Parenting is for the crazy. You’d simply have to be crazy to undertake such a role requires you to be responsible for a tiny life, on a 24-hour cycle. You have to give up sleep for the first half of the kid’s childhood.
On the count of three, tell us who you think of when you think of “outstanding mothers.” One, two, three: the women of The Real Housewives of Dallas! Wow, do we think alike. These women make motherhood look easy and fun and it has nothing to do with the fact…
HBO announced Monday that Elizabeth Olsen will play Candy Montgomery, the Wylie woman who killed her best friend with an axe, in a new limited series called Love and Death. The series is based on Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs, as well as…
Wednesday, May 5 Cinco de Mayo on East Oak St. Still stumped for Cinco de Mayo plans? Head over to East Oak St. businesses East Side, Miss Angeline’s and Oak St. Drafthouse. East Side will have food trucks and drinks to make sure the celebration is done right. Also, 5%…
Without the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World films, humanity would have never learned the perils and pitfalls of playing God for the betterment of the theme park industry. Of course, the lessons from the movies may not stop the next batch of stubborn scientists with a tablespoon of dino DNA…
Inside Alice + Olivia in Highland Park Village, dozens of mainly white Highland Park women sip cocktails and chat among themselves. A DJ is blaring pop music, while nicely dressed men walk around offering Champagne to the guests. Everyone is seemingly relaxed while the night’s guest of honor, Nicky Hilton…
Whether it’s Mexico’s cultural history, song and dance or peppery cuisine, there’s lots to revel about during Cinco de Mayo 2021. As North Texas readies to ring in Cinco de Mayo, we’ve found a few festive venues that’ll join the celebration, offering everything from vibrant dancers to a heated boxing match…
Optimistic celebrities and theater owners have proclaimed that “movies are back” so many times now that it just seems redundant to say, but it looks like this vague notion is now going to be a reality. Just as everyone got bored rewatching Training Day for the umpteenth time on Netflix,…
It didn’t take long for Shelby Hall to realize this guy wasn’t for her. The two had matched on dating app Hinge, but when the time came to see each other IRL, he asked to meet her in a private location. He was “weirded out,” he said, by meeting someone…
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…
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…
We’ve come to expect celebrity endorsements during national elections — think George Clooney endorsing future President Barack Obama or C-listers backing President Donald Trump — but we don’t expect Oscar-winning stars to throw their support behind a candidate running in a local school board race. Neither did Tonya Derrick, who’s running for…
Besides taking place during a global pandemic, this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony made history for another reason: an actress of East Asian descent received an Oscar for the first time in 63 years. South Korean Yuh-Jung Youn was named Best Supporting Actress for the film Minari, and the 73-year-old began…
As we look back on a pandemic-long year, we are left to reflect on the many changes that disrupted our lives. The extra time alone has allowed us to reassess our priorities and, in particular, the type of people with whom we want to spend our time. Romantic relationships have…
Just like everyone else, entrepreneurs have had their ups and downs during the pandemic, but a group of Dallas women has managed to pull through. In fields from music to fitness and literature, these Black female entrepreneurs are leaving their mark on Dallas and helping others in their community and…
A new show from the Freeform network is about to become your latest television obsession. Filmed almost entirely in Dallas, Cruel Summer tells the story of Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt), a popular young blonde who goes missing one day, and Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia), an awkward outcast who becomes the…
Wednesday, April 21 Lotería Night Have you ever wanted to play lotería but don’t know Spanish? Well, now’s your chance. Oak Cliff Brewing Co. is hosting its own Loteria Night. All the lotería cards will be projected onto a big screen, so no need to know the difference between El…
Unlike last year’s virtual celebrations, this year’s 420 festivities could allow a good smoke circle among vaccinated friends. We’d also guess that setting up a Zoom meeting might be a challenge depending on how high you are. Disappointed stoners may have flocked to weed-centric movies last year when they couldn’t…
Photographer Tyler Shields is familiar with controversy and cancel culture; his widely controversial images included the “severed” Donald Trump mannequin head (famously held by Kathy Griffin) and a lynching of a KKK member by a Black man, earning him the nickname the Bad Boy of Photography. But his latest series,…
Our favorite quarantine-style reality competition is back. This Wednesday, Netflix released the first four episodes of the second season of The Circle. Last year, we saw Dallas native Chris Sapphire become an audience favorite by charming us with his vibrant, luminous personality. He took fourth place, but was a winner…
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…
There was a time long, long ago when the world didn’t have a magical cloud that stores every file they own. Data had to be stored on hard drives or something called a floppy disk, a form of hard copy storage in which small plastic discs, covered in magnetic material…
