It’s not always easy to entertain preschoolers, but the folks at Dallas Heritage Village have an activity for the sippy-cup set that’s more fun and educational than that Elmo DVD your kid has watched a thousand times. Barnyard Buddies is back, and this installment, Saddlebag Supper, features a craft activity…
It’s not often you see a line forming outside a store in a shopping center on a Tuesday afternoon, but that was the scene when women of all ages — and a few men — gathered to meet celebrated fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg when she appeared at the Sephora…
It seems almost criminal to even think about Halloween when Your Texas Rangers are in a do-or-die Game 7 of the World Series tonight, but, on the off chance you’re planning to peel yourself off the couch or barstool, we’ve got a way for you to calm your sports nerves…
It’s every designer’s dream to create a garment that becomes a classic, but few fashion trends ever make it to that status. Coco Chanel did it with the black dress. Burberry did it with the trench coat. Then there’s Diane von Furstenberg. In 1974, von Furstenberg created the wrap dress…
For every lucky designer who gets a break on Project Runway, countless others sketch, sew and struggle to make names for themselves in the fashion industry. After his parents abandoned him as a child, Nary Manivong discovered a copy of Vogue while living on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, with…
It seems like only yesterday we were gearing up for corny dogs and carnival rides, but now it’s time to bid farewell to Big Tex and the State Fair of Texas. If you haven’t made the trip to Fair Park yet, do so this weekend because Big Tex’s massive jeans…
Almost 40 food trucks have the city permits needed to roll around Dallas serving up tacos, banh mi and the like, so isn’t it about time some of the city’s best-known trucks square off to see who’s really the best mobile munchies provider? Enter Ten for 10: Water for Africa’s…
You’ve probably noticed those pink banner ads running across our homepage and pretty much every other page when you’re on our website, and if you’ve ignored them, shame on you. You’re going to want to click that tattooed piece of beauty to purchase tickets for this year’s greatest music event,…
Well, folks, it’s that wonderful time of the year when hoards of college football fans invade our fair city, and chances are a bunch of those fans will be tossed into a cab outside a bar in Uptown, which isn’t as bad as spending the entire weekend in the Lou…
There’s one subject that parents find particularly difficult to address with their kids, and we can understand why. Not many people look forward to having “the talk” with the youngsters, but it’s necessary unless you want the kids to consult the Internet. We can only imagine what they’ll find there…
Maybe it’s a stretch to argue that Jack Reacher is a modern-day James Bond, but the literary heroes do have a few things in common. Like Bond, Reacher is a skilled fighter. Like Bond, he’s also suave, and, most important, Reacher’s got a way with the ladies. From Susan Duffy,…
If the world does end soon, we can leave as happy campers. We came, saw and conquered. Well, we conquered Dallas at least, and we have the proof that we’ve experienced the best this city has to offer in our Best of Dallas 2011 issue, which hit newsstands today and…
Labor Day might mark the unofficial start of fall, but fall really begins this Friday. We’ve suffered through record-breaking heat and, maybe worse, Pete Delkus’ tweets about it, for months, but now with football season in full swing and the State Fair just around the corner we can officially get…
If Jackson Pollock was the darling of abstract expressionism in New York during its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, then Richard Diebenkorn was the face of the movement in California. Known for his abstract figural works, Diebenkorn began painting abstract geometric works in 1967, and his most popular collection,…
As much as some Dallasites would like to think the city has swung to the left in the past decade, this is still Texas: home of gun enthusiasts (the type who don’t want locks on their Glocks), George “No New Taxes” Bush and his son, George “Mission Accomplished” Bush. And…
In our younger years, we were more impressed by the songs and costumes than the choreography in the Broadway version of The Lion King, but now we have a whole new appreciation for the art of modern dance. The man behind the moves in that award-winning musical is Garth Fagan,…
Let’s take a second to come together and breathe one huge sigh of relief that it’s not 100 degrees and fall has finally arrived. OK, now let’s talk about what we’re going to do this glorious weekend besides dusting off the bike and going for a ride around the lake…
What if you never knew what Claude Monet’s impressionist masterpieces or Leonardo da Vinci’s famous “Mona Lisa” looked like? As someone who with adequate vision, I can’t imagine what it would be like to miss out on the visually stunning works that masters like Monet and da Vinci created, but…
Back in June, the first trailer for Girl with the Dragon Tattoo landed on the tangled interwebs, teasing those of us who can’t wait for the December 21 release of the film. Well, there’s another movie we can’t wait to see, and thankfully it’ll hit the big screen a month…
Thirty years ago the Bath House, which once played host to swimmers and fun-seekers at White Rock Lake in the early part of the 20th century, reopened as a cultural center after being shuttered for years. Since 1981, the Bath House has been home to art exhibitions, plays and other…
We’re not usually keen on pampering our pets since we don’t dress them up or spoil them homemade, organic meals like Tara on Most Eligible Dallas. But we don’t mind treating Fido to an afternoon of fun at the Wags & Waves pool party. The pool party is open to…
Oh, James Franco. Now that’s a sentence we’ve uttered more than a few times when our boy wonder makes news. He constantly keeps us on our toes with stunts that we’re pretty sure he doesn’t clear with his publicist. First, he went to Columbia and acted all student-like. Then he…
