The 20 Best Things To Do in Dallas This Week, Dec. 23 – 29

Monday, December 23 The Trains at NorthPark For over three decades, NorthPark Center has constructed an enchanting miniature train display, Trains at NorthPark, which has become a Dallas tradition for thousands of visitors as well as a significant philanthropic effort that has raised over $13 million for the Ronald McDonald…

Director Sam Mendes and Cast Talk New World War I Film 1917

Many films aim to completely immerse their audience in the story at hand, but Academy-Award winning director Sam Mendes takes this concept even further with his latest film 1917, a war epic meant to look like one continuous shot throughout, with no clear edits or cuts. “Once we had the…

RHOD’s LeeAnne Locken Calls Fellow Cast Member ‘The Little Chirpy Mexican’

During last week’s episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas, cast member LeeAnne Locken told fellow cast member Kameron Westcott that cast member Kary Brittingham was “the little chirpy Mexican.” Westcott silently nodded. This wasn’t the first time Locken has made some questionable remarks about Brittingham’s nationality. “I should have…

Spike Lee Says Jerry Jones Is on the Wrong Side of History

The Winspear Opera House feels diverse, energetic and slightly dangerous in the way that reminds me of the first day of school. Spike Lee walks out to a standing ovation and veteran journalist Roland Martin walks out in a caftan. Lee immediately makes a joke about how the Dallas Mavericks…

The Perfectly Executed Chaos of Theatre Three’s Noises Off

Noises Off by Michael Frayn is one of those risky plays that tries to tell a story about theater by means of the medium of theater — risky because any meta story threatens to be esoteric, relying too heavily on material that only makes sense to those within the world…

Soul Rep Theatre’s DOT Is a Holiday Story that Packs a Punch

’Tis the season for theater companies to produce fun holiday-themed stories, and Soul Rep Theatre’s regional premiere of DOT, playing at South Dallas Cultural Center through Dec. 22, is certainly focused on Christmas. But Christmas stories can give audiences cause for trepidation. After all, holiday stories can tend toward the…

That Peloton Ad Isn’t Sexist. Here’s Why.

Last month, an ad depicting a husband gifting his wife an exercise bike pissed off a lot of people. And as if there isn’t enough senseless outrage over innocuous things today, allow us to explain what a waste of time it is to be upset over this 30-second Peloton commercial…