Look, we get it. Going home for Thanksgiving is nice and all. However, there’s only so much of your family you can take. I mean, who wants to listen to uncle Cletus praise Trump for hours at a time? And believe me, there’s not enough alcohol in the world to…
Friday, November 22 Princemas Holiday Bar Opening Party 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 The Sweet Tooth Hotel Free-ish with RSVP The Sweet Tooth Hotel is launching a new holiday drink menu with a party filled with Prince tunes. Plus, enjoy 50% off access to the art installations. Make your RSVP…
At this point in time, most people know that the origins of Thanksgiving are not so savory as the meal we celebrate them with. Although we were raised with charming ideas of pilgrims and Native Americans planting corn, sitting down at table together, eating turkey and watching football, Americans have…
Winter is coming, but instead of medieval zombies, let us picture vibrant, green life. Local artists are using these tiny things we call plants, and molding them into works of art, even giving them a voice to sing. The following eight artists are inspiring the next generation to care for…
Arturo Torres has the best reason for missing my first phone call: His son was asleep on top of him. “Sorry, bro,” the illustrator is quick to say. “I’m a father now, so you know how it goes.” I do not, in fact, know how it goes, but anyone who…
This past weekend, a conservative group called Super Happy Fun America threw a straight pride parade, which brought in a resounding crowd of three. What could’ve gone wrong to make the event, which expected 2,000, such a massive fail? Bad marketing? Poor planning? Weak music selection? For some odd reason,…
One of the biggest musicals in history is going from center stage at theaters to being transformed into a controversial CGI adaptation on the big screen, and right before Christmas. After the star-studded trailer and a featurette on the film dropped in the middle of July this year, Twitter had…
In photography, there’s seemingly no room for industry progress, or in entrepreneurial parlance, “disruption.” Think about it. Professional photographers can take pictures that look more lifelike than life itself, and any layperson can take high-definition pictures and videos simply by pulling a handheld computer out of their pocket. How could…
Monday, November 18 The Funky Knuckles If The Funky Knuckles aren’t a part of your weekly jazz intake, they should be. The Funky Knuckles have been together for nearly seven years. The fusion jazz band released an album called Meta-Musica in 2014 that climbed to No. 1 on iTunes’ jazz…
The term “missing link” gets thrown around a lot in discussions about humanity’s lineage, but it’s incorrect for many reasons. One of the biggest misconceptions created by the term is that human evolution only followed one direction that never strays from its path. “If you want to think of human…
Being in a conference dedicated to the belief that the Earth is flat is surreal enough. Then one of late-night TV’s most notorious trolls enters to stir up trouble for the sake of comedy, and it somehow feels more surreal but a hell of a lot funnier. Jake Byrd, the chipper,…
You are a rich person who likes to do rich person things. Lucky for you, Neiman Marcus released their list of Christmas Fantasy Gifts, so for hundreds of thousands of dollars, you can do what you were called to do — be a rich person doing rich person things. There…
Friday, November 15 Nomad Tacos Pop-Up 5 p.m., Friday, November 15 Peticolas Brewery Free-ish Peticolas returns with its monthly game night, where guests can enjoy games with the brewery hosts. Chef Zuriel Barradas of Kitchen Zus will be onsite, selling his famous street tacos. You don’t want to miss out…
If there is one thing to know about Dallas retail-preneur Matt Alexander, it’s that he is always up for a good story. At the launch of one of his earlier ventures, Need, in 2013 (an e-commerce retailer and publication for men), it was the art of the story that drove…
The Lifespan of a Fact, a play by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, begins with a perplexing spew of facts, none of which makes any sense. The audience hears something about a suicide in Las Vegas, a chicken playing tic-tac-toe, the phrase “Buckets of Blood” (which ends up…
This week, percussion students from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth are being recognized with an international honor. The TCU Percussion Orchestra will head to Indianapolis to perform at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. At PASIC, percussionists, drummers, enthusiasts, performers and educators from around the world all head to…
We’ve all heard about cutting out the middle man, but what about bringing him back in? That’s what many people are doing when it comes to travel, and DFW travel agents are reaping the benefits. The 2019 “Portrait of the American Traveler” revealed that 24% of millennials have used a…
There aren’t many places in public where people could get away with wearing a gimp suit or fetish wear, but the 2019 Dallas Fetish Ball 20th Anniversary is encouraging people to squeeze into the sluttiest, freakiest and kinkiest shit they got tucked back in the corner of their closet. The…
Monday, November 11 Faiths in Conversation There are approximately 4,200 religions in the world, yet we only ever hear about the rules of a few (you know who you are). The word “religion” also remains broad: from deeply rooted cultural traditions to newly acquired maxims and all-embracing philosophies set up…
The latest tour for Joel Hodgson’s movie-mocking TV creation Mystery Science Theater 3000 is special for many reasons. The Cheesy Movie Circus Tour features new gadgets and effects for Hodgson and his robot friends Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot. The two movies that will face Hodgson’s firing squad include…
A stuffed, winged monkey peeks from a storefront window while a black and white image of a 1950s-era twister threatening Oak Cliff adorns an inside wall. The pairing might seem unusual, but it’s at home among a hoard of vintage oddities waiting to be discovered at Dolly on Bishop. The…
Digital media may be more convenient in terms of access, quality and storage space, but VHS and other forms of physical movies will have something that no streaming service or m4v file never will: the ability to brag about its size. VHS, DVD and Blu-ray collections are just like any other…
