Dallas Life

Based on the book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed, the Dallas Theater Center presents the play Tiny Beautiful Things.

Rats have gotten a bad wrap. It’s true that the wild variety can be aggressive, dirty and even spread diseases.

A fiesta of culture, color and sound will soon take center stage at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

The groundbreaking game that gave QuakeCon its name is back on modern-gen consoles.

Based on the novel by L. Frank Baum and featuring music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, the timeless musical Wizard of Oz makes its way to the Driegert Theatre (770 N Coit Road, Richardson) now through August 29.

The pandemic created a surge of side hustles as people looked for ways to make extra money while quarantined at home.

Before there was social media, reality TV was the most reliable, sobering mirror we had available to gawk at the worst of societal flaws through videotaped evidence.

When the pandemic ordered LGBTQ+ bars closed, drag performers were forced to get creative, pivoting to online performances.

One of Six Flags Over Texas’ original attractions is making a comeback along with a new water ride opening early next year.

Summertime comes to a close over the next few weeks and Dallasites don’t want to miss the opportunity to kick back and enjoy all the perks of what the city has to offer this special time of year.

Virtual reality has become a huge draw for entertainment venues and most focus on putting people in otherworldly situations that impede their chances for survival – like a zombie apocalypse or a perilous jungle adventure.

The days in which merchandise was inspired by movies have been subverted, and there’s long been a trend of movies based on toys.

Although casual hookups and encounters were strongly discouraged during the early stages of the pandemic, there’s never a bad time for sex education, especially as things, er, loosen up.

Bobbi Navarrete was seven years old when she first started wrestling.

In a historical uprising, Parisians on Bastille Day ushered in the French Revolution when they stormed the Bastille, a state prison, and beheaded the prison’s governor who got in their way of stealing ammo.

When Tumblr was scrubbed of NSFW content in 2018, sex enthusiasts found new outlets to share information. Granted, not all of the NSFW content is pornographic in nature, but largely educational.

You work hard and life comes at you fast. Sometimes you just need a little extra help wrangling your seemingly ever-growing to-do list.

One change that comes from the waning days of the pandemic is that our dating life is no longer confined to phone conversations or screen calls that feel like we’re in some kind of maximum security prison. We can and should actually meet the people we’re interested in dating now.

This summer, Legacy West (7800 Windrose Ave., Plano) hosts a free sunset movie series every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

Last year Jared Guynes was all set to launch his fifth Jared’s Epic Nerf Battle — the annual Nerf gun war that started in 2016 at AT&T Stadium that set and still holds a Guinness World Record.

Like most artists, Tokyo-based Tomoo Gokita spent life during the pandemic lockdown working on his craft, and breaking the boundaries of his own art by abandoning his usual monochromatic and grayscale figurative paintings for vibrant pastels — with motifs ranging from pin-up models and female wrestlers to Donald Trump and socially distanced individuals — for a series titled Get Down.

It may now seem like a foggy pre-war memory, but there was a time life used to feel like an orgy of instant, rampant, often unexplained horniness — a time where attractions were so plentiful and our excitement so, um, premature we had to deliberately conjure unsexy mental images to keep our libidos in check.