Dallas Wings 2024 season single-game tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 18. Wings season ticket members get advance access to single-game tickets, with member presale having begun at noon today (Wednesday, April 17) and running through tomorrow at 9:59 a.m. Tickets can be purchased at DallasWings.com. Those interested in learning more about season ticket memberships can email tickets@dallaswings.com. In addition to the team’s 20 regular-season games, the Wings’ May 3 preseason game against the Indiana Fever will be available as part of the on-sale. Season ticke ..read more

Singer Troye Sivan heads to Dallas this fall with new tour. (Photo via IG) Queer Music News is a smattering of what’s going on in music by LGBTQ artists and the artists we love. Despite being teased on Troye Sivan’s socials, LiveNation officially announced Wednesday morning that the “Rush” singer along with Charli XCX are co-headlining the Sweat Tour with special guests Shygirl. The pop music team-up will kick off in September in Detroit. Dallas is among the tour dates for Sweat. This is a good year so far for XCX as her Brat 2024 arena tour in the U.K. was a sellout and now this tour a ..read more

The African American Museum Dallas The African American Museum Dallas, 3536 Grand Ave, inside Fair Park, hosts the annual Southwest Black Art Show this weekend, April 20-21, The show features fine art by nearly 20 artists of African and African-American descent, showcasing original works ranging from paintings and drawings to printmaking and photography to sculptures, fine art jewelry, mixed media and more. This year’s featured artists include Frank Frazier, La’Jasha Champion, Mark Crow, Nommo Diop, Billy Edmond, Dobson Products, Tyra Goodley, Cynthia Hawkins-Waters, Danny Jenkins (Waterkolo ..read more

Basketball legends Sheryl Swoopes, left, and Nancy Lieberman have joined the Dallas Wings broadcast team  (Swoopes photo By TonyTheTiger – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org; Lieberman photo by Gage Skidmore) The Dallas Wings have added Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Sheryl Swoopes and Nancy Lieberman to the Wing’s 2024 broadcast team to serve as analysts on Bally Sports Southwest, the Wings’ local broadcast partner. In addition to Swoopes and Lieberman, veteran play-by-play voice Ron Thulin, NCAA and WNBA champion Fran Harris and experienced sideline repo ..read more

  Trey Grayson, left, and Chris Hartman The Kentucky General Assembly adjourned on Monday, April 15, without having advanced any of the 10 anti-LGBTQ laws that had been introduced during the session, according to the Fairness Campaign, Kentucky’s LGBTQ advocacy organization. Fairness Campaign officials said that bills posing the greatest threat to the state’s LGBTQ community included House Bill 47, a measure aimed at weakening local LGBTQ fairness ordinances across the state; Senate Bill 147, which would have restricted drag performances; and Senate Bill 239, a “conscience” clause for m ..read more

Becky Pepper Jackson The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today (Tuesday, April 16) voted to block a West Virginia law banning transgender student athletes from playing on teams consistent with their gender identity, finding the law violates the rights of transgender students under the Equal Protection Clause and Title IX. The challenge against the law was filed on behalf of B.P.J., a 13-year-old transgender girl and middle school track athlete. Judge Toby Heytens wrote in today’s ruling that “offering B.P.J. a ‘choice’ between not participating in sports and participating only on boys teams ..read more

Dallas Wings on Monday drafted, from left, Jacy Sheldon, Carla Leite and Ashley Owusu The Dallas Wings tapped Jacy Sheldon out of Ohio State, Carla Leite from France and Ashley Owusu from Penn State during the 2024 WNBA Draft, which aired live on ESPN from the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Monday night, April 15. Sheldon, the fifth overall selection in the draft, is a 5-10 guard from Dublin, Ohio. The All-American spent five seasons at The Ohio State University, averaging 17.8 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game in 2023-24. This past season, Sheldon ranked in the top 10 in the Big T ..read more

The cast of the ‘Girl from the North Country’ North American tour (photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) Girl from the North Country opened Tuesday at Music Hall by Broadway Dallas. The Depression-set musical written by Conor McPherson with songs by Dylan was a glimpse into the lives of a variety of characters passing through a boarding house in Duluth, Minnesota by Lake Superior. Narrated by the Laine family doctor, the story centers on Nick Laine who operates the house while his wife Elizabeth is mentally affected, which reduces her to childlike behavior but still an adult’s awareness. L ..read more

Philadelphia — News is Out and Word In Black announced the 16 fellows selected for The Digital Equity Local Voices Lab, a new initiative powered by Comcast NBCUniversal to place journalists at 16 Black and LGBTQ serving news publications across the country. During the year-long fellowship, the group will receive the training and resources needed to tell stories within marginalized communities through media and technology and celebrate the work being done by Black and LGBTQ leaders in their communities. “Through Project UP, we are proud to donate $1 million to launch this unique, first-of-its ..read more

In Starring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon, author and screenwriter Samuel Garza Bernstein examines what made the star from Hollywood’s Golden Age a force of feminist self-determination for women today. Covering her five-decade career, Garza Bernstein reveals how Crawford molded and remolded her image while staying true to herself. Embracing her conflicts and contradictions, he describes Joan Crawford as “an essential American archetype.” Starring Joan Crawford will drop during Pride Month on June 4 from Globe Pequot/Rowman & L ..read more