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…
George W. Bomar loves weather. Bomar, who grew up in McKinney, says when was about 7 years old, his grandfather instilled in him a passion for weather. “Being a farmer, he taught me the value of observing the weather,” Bomar says. Bomar took that passion for weather with him through…
There’s a new mural in Oak Cliff. And as with almost all art, there are some opinions about it. The mural includes an eagle, a skull, a snake, a heart, a fish and a butterfly on tiled, multicolored triangles. It’s part of an effort to beautify (read: gentrify) Oak Cliff and the…
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…
Last time we saw artists Billi London-Gray and Daniel Bernard Gray, they were hosting a political pop-up at Umbrella Gallery in Deep Ellum that featured a pile of dirt and a Trump-inspired hairpiece. The duo is back with another installation to satisfy your appetite for unconventional art, but this time the…
In Midlothian, about a half hour south of Dallas, backhoes and excavators are working more than a thousand acres of land in preparation for the opening of DFW’s newest amusement park. But don’t start entertaining visions of roller coasters and log flumes. At Texplex, opening this weekend, it’s the excavator…
No matter how much you love your 9 to 5, chances are you’ll always live for the weekend. Make the most of those precious days off and start scheduling time away from the Big D. From surf museums to speakeasies and Sioux-style tepees, these 10 Texas getaways are sure to…
Not long ago, catching a glimpse of a bald eagle riding the wind in North Texas would have been about as rare as sighting a Sasquatch along the North Dallas Tollway. But today, if someone claims to have ogled one of the majestic creatures gliding past with a snake dangling…
Some of the new Super Soakers are so big and powerful that a kid would need Jack Lalanne’s upper body strength just to hold them. And if you’ve got an oversized Super Soaker lying around that you haven’t drenched anyone with yet, you’ll get the chance at a world record attempt…
In his old Cedars loft, which was formerly a grocery store — and way, way before that, a brothel — James Nawashi makes rope for a living and has been doing so for years. The rope he makes is specifically used for fetish play; consenting adults bind each other with…
In case you missed the memo sent in the form of a sauna-like climate, summer is here. But we only get to complain about the heat for so long before it’s time to change tack and complain about even more heat instead, so let’s all agree to buck up and…
Steve Holmes, founder of Springfree Trampoline based in Plano, has an invention he thinks can peel your video game-addicted children or man-children off the couch, lure them into the backyard and trick them into soaking up some Vitamin D while exercising. He’s built trampolines that incorporate tgoma, an interactive gaming…
Once again, bodyslams and suplexes were put alongside comedy, music and tacos at this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin. Local wrestling promotions Inspire Pro & Anarchy Championship Wrestling set up their ring in between the blue & black stage and were each allocated one hour of wrestling per…
If you frequent Kidd Springs Park in North Oak Cliff you may have missed the Japanese sculptures that date back until at least the 18th century. There are people who walk, jog, and ride their bikes past this artwork everyday and never give it any thought, probably mistaking antiquities for…
1. Drinking Fountain #1 In the Dallas Records Building at 509 Main St., Lauren Woods made a public sculpture out of what was once a “Whites Only” drinking fountain. The county had put a plaque on top of the remnants of the prohibitive sign, but she decided to replace that…
Believe it or not, summer is actually, finally going to grind to an end someday. Sure, we’ve got a few more weeks of oppressive heat to come, but that only means we’re finally making our way into the best time of the year in North Texas — fall. When you’re…
I’m having a really hard time with the death of the Dallas Zoo’s baby giraffe, Kipenzi. Earlier this month, I lugged a video camera out to the Zoo, a place I hadn’t set foot in such childhood. To my mind, these baby animals were symbols not just of what attracts…
Today, I woke up to a blast of warm air on my face. What used to be our air conditioner has now become a furnace. Our power was out. In fact, everyone on our side of JuggaloNation (my new name for The Gathering of the Juggalos campground) was out of…
Naptown Mike and Menace had an interesting day. Before the evenings big festivities set in, they had already seen a Juggalo version of “The Gong Show” and a Faygo launching contest. When we met back up, Menace’s shorts had blotches of Red Pop soda stains all over them, with confetti…
After spending an ungodly amount of time driving and tailgate partying, I was more than enthused to crawl onto my foam mattress for some shut eye. From 4 a.m. until 10 a.m., I sunk heavily into an ocean of REM sleep. If the sun was acting as my alarm clock,…
By the time the piercing rays of Ohio’s morning sun started to poke their ugly heads through the hemisphere, I was finally able to sleep. Of course, I was in the driver’s seat of my SUV, sitting in a park-and-ride lot outside of Legend Valley — the venue in Thornville,…
If you’ve never seen a baby penguin waddle up to the water and then splash around, you’ll want to suffer the heat in the next few weeks to see little Marina as she learns how to swim. She’s one of four baby animals stealing the hearts of visitors to the…
