This past weekend, a Dallas woman named MaryBelle Judd turned 100 years old. The act of surviving an entire century is an occasion that should earn one, at the very least, a celebratory dinner at Chili’s, but COVID-19 forced Judd’s family to stay at home. A pandemic might have derailed…
Over the course of the past two years, drag sensation Shangela seems to have been everywhere. She had a role in the Academy Award-winning film A Star is Born and made a cameo appearance on the final season of Broad City. She also has been the subject of many a…
Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series Hollywood creates an alternative post-World War II Hollywood and highlights the unfair systems afflicting people of different races, genders and sexualities. Many of those systems are still in place today, but Murphy imagines what Hollywood may have looked like had they been broken apart. Part…
Mothers never stop worrying about their kids, and we’d be willing to bet that many have done more worrying in the past few months than they have through all their kids’ lives. Moms are now homeschooling while working from home, all while making sure no one catches COVID-19. This should…
At face value, area codes may be nothing more than just three measly digits, but they carry cultural value in their unique geographical representation. People from Atlanta frequently refer to the city as “The 404,” just as people from Detroit refer to Motor City as “The 313.” The late Nate…
The state may be allowing some businesses to reopen at the end of the week, but some local movie theater chains are choosing to play it safe and remain closed. The Alamo Drafhouse Cinema, which operates six theaters across Dallas-Fort Worth, and The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff both announced…
Breaking up is hard to do, they say, and that’s without factoring in the additional stress brought on by a pandemic, an economic crisis and the loneliness of lockdown. There are many ways of coping with breakups, and some of the most foolproof (albeit unhealthy) have been severely altered by…
Artists, small businesses and cultural institutions are all suffering the effects of the pandemic shutdowns, and while you may not be in a position to make a big baller donation, there are small ways you can contribute so that the Dallas we know and love is still standing when the…
Among Dallas’ museums, the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza stands out as the rare foundation where history was actually made. Located on the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository, the museum commemorating the life of the nation’s 35th president stands in the same place Lee Harvey…
The Circle has been one of Netflix’s most talked about shows since it first debuted in January. The social media-centric reality competition was officially renewed for two more seasons and has spawned new versions in the UK, France and Brazil. On The Circle, participants are placed in individual apartment units,…
The pandemic has affected almost all forms of business, but it’s impact on the entertainment industry has been particularly swift. Throughout the world, productions have been shut down, with major studios like Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros, and Apple closing sets and sending crew members home. Many of the year’s most…
Thanks to Netflix series Unorthodox, religious trauma is a topic that’s fresh on people’s minds, even if we haven’t identified the show’s takeaway message in that exact term. The drama details a young bride’s life and subsequent escape from a deeply orthodox Hasidic community in Brooklyn. The show became a…
Many of us are, understandably, feeling pretty lost these days. Our whole world has been turned upside down, and we find ourselves wondering: When will things go back to “normal?” Since it’s damn near impossible to get a straight answer from the conventional powers that be, we turned to the…
What is performance art? It’s not quite the performance of theater, nor even improv. It doesn’t consist of a finished piece that can hang on one’s wall or be propped on a stand. An academic might describe it as anything involving “action, ritual, task” but that misleadingly boils performance art…
Our woman crush this week is model Lucy Gebert, whose otherworldly beauty makes her a standout in the fashion world. It’s no wonder Gebert’s signature edgy elegance makes for a photographer’s acid dreams: Although she’s lived in Frisco since toddlerhood, Gebert was born in Luzern, Switzerland, to Canadian parents. She was…
Kathryn Dunn has never had trouble being liked; so much so, she quotes Elle Woods from Legally Blonde: “Everybody likes me,” she says with a laugh. Dunn, a bleach blonde Dallas native who has a past life as a pageant queen, Mavericks Dancer and broadcast journalist, was made for this…
For many non-essential workers, staying home during this pandemic is getting very old very fast. Maybe you’ve already finished your thousand-piece puzzles and failed at baking sourdough bread so many times that you forgot what real bread tastes like. Maybe you’re tired of your roommates and your family, and even…
Just before the coronavirus outbreak shut down almost every social and economic aspect of our lives, I was constantly reminded of what was coming by a special group of people who would constantly recommend watching or playing things in which the main theme is the outbreak of a deadly global virus…
Some of the greatest art throughout history has sprouted from shaky grounds in tumultuous times. While some of us are overeating or learning how to cook or working on beautifying our yards, North Texas artists are finding ways to channel their stress into their art and make good use of…
Stephan Wolfert hadn’t planned to stumble drunk into a Montana theater in 1991 for a performance of a play by Shakespeare. The jaded Army veteran also didn’t expect to connect with the medieval character of a crazed, homeless woman up on the stage, or to eventually share the healing he…
Is Disney the security blanket of the millennial generation? For whatever unexplored psychological reasons, young people are obsessed with the soothing memories of Disney-specific nostalgia. The internet is brimming with song quizzes and villain makeup and so much princess art. One Dallas blogger is combining the love for the brand…
Our woman crush this week is contemporary dancer Avery-Jai Andrews, who is not only a master of movement, but a pillar in the artistic community through her nonprofit work. The Booker T. Washington and New York University graduate is an accomplished, inspiring and worldly force. Here’s why we love her…
