Chris Elam wakes up at the crack of dawn and dodges his way through early commuter traffic each morning to ensure his beloved giraffes will find his friendly face to take care of them another day. This is what it means to be a zookeeper. Elam is one of the…
Dallas String Quartet Electric’s a cover of “Despacito,” posted last summer on YouTube, has more than 2.2 million views. Inspired by that success, the group released a new video with a cover of “Girls Like You” by Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B. Members of DSQ Electric posed with exotic cars…
Every Friday the 13th, the staff and artists at Elm Street Tattoo, a Deep Ellum tattoo parlor, spend 24 straight hours tattooing people who line up to a “13” themed tattoo for a rock-bottom price. The place opens at midnight every Friday with a number 13 on its date and…
Ruben Buell speaks quietly. Maybe he isn’t used to media attention, but that’s unlikely. Maybe this president of a major company is just soft-spoken. Perhaps Buell doesn’t want to alert everyone in this Starbucks in Grapevine that he’s the president of Ashley Madison. Yeah, that could be it. Although he…
The Spanish term “maricón,” which translates to “faggot,” is in insult to gays in the Latino community. Some Latinx artists have reversed the insult and decided to embrace it through art. The nonprofit organization Arttitude is showing MaricónX, an exhibition that features eight LGBT and Latinx artists whose work covers…
Every Tuesday, Taylor Higginbotham, Brad McKenzie and Robbie Scheer invite a comedian to perform some stand-up comedy to a live crowd at Dan’s Silver Leaf in Denton for their podcast, The Brave Boys. But the comedian’s set is not recorded; only those in the packed room hear it. After the…
Your kids have been cooped up in the house all summer. Why would they go outside? They’ve got their Xboxes and Nintendo Switches and VR headsets that can simulate, down to the nearest pixel, what it’s like to be outdoors. The only ironclad excuse they have to leave the house…
Proposals have gotten a little dramatic. From the insta-engagement party to surprise paparazzi photo teams hiding in bushes, this ain’t a low-key affair. Talk about a lot of pressure on the person popping the question. Regardless, it makes the bride- or groom-to-be happy and feel sparkly in that special moment…
Friday If you’re going to live in a place as hot as a desert, you might as well see something that fits the climate. The Uptown Players are staging the Tony-winning musical adaptation of the Oscar-winning film Priscilla: Queen of the Desert at the Kalita Humphreys Theater, 3636 Turtle Creek…
Shock and Awe is a 90-minute liberal told-you-so, a polemic that, like a long Rachel Maddow segment, is more cheery than thunderous, even as it names the names that must be named
… It’s nice that writer/director Shana Feste’s family comic drama Boundaries shows an adult woman reluctant to let her vagabond dad back into her life — for good reason
Reed and Rudd deliver plenty of the goofy antics we’ve now come to expect from Ant-Man: size-change cock-ups, charming incompetence on the macho bluster front, etc.
The film even confronts its own audience in some ways, as it goes from a tale of three people learning more about their identities, to one about the very nature of human identity itself …
… The plot’s developments at times could seem tenuous, but I found them totally daring and confident, as though Riley knew the rules of every screenwriting guide and the demand for “realism,” and he said, “Nah, I’m good,” because he had bigger points to make …
Skyscraper is a family-bonding adventure film starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell and two elementary-aged children who are as good at appearing darling (in the early scenes) as they are at playacting the role of traumatized hostages (in the later scenes)
Married At First Sight Dallas is underway, and viewers will get a peek into Dallas nightlife when the three couples — who don’t know each other — will hit up some area date spots to try and get to know each other. Here is a list of all the places…
The magic of moviemaking convinces an audience that it’s seeing far-away, sometimes magical places when in reality it’s a series of green screens and camera tricks. The streets of Victorian-era London are just a soundstage in Atlanta, the deserts of Egypt are a plot of land in New Mexico and…
Toys ‘R’ Us announced in March that it was closing all of its stores, ending the saga of its massive bankruptcy and struggling sales. On Friday, the company finally closed all of its locations. Toys ‘R’ Us faced competition from online companies such as Amazon. It seemed to be making…
On four of the hottest weekends of the Dallas summer, the Bath House Cultural Center at White Rock Lake will host some of the city’s most forward-thinking performers and artists when Dallas’ Festival of Independent Theatres returns for its 20th iteration. This year, the festival will also feature two art…
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport just added another way to pass that slow time before your flight. Gameway has opened two gaming lounge terminals — the first of their kind. “Airports are a very boring place,” says Jordan Walbridge, president and founder of Gameway. “You’re trapped there and you have nowhere…
We’ve all been there. Minding your own business, browsing the nutrition facts on a box of Whole Foods crackers you can’t afford, when all of a sudden a hyper-accessorized, immaculately manicured middle-aged woman compliments you. “I just have to tell you, your bone structure is beautiful!” At first you think,…
With summer in full swing, the blistering heat continues to come down even onto the sidewalks shaded by tall buildings, like Marcelo Garcia Jiu-Jitsu of Dallas, a martial arts studio. One might think taking a step indoors is the best escape from the dehydrating air that engulfs this sweaty season…
