Chip and Joanna Gaines Named Two of Time’s Most Influential People

Chip and Joanna Gaines are headed for world domination. What started with a TV show called Fixer Upper has turned into an empire. There’s the Magnolia Market, a home-renovation business, a bakery, a garden shop, a restaurant, multiple books, a magazine, multiple home decor lines at Target, Pier One, Anthropologie…

Jennifer Hudson Remembers What It Was Like to Be an Up-and-Coming Artist

Jennifer Hudson’s performance with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra this weekend for the SOLUNA Festival will be a sampling of her 15-year career. Hudson tells the Observer she’ll sing songs from Hairspray, when she played Motormouth Maybelle on NBC’s live version of the musical. She’ll also sing songs from Dreamgirls, the movie…

21 Things to Do in Dallas This Week

Thursday Chelsea Handler is back and you should be happy. The world feels like a friggin’ mess with every new “breaking news” update, and Handler’s is the only vodka soaked mind who can make some kind of sense out of it. If she can’t, at least her effort will be…

Five Ways to Live the Dallas High Life on 4/20

The 20th day of every April is a unifying holiday. A day when college professors and Jack in the Box employees can come together to stare blankly at an episode of Sanford and Son. A day when weekend dads and their estranged children can bond inappropriately. A day when white…

America Ferrera Reflects on Motherhood and Diversity in Dallas Talk

During the 15th annual Diversity & Leadership Conference last week, actress and activist America Ferrera came to talk about inclusion. The event was a Most Powerful & Influential Women Breakfast on Thursday morning, toward the end of the conference that would later feature President Barack Obama. The Golden Globe and…

Ochre House’s Remember Rudy Explores the Ghosts of a Child Actor

In Remember Rudy, the latest original production from Dallas’ Ochre House Theater, the self-described “alternative theater” asks audiences some intriguing questions. “Do you believe in ghosts?” reads the musical’s promotional materials. “Do we create our ghosts? Or do our ghosts create us?” Set to make its premiere on Saturday, April…

Documentary About Transgender Wrestler Will Screen at DIFF

“I wish I was labeled as just my name, instead of being the ‘transgender wrestler,’” says Mack Beggs in Mack Wrestles, an upcoming documentary for ESPN’s 30 for 30 series. In 2017, Beggs was the subject of much media attention after winning the Texas high school girls state wrestling championship…

Hamilton Lives Up to Its Hype

Is Hamilton overhyped? The musical created by some guy from Puerto Rico about a treasury secretary in the 1700s set to hip-hop sounds a little strange. With all the buzz around it, it seems bound to be. Dallas doesn’t seem to think so, though. We’ve been waiting for this hit…

21 Things To Do in Dallas This Week

Thursday From humble beginnings in Cuba, husband and wife Emilio and Gloria Estefan came to America and broke all barriers to become a crossover musical sensation. But just when they thought they had it all, they almost lost everything in a near-tragic tour bus accident. Broadway bio-musical On Your Feet!,…

Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight Are YouTube’s Big Sisters

Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight didn’t become the clean-cut mega popular YouTubers they are today without following a few rules from their parents. No social media until age 13. Parents will monitor all texts and social media activity. A multi-page contract will be signed before you’re given a phone, computer or…

SOLUNA Festival Offers Two Works by Composer-in-Residence Julia Wolfe

The DSO’s annual SOLUNA Festival kicks off this week with performances of the Sibelius Violin Concerto, featuring virtuoso Augustin Hadelich. Contemporary music has been a key part of SOLUNA from the beginning, which makes for the perfect time to introduce Dallas to Julia Wolfe, the DSO’s composer-in-residence. “Composer-in-residence” is a…

A Reality Show Where You Basically Catfish People Is Casting in Dallas

Every day 200 new shows are added to Netflix (only a slight exaggeration), so why shouldn’t you be in one of them? Fortunately, fate smiles upon you, Dallas residents, because The Circle, a new reality game show being produced exclusively for Netflix, is hosting auditions Saturday, April 13. The Circle,…