Like a Beatles tune asking where all the lonely people come from, a black-and-white photography exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art revisits the question. Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath, which runs through Sept. 16, features a collection of 150 works by the artist, mainly images…
It’s only been open a year, but the number of culinary arts students at Dan Dipert Career and Technical Center in Arlington has tripled. The program kicked off with 61 students, says Culinary Arts teacher Alyce Monroe, but that number has swelled to 151 for next school year, plus the…
While the Texas Civil War Museum might not be the final resting place for Dallas’ Gen. Robert E. Lee statue, the museum’s director says the Southern-style structure may house a ghost. The museum contains a private Civil War memorabilia collection featuring Union and Confederate artifacts and more than 200 Victorian…
Kenneth Looking Glass, a Comanche Vietnam veteran from Apache, Oklahoma, makes the trek to North Texas and elsewhere to drum and sing when called upon. His drum, made of bull hide, is about 14 inches deep. Looking Glass’ son Jimbo, 40, also drums and sings. Both men have been singing…
Long before he began crafting brew at Division Brewing, founder Wade Wadington kicked around the streets of Deep Ellum. And that’s the sort of vibe he’s trying to re-create in Arlington, he says, after taking over Cosmic Crow’s old space on Abram Street and opening Growl, a store for comic…
Those who’ve eaten at the Feed Lot may have also eaten from the feed lot at Fischer’s Meat Market in Muenster. Fischer’s, northwest of Dallas, ships beef and German sausage to restaurants and stores in Dallas and across the country as far away as Alaska, says Penny Fischer, whose husband,…
A peek into the windowless office of Jennifer Price offers an extraordinary view of the world. Price brought many of the postcards that line the walls with her 25 years ago, she says, when she moved from New York to become Asian and non-Western art curator for the Kimbell Art…
Parading unicorns and bubble-blowing fairies are scattered among the family entertainment at Scarborough Renaissance Festival, but if you look along the fringes, you’ll discover a few saucier acts for mature audiences. We went through the Museum of Mythical Monsters, which houses replicas of things like shapeshifters and flesh-eating death worms…
If you can get your hands on them, Victor Smith’s pasta roses are a must-eat at Scarborough Renaissance Festival. Smith, 65, has cooked at the medieval festival — open through May 28 — for more than three decades. Before that, he was an electrician between jobs living in upstate New…
Although they came from diverse backgrounds, a common thread links the women in Mary Dodson Wade’s latest book, Amazing Texas Girls. “I wanted to call this book Gumption,” Wade says, “because I see that.” Amazing Texas Girls, released Sunday by publisher Lone Star Books, trails the lives of 15 women,…
Four tiny heads sculpted about 500 years B.C. were just the start of Sam and Myrna Myers’ Asian art collection. The American couple, who moved to Paris in the 1960s, acquired more than 5,000 pieces, about 450 of which are on display in From the Lands of Asia, which runs…
It all began with the idea to sell organic 1-pound pumpkins. Although Free Range Pumpkins, Arlington’s newest geek culture warehouse, never sold pumpkins, owners Herb and Amy Kaplan sold lots of other stuff through Amazon. Now they’ve opened their first brick-and-mortar store. A decade ago, it might have been the…
Arlington already has the largest local monopoly on professional sports with Globe Life Park, AT&T Stadium and the University of Texas at Arlington’s Maverick Stadium. Now it wants to gain an even greater foothold by making one of the biggest public investments in competitive gaming. Arlington officials this week announced they…
Passion, satire and professionalism collided when Day of Absence cast members met in the basement of Oak Cliff’s Arts Mission this week for rehearsal. “The play is a reverse minstrel show,” says director Aaron Zilbermann, “which means it has an almost entirely black cast that is made up in white…
Edible art sculptures, about a baker’s dozen of them, filled the Arlington Museum of Art on Saturday night while the pastry chefs who created them mingled with local art and cake lovers. The Eat Your Art Out fundraiser, which provided cake samples and Champagne to ticket-holders, is a popular event,…
After scooping up nearly 400 acres of pricey ground to use, in part, for sports fields, Frisco is set to accommodate more young athletes. The city closed Feb. 5 on land it bought from Brinkmann Ranch, parks and recreation director Shannon Keleher says. “It was about $61 million,” she says…
On the quiet sixth floor of the University of Texas at Arlington library, Etta Hulme’s political cartoons speak loudly. The artist’s laconic, keen wit and uncanny insight mesh in the display Drawn to Politics: The Editorial Art of Etta Hulme, which runs through August. “Hulme’s ability to boil things down…
During a first reading of proposed ordinance amendments last week, the Arlington City Council voted unanimously to ban vehicles from being parked on Arlington streets for longer than 24 hours. If the amendments pass, all people, including Arlington residents, parked in a street or alley longer than that could get…
The thrills will officially begin at Six Flags Over Texas on Feb. 24, when the Arlington amusement park opens for its 2018 season, but its insane new attraction will not debut until later this spring. That’s because Harley Quinn Spinsanity, which is geared to flip and spin park attendees at…
A flurry of activity and new development in Arlington’s entertainment district has had a negative effect on one longtime business. Half Price Books in Lincoln Square, which opened about 20 years ago, will close this spring. Although some on social media speculated that eager developers or rising rent costs may have…
Arlington City Council members voted this week to rename Ditto golf course in north Arlington the Texas Rangers Golf Club. While the move to rename the 18-holer passed unanimously, the perks accompanying the deal raised a few eyebrows. When it opened in ’82, the course — at 801 Brown Blvd.,…
Lindsay Graham is a marketing director for Southern Methodist University with an unusual part-time gig. Graham combines voice, sound effects and a bit of acting for the American History Tellers podcast, which debuted at No. 1 this month on iTunes. Wondery, the company behind the Tides of History podcast, backs Graham’s…
