I promise never to bring this up again. I may have said that before. I can’t remember. But this is definitely the last time. What is the etiquette for running up silently behind unfamiliar dogs on leashes and then passing them on the same sidewalk? Actually, forget etiquette. What is…
In the 1970s, we had Happy Days. In the 1980s, we had Bryan Adams’ “Summer of 69.” In the 1990s, we had That ’70s Show. In the 2000s, we had a post-punk revival. In the 2010s, ’90s nostalgia became so big that Nickelodeon started a programming block titled NickRewind, which was…
The Trump administration, in its crusade against the European Union and to bolster the bottom line of some of the world’s richest companies, wants to tax the hell out of your bottle of cheap French rosé. It has already imposed a 25% tariff on most French, Spanish, German and British…
Typically, complaints lodged against music in the mainstream would make someone look like a miserly old-timer stuck in his or her glory days, but when people take issue with artists glamorizing drug abuse, they actually raise a legitimate point. However, as much merit as these grievances have, reasonable propositions to…
There’s a war on sugar cookies, and it’s not just my keto diet, although I all but completely abandoned my sugar-free lifestyle for the yuletide season when I saw these delicious floofs of sugary dough and frosting spanning all colors of a pastel rainbow on seemingly every end-cap in grocery…
It’s Christmas. I am spending a Dallas holiday afternoon sitting cozily on the sofa in front of a cold fireplace with the air conditioning on, thumbing through the year on my phone to remember all the worst things people said about me in 2019. Carols on the stereo in the…
One crucial tenet of music criticism is being able to see a piece or performance as the multifaceted work it truly is. Seldom are songs, albums or concerts ever completely without blemish, and in that same vein, seldom are they ever irredeemably bad and devoid of any favorable characteristics. If…
If you use social media, you’ve probably by now seen one of the most popular memes of the year, “OK boomer.” The saying has become a popular response whenever someone of baby boomer age (approximately 55-75 years old) says something that younger people deem stupid or incorrect, in order to…
In June, I had the pleasure of reviewing one of Juice WRLD’s two Bomb Factory sets, and I noticed something about him that was rare. He was popular enough to do a two-night stand at a 4,300-capacity venue, but at the same time, he was everyone’s little secret. You may…
Editor’s note: On Tuesday, restaurant critic Brian Reinhart wrote an essay about the rise in the number of what he called “servant restaurants,” those high-price places that primarily cater to extremely rich customers, and what that rise means for the city’s restaurant industry. (It’s not good, he contends.) Not everyone shared…
According to one indicator, the restaurant bubble in Dallas is going to burst soon. The warning sign is the rise of what I call “servant restaurants.” Servant restaurants exist primarily to cater to the whims and caprices of extremely rich customers. Chefs in charge of such kitchens aren’t really given…
In less than a year, 26-year-old Deandre Conway, better known as chart-topping recording artist Yella Beezy, has become one of the biggest new stars in music. His rise includes No. 1 hit “That’s On Me,” a stint as an opening act on Beyonce and Jay-Z’s “On The Run II Tour”…
Did Sunday’s loss ultimately seal Jason Garrett’s fate? Fans hope so. After burying the memory of a three-game losing streak with two consecutive 30-plus wins, Sunday’s loss to the Vikings — which, if you ask us, was lost in the first quarter, not the fourth — reopened the burning question…
Last year I had this cool gig where I shot photos for a cruise line. The A/V crew was awesome, we all got along great. Until one lunch break when we were all sitting at a large table in the Windbreaker, consuming calories as fuel to go about the rest…
In case you haven’t had the displeasure: “Incels” — an abbreviation of “involuntary celibates” — are a group of men who meet in the dark corners of the web to support each other’s rampant and often violent misogyny. For as long as the incel subculture has been around, the group…
It’s 2019, and I’m about to tell you something groundbreaking: Women can be anything they want to be. Like, an astronaut or a marketing executive or a newspaper columnist or a mom or a mommy blogger or a farmer or even a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. On Wednesday, Dallas Morning News…
The Dallas food scene is a confusing, tumultuous place. Restaurants open and close constantly, and fads seem to sweep in from the coasts with regularity before receding. For out-of-towners, Dallas is especially mysterious because our reputation is out-of-date. Around America, food lovers know Houston is a mellow melting pot of…
“As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.”— Proverbs 26:11 Now that the 50-year anniversary of Woodstock and its attempted celebration have both passed us, no foreseeable Woodstock revivals lurk on the horizon. In a perfect world, it would stay that way forever. But it won’t. Nostalgia…
I love the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. I’ve gone out of my way to meet some of them. I have their calendar. Every year, I watch the CMT reality show based on the team. I recently bought a Debbie Does Dallas poster to hang in my apartment because it’s campy and…
Everybody in South Dallas knows something is coming. The question is what, and the question is not idle. Is the Big Thing, whatever it is, going to revive South Dallas or bulldoze it? The house money has jumped the line. Big houses in some neighborhoods that still scared the socks…
Many artists complain about how little coverage they receive from local press. Musicians work in a saturated, competitive market, so any means available to get more attention for their work is highly sought after … unless the artist is rapper Bobby Sessions. This April while on tour in Chicago, Sessions…
Stephanie Drenka never felt the need to weigh in on the abortion debate – until now. Drenka is a Korean adoptee who grew up in Southlake and now lives in Dallas. She’s a writer and activist who predominantly focuses her attention on writing about adoption and the Asian American community,…
