If there is one thing to know about Dallas retail-preneur Matt Alexander, it’s that he is always up for a good story. At the launch of one of his earlier ventures, Need, in 2013 (an e-commerce retailer and publication for men), it was the art of the story that drove…
The Lifespan of a Fact, a play by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, begins with a perplexing spew of facts, none of which makes any sense. The audience hears something about a suicide in Las Vegas, a chicken playing tic-tac-toe, the phrase “Buckets of Blood” (which ends up…
This week, percussion students from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth are being recognized with an international honor. The TCU Percussion Orchestra will head to Indianapolis to perform at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. At PASIC, percussionists, drummers, enthusiasts, performers and educators from around the world all head to…
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…
There aren’t many places in public where people could get away with wearing a gimp suit or fetish wear, but the 2019 Dallas Fetish Ball 20th Anniversary is encouraging people to squeeze into the sluttiest, freakiest and kinkiest shit they got tucked back in the corner of their closet. The…
Monday, November 11 Faiths in Conversation There are approximately 4,200 religions in the world, yet we only ever hear about the rules of a few (you know who you are). The word “religion” also remains broad: from deeply rooted cultural traditions to newly acquired maxims and all-embracing philosophies set up…
The latest tour for Joel Hodgson’s movie-mocking TV creation Mystery Science Theater 3000 is special for many reasons. The Cheesy Movie Circus Tour features new gadgets and effects for Hodgson and his robot friends Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot. The two movies that will face Hodgson’s firing squad include…
A stuffed, winged monkey peeks from a storefront window while a black and white image of a 1950s-era twister threatening Oak Cliff adorns an inside wall. The pairing might seem unusual, but it’s at home among a hoard of vintage oddities waiting to be discovered at Dolly on Bishop. The…
Digital media may be more convenient in terms of access, quality and storage space, but VHS and other forms of physical movies will have something that no streaming service or m4v file never will: the ability to brag about its size. VHS, DVD and Blu-ray collections are just like any other…
The Dallas Museum of Art’s newest exhibition is an interactive experience meant to trip us up in the most sensical of ways. How do we feel sound and touch taste? Sure, ’shrooms can help get us there, but there’s also speechless: different by design, which runs at the museum from Nov…
Friday, November 8 Pupsgiving 6 p.m. Friday, November 8 Barney Wood Bark Park Free We’ve got a lot to be thankful for this season, and puppies are one of the reasons. Furry attendees can create works of art with their precious little paws, and humans can shop several dog-friendly vendors…
Let’s be honest: the CBD game in Dallas is all fucked up. There are businesses selling people a product they know is low-quality shitty cannabis and trying to pass it off as an exotic CBD bud. People want top shelf CBD flower, just like people who purchase high-THC cannabis. There’s…
Editor’s note: Thoele Sarradet is a Dallas-based comic artist and poet. She spends her time reading books about mythology, wandering groves and practicing sword fighting. After many years of dealing with dysphoria and unpacking social stigmas, she came out as transgender through a ritual ceremony on her 21st birthday.
On last Tuesday’s episode of The Wendy Williams Show, entertainment journalist Devyn Simone delivered news about The Real Housewives of Dallas in the show’s segment called Reality Rewind. Before Simone could get to the gossip, Williams asked her audience to clap if they watched RHOD. The audience was silent. “Dallas…
The timpani are among a symphony orchestra’s most exciting instruments. There’s nothing quite like a musician pounding away on wide kettledrums made from copper. But aside from the occasional dramatic drumroll, timpani don’t really get big solo moments. That changes this weekend, when the Dallas Symphony premieres a new concerto…
Well if it isn’t Beto O’Rourke reading his favorite alt-weekly. I assume you just dropped off Molly, Ulysses and your other kid at school and now you’re sitting at home drinking a nice hot cup of coffee (with a little bit of Bailey’s because it’s cold now) with your iPad…
While you were sleeping, one of the most recognizable voices in morning radio dropped a new clothing company, and we have to admit — it’s darling. Kellie Rasberry, co-host of The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show and a self-proclaimed “all black everything” kind of gal, launched a mother-and-daughter e-commerce called Emma…
Monday, November 4 DMA Arts & Letters Live: Lori GottliebLori Gottlieb is a certified therapist (whose expertise is frequently sought on morning talk shows), a New York Times best-selling author and the columnist behind The Atlantic’s “Ask a Therapist.” Gottlieb’s latest book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, is based…
The Dark Hour Haunted House sets a very high bar for its very frightening attractions. The costumes are intricately designed. The rooms and sets look like something built by a movie studio with a high-priced budget. The makeup designs are seamless, striking and supremely scary. The makeup team — which…
A bluish fog drifts past the gates of the Village on Front as darkness falls and the temperature hovers just above 40 degrees. A couple sits on a bench near a giant skull as they wait to enter the haunted experience happening in Arlington. The event, now in its first…
“Shh,” a man in a black blazer laughingly urges as he attempts to quiet the packed-full, studio dance room inside Dancing for a Cause’s headquarters. It’s the dance organization’s final Friends and Family Night, and nearly 100 onlookers buzz with excitement in preparation for the dancers to enter the room…
After the reboot was set to take place in Austin, Good Christian Bitches is headed back to its home: Dallas. Good Christian Bitches, Kim Gatlin’s “semi-autobiographical” novel set in Hillside Park — an obvious riff on Highland Park — was turned into a TV series starring Leslie Bibb and Kristin Chenoweth in 2012…
