Toasting Texas Lands The Foundry 2303 Pittman St. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday Free Show your appreciation for Oak Cliff Nature Preserve, the 120-acre public park recently hailed as best hiking by a highly respected alt-weekly publication which shall remain unnamed. The Texas Land Conservancy will host Toasting Texas Lands,…
Better Block Market — Swingtober Edition The Better Block 700 W. Davis St. 7-11 p.m. Friday, free Swing into action this weekend when the Better Block hosts a party featuring swing dance lessons with a live band. There will also be a mini flea market in the backyard where local…
Dr. Jessica Tartaro wants you to get to know the most private parts of yourself. That could mean your secret desires, or it could literally mean your genitals. Tartaro is a clinical psychologist who has studied breast cancer survivors in London and worked extensively with veterans in San Francisco and…
If you’re commuting from downtown next week, or find yourself in the neighborhood for an appointment, you might be in store for a floral surprise. Dr. Delphinium, a florist that has been operating in the Park Cities for over 20 years, will be handing out 1,000 free bouquets on Wednesday,…
Halloween is a big retail event, the second biggest behind Christmas, in fact, and that means that late September every year, thousands of “haunted” attractions pop up all over the country to capitalize on the chance to charge $20 a head to scare the living daylights out of people. Most…
Do This!The annual Texas-OU game is early Christmas for football fans. People on both sides of the collegiate showdown flood Fair Park for this all-important game just so they can hold bragging rights over their rivals for the rest of the year. Watch the Longhorns and the Sooners go head…
Do This! The world’s first convention devoted to instant film photography gets going this weekend, and what’s more, it’s free and in Denton. Polacon runs Friday through Sunday, with workshops along the Denton Square, a photo-based scavenger hunt at the State Fair of Texas on Friday evening and more. To…
Last week, we released our 2016 Best Of issue, naming all of the best places to shop, play, eat, drink, relax and more. That means plenty more date ideas for all you romantic hopefuls clueless as to what to do in between conversations about how many siblings you do or don’t…
Do This! Sebastian Mansicalco and Dane Cook will headline the Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival coming to Gexa Pavilion (3839 S. Fitzhugh Ave.) at 5:15 p.m. Friday. But what’s cooler is that Jermaine Fowler of Flight of the Conchords, Ali Wong and Separation Anxiety host Iliza Shlesinger are also on…
Thursday afternoon, Real Housewives of Dallas cast member Marie Reyes tweeted a police report from 2008 that says Real Housewife LeeAnne Locken threatened her ex-boyfriend with a knife and hit him in the face with sandpaper. “LeeAnne Locken has a documented history of violence with knives — so I’m staying away…
In 1971, Charles Connor approached his three children for business advice. Connor was a partner in Markham and Brown Company, which built levees, and he had decided to sell his ownership in the business. “He said, ‘I need to reinvest the money. Do you want a car wash or a…
Do This!For PARK(ing) Day and Night, metered spaces along Main Street between Field and Harwood streets will be transformed into small park “installations” for use by the public beginning at 11 a.m., when they’d normally be housing cars. More than 35 participants are slated for this year’s event. It’s free to attend,…
Jessica Luther was born to be a football fan. Her dad raised on her the sport, and when the time came for her to choose a college, she only sent in one application: to Florida State, where she would attend every single home football game. But now when the author…
Do This! So, it’s a month till everyone’s favorite spooky holiday, but we all know the best costumes require planning. Each year, Rose Costumes in Denton (5800 Interstate 35 North, No. 508) does the pro-Halloween a solid by putting a huge assortment of vintage and used costumes on sale. From 10 a.m. to…
If you’ve visited The Wild Detectives’ Twitter this week, you may have noticed something different: shameless click bait. Instead of the usual tweets promoting events at the Oak Cliff bookstore or sharing articles on literacy, their Twitter feed is populated with “shocking facts about garlic” and a story about a…
Do This! Video game sounds have predictably had a huge influence on contemporary music, but what about classical music? The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is out to prove that there’s plenty of opportunity for crossover there, too, with their performance of music from Final Fantasy at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony…
Do This!Literary nonprofit Wordspace kicks of its new season at The Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) Friday with a party and screening of ’67 film Valley of the Dolls, about rising starlets and their relationship to barbiturates. The party begins at 7 p.m. with themed cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and giveaways. The…
“I feel like I might throw up,” says Stacey Verbeek, standing pale-faced in the busy locker room of Oakland, California’s Oracle Arena, a camera slung over her shoulder. She’s about to watch the young man who has spent Christmas with her family for the last few years, Maurice Hooker, enter…
Do This! Men and women are graduating from film school at equal rates but women account for only 9 percent of film directors. The new Women Texas Film Festival is hoping to address this disparity in opportunities given by shining a light on the remarkable achievements of women in film…
Do This! Show your love to a sport that dates back to Ancient Egypt on Saturday at Bowlmor AMF lanes. It’s National Bowling Day, and if bowlers at AMF lanes collectively knock down a million pins, Bowlmor will donate half a million meals to Feeding America. Show up to an…
In 2012, Brian Gonzales got the role of a lifetime: Francis Henshall in the Broadway production of One Man, Two Guvnors. The play, Richard Bean’s reinterpretation of Carlo Goldoni’s 1743 Italian comedy Servant of Two Masters, was a smash success, and the portrayal of Francis earned a Tony that year…
Taking Ecstasy at Lights All Night or tripping on ‘shrooms during a camping trip are pretty common stories of recreational psychedelic use, but it wasn’t until recently that we began hearing stories about Dallasites experimenting with ayahuasca, a brew that extracts the psychedelic DMT from the root of plants such…
