your favorite writer's favorite stories
Dallas' alt-weekly since 1980.
In Texas heat, how do goths balance self-expression with self-preservation? (Jul. 2024)
Inside the bizarre world of Lee Harvey Oswald-inspired art. (Apr. 2025)
Nobody makes grunge music anymore, so why are we still dressing like it's Seattle in the '90s? (Sept. 2024)
These Dallas playwrights turned their sports grief into the funniest thing you'll see all year. (Sep. 2025)
Country superstar JRW opens up about his recent cancer diagnosis and ongoing treatment. (Mar. 2024)
When comedy clubs won't book Spanish-speaking nights, the Dallas Latino comedy scene takes matters into their own hands. (Aug. 2024)
Poet and songwriter Kendall Brown threw a 30th birthday party for his beard. (Feb. 2024)
Exploring the world of semi-professional sumo in Dallas. (Oct. 2024)
Dallas magazine that focuses on four distinct neighborhoods across the city.
"I realized I was a clown my whole life." (Oct. 2024)
The Rosemont Kings are the best funk band you'll likely never get to see. (Dec. 2023)
One family's search for their missing cat has involved physics, social media, blackmail and the police. (Sept. 2023)
How do artists create in a city with no culture? A musician, a filmmaker, a writer and a chef weigh in. (Mar. 2023)
73-year-old Mel Bernstein sells sea shells on a street corner to help pay for his Stage IV cancer treatments. (Jul. 2023)
On Wednesday, the Texas Theatre has a heartbeat. (Nov. 2023)
Pop culture blog that's exactly what it sounds like.
At will, Adele can put the entire music industry firmly in her orbit. (Nov. 2021)
Collecting all the child actor performances that mattered; good, bad, iconic and infamous. (Mar. 2022)
What can we learn about the first characters that die in horror films? (Oct. 2021)
My half-alive musings on The Matrix while battling mono for two weeks straight. (Aug. 2021)
Sports gods probably aren't real, but sometimes it's safe to exercise caution. (Jul. 2021)
Action movies have shifted their focus to rage rather than retribution, a disorienting violent turn. (Jun. 2021)
Silly basketball blog I started during quarantine that I occasionally dust off to post an essay or two.
March Madness is stupid. Everybody knows it. That said, our existence is nothing without stupid things to consume us. (Mar. 2023)
I celebrate my first full year of writing on the homemade website that started it all. (Apr. 2021)