Millennials get left out of all the good stuff: homeownership, decent salaries, ever hoping to pay off student loans. As a result, a lot of this much-maligned demographic group tends to take up residence in rapidly proliferating apartment complexes that have crowded Dallas, which means there's one thing many millennials...
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Two years ago in a gushing “interactive” story, The Dallas Morning News described the new Margaret McDermott Bridge across the Trinity River downtown as “heavy metal ballet,” saying the city’s second cable-stayed bridge, named for a wealthy Dallas socialite, was “as much art as engineering.” Maybe more ballet than engineering...
It centers on Villanelle, a deranged assassin — Russian, of course — working on behalf of a shadowy organization, and Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), the British-born, American-raised MI5 officer who must track her from London to Paris to Moscow
The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that nearly half of American schools have zero full-time arts teachers, while1.3 million elementary school students don’t have access to music classes. But starting tonight, The Rustic in Uptown will recognize National Music in Our Schools Month with a series of concerts performed...
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...
Dallas born and raised Scarlett Deering has some pretty big gigs coming up this spring and summer. In addition to the many projects she’s involved in, she’ll play violin with the Eagles on dates in March and July. The 27-year-old Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual...
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During a first reading of proposed ordinance amendments last week, the Arlington City Council voted unanimously to ban vehicles from being parked on Arlington streets for longer than 24 hours. If the amendments pass, all people, including Arlington residents, parked in a street or alley longer than that could get...
Getting your name out there in the music business was tough before the internet came along. Things got way more complicated with emerging media, so old business models have been trying to hang in there ever since. Frisco-based Music Audience Exchange, known as MAX, is taking a modern approach to...
Both series unfold from the perspective of the “bad guys,” and both juxtapose a life of crime with the mundane everyday — for Barry, the world of desperately aspiring Los Angeles actors, and for The Americans, the Jennings’ domestic life ...
Apocalyptic stories (as well as post-apocalyptic ones) have been with us forever; as a species, humans are uniquely fascinated with our own annihilation
For the better part of month, Plano, the North Texas Municipal Water District and one very active Facebook group have found themselves in a fight that traces its origins to a single Facebook post. If the past is any guide, however, their ordeal could soon be coming to an end...
Friday Playwright Eric Tucker’s Cry Havoc! is a meticulously layered piece of theater. It functions as autobiography, therapy, social commentary, literary tribute and more. Tucker, an Army veteran, has done something of a mind-meld with Shakespeare, interweaving the experiences, traumas and aftermath of his service with formidable quotes from Julius...
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Director Ty Roberts and actor Lane Garrison have done something that the Hollywood machine hasn't been able to do in more than 60 years. They made a movie based on Tom Pendleton's acclaimed 1966 novel, The Iron Orchard, about an ambitious wildcatter seeking his fortune on the West Texas oil patch...
Those expecting President Donald Trump to make news during his speech Friday afternoon at the NRA's annual convention came away disappointed. Trump didn't unveil any new policies, aside from a sarcastic comment that banning guns makes as much sense as banning vans or trucks. He didn't say the name Stormy...
Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents targeted 98 7-Eleven locations across the U.S. on Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into illegal immigration. Six of the stores targeted are in Dallas-Fort Worth. According to ICE, the agency arrested 21 people suspected of being in the United States illegally during...
... While the film does insist on its own irreverence a bit too much at the outset — it opens with a group of birds inspirationally singing, “You’re only as small as your dreams,” before they get abruptly knocked out of the sky — it offers plenty of lively fun once it settles down ...
Every day, co-owner Susana Arce and executive chef MaryAnn Allen split up the routes — one spans from Northeast Dallas to Las Colinas, the other from Plano to downtown Dallas — to drive the food coming out of the Arepa TX kitchen to local companies. “We deliver our food in...
The 2017-18 flu season, according to both experts and rising death tolls around North Texas, is one of the worst of the last two decades. In Dallas County alone, 54 people have died from the flu. As the flu season continues to take its toll on DFW, schools around the...
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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,...
Making it rain has long been mainstream, but the FX show presents a more novel sight: average Atlanta residents, reckoning with what often gets treated as a national rite of passage
Late last fall, a strange voicemail popped up on Alia Tavakolian’s cellphone. It was an automated female voice saying, “Goodbye from Yahoo.” It’s the kind of message you receive when you’ve permanently shut down your account or when it’s been hacked. No cause for alarm. Unless, of course, you’re about...
Mikey Neumann had not planned on earning a living just from his YouTube channel, but the Plano resident hadn’t planned on much of what has occurred this year. Complications with his long-term diagnosis of multiple sclerosis resulted an extended hospital stay in March, and shortly after he ended a 16-year...