Naysayers of the ’12 Civic will sing a different tune about the ’13 model CASEY WILLIAMS | Auto Reviewer crwauto@aol.com Between Consumer Reports failing to bestow its somewhat over-hyped “Recommended” rating upon the re-designed 2012 Honda Civic, and the boo-hooing from the rest of the journalistic flock, you’d think a person would have had to [...]
Uptown isn’t the only neighborhood that can do a proper gay brunch When Claude Griffin decided to start a Dallas version of Big Gay Brunch, it was mostly because he was tired of waiting for someone else to do it. “I’ve traveled around the country and seen them in other cities,” Griffin explains. “I had [...]
If you live in Dallas, you eat tacos — simple as that. Jose Ralat-Maldonado has chronicled the best of this distinctive street food on his Taco Trail blog for years, but this weekend moves from commentator to impresario with his inaugural North Texas Taco Festival in Deep Ellum on Saturday. You can sample tacos from restos like [...]
One visit. One meal. One shot to get it right Union Bear As an aging hipster myself, I have to confess that one thing I don’t like about hipster culture is this: Hipsters judge. And they manifest those judgments in many not-so-subtle ways. (In that way, they’re a lot like the gay community.) So, when [...]
It’s not just Kinky Boots — gay director, writer, producer, star and subject matter — that give queer appeal to the current B’way season. As usual, the new crop includes numerous gay-interest productions, among them: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, pictured above — The stage adaptation of Truman Capote’s acclaimed novella, with the gay gigolo once again gay [...]
Inside the Vortex by Justin Hernandez (2013, CreateSpace), $14.95; 158 pp. Just last week, we wrote here about a book written by two straight men who strip for women. But that’s not all the guys who drop trou for some bucks — not by a longshot. Justin Hernandez should have been a tough, masculine kid: [...]
Cyndi Lauper shows her true colors with Broadway’s new hit musical, ‘Kinky Boots’ LAWRENCE FERBER | Contributing Writer lifestyle@dallasvoice.com Cyndi Lauper isn’t sounding like herself these days. Instead, she’s sounding like a sassy black British drag queen; a young, vanilla man tasked with saving his family’s business, his disgruntled fiancée; and a homophobic blue-collar [...]
How Eric Tschetter took his successful FW sports bar Pour House to the Cliff ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor Eric Tschetter can tell you the day when he decided what he needed to do. For a decade, he has owned The Pour House, a Fort Worth sports bar. For virtually all of that time, [...]
With the first pitch of the season of Major League Baseball earlier this week, the NCAA championship just around the corner and the NBA finals set to start later this month and the NHL playoffs on its heels, it’s a perfect storm for sports fans. But it’s not just pro and college teams you have [...]
The Lost Souls aren’t the only gay rugby team that relies on fundraising — the Dallas Diablos are about to mount on one of their big moneymakers, their annual Bachelor Auction. Members of the team will take to the platform at Woody’s on April 14 to strut their stuff and boast about their big [...]
