Dallas, TX
Guess who’s back – Dallas Voice
The Strip on Cedar Springs is on the coronary heart of the Oak Garden Gayborhood, and a brand new group name Delight in Dallas, is planning to deliver town’s Delight celebration again right here in September.(David Taffet/Dallas Voice)
New Delight in Dallas group goals to deliver again a September Delight celebration within the Gayborhood
TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor
nash@dallasvoice.com
All the oldsters who’ve been clamoring for Delight to return to the gayborhood are about to get their want: A newly-formed group referred to as Delight in Dallas this week introduced plans for a week-long “celebration of affection” in mid-September, the timeframe wherein Dallas celebrated Delight for 35 years — from 1984 to 2018.
The weeklong celebration will begin Monday, Sept. 12, with the principle occasion set for Sunday, Sept. 18.
Delight in Dallas, which was based in Might, is the “brainchild of a number of energetic members of the Dallas LGBTQ+ group who wish to deliver Delight occasions again to the Dallas space generally known as the Gayborhood,” famous a press launch asserting the group and its plans.
Board President James Ware mentioned within the press launch, “As a member of the Dallas queer group for almost 40 years, I can inform you that Delight hasn’t been the identical because it left its dwelling on Cedar Springs in 2018. There are a lot of people in our group who really feel the identical and wish to see Delight occasions in September — in our personal neighborhood — prefer it was for 3 a long time.”
Whereas the group is planning every week of full occasions this coming September, organizers mentioned this inaugural occasion will nonetheless be “a scaled-back model” of what they take note of for 2023.
Funding has lengthy been a difficulty for the Dallas Delight committee, which annually places on the Miller Lite Music Pageant and the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade. Past the price of bringing in entertainers and getting the parade down the road, the committee needed to pay for metropolis permits, cowl the rising prices of parade route limitations and further safety required by town, and extra. And people prices continued to rise steadily over time.
That’s the reason the committee — going again a long time — labored to herald company sponsors to assist cowl the required bills, and likewise one of many causes the committee selected to maneuver the pageant and parade to Truthful Park.
Delight in Dallas organizers, nonetheless, intend to take a special strategy: The group is asking the group that has requested for Delight to return to the Gayborhood to assist make that occur by contributing financially.
Delight in Dallas is looking for donations to cowl allowing and occasion expenditures, together with fencing,
sanitation, safety and leisure. They’ve arrange a GoFundMe web page the place group members and allies can donate, and taking part bars within the space have pledged to match the GoFundMe donations as much as $15,500 every.
Bars which have pledged to match donations are Caven Enterprises, The Spherical-Up Saloon, Woody’s, Lava Lounge and Cedar Springs Faucet Home.
Those that need to donate can go to GoFundMe.com/f/Delight-Parade-Cedar-Springs.
The GoFundMe web page has a said aim of elevating $50,000. The reason on the GoFundMe web page notes:
“Assist us deliver PRIDE again to our neighborhood streets with a full-out PRIDE celebration. Your donation continues the celebration of variety and equality past a single month and provides the LGBTQ+ group the visibility we deserve by celebrating PRIDE the best way we did earlier than.”
It continues: “Delight in Dallas was established in response to the overwhelming backlash from our group who need to see Delight celebrated in the exact same neighborhood they think about dwelling. Delight in Dallas is dedicated to bringing our September celebration again to Oak Garden. …
Delight in Dallas serves to offer celebrations of LGBTQ+ Delight within the coronary heart of the queer Dallas group. Our mission drives us to deepen the connection LGBTQ+ people need to the secure areas which have cultivated and supported Delight celebrations since their inception, and facilitate occasions that encourage, educate, commemorate and have a good time our numerous group.”
Additionally serving to maintain prices down is the truth that Delight in Dallas is a “one hundred pc volunteer-based group” that was “shaped by way of the overwhelming help of the native LGBTQ+ group.”
The Delight In Dallas board of administrators contains, along with Ware, Sameer Paroo as vice chairman, Andrew Vargas as treasurer, Tracy Nanthavongsa as secretary, Tanner Roberts as director of operations, Donnesh Amrollah as artistic director and Haley Ablon as a board member.
The group already has a primary web site in place — PrideInDallas.org — with a panoramic picture exhibiting the downtown Dallas skyline at night time, lit up within the rainbow Delight colours. There’s additionally a countdown clock throughout the highest of the homepage counting down the times, hours, minutes and even seconds till the massive Delight occasion on Sept. 18.
Extra info might be launched within the weeks to come back as plans for the Delight in Dallas celebration are finalized.
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North Texas Delight
The 2022 North Texas Delight Pageant takes place Saturday, Sept. 17, from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. at Saigling Home, 902 E. sixteenth St. in Plano. That is the eleventh annual Come As You Are pageant, and it’ll characteristic sponsor and vendor cubicles, meals, drinks, give-aways, donations to a partnering non-profit to be named at a later date, actions for each adults and kids, bands, a DJ, dancing and extra. The pageant is a fundraiser supporting the imaginative and prescient of a everlasting location that might be utilized by numerous organizations for occasions, conferences and academic actions, in addition to a central useful resource heart to communities north of Freeway 635.
VIP tickets can be found for a $20 donation and entitle the ticketholder to time indoors in air con with gentle refreshments, alcoholic drinks and different refreshments. The VIP room might be open from noon-4 p.m.
To volunteer, register at https://varieties.gle/n9wYixq1uKFmhPA28.
Texas Latino Delight
Texas Latino Delight 2022 takes place Saturday, Sept. 17, from 3-9 p.m. at Reverchon Park.
Texas Latino Delight is a 501(c)3 nonprofit group that produces the biggest Latinx Delight music pageant in Texas and hosts, helps or sponsors quite a lot of different LGBTQ occasions and group packages all year long.
Particulars for this 12 months’s occasion are nonetheless being finalized. For extra info on particulars and on being a sponsor or a vendor, go to the web site at TexasLatinoPride.org.
Dallas, TX
Former Dallas Cowboys DE, Robert Quinn, arrested in South Carolina
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Robert Quinn was arrested in South Carolina Friday morning after police said he tried to leave the scene of an accident.
Quinn, 34, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage and reckless driving, jail records show.
What we know:
Police in North Charleston, South Carolina responded to a car dealership just after 2 a.m. Friday because of a collision involving a red truck.
The North Charleston Fire Department arrived first on the scene and told police that the suspect might be attempting to leave the scene of the crash in another car.
When police arrived, they found Quinn in the passenger seat of a white Dodge Challenger that had its reverse lights on. The vehicle’s driver placed the car in park and told police she had been called by Quinn to “pick him up,” according to a police report.
Police said Quinn had visible injuries to his head and face, had slurred speech and was uncooperative with officers who asked for his identification.
Quinn eventually provided his identification to officers, but asked himself “where is my wallet” while his wallet was in his hand before dropping it in his lap.
The police report states a maroon Ford F-150 registered to Quinn was on the other side of the parking lot and looked to be the vehicle that started the collision.
Police said Quinn’s truck hit the passenger side of a Honda Element, which was pushed into a blue Ford F-150 that hit another car.
Officers asked Quinn to get out of the Challenger, but Quinn resisted by holding the door to the car, the report states. Police removed Quinn from the vehicle, and he was “escorted to the ground” by officers because he was trying to pull away from them.
Officers interviewed the woman with Quinn, who said she had met him at G-Club, a gentleman’s club, where she works, earlier that night.
Another employee of the club came to the scene and said Quinn had left alone about an hour before the collision happened.
Timeline:
Police said they used city cameras to build a timeline of the crash.
The police report states Quinn’s truck was seen driving down the road around 2 a.m. Friday and was veering left, crossed an intersection, a median and then onto dealership property.
City cameras did not pick up the collision, but it can be heard, the police report states.
Police said around 2:03 a.m. a single person is seen walking through the parking lot and a few minutes later that person walked to a Valero gas station.
At 2:07 a.m., the person is seen walking back to the dealership parking lot while stumbling and falling several times, the police report states.
About a minute later, a white Dodge Challenger is seen entering the parking lot around the same time that the fire department arrived, according to the report.
Dallas Cowboys Defensive End
Quinn played the 2019 season with the Dallas Cowboys after being traded from the Miami Dolphins for a sixth-round pick.
Quinn was suspended for the first two games of the season after violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances. He was named the team’s starting right defensive end when he was reinstated.
Quinn finished the season with 25 tackles, 11.5 sacks and two forced fumbles.
Quinn signed a five-year, $70 million contract with the Chicago Bears the following season.
Quinn was drafted 14th overall by the St. Louis Rams in 2011 and spent six years with the team before going to Miami, Dallas, Chicago and ending his career in 2022 with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Quinn was born in North Charleston, South Carolina, where he played high school football before playing college football for the University of North Carolina.
The backstory:
This isn’t Quinn’s first tangle with law enforcement.
July 2012 – Florissant, Mo.
Quinn was arrested for driving while intoxicated in July 2012 in Florissant, Missouri, while a member of the St. Louis Rams.
Florissant police said Quinn was involved in a single-car accident on an exit ramp of Interstate 270 on July 10, 2012. Police said he was cooperative with them during the arrest.
Quinn was also charged with failure to exercise a high degree of care and having no insurance.
August 2023 – Summerville, S.C.
In August 2023, Quinn was arrested in Summerville, South Carolina after police found four unoccupied vehicles in a subdivision had been damaged.
At some point, Quinn allegedly exited his vehicle and got into a physical altercation with a woman before leaving the scene.
According to an accident report, a Ford F-150 truck crashed into multiple vehicles. Responding officers proceeded to search the vehicle and found an empty whiskey bottle on the passenger side floorboard.
Per the police report, the unidentified woman was sitting in her driveway when the suspect hit two parked vehicles. The driver then exited the truck and offered to buy her beer, the woman told investigators.
Quinn was charged with third-degree assault and battery, hit-and-run of an attended vehicle, four counts of hit-and-run property damage and striking fixtures on or adjacent to the highway.
What’s next:
Quinn was booked into the Charleston County, South Carolina jail.
Jail records show Quinn has a preliminary court date set for Feb. 27, 2025.
The Source: Information in this article comes from the North Charleston police department and previous FOX reporting.
Dallas, TX
Dallas Snowfall Totals: How much snow fell on Thursday and Friday?
DALLAS – North Texas got less snow than expected overnight.
FOX 4 Weather Meteorologist Evan Andrews said it was one of those crazy forecasts where some people got exactly what they expected, and others got the opposite.
“Some of you got that heavier precipitation [on Thursday]. Others were waiting for some overnight, and the precip overnight really never got going. We got a little bit of light snow on the backend but not a ton,” he said.
For snow lovers, the snow that was on the ground from Thursday is still there. However, the total accumulation did not increase much overnight.
Snowfall Totals (as of 4 a.m. Friday)
Overall, the areas of highest accumulation were north of Highway 182 in Cooke and Grayson counties. Areas like Gainesville, Sherman, and Bonham got more than 6 inches of snow.
A lot of people in Wise, Denton, and Collin counties got between 3 and 6 inches.
Fort Worth and North Dallas saw between 1 and 3 inches.
People south of Dallas got less than an inch of snow.
Thursday Snowfall (as of 9 p.m.)
Future Snowfall
No additional accumulation is expected on Friday, with the exception of maybe a few light flakes early Friday morning.
The Source: The information in this story comes from the FOX 4 Weather team.
Dallas, TX
Addison's WaterTower Theatre finds new stage for its summer musicals
For its 2025 season, Second Thought Theatre is going all-in on world premieres written by Dallas-Fort Worth playwrights.
While exploring the question of “What space does STT provide in DFW?” executive director Parker Davis Gray says, “STT is a place where audiences intentionally attend to be challenged by and wrestle with sharp new stories and an electric take on reimagined classics.”
The company likens this perspective to the work produced by the independent TV and film production company A24, and says that has inspired this upcoming season.
Opening Second Thought’s 21st season is Blake Hackler’s Healed, which follows Gail, who has been sick for 25 years.
Every doctor, every test, every treatment — none of it has worked. Now, with nothing left to lose, she sells everything and heads to a radical health center in the Texas Hill Country, run by the enigmatic and controversial Dr. T. Will this be her cure, her salvation, or something else entirely? It runs April 25-May 10, 2025.
Hackler’s previous work at STT includes the premieres of What We Were, The Necessities, and the 2018 Ibsen adaptation Enemies/ People.
Ringing in the summer is the sci-fi experiment Your Wife’s Dead Body, written by STT artistic associate Jenny Ledel in her playwriting premiere.
While Ledel is remembered for her performances in Belleville, Grounded, and What We Were, this shift to the other side of the table has been years in the making.
“Over the past few years, I’ve been reading Jenny’s plays and attending readings of her work,” says Gray, “she has such an accessible, inviting, and exciting voice that will resonate with Dallas as we begin to navigate the unknown landscape the next few years will bring us.”
Your Wife’s Dead Body takes place in the near future, as Jane takes advantage of a new AI technology that would extend her lifespan … even if she’s not around to see it for herself. A play about relationships, the nature of self, and what may or may not remain of us when we leave this life behind, this story asks us to consider the new and difficult questions humans may face as new technologies emerge.
Ledel’s world premiere will be directed by former STT artistic director (and Ledel’s husband) Alex Organ. It runs July 11-26, 2025.
To close out the 2025 season, STT will dive into a new genre with INCARNATE by STT’s own Parker Davis Gray.
Trapped in her cell, Rosamund is hellbent on escaping her fate while the Man who kidnapped her struggles with the consequences of what grief can do, and how far he will go to escape it. Can they live with themselves? Or more importantly, who else is living with them?
A horror/thriller that follows two artists over the course of a year in their seemingly pointless pursuit of creation while suffering under great grief. Directed by Jenna Burnett, who also directed the original reading at Undermain Theatre, it runs October 17-November 1, 2025.
In addition to a world premiere-packed season, STT will continue its year-long playwriting incubator program, Thought Process, andadd another development program to the docket.
2025 will be the inaugural year of Second Thought Theatre’s Associate Director Program, a year-long cohort aimed at providing professional development through education, exposure, and opportunity. Three early-career professionals will have the opportunity to assist on one production of the 2025 season, gain training and receive feedback from professional directors, spend the year working on scene study with STT artistic director Carson McCain, and then end their year with each director taking the lead on one to three readings.
“The purpose of this cohort is to fill a gap we currently see in the DFW arts community,” says McCain. “We want to offer early career directors a safe place to develop their craft and seek feedback from their peers and other professionals. We want this to be a group that allows directors to grow without the pressures of impressing a professional theater in order to be hired again. STT will serve as facilitators and educators, giving feedback, training, and a place to ask questions.”
Season subscriptions and individual tickets are now on sale at SecondThoughtTheatre.com. All productions will take place at Bryant Hall.
Second Thought Theatre Announces their new season centered around cost and consequence as they showcase the sharp and bold voices of local DFW playwrights.
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