Un-Grinch Yourself: These Holiday Events Will Put You in a Jolly Mood

Those looking to add some fa-la-la to their holiday season may want to sideline extreme shopping and partying, – for a day at least – to visit a few of these heartwarming, family-friendly adventures. The best North Texas Christmas events this year include a German holiday market, a light display…

Hopeless Vice Reigns in Kitchen Dog Theater’s Queen of Basel

A beautiful socialite, a cocktail waitress and an Uber driver are the characters who make up Queen of Basel, playing at Kitchen Dog Theater through Dec. 15. The trio, played respectively by Kat Lozano, Stephanie Cleghorn Jasso and Lee George, is set up like dominoes to represent a variety of…

Forget Amazon – How to Shop Local This Black Friday

This Friday, as the turkey coma starts to wear off and you turn to thoughts about what on Earth you’re going to buy for family and friends this holiday season, consider steering away from the big box store stampedes and bizarre Amazon gimmicks and check out some of what Dallas’…

Where to Hide From Your Family This Thanksgiving

Look, we get it. Going home for Thanksgiving is nice and all. However, there’s only so much of your family you can take. I mean, who wants to listen to uncle Cletus praise Trump for hours at a time? And believe me, there’s not enough alcohol in the world to…

How to Celebrate Straight Pride

This past weekend, a conservative group called Super Happy Fun America threw a straight pride parade, which brought in a resounding crowd of three. What could’ve gone wrong to make the event, which expected 2,000, such a massive fail? Bad marketing? Poor planning? Weak music selection? For some odd reason,…

Some Facts About Cats, Ahead of the CGI Movie

One of the biggest musicals in history is going from center stage at theaters to being transformed into a controversial CGI adaptation on the big screen, and right before Christmas. After the star-studded trailer and a featurette on the film dropped in the middle of July this year, Twitter had…

The 22 Best Things to Do in Dallas This Week, Nov. 18-24

Monday, November 18 The Funky Knuckles If The Funky Knuckles aren’t a part of your weekly jazz intake, they should be. The Funky Knuckles have been together for nearly seven years. The fusion jazz band released an album called Meta-Musica in 2014 that climbed to No. 1 on iTunes’ jazz…