Arts + Culture

On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and Union Army General Gordon Granger read the federal orders proclaiming that all the enslaved people in Texas were free.

On June 4, a group of protesters, mostly students, gathered in the sweltering heat at the Gates of Prosper shopping establishment to march in solidarity against the murder of George Floyd.

On a normal Friday night, music fills the streets in and around downtown McKinney. A band might be playing at TUPPS Brewery or on The Sanctuary stage. Country artists line up to sing in front of the American flag onstage at Hank’s Texas Grill.

It's Friday and that means it's showtime for The Comedy Arena, the downtown McKinney comedy club that houses stand-up showcases and the ComedySportz DFW improv franchise.

After walking the audience through the proper way to grill a ribeye, Chef Dean Fearing sits down in the comfort of his backyard and pulls out a guitar.

Pop music will always be filled to the brim with vacuous, sappy stories about some idealized version of love that can never be obtained outside of a Baz Luhrmann film.

Shutterstock As we get deeper into the pandemic-powered lockdown, it seems folks are getting antsy to the point of fantasizing about what life will be like once our lives aren’t quite so quarantined.

John Krasinski is widely known for playing Jim on The Office , starring in A Quiet Place with his wife and fellow actor Emily Blunt, and these days, for starting the Youtube show Some Good News from his house and delivering something we really need:

During COVID-19’s spread, and to help enforce necessary social distancing practices, North Texas Performing Arts has just announced a “virtual performing arts giga-centre” as it expands programming, offering more than 30 new classes online that start

Although we’re now multiple weeks into what so many are calling “the new normal,” it’s difficult for music lovers and musicians to grasp the current climate as anything remotely normal.