Nearly 2 billion people across the globe log into Facebook for everything from avocado toast recipes to marketing their businesses. Moving all that information requires some serious hardware, and the social media giant has just opened the first building of Facebook’s largest data storage facility to date. “To some extent…
The 1930s were the age of the outlaw in the U.S. While most citizens struggled against the Great Depression and the lawlessness brought about by Prohibition, renegades such as John Dillinger, “Pretty Boy” Floyd and “Baby Face” Nelson straddled the line between terrorist and folk hero. But one couple of…
The world of mixed martial arts has ballooned into a behemoth in the past decade. The popularity of the sport has drawn men, women and children to MMA gyms, eager to get into fighting trim or even try their hands at the new sport of kings themselves. And now local…
David Atkinson is medical director of day treatment services at Children’s Health, but he has another passion: Prizzi, Italy. Atkinson, who is fluent in Italian, first visited the Sicilian town of 5,700 in 2015. Now he’s going back and bringing three Dallas artists with him to help spur civic pride…
In the ’80s, rock lovers in Dallas tuned into KZEW “The Zoo” as they cruised down Central Expressway. Now, more than three decades since that iconic call sign graced the airwaves, a key figure in the history of the Zoo is returning to “extend the continuum” of a radio station. “The…
A new study looking at the employment of women and men leading U.S. art museums found some gains for women in closing the pay and hiring gap with their male counterparts over the past three years, though there is still much ground to make up. Conducted by Southern Methodist University’s…
In 1912 Didaco Bianchi, a general contractor for prominent Dallas architects Otto Lang and Frank Witchell, chiseled in the final touches on what would be called the “House of the Future” in 1936. The piers of its foundation were set 17-feet deep by Bianchi, fitting for a man looking to…
In 2016, local rapper -topic was preparing to leave Dallas for the bright lights and big cities of California when nearly all of his life’s work was stolen from him. A thief stole his laptop in late September during a show at Drugstore Cowboy in Deep Ellum. Now he’s gearing…
Mike McCurry opened his lecture at Southern Methodist University’s Vester Hughes Auditorium by saying the school invited a self-described “certified, international, world class loser.” The former White House Press Secretary for Bill Clinton was referring to the failed presidential campaigns of John Glenn, Bruce Babbitt and Bob Kerrey. “If you catch me…
In the 2003 City of Dallas bond program 8.8 million in taxpayer dollars was set aside to renovate and improve what was then known as the Annette Strauss Artist Square. Now the outdoor venue is simply known as the Annette Strauss Square and is adjacent to the Winspear Opera House…
After five and a half years, the grand experiment at Valley View Center will be coming to a close at the end of this month — partially at least. Many of the vendors and artists have begun packing or have already moved to new locations; demolition crews have been spotted…
On Jan. 23, four days after his son Jordan Daniel died of a drug overdose, Deep Ellum fixture Jon Daniel decided to make a statement. “The word started getting out,” Daniel says. “So it’s, ‘OK, I need to put something out there,’ because I don’t want people to start sending…
Don’s Used Photo Equipment stands amidst a hardened strip of industry on Irving Boulevard, near what’s now the heart of the Design District. When Don Puckett opened the store in 1997 he started hearing essentially the same thing every day from customers: “This is expensive, does it work?” “People come in…
For more than a year, Jeremy Ellis says he’s been turning over what a Dallas bookstore could and should be. While working as a general manager at Houston-based Brazos Bookstore he made attempts to return to Dallas with a new branch of that iconic bookstore, but was never able to…
As November 2016 came to a close, most families were wrapping up their holiday festivities and preparing for the race to Christmas. Walter Kinzie, CEO of Fort Worth-based event planning company Encore Live, was in a Las Vegas hotel with his wife and family. At 3:18 a.m. on Nov. 30,…
Mark Griffin pulls himself out of bed at 6 a.m. to make it to his first day job at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Irving. After his shift stacking boxes in the dusty heat, he heads home, grabs some lunch and starts preparing for his first live show as MC…
Residents of the Elmwood neighborhood of south Oak Cliff had at one time seen the historic and abandoned former Dixie Wax Paper building with dismay, but local developer Monte Anderson saw only opportunity. The 127,000-square-foot manufacturing plant had been left in a state of disrepair for years, but is now…
Upon reopening after the holidays Paul Black, co-owner of Photographique in Deep Ellum, found himself swamped with customers. His business offers traditional photographic services such as developing film, restoring damaged photos, producing prints both large and small, and renting out their darkroom to eager photographers. But before the birth of…
Sha Brewer, president of the Wilmer-Hutchins High School marching band’s booster club, was still sewing patches to band uniforms Wednesday, just days before she would pile into a bus and head to New Orleans, along with 80 high school students, marching band staff members and chaperones. Five years after forming, the…
It would be fair to say that Dallas-Fort Worth appreciates good art. Murals have cropped up in nearly every corner of interest and neighborhood with heart, and Lesli Marshall, owner of Articulation Art, has played a big role in beautifying the city. Just stop by Pecan Lodge for proof; Marshall…
Assistant professor Tim Cassedy thought he’d spice up the curriculum for his Southern Methodist University students when he told them they could choose the format of their final projects on the Herman Melville novel Moby Dick. He thought giving his class freedom of form would help spur their creativity, but…
History was made during the second round of the 2015 NBA draft when the Dallas Mavericks drafted the NBA’s first Indian-born player in the organization’s 70-year history. But the player they signed, Satnam Singh, has the potential to make an impact that reaches far wider and change the game itself…
