really not been a thing — but there was a time when watery corporate brews were ordered without a second thought. Today, the labels you’re scraping off your amber bottles are of the local,…
Despite the blockbusters and cult favorites, Bill and Ted will always be your preferred Keanu Reeves film. It’s the one that had you racing home to cut his face out of every magazine you could find, the one that asserted, once and for all, that San Dimas high school football…
There was a time, lovelies, when a fashion show was just that: a show of fashion. There were folding chairs, grindy music of the techno variety, and when it was over, you expounded loudly about how the use of textiles for that season was rife with commentary about geopolitical unrest,…
You are over summer fashion. The maxi skirt trend is responsible for two recent face-plants; the white jeans Dallas ladies seem to relish are a no-go for someone with a sangria obsession; and if you see one more adult woman wearing a romper, you will blog about the evils of…
You spent your whole childhood waiting to grow up: When 16 came, you could date and it would be simple and wonderful. And oh, hurry up 21, because wine coolers are best enjoyed legally. But now you wonder if that rush to adulthood was misguided — the wonder of childhood…
Things have been a little too quiet lately. It’s been years since you felt the excitement of coming home to couch cushions thrown asunder and trash that has been thoroughly cataloged, plus you’ve really missed the easy community of canine ownership. Maybe it’s time to bring a loveable four-legged whirling…
We’re heading into that particular stretch of summer when the baseball season starts to flag a little for even us diehards. We love our Texas Rangers, to be sure, but when you’ve already caught a few games and eaten your way through a dozen dollar dogs in a Ballpark that’s…
You spent your summer vacations shotgunning Capri Suns and watching CHiPs marathons. Maybe you got sent to vacation Bible school for a week — or if you were really lucky, actual camp — but by and large, summers were a high-fructose wasteland. Spare your kids from the monotony of your…
Doesn’t the summer give you fits of country-life longing? When the concrete radiates the heat right through your soul (and your soles) and the buildings reflect light and your car runs hot, hot, hotter as it idles on a baking stretch of U.S. 75 … we pine for grass and…
Rodeo season has galloped into North Texas, bringing sweaty bandanas, sturdy cowboys and rope tricks that punctuate the summer air with dusty red plumes. And no matter how much you might think you’re immune to the charms of extreme livestock wrangling, it’s hard to resist the excitement of all that…
In the case of burlesque, you may not think that venue is all that important. Professional movers and shakers could tease and reveal just about anywhere, and you’d be hooked, right? But the vaudevillian roots of burlesque have a special kinship with atmosphere. There’s something about a place with character…
Oh, allegory is the most useful of linguistic tools, keeping us from living in a world of painfully concrete Brady Bunch-esque revelations that beat us over the head with the lesson of the day. It’s so much more entertaining to unwrap life lessons one metaphor at a time, and playwright…
In the modern world, if it’s not photographed, filmed or Facebooked, it barely exists. But in ancient times, important histories were passed along only in the form of oration. That’s quite a feat when you remember that two such tales — Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey — were transmitted…
There was a time when being a royal male meant more than helping to camouflage a baby bump or dodging zoom lenses on exotic Grecian islands. Not many years ago, being royalty meant being a proper diplomat, strategizing with heads of state and spending every spare moment attempting to wrangle…
As our calendars creep closer and closer to summer in North Texas, it’s time to adjust our activities accordingly. The outside becomes a distant memory as the dang mercury begins its ascent. So while it may be too late to (comfortably) go camping, it’s never too hot for high camp,…
Listen, sister. Underneath that Jezebel-browsin’, beer-swillin’, takin’-care-of-business exterior lies a girl who once wore high-waisted acid-wash pants and danced to Amy Grant in her bedroom. Baby, baby, just maybe you like to embrace your girly-girl side once in a great while and spend some time with your lady friends enjoying…
Trying to get your arts fix is kinda like squeezing out paints on a palette. Your visual arts are the blue and your music is the red … and dang, if they don’t turn into something completely awesome when they’re mixed. It’s such a shame to isolate them, no? ArtLoveMagic’s…
Right smack between the meandering grittiness of Gaston Avenue and the struggling gentrification of Live Oak Street lies the upper-crust enclave of Swiss Avenue. It’s a lush oasis of early 20th century mansions that defies encroachment of surrounding Dollar Generals and says, loud and proud: “We’re rich, mother effers.” The…
Your kids tell you that Mother’s Day is all about you, but they lie. If that were true, you would spend the afternoon going wild with a pitcher of sangria and a cellphone set to airplane mode. Instead, you’re wrangling a 2-year-old into a car seat so you can go…
Grease isn’t just a film (or a Broadway production, or a soundtrack) — it’s a rite of passage for us girls. Where so many teen movies relegate that preoccupation of the teen mind — sex — to subtext, in Grease it’s all right up front: If sweet Sandra wants to…
You know what people never get tired of? Oz. I mean the Land of, not that show best known for its portrayals of prison rape. Case in point: This year we got a feature film chock-full of eye candy about L. Frank Baum’s mythical emerald land, and people still flocked…
There are plenty of ways to balance your life and boost your health that don’t include athletics, like the ultimate in passive fitness: listening to classical music. Did you know that listening to requiems, symphonies and concertos can help you sleep better, reduce feelings of anger and frustration, lower blood…
