From the Dallas Cowboys to chicken strips, Post Malone did not forget his North Texas roots in 2023.
Malone, reared in Grapevine and one of rap’s biggest superstars, has always been a Cowboys fan. He’s appeared in the NFL franchise’s promotional videos. His father, Rich Post, was the Cowboys’ food and beverage assistant director.
In 2022, he went as far as to promise to get a face tattoo of No. 88, a tribute to the Cowboys’ standout wide receivers who wore the number, if the team won a Super Bowl.
It didn’t happen, but his face has space for it.
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In November, he made no promises, but he took part in the release of a Cowboys-inspired limited-edition clothing line.
NTWRK, a Los Angeles-based retail company, collaborated with Malone to sell Malone-style merch, including T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and shorts on its website or select Dallas Cowboys Pro Shops throughout the Dallas area. The collection is designed to capture Malone’s flair with slogans such as “Blessed this shirt for another Dallas Cowboys victory.”
If the Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl this season, Post Malone will have to make room for a “88” tattoo on his forehead. The question that comes to mind: Does he have room?(Michael Hogue)
Malone partners with Raising Cane’s
A month earlier, Malone expressed his love for the Cowboys in breaded chicken strips and crinkle-cut fries. He partnered with Raising Cane’s to open a Cowboys-themed restaurant at 2255 W. Northwest Highway in Dallas.
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Malone is friends with Raising Cane’s founder Todd Graves, who also has a friendship with Shaquille O’Neal. Graves worked with Malone in April to refashion a Raising Cane’s restaurant near Malone’s home in Midvale, Utah.
In both cases, Raising Cane’s shed its red-and-white color scheme. In Dallas, the logo was changed to Cowboys blue and white. In Utah, most of the building was painted pink, Malone’s favorite color.
“I have the best childhood memories of eating at Raising Cane’s in Dallas,” Malone said. “Collaborating with Todd on this restaurant near my house in Utah was awesome.”
The exterior of the new Raising Cane’s restaurant in northwest Dallas has a 32-foot-tall Dallas Cowboys star that cars drive through. Inside and outside of the star, silhouette images feature Texas rapper Post Malone.(RAFAEL GAMEZ)
Malone goes on a diet
Despite being near fried food and soft drinks, Malone confirmed to fans on social media that he changed his diet after the 2022 birth of his daughter.
“I guess dad life kicked in and I decided to kick soda and start eating better so I can be around for a long time for this little angel,” Malone wrote in an Instagram post in April. “Next up is smokes and brews, but I like to consider myself a patient man… lol!”
In August, Malone said on The Joe Rogan Experiencepodcast that his lower soda intake showed results. “I was like 240 and now I’m like 185,” he told Rogan.
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Malone, the country singer
Malone also branched out with different music styles in 2023.
At the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville in November, Malone donned an orange jacket and camouflage cap and joined Morgan Wallen and HARDY on stage to sing a medley of classic country songs.
Earlier this month, country artist Brad Paisley revealed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonMalone might appear on his next album, but he offered no details.
Malone confirmed his country music love on a Twitch livestream,but hasn’t publicly discussed any plans.
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Malone, the Magic collector
In August, Malone forked over millions for The Ring of Power, a one-of-a-kind trading card from the popular tabletop game Magic the Gathering.
“Yeah, I’ll take it!” Malone told the seller in a TikTok video.
Malone is a Magic player and collector, according to Polygon, an entertainment site. How big an enthusiast is Malone? A representative for the seller confirmed to Polygon that the card sold for $2 million.
By the way, the previous most expensive Magic card was the Black Lotus, which Malone also owns. He told Howard Stern in 2022 that he paid $800,000 for a rare version of it.
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Malone, the ‘Impractical’ joker
Malone, a longtime fan of truTV’s Impractical Jokers, got his chance to participate in the cast’s hidden-camera pranks in a parking garage in New York. Malone appeared as a celebrity guest in the episode, which aired in February.
In the prank, Malone hotboxed an unsuspecting couple’s SUV. They were not too happy, and curiously, did not recognize Malone’s tatted face.
In another prank, Malone and host Brian “Q” Quinn pretend to have stashed roadkill in an unlucky group’s car.
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In “Minerva’s Web,” Sarah Ann Weber’s 18 colored-pencil and watercolor works are hung in a single row that wraps around three of the room’s four walls at Gallery 12.26, windows into a lush world that pulses with life.
Sarah Ann Weber’s “Lasting threads of gold” is on display at Dallas’ Gallery 12.26.(Diego Flores / Gallery 12.26)
A floral profusion (peonies, daffodils, tulips, amaryllis, sunflowers and more) covers the surface of each panel, while a few female figures delicately emerge from among the flowers, visible only upon a closer look. The whole series is tied together by a web of pale white vines that crisscross in front of the garden-like scenes in the background.
Minerva is both the Roman goddess of weaving (who, in the poet Ovid’s telling, turned the girl Arachne into a spider in a fit of anger) and the name of Weber’s young daughter; the show’s title hints at a specifically female experience of intimate, web-like interconnectedness to other people that can be either life-giving (toward daughters) or deadly (toward rivals).
The series is introduced by two new oil paintings in the front gallery on the same theme, but these are more fluid, even oceanic, offering an interesting contrast of mediums.
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Sarah Ann Weber’s “She still spins” is on display at Dallas’ Gallery 12.26.(Diego Flores / Gallery 12.26)
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Also on view is Rachel Marisa LaBine’s “Lockets,” a show of 13 collage and stained-glass works, whose title suggests the sentimental charge of special pictures kept safe inside small ornamental cases. LaBine’s reference to her teenage years as a source of inspiration, combined with the collages’ coy ambiguity, reminded me of the human urge to keep one’s most important secrets hidden from the wider world.
Feeling left somewhat on the outside of the collages’ full meaning, I engaged most easily with the gorgeous stained-glass pieces, which brought me back to the era of Louis Comfort Tiffany, one of the high points of American art. The two shows together also reminded me how much 12.26 has done to bring members of a younger generation of women artists to Dallas (Weber and LaBine are both Midwest-born millennials), helping to nurture our local connections to the national art scene. And, as a male viewer, I admired and somewhat envied the emotional openness and fluency with which these two artists constructed their artistic worlds.
Rachel Marisa LaBine’s “Lockets” show features collage and stained-glass work at Dallas’ Gallery 12.26.(Diego Flores / Gallery 12.26)
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Sarah Ann Weber’s “Minerva’s Web”and Rachel Marisa LaBine’s “Lockets”continue through Feb. 1 at 12.26, 150 Manufacturing St. No. 205, Dallas. Free. Open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. 469-502-1710, gallery1226.com.
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