Boutique apartment buildings and cleared, muddy plots marked with signs advertising “Coming Soon: Homes Starting at $400,000” are hints of the latest massive gentrification rolling through Old East Dallas. By decree, though, the bulldozers clearing the way for progress aren’t allowed to touch certain spots. During region-wide redevelopment in the…
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is finally ready to share her point of view with Dallas. On April 1, Hasselbeck will be at White’s Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake to host a Girl’s Night Out: Refocusing Our Point of View Together. Refocusing Our Point of View Together? If you think that sounds…
There’s a lot more classical music in Dallas than just our world-class symphony and the glamorous opera house next door. But many of the events elsewhere in town are hard to find or downright obscure. Over the years, we’ve missed many exciting concerts because we just didn’t know they existed…
The Texas Rangers Golf Club opened last week in Arlington without a ticker tape parade, but those willing to brave the chill were welcomed with a double lineup of snazzy golf carts. The first tee time at the newly renovated course dodged a frost delay to open as scheduled at…
Visitors to downtown Dallas no longer need to enter American Airlines Center to see Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic in action. A new augmented reality mural featuring Doncic performing his stepback jumper has been revealed, drawing attention and deceiving eyes. Across the back of the T. Boone Pickens YMCA on…
Secure your wigs, Dallas, because the new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race has more drag queens from North Texas than any other season in drag race herstory. (See what we did there? Haha? Laugh.) Although no queen from Texas has ever snatched the crown to be America’s next drag superstar…
Friday Giacomo Puccini’s opera Manon Lescaut contains one of the most spirited, individualistic, timeless and tragic female protagonists in the repertory. The young Manon ultimately finds herself pulled between two mutually exclusive paths: a glitzy life of luxury or true love. The result is intensely discouraging, and at once both…
Dallas’ gayborhood will soon get a makeover. For decades, the strip on Oak Lawn and Cedar Springs has served as a bar district and nightlife destination for Dallas’ LGBTQ+ community. Changes are underway to make the gayborhood safer. Work will be done on the sidewalks to make them more compliant…
Dallas is one of the sexiest cities in America, and it’s not the first time we’ve been called that. Earlier this month, Dallas landed at No. 6 on a list, which was based on more than simply curb appeal, and created by Pink Cherry, an online sex toy vendor out…
The Artisan Center Theater in Hurst turned into a crime scene earlier this month when burglars broke into the theater’s offices and stole thousands in cash and electronics. Richard Blair, the ACT’s executive producer and co-founder, says the burglary happened sometime in the late hours of Monday, Feb. 11, or…
Free Play Arcade, the local retro arcade chain, will build a fourth location near downtown Fort Worth and halt plans to open a pinball arcade in the Oak Cliff neighborhood. Corey Hayden, owner and founder of the chain, which opened its first location in Richardson in 2015, says the Fort…
With your nose inches away from the portrait, you would swear the toy gun in front of you was real. The way light bounces off the plastic, the curve of the handle seemingly within graspable reach, it’s inconceivable that the image in front of you is oil paint arranged meticulously…
Wednesday Attention all women: You cannot really change a man, no matter what the movies and TV tell you. If he’s a con artist who goes around town asking for money for a marching band that does not exist, it doesn’t matter how cute you look when you’re stacking books…
Like a three-act opera filled with surprise, disappointment, multiple plot twists and, possibly a happy ending, the story of Keith Cerny’s yearlong journey from leading The Dallas Opera to the top job at the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, with a stop along the way in western Canada, is replete with…
Dex Nichols loves bad movies. Cheap props, wooden dialogue and monsters with obvious zipper lines are the building blocks to a movie night at Nichols’ home in McKinney. And for one night each month, he wants you to watch them with him. Each month Nichols selects a bad movie or two, stocks…
Clark James Gable III, the most recent host of the long-running Dallas reality show series Cheaters, died suddenly Friday. The show’s creator, Bobby Goldstein, says the show and Dallas lost more than a charismatic and likable TV personality. “He was a great friend of mine,” Goldstein says. “He was just…
Artist Nathan Sawaya builds sculptures and wall paintings out of LEGOs, the toy building block that’s been a creative outlet for kids and adults and the bane of shoeless parents since the 1930s. Sawaya says his reproductions of classic pieces of art — which are on display at the Perot Museum of…
The rumors of St. Petersburg have finally arrived in Dallas. The beloved tale of the Princess Anastasia is touring for the first time and has set up shop at the Music Hall at Fair Park. But swap out Rasputin and the talking bat with communism. “We think of it as…
Watching comedy is a mostly sedentary act. Comedian Gretchen Young, who’s better known by her stage nickname “GretchYo,” has found a way to make it move in so many ways. She’s the creator of a monthly comedy show series called “Destination Unknown” that puts audiences on a bus where they…
Comedian Bert Kreischer is a happy guy, and it’s not the beer talking. “I’m extremely happy,” Kreischer says. “For the first time in this entire business, I get to do anything I want to do and not because I have to do it.” These days, the things Kreischer says he…
Friday “The only reason to visit Florida is to identify your daughter’s dead body.” That line from actor/comedian Patton Oswalt is funny because it’s true, as Homer Simpson would say. True and biting observations are the stuff of Oswalt’s stand-up shows. The diminutive comedian gave voice to Remy, the starring…
This Sunday millionaires will dress up in clothes that belong to other people, sing songs and worship a gold statue. No, it’s not an Illuminati meeting, it’s the Academy Awards! This year’s Oscars — or indoor kids’ Super Bowl — will surely have some dark-horse victories, a few surprise guests…
