Friday Addison might be known for its endless row of chain restaurants, but its food scene deserves more credit than that. Taste Addison is here to prove that even foodies can love the suburb. Blue Goose Cantina, Table 13, and yeah, On The Border all participate in the three-day event…
Apocalyptic stories (as well as post-apocalyptic ones) have been with us forever; as a species, humans are uniquely fascinated with our own annihilation
This story revolves around four successful women in a monthly book club who start reading E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, which inspires them to rekindle their own love lives
Gladys Johnson entered the dance world via a Black Eyed Peas music video in 2009. After appearing in the “Hey Mama” hit, she went on to star in K-Swiss and AT&T commercials and become a backup dancer at the MTV Music Awards. Now, she is empowering Dallas women through her…
Vision seems to be the driving force for The Classics Theatre Project. Joey Folsom, a Dallas actor and director, considers the purpose of a theater company to be to get people in the room where they might find “a moment of humanity and empathy.” And in this highly polarized moment,…
Weddings are hell. They usually take all day, you have to bring a present and you’re forced to eat with strangers you have nothing in common with. Weddings without open bars should be illegal. Unless you’re the couple being married, they are a chore to attend (and even then it’s…
This is what it’s like to be 27 and kind of a mess and totally sleepy and kind of miserable and suffering a headache and not sure who you are or who you should trust
Because one pivotal Get Out close-up displays Gabriel’s astounding emotional range in just three seconds, the actor’s face has become memorialized in GIF-dom
… Here are our picks for the most promising movies due in the Memorial Day-to-Labor Day frame that was responsible for keeping Hollywood solvent, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away
Wednesday Metallica with cellos. That’s all you really need to know about Finnish orchestral rock band Apocalyptica, which is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its debut album, Plays Metallica by Four Cellos. The group (which hopefully you’ve gathered is made up of four cellists) created a new genre with this…
Eric Nadel was aware of mental illness from an early age. His mother volunteered for an organization for emotionally disturbed children, and his family has a history with depression and anxiety. “I became very aware at a really early age that that sort of problem was very prevalent,” says Nadel,…
Here’s what you need to know: This is less Deadpool 2 than Deadpool Squared, a studio and its star (Reynolds is credited as co-writer) committing to hyper-violent self-referential comic-book buffoonery
The lineup for the Oak Cliff Film Festival will rock, literally. Festival officials announced the lineup of feature-length movies, documentaries and short films for the 2018 Oak Cliff Film Festival at the Texas Theatre that runs June 14-17. The list consists of 25 feature-length films, including 10 that will make a…
As the last G.I. Joe is deployed to a child’s bedroom and the hungriest of hippos eat their final meal, the doors of Toys R Us will soon close for good. With the closures imminent, the employees of the DFW toy store locations will be forced to find new jobs…
Underage drinking. Drawing genitalia on a sleeping friend’s face. Getting high and going to work. Being arrested with your best friend. All the trials of youth are on display in the new red-band trailer for Augustine Frizzell’s feature-length directorial debut, Never Goin’ Back. Never Goin’ Back is a comedy about…
Stephen Ketner, a Dallas-based musician, is known for his band Stevie James Trio and for his long political Facebook rants. Here, he shares his experience of eating dinner with Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck is a really nice guy. I can remember sitting up on school nights with my conservative parents…
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…
Pilates reformer studios are popping up in Dallas more frequently. At Dallas staples Beyond Studios and One Lagree and at some of the other newer kids on the block, Dallasites are bending, stretching and strengthening their cores. Pilates reformer classes are said to deliver a significant transformation to your body…
The Tony Award-winning play The Humans explores the tough work of being human in a family filled with other humans. Disappointment, unmet expectations, illness, betrayal and aging are vividly portrayed alongside the deeply human need to find refuge with other humans who bring their own unique set of needs, flaws…
… This is an intimate portrait of the artist in recent years as she returns to Jamaica, the country of her birth and childhood, for a family reunion
Schoenaerts and Exarchopoulos exhibit the kind of empathetic, in-sync performances that legitimize onscreen romances, almost selling why Bibi would throw her life away to be with a man who incessantly lies to her
Here’s a woman who has spent her entire life helping others and not being a piece of shit, and unless she or the club touched you personally, you probably didn’t know she existed until you read this or saw the film
