Take a glance at those two photos above of Texas Democratic Senate candidate MJ Hegar. While they're quite similar, discerning eyes might detect slight differences between them. For instance, in the photo on the left, she looks like a 44-year-old veteran awarded a Purple Heart after a National Guard medivac...
One week after the start of the fall semester, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill stopped offering in-person classes. Within that time, 130 students and five employees contracted the coronavirus, according to NPR. Soon, many North Texas colleges are also opening their doors to in-person learning, and Mimi...
With more than 200 people on the call, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission held an emergency Zoom webinar at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday to pass three amendments to regulations that clear a path for bars to reopen under Gov. Greg Abbott's emergency order restricting their operations during the pandemic. TABC presiding officer...
Rulli Torres moved to Dallas in 2012 after graduating from the University of Arkansas with a degree in fashion design. He spent years designing and creating formal dresses for momentous events. His career was built around life’s great social occasions. When the pandemic hit, all of that glamour came to...
As primates, human beings are part of the most socially adept order in the entire animal kingdom, and our need for relationships and interaction is so ingrained into our being that it is the third tier of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. It’s largely for this reason that the COVID-19 lockdown...
Consuming commercial media comes second nature to Americans. It's a language we speak fluently, learned through osmosis, tailored around illusive data and marketing schemes designed to hit us right where it matters: in our primal need to hoard goods. Nationwide, the entertainment industry employs over 400,000 people a year, and...
Before Lollapalooza became one of the biggest destination festivals in the world, it smashed precedents as a touring festival that bands in the 1990s clamored to play. Before that, it was a farewell tour for Jane’s Addiction. The economic impact of COVID-19 has been cruel to the Chicago-based festival and...
Riley Gale, the vocalist of Dallas thrash metal and hardcore punk vets Power Trip, died on Monday night, the band confirmed in a statement Tuesday. He was 35. “It is with the greatest of sadness we must announce that our lead singer and brother Riley Gale passed away last night,”...
in December, we had the pleasure of witnessing Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion in her enigmatic glory at Bomb Factory. In our glowing review, we were particularly astonished at her ability to be the life of an absolute rager just 24 hours after taking a final exam and accepting a...
On a scale of Christopher Nolans, Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s latest film, is his Christopher Nolaniest yet. That’s not especially a compliment. Nolan certainly has a grand style and deals with ideas more than any other director of Hollywood blockbusters. But calling his films “pure cinema” is often a cop-out for those ideas and the vainglorious […]