Friday, November 1 Romanian Food Festival 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1 Biserica Sfanta Maria Dallas $5 Immerse yourself in Romanian culture this weekend. For just $5, attendees of the Romanian Food Festival can enjoy traditional folk dances and music, plus sample some Romanian food. Tickets are available for purchase here…
Halloween is coming up and you probably want to celebrate this joyous season of candy and death, while the last thing you want to do is throw on a furry outfit and traverse outdoors in this wet weather. (It would not only be cold and uncomfortable, but everyone would wonder…
A group of phantoms perched in Plano will soon disappear off the downtown streets that they’ve been haunting all month. The figures are gray-beige characters slumped on benches and stooped on ledges, pieces of public art created by Plano artist Brad Stewart. Today, the eerie silhouettes ( which Stewart created…
We do not like delivering bad news this early in the morning (or this late at night, depending on what time of the day you are reading this; that’s none of our business), but we must. Chip and Joanna Gaines are trying to pull a fast one over on you…
Dallas-based Sock Puppet Parody creates parody videos of pop, punk and metal hit songs.
When you meet a band like Anamanaguchi on their own terms, that apparently means crashing on a couch and picking up a controller. The New York outfit is known for melding digital chiptune sounds with conventional rock instruments to create energetic and complex tracks…
Dani Austin, a Dallas influencer and YouTuber, went viral last week when a photo of her and nine other influencers became a meme for being “basic.” Austin says she and the other influencers were invited to Portland for an influencer trip with a clothing boutique, Goodnight Macaroon. About two days…
Some strip clubs really cater to every type of fetish. If yours fall on the old-timey side, like the really old, prehistoric-timey side of vintage bestiality, then you missed quite the show at Bucks Cabaret in Dallas this past weekend, when a video straight from Ross Geller’s fantasies went viral…
Monday, October 28 Ghost Tour DallasDon’t let the sparkling uptown high-rise condo buildings fool you: Dallas can be creepy as hell. (We have a giant eyeball sculpture in the middle of downtown, for Christ’s sake.) And what better night to discover how dramatically haunted the city really is than Halloween?…
Lorena Bobbitt, who now uses her maiden name Gallo, became the controversial face of domestic abuse in 1993, when the Ecuadorian-born manicurist was arrested after castrating husband John Bobbitt with a kitchen knife, and throwing his penis out of her car window after, she alleged, suffering years of spousal abuse…
Who is your favorite composer? Is it Mozart? Or maybe it’s Beethoven or Brahms? Whoever it is, we’re willing to bet that the name that comes to mind is a white, probably European, male. Of course, there is Clara Schumann, wife of renowned Romantic composer Robert Schumann. She was perhaps…
Friday, October 25 Rainbow Vomit: Halloween Edition 11 a.m., Friday, Oct. 25 Rainbow Vomit, 3609 Parry Ave. $20 One of Dallas’ favorite photo pop-ups has opened an immersive horror exhibit. Grab your goons, get dressed up and spook up your Instagram feed with some artsy Halloween pics Marc Almond Halloween Masquerade…
Friday, October 25 Boot Scootin’ Country Night 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 Free Legacy Hall, 7800 Windrose Ave. Get your yee-haw on with musical performances by Vincent Neil Emerson and Mike and the Moon Pies, as well as mechanical bull rides all night. It’s free, but you can RSVP. Fall…
The CW sitcom Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, created by and starring comedian Rachel Bloom, is a joyous anomaly of television. Despite its low ratings, the high level of critical acclaim carried the show through four glorious seasons, two Emmy wins and a Golden Globe for Bloom’s performance of Rebecca Bunch, a successful…
It’s no surprise that Parker Vandergriff dreams big and isn’t afraid to take a long shot. Standing before a beer-guzzling crowd at Legal Draft brewery, former Star-Telegram publisher O.K. Carter describes Vandergriff as a major talent in production. As a creative producer with The Richards Group overseeing video, digital and…
The tornado that destroyed the main studio and offices of KNON 89.3 FM left crews with a massive challenge to get out of the building as quickly as possible — and its regular listeners without a broadcast. The community radio station went off the air when one of the three…
The flamboyance and glamour of the 1920s make for an excellent canvas upon which to paint the emptiest side of humanity. Self-obsessed, alcoholic, drug-addicted, highly sexed and violent, the many characters of Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party exhibit the oft-romanticized hedonism of the Jazz Era — but while we are…
CW33 is finding its stride one year after layoffs cut the TV station’s entire news department. With their merger with 97.9 — creating The Beat on 33 earlier this year— and after being acquired by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains a strong community focus. When the idea of Breakfast…
Has Instagram’s new algorithm been getting you down? Genuine content seems hard to come by these days, as advertisements and faux-influencers increasingly monopolize the feed, obscuring the photos that pertain to your true interests. But, fear not. It isn’t too late to prevent Instagram from muddling your perception of authenticity!…
It’s a common myth that theaters are haunted. But it’s a lesser known detail that theaters are haunted by the audience members of productions from decades past — and that these dearly departed patrons, inspired by the plays they’ve seen, perform ghostly variety shows after the theater closes down every…
Monday, October 21 Origins: Fossils from the Cradle of Humankind The Perot Museum deserves major props for presenting educational material in ways more entertaining than Sesame Street ever could, but their newest exhibition doesn’t require any added song and dance. Origins: Fossils from the Cradle of Humankind offers the recently…
Every good show on TV should do what Breaking Bad has done. For starters, every show should strive to be as awesome as Breaking Bad. Someone should tell the makers of CBS’ Fam. Breaking Bad is as close to perfect in achieving what humanity hopes for from any TV show…
