There are few things that can shock a viewer when it comes to reality television. Housewives throw champagne glasses. Strangers get married at first sight. Other things happen that we can’t think of right now because it’s that hard to shock us. But Thursday night, exactly one week ago, our…
I watched the Kavanaugh hearing last week with a bunch of old white guys. Of course, it was strictly research, but I was also hoping they might get enough of it at some point to lift themselves painfully up off the couch so we could go fishing, as promised. But,…
There were rumors that FC Dallas manager Óscar Pareja was to interview for the head coaching position for the U.S. men’s national soccer team. Pareja, who is in his fifth season with FC Dallas, denied the rumors of the interview and is focused on the current MLS season. “I just…
It’s not that the State Fair of Texas has no responsibility to the bitterly poor, racially segregated neighborhoods surrounding the fairgrounds. Of course it does. We all do. I do. You do. The danger for us all, however, is that we satisfy ourselves with pinning the blame for urban poverty…
Is Post Malone Cursed? That may be the explanation on why Post Malone, the Grapevine-native rapper, has been having a bit of bad luck during these past couple of weeks. In August, Malone was onboard a privet jet to a London concert when two of the plane’s tires blew out,…
Ashlee Simpson (you may know her as Jessica Simpson’s sister) and her husband Evan Ross (you may know him as Diana Ross’ son) have a new docu-series on E! Simpson is from the Dallas area, so as a dedicated Dallas journalist, I began watching the show to see if she…
Each morning on 96.3 KSCS, host Hawkeye on his show Hawkeye in the Morning takes a call from a listener who went on a (seemingly great) date with someone, but they are sad because they never heard back from said date. Hawkeye takes it upon himself to then call said…
Let’s discuss Dallas restaurant inspection scores. In the past we’ve talked about the inflation that plagues scores, and the workload that can set inspectors weeks behind schedule. But today we’ll stick to one very simple question, which doesn’t require any investigative digging. What does a restaurant’s inspection score even mean?…
So your friend’s 21st birthday is here and the world of Uber surge charges and artisan cocktails are officially part of your playground. The only thing standing between you and your $11 ginger vodka soda is the door person who is hell-bent on preventing you from getting in, right? Not…
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but affronts to architectural pulchritude live in infamy on Kate Wagner’s blog McMansionhell.com. McMansion Hell highlights a certain type of enormous, aesthetically baffling dwelling constructed across the country in recent decades. Wagner wants to unveil the worst offending home in Texas, her…
On Tuesday morning, the music section of the Dallas Observer published an article on local musicians talking about addiction following former Colleyville resident Demi Lovato’s recent drug overdose. The writers of the article (myself and Stephanie Salas-Vega) shared the article on our personal Facebook pages, as writers normally do in…
The first thing to say about the announcement of a deal to privatize Fair Park, the city’s 277-acre Art Deco albatross in South Dallas, is that everybody on every side of this endless bloody debate is utterly stunned. The deal, which would turn over Fair Park to a private operator…
As the lights go down, the curtains open and the band reveals itself onstage. Phones and cameras show up in the audience, too. Lit screens swerve back and forth, and instantly, there are hundreds of recordings of the concert on social media. More artists are encouraging camera-free experiences by banning…
Sexist service is bad service. I hope that we can all agree on this. A server who treats a woman with condescension is doing his job badly. More broadly, a server who treats customers differently based on sex, sexual orientation or race is failing the basic standard of hospitality. I’m…
Half a billion people scroll through Instagram daily. And to some of those peoples’ dismay and others’ envy, a small percentage of Instagrammers have made a career out of it. They are a select class of mostly millennial model-types whose interesting lives and devoted followers have made them attractive allies…
My editor has been encouraging me to ride one of the new motorized versions of a child’s kick-scooter being offered for rent all over the city, so that I can write a story about it. (Editor’s note: No I haven’t. Much.) Some years ago, the same editor sent me to…
The internet has brought the world closer together — so much so that we’re finding ourselves lacking personal cyber space. Every day, people add millions more photos, tweets, comments, videos, gifs, memes and various other forms of content to the web, where it can be collectively sorted through by whoever…
The Garland City Council voted this week to close Windsurf Bay Park on Lake Ray Hubbard for the Fourth of July because Garland police were afraid too many people would show up for holiday picnics. That’s one approach. Of course, another strategy would be to make it a better park…
Four white crosses projected on thin silk curtains draped in front of the stage slowly began to turn upside down. An eerie electric guitar riff echoing through massive speakers behind the curtain acted as a soundtrack to the descent into hell that awaited the sold-out Slayer crowd Tuesday evening at…
It’s about time that we got something new out of Sealion. Although the band has frequently played shows around town over the last few years, for the first time since its 2014 release, Heavy Fizz, the Dallas “art punk” quartet is set to release a new EP, titled Nothing Nowhere…
Outback Steakhouse was an odd choice for my dad’s birthday dinner last Friday. It’s one of those restaurants we, the millennial set, pass all the time but never think about unless we grew up eating there. It’s not a trendy restaurant of the month but a pretty typical casual dining…
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