Comedian Erik Myers, a Florida native, died on Tuesday in a car accident in Amarillo while he was traveling to Dallas to perform at Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub. Myers could do something very few comics are capable of doing: He could make audiences and comedians laugh. “You kind of get jaded…
Exactly a year ago, theater director Kara-Lynn Vaeni was helping Dallas build and maintain a flourishing theater scene packed with stellar and wide-ranging productions. Dallas and Fort Worth theaters were showing us some of their best work during the 2019-2020 season before the promising future for local theater was struck down, like…
Even while soldiering through power outages and pandemics, many locals are still readying for part two of Scarborough Renaissance Festival’s 40th anniversary, which begins April 10. Like most shows, last year’s celebration ended before it began. However, tickets for this year’s festival are now up for grabs, offering an anniversary…
The Texas Big Freeze of 2021 made history with some of the coldest consecutive days the state has ever experienced. In addition to massive power outages and deaths resulting from below-freezing temperatures, the snowstorm also came close to erasing an important piece of local history. Most people visit Dallas’ Fair Park…
News from the pandemic front is getting brighter lately. The average number of new infections of COVID-19 has fallen below 100,000 in the U.S. for the first time since November, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of deaths is decreasing sharply, too. In fits and starts, the national vaccine…
The past week in Dallas has been referred to as Snow-vid, Dallaska, “The coldest week of my life,” or, in the case at least of one Texas senator, “vacation-time.” Artists were out and about in the Texas-sized winter wonderland trying to find ways to forget that most of their friends…
Mental health has long been a motif and muse used by artists. “I can not get rid of my illnesses, for there is a lot in my art that exists only because of them,” wrote Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, best known for his work “The Scream,” who was diagnosed with neurasthenia,…
During a interview on Extra, former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay interviewed Bachelor franchise host (and fellow Dallas native) Chris Harrison about this season of The Bachelor’s problematic contestant, Rachael Kirkconnell. Kirkconnell came under scrutiny when photos of her at an Old South party surfaced online. Harrison seemingly defended her. “I saw a picture…
Sen. Ted Cruz enraged constituents yet again this week when he was caught catching a flight to Cancún with his wife, Heidi, and their daughters. Texans continued to suffer below-freezing temperatures and massive power outages while Cruz was seemingly off to vacation under the Mexican sun. Cruz returned the next…
Gearbox Software may still be located in Texas, but thanks to a recent merger with a large game conglomerate, it’s officially Swedish. The Embracer Group, a Sweden-based parent company of 57 game studios such as THQ Nordic, Deep Silver and Saber Interactive, announced a merger deal with Gearbox Software that puts…
We get it. Making a list about the weirdest and funniest local commercials is doing exactly what advertisers want us to do, sharing their pieces of digital celluloid so more people will see them. In this day and age, when videos of cats juggling, skateboard accidents and unhinged rants from…
Well, 2021 certainly is making a show of itself. If you’re experiencing power loss, we really hope, all toes and fingers crossed, your power is restored soon. And in case we’ve got a few more days of this ahead of us — and it looks like we do — we…
There’s a strong, beautiful energy inside the walls of the Design District’s showroom and gallery store {neighborhood}. After moving into this space from their original spot in Bishop Arts District, and a low-key 2020, the owners of {neighborhood} will host art shows throughout the year. The first offers works from…
It all began one morning as Mark Birnbaum sipped coffee with a friend who’d read about Byrd Williams IV, whose lineage includes a long line of photographers. The friend asked, “Isn’t this the kind of person you make films about?” Birnbaum remembers. Indeed it was. “I never thought about making…
Actress Gina Carano was fired from her role in Disney’s The Mandalorian this week, after she tweeted anti-Semitic, anti-mask wearing, Jeffrey Epstein and election fraud conspiracies — among a slew of other opinions that were decidedly non-Disney. Carano has also posted anti-trans remarks in the past, but the last straw…
Last weekend, Saturday Night Live exposed a secret fetish of many millennials: home browsing. According to the hilarious sketch about Zillow — starring Schitt’s Creek creator Dan Levy — when you’re in your late thirties, sex just can’t fill the void that images of crown molding can. Maybe it’s a…
If you haven’t grown tired of the Bernie Sanders meme, in which the senator is wearing mittens and a large jacket at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, it’s not too late to add to your collection of memorabilia. At ABC Party HQ, you can order a piñata stylized as…
We don’t know who hasn’t heard this, but Gen Z young’uns took to TikTok this week to shame millenials for our style choices. Side parts are soooo over, apparently, along with skinny jeans and the laughing emoji. We have an emoji for you, Gen Z, but we might get in…
Even in the era of social media and streaming, there’s nothing in the digital world that can match the authenticity of live comedy. Watching a comedian risk losing his or her reputation and dignity on a set is a thrilling feeling, and the buzz of seeing a great routine is…
We’re all stuck at home now with more limited entertainment options than a resident of Branson, Missouri. One of the things that can help us get through this small-town feel is the free show and movie app Pluto TV. It’s like someone mutated a UHF TV station and unleashed it…
Richard Sharum has been a photographer based in Dallas for 16 years, but he doesn’t let Dallas contain him. In his work, he seeks to find the unifying factors among humans all over the world. Typically, that means focusing on socioeconomic groups that affluent Dallasites (or Texans, or even Americans…
As we approach a year of dealing with COVID-19, we can look back on socially distanced birthdays, Halloween and other and sad holiday celebrations. But here’s one holiday we haven’t yet tackled during a historic pandemic, as if it wasn’t already scary and stressful enough: Valentine’s Day. What is a…
