Move over, Meghan Markle. there’s a new royal couple in town. Fort Worth couple Adam Mandel and Whitney Wicker were the grand prize winners of a “royal wedding contest” from White Castle. Yes, the burger joint. Because nothing says happily ever after like a stack of sliders — at least,…
Parker Bates is only 10, yet he’s made it on one of the most popular shows on TV right now. Bates, a Dallas native, plays Kevin, son of Rebecca (Mandy Moore) and Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) on the NBC hit television series This Is Us. The actor began his career in modeling…
George W. Bomar loves weather. Bomar, who grew up in McKinney, says when was about 7 years old, his grandfather instilled in him a passion for weather. “Being a farmer, he taught me the value of observing the weather,” Bomar says. Bomar took that passion for weather with him through…
Already the show’s producers have revealed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Roseanne and Dan Conner (Barr and John Goodman) voted for Trump, which has created a rift between Roseanne and her sister
No other series even attempts to capture the tremendous variety within Asian America, much less to do so unassumingly
The Looming Tower is a show about the human relationships that keep systems functioning — and how when those relationships break down, the system does, too
It’s a twisty-turny crime drama complete with stolen money, vengeful mob bosses and all sorts of strange coincidences and random dialogue digressions
Dallas streetwear designer Derick King, known as DK Creates on Instagram, dabbled in architecture, communication design and screen-printing before he dropped out of school at the University of North Texas and began remaking logos with a unique — and sometimes local — spin. “I did not need a major to…
Streetcars and trollies were a staple of the urban experience when the first electric trollies hit the rails in the late 19th century. Since then, most cities have dismantled or converted their trolley systems to keep up with the times, but Dallas’ McKinney Avenue trolley line reopened in 1989, long…
It’s difficult to describe a comedy act like Tape Face, but comedian Sam Wills, the real name of the man behind the strip of electrical tape, says that going into one of his shows cold enhances the bewilderment and surprise he wants his audience to feel. “The less you know,…
Friday, March 2 At a recent show in his Oklahoma hometown, concertgoers noticed the star of the evening, Blake Shelton, repeatedly nodding and crooning toward one particular spot in the audience. Shelton wasn’t the only star in the small town of Tishomingo that night. Gwen Stefani, Shelton’s girlfriend and co-host…
The director seems to be in pursuit of a broader tapestry: The Russia he presents is a wasteland of survival, where a woman’s only hope is pairing off with a moneyed man
Their original goal wasn’t to revolutionize how auto repair places are run. Robin Mainer and Kimera Shepler had found themselves at the end of a long road selling individual health insurance. Things had changed with the Affordable Care Act, and new guidelines made insurance sales less lucrative. The friends needed…
Dallas is the third-most generous city in the country, according to WhatsYourPrice.com, a first-date site where men (or women) pay to go on dates with someone they’re interested in. The man (or woman) simply makes an offer to someone else on the site, they go on a date, and then…
Thursday, March 1 For those with an ear for the unusual, for daring and radical sounds, the Nasher’s series of new music, Soundings, is a priceless resource. Up next for the series is vocalist and Anglo-Saxon harpist Benjamin Bagby’s interpretation of the cryptic and timeless poem Beowulf. The epic poem…
For the last year, local emcee and broadcaster Devin Pike has been battling throat cancer. This is Pike’s second time fighting a cancer diagnosis. Scratch that. This is Pike’s second time beating a cancer diagnosis. Two weeks ago, Pike received the good news from his doctors that the tumor in his…
Tucked out of sight of the bars and restaurants on Greenville Avenue sits a nondescript building with a bright “4” glowing on top of it. It was once a church, and now it’s the new home of Four Day Weekend East, the second location for the popular improv troupe that…
Downtown McKinney’s one bookstore, an independent shop called The Book Gallery, was open for 20 years before it closed last week. Tucked away on North Tennessee Street, the store was usually filled with antique first-edition books, its owner sitting at a desk, paper in hand, with a black schnauzer named…
The film gives only the most paltry consideration to geopolitics, to relations between the U.S. and Russia or America’s own corrupt operations
Mon 2/26 Joshua Fleming, vocalist and guitarist for local cowpunk sextet Vandoliers, began hosting a recurring gig welcoming new songwriters at Fort Worth Live last month. Sharing his knowledge of the music biz, Fleming hopes to help young musicians find their foothold in the industry. During this “songwriter’s night,” as he…
Even if you aren’t a Christian, there’s still a good chance you’re familiar with MercyMe’s song “I Can Only Imagine.” “I Can Only Imagine” charted on Christian, mainstream and country charts and has more than 1 million downloads. It is quite possibly the most popular Christian song of all time…
Edible art sculptures, about a baker’s dozen of them, filled the Arlington Museum of Art on Saturday night while the pastry chefs who created them mingled with local art and cake lovers. The Eat Your Art Out fundraiser, which provided cake samples and Champagne to ticket-holders, is a popular event,…
