Jesse Dayton got his start at a young age, sneaking into honky-tonks and jamming with zydeco bands as a teenager in Beaumont. He’s spent the last four years touring the country on the biggest run of his career as a solo act. But while his love of music was always…
It’s a fairly simple concept. On Friday night, five women will strip down, get onstage and crack open some books. It’s a game plan that Naked Girls Reading has played out across since its first event in 2010. It’s not an act of tantalization, at least not in the way…
The Oxford English Dictionary, a favorite read among stoners, added a section just below the term 420 last year, officially acknowledging its place in marijuana culture. Whether taken as a date or time, or simply screamed from a high school graduation stage, those in the know have responded to the…
For nearly seven decades, the house at 314 W. Eighth St. in Oak Cliff was merely a domicile. Nothing more than a place to keep your stuff dry when it rains and plug in your refrigerator. That was before Javier García del Moral and Paco Vique owned it. Four years…
A chance encounter in 2014 prompted ex-NFL linebacker David Vobora to reorient his life to serve adaptive athletes — those with injuries or disabilities. Not long after moving to Dallas, Vorbora met U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, a quadruple amputee and veteran of the war in Afghanistan. The two…
Probably the deepest impact Dallas has had on the lexicon of pop culture (save for greatest of the Kennedy tragedies) was the ever-popular TV show of the same name. A mere two years after its debut, 83 million people sat in front of TVs to find out “Who shot J.R.?”…
When tickets went on sale for Slayer’s final tour, local thrashers had mere minutes to secure their tickets before they were gone. Ravaged by scalpers and bots, tickets to the June 19 show at The Bomb Factory went fast, only to be found online for as much as $3,000. Until…
A Texas spring wouldn’t be complete without rolling patches of bluebonnets. The state flower has flanked our highways and filled fields every spring but received even more acclaim after the Highway Beautification Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson helped to pass the act, but the best place to spot…
Figment Dallas is becoming more of a reality by the day. Nearly 350 people showed up to the first fundraising effort in January and helped the egalitarian interactive art festival get close to the goal needed to fund the Oct. 20 event. Now Suza Kanon, Figment Dallas’ producer and figurehead, has…
Providing for pups and pounding pints, one of Dallas’ premier dog parks is pouring up cold ones for a cause. Mutts Canine Cantina has teamed with Austin-based nonprofit Pints for Pups to raise both money and awareness for local animal shelter Paws in the City. The event will be from…
Streetcars and trollies were a staple of the urban experience when the first electric trollies hit the rails in the late 19th century. Since then, most cities have dismantled or converted their trolley systems to keep up with the times, but Dallas’ McKinney Avenue trolley line reopened in 1989, long…
Editor’s note: Our writer was struck with a gas leak this weekend, so the review is a little late. You’ll live. For the past three years, Erykah Badu has invited friends, family and all of Dallas to the Bomb Factory for a celebration of her birth. This year’s affair, titled…
Ten years ago, high school friends Kyle Morris and Cole Male thought they’d liven up a party by playing a tune. In what became their first public performance, the duo drunkenly felt their way through a Blink-182 song as their friends gathered around. This was the birth of Forth Worth…
Steve Aoki pays his successes forward. Through his record label, Dim Mak, the two-time Grammy-nominated singer has already helped acts like The Chainsmokers of Infected Mushroom break into the mainstream. His collaborations with several artists, including rappers, rock stars and the Korean pop band BTS, have flooded the Billboard charts,…
While it may not be everyone’s cup of tea, sites like Airbnb give people a homey alternative to the hotels and motels of yore. Instead of holing up in one of dozens of cookie-cutter rooms, a cavalcade of homeowners and enterprising entrepreneurs, have opened up their extra living space for…
While eager comic book fans line up for Marvel’s latest installment in the blockbuster cinematic universe, one local theater is planning on putting a few other felines in the spotlight. From noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, six kittens and one adult cat from Operation Kindness will be in…
Dallas is a city on the rise. In nearly every corner, the metallic hum of construction equipment can be heard while masses of orange-vested workers push buildings higher and higher into the sky. Mixed-used developments, sprawling apartment complexes and new Dallas Area Rapid Transit rails are all on the horizon…
David Fisher, assistant director of Dallas’ Office of Cultural Affairs, said beer and wine likely affected the turnout Wednesday at the Wild Detectives for a discussion on the state of Dallas’ literary arts scene. The get-together is one of many such gatherings in the last few months that are part…
Sitting in front of a 6’ x 9’ sheet of canvas, his dog Scout curled on a blanket behind him, William Binnie paints what will be one of the most ambitious works in his oeuvre, for one of the biggest shows of his art career. He says the fierce winters…
For some people, art is just another way of making money. But for many others, it’s a passion, and that’s what a new group coming to Dallas this fall is hoping to celebrate. If all goes according to plan, New York-based nonprofit group Figment will host its first event in…
As a child growing up in Garland, Arturo Torres was surrounded by conflict. His father was abusive, his neighborhood was populated with feuding gangs and eventually his family moved into the Genesis Women’s Shelter. But through all of the hardships, Torres’ love of art gave him a sense of inner…
It hasn’t even been a year since Dallas’ Dezman Lehman, aka Dezi5, left Dallas to pursue a music career in New York City, but Lehman is already signed to a new bicoastal label, 11A, and is gearing up to release his first EP as a New York-based artist. At the…
