A Look at What I Wore This Week

Brighton the Day 5/10 6:31A megan hopkins

Ready for another look at what I wore this week? I was preparing for a trip to the beach with my family all week, so most of these looks are athleiure and comfortable. This yellow sweat set from Abercrombie is a current fave. It s so comfortable,...

An Underground Joint in Dallas Goes Legit, and Its Barbecue Has Never Been Better

Texas Monthly 5/10 4:00A Daniel Vaughn

A pair of code compliance officers from the City of Dallas approached Jamie Sosa on a Sunday afternoon in February. A line of customers looked on as the officers told him to shut down his barbecue...

Friday, May 10: Preservation Park Cities Historic Home Tour sponsored by Benchmark Bank and Title

Philanthropy Lifestyles 5/9 9:40A SharonAdams

(Featured photo: 3926 Potomac.) Preservation Park Cities is excited to present its annual Park Cities Historic Home Tour sponsored by

AWARE Meeting at the Center for BrainHealth Featured Updates from Three Grant Recipients

Philanthropy Lifestyles 5/9 8:44A SharonAdams

(Featured photo: Karen Koop, president, AWARE; Kym Shaw Day, For Love and Art; Karisti Julia, AWARE meetings chair; Teresa Coleman

Horny Moms and Lost Souls: How Kimberly King Parsons Crafted a Modern, Hallucinatory Texas Novel

Texas Monthly 5/9 8:37A Dina Gachman

If you do an image search for Wink, Texas, you ll find pictures of a wee Roy Orbison Museum, aerial photos of two massive sinkholes, and not much else. The small West Texas hamlet, about eight miles...

Ken Paxton Mistakes Catholic Teachings for “Bohemian Commandments”

Texas Monthly 5/9 7:42A Sandi Villarreal

It s Ken Paxton versus Catholics, round two. Back in February, the Texas attorney general targeted the migrant shelter Annunciation House, in El Paso, on his stated suspicions of alien harboring and...

My Current Kitchen Essentials

Brighton the Day 5/9 6:42A megan hopkins

After getting such good feedback from the Sunday fridge prep essentials blog post I shared recently, I thought it may be helpful to do one on my kitchen essentials. Since having kids, I find myself relying on certain kitchen items more than ever....

Your Mental Health: Recent pattern of violence against women casts light on toxic masculinity

Spectrum Local News Health 5/9 6:08A Nicole Cross

One out of four women will be the victim of a violent crime, according to the CDC.

Workers often forfeit hundreds of dollars on a popular workplace benefit

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 5/9 5:58A Andy Medici

Workers are losing out on hundreds of dollars in flexible spending account money.

Family Compass receives Texas Bar Foundation grant for Families First project

Irving BubbleLife iReporter 5/9 2:21A Kyla Lynch

Family Compass, the only agency in North Texas solely dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect, is delighted to announce that the Texas Bar Foundation has awarded the organization a grant of...

Meet East Dallas - A free event showcasing East Dallas businesses

Irving BubbleLife iReporter 5/8 9:58P Deborah Brown

Come Meet Your Neighbors! Join neighbors and sample some of East Dallas restaurants, artisans, and local businesses at the Greater East Dallas Chamber of Commerces Meet East Dallas to be held on...

Del Rio’s William Beckmann Proves That Even Twentysomethings Can Be Cowboy Crooners

Texas Monthly 5/8 8:26A Kaiya Little

With all the earnestness of a love letter, country singer William Beckmann sings classic country tales of pining for the one that got away, for the red-dressed women from the bar. Over the sounds of...

LA23 BBQ Is Doing Texas Right in Plaquemines Parish

Texas Monthly 5/8 4:00A Daniel Vaughn

Texas is the motherland of barbecue, and if somebody says it s not, they re just an idiot, Bobby Monsted III told me. Monsted is co-owner of LA23 BBQ in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. It s a small place...

Texas Parents Are Terrified for Another Triple-Digit Summer

Texas Monthly 5/8 3:43A Saba Khonsari

No more than ten minutes! I yelled after my eleven-year-old daughter as she darted out the back door. It was late on an August evening, and the temperature in Houston continued to hover over 100...

Broadway Dallas Commemorates South Dallas Stories: Uprooted, 2024 the Exhibition

Irving BubbleLife iReporter 5/8 3:39A Dana Cobb

On Friday, May 3, 2024, Broadway Dallas proudly unveiled the updated lobby installation of South Dallas Stories: Uprooted, a poignant multimedia exhibit that delves into the historical inequities of...