The second of four parks planned for downtown Dallas opened Friday. West End Square is officially open to the public, offering a lush green space and several amenities in the West End historic district at 607 Corbin St., an area which once served as a parking lot. The $6.25 million project…
Getting your name into the Guinness Book of World Records takes patience, dedication and practice. It also doesn’t hurt if you know some of the science behind what it takes to get there. The Science of Guinness World Records, an exhibition that opened in early March at the Perot Museum of…
Women are rockstars in business, and that’s just a fact. There are countless women-owned and women-run businesses in Dallas, but here are 55 to get you started. In honor of Women’s History Month, support one of these local shops, restaurants and services run by a bevy of badass bosses. Bars and…
Gearbox Software may still be located in Texas, but thanks to a recent merger with a large game conglomerate, it’s officially Swedish. The Embracer Group, a Sweden-based parent company of 57 game studios such as THQ Nordic, Deep Silver and Saber Interactive, announced a merger deal with Gearbox Software that puts…
If you haven’t grown tired of the Bernie Sanders meme, in which the senator is wearing mittens and a large jacket at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, it’s not too late to add to your collection of memorabilia. At ABC Party HQ, you can order a piñata stylized as…
Eric Dallof has been selling the stuff he collects since he was a kid. “I was 8 years old and I had a baseball card business,” Dallof says. “My stepdad got business cards made and I went around my neighborhood and didn’t know this but I put them in my…
Some men have trouble committing. Jason Collier is not one of them. In fact, he loves commitment so much that he has a wife, two fiancées, and one alleged girlfriend. At this point, it seems, the whole world has heard of three-timing (maybe four-timing) police chief Jason Collier from a…
Did you have to read that headline seven times? Yeah, us too. We tried to fit “Dak Prescott” into it as well, but had to cut our losses somewhere. Irving-based 7-Eleven is getting into the short-term rental business. On Monday, they announced a Game-All-Night Experience through Airbnb that allows a…
Jenna Ellis, former President Donald Trump’s lawyer who spearheaded the efforts to disprove the results of the 2020 presidential election, is campaigning to become the most obnoxious public figure on Twitter, going head to head with Ted Cruz. Only six months ago, she purposely misgendered Pennsylvania secretary of health and…
If you’ve been keeping up with the latest season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, you’ve probably seen contestant Elliott With 2 Ts slay some challenges while looking fabulous. On the show, she is representing Las Vegas, her home of the past three years, but Elliott hails from Dallas-Fort Worth, as her…
If you come across a beautiful college-aged brunette on a dating app who seems too good to be true, it’s because it is. And she is. Even though Isabela Becker, a Dallas native and Texas Tech student, appears to be on dating apps, she actually has a boyfriend and has…
Bree Clarke just wanted to support a local plant shop. Specifically, one owned by a person of color. What she found instead was that in the entire city of Dallas, she says, there were zero plant shops owned by Black women. For Clarke, that needed to change. Her new shop,…
Dallas-based Match is celebrating “Dating Sunday” on Jan. 3, an unofficial holiday that marks the busiest online dating day of the year.
If you spent some time on social media looking for local businesses to support with your holiday shopping, you might have noticed more people selling nail polish strips, candles and skincare products from their homes. “Just in time for Christmas,” Deborah Ines wrote in a Dec. 9 Facebook post. “Scentsy…
John Ashley Bellamy was a beloved figure in the Dallas art scene who gifted the city a yearly Christmas party at the Moon Mansion. He died on Tuesday, Dec. 8, at age 77.
Every article this year seemed to contain the dreaded c-word, but there was more to 2020 than COVID-19, the presidential election and protests. We reveled in the tacky reign of Tiger King, celebrated holidays or gained online fame by making asses of ourselves in public. And the coverage for those…
The queer collective Third Space DFW wants to enhance LGBTQ voices, artistically and unapologetically, by developing a “queernormative” space. The Fort Worth art group, founded in 2019, has two exhibitions coming up this month: the virtual Once a Day Swallow a Small Sun, premiering Dec. 10 on thirdspacedfw.com, and an in-person…
Six months after the death of George Floyd and following months of protests calling for police reform, the Black Lives Matter movement continues its efforts toward social reform. Locals, meanwhile, have rallied behind another tenet of the movement, economic empowerment of Black communities, through online shopping. “During this year, many of…
It all started in March, when Arlington veterinarian Dr. Hunter Finn was introduced to the viral world of TikTok. The 27-year-old says that though he is a bit older than the average TikTok user, he has found that the platform provides a way to educate and dance along with other…
We’ve all been there. We’re dating a guy — let’s call him John — and we’re like, “Hey, John, I really like where this is going, maybe we should start talking about babies.” And he’s like, “You mean baby dogs?” And you’re like, “No, I mean baby humans,” and he’s…
Although the Dallas neighborhoods Oak Lawn and Cedar Springs are technically part of Uptown, the potential “uptowning” of the gayborhood is imminent. Mike Ablon of real estate development giant PegasusAblon is looking to take The Strip to the next level by building two residential high rise buildings. One of the…
Local entertainment businesses, from concert venues to drag queens, are adapting to a new world. Dallas queer bars are opening under tightened regulations, and in-person drag shows have returned with queens hungry to serve lewks and make their coin. The pandemic still looms, but there are still ways to enjoy…
