Kathy Tran and Daniel Rockey were the creative team responsible for the photos within Best of Dallas 2019. Meet Red, the pegasus tour guide who will lead you through the pages of Best of Dallas, behind the scenes of the cover shoot.
A father’s gaze wanders searchingly off in the distance as his wife dusts the binding of a book. Standing behind them, their son reads what his father has discovered. The vibrant painting represents the Kinsey family, whose collection is now on display at the African American Art Museum Dallas and…
For a single weekend, Dallas became the destination for cannabis lovers from all across the country to meet one another. Farmers, doctors, entrepreneurs, lawyers, growers and cannabis enthusiasts attended the two-day expo, which included seminars and panel discussions led by cannabis industry professionals. The Lucky Leaf Hemp Expo took place…
Budget travel has seen a surge of popularity in recent years. Bare-bones airlines promise flights to Europe for less than your weekly paycheck. Airbnb makes it easy to find a comfortable spot to stay literally anywhere. A result of this popularity is an increase in advertising for travel. Social media…
Visitors have been flocking to the Dallas Zoo all summer to see Bahati, the lion cub who lent his image to the new Lion King. But on their tour of the so-called giants of the Savannah, many people overlook some of the zoo’s most interesting creatures. The Dallas Zoo’s most…
A friendless teenage girl with superpowers and an aversion to pig’s blood. A group of sociopathic children with an addiction to corn. A vampire who chills in a crate only to crawl out at night to spread a rare disease. A killer clown from outer space lingering like a pedophile…
Celebrated journalist Bob Woodward told an audience at the University of Texas at Arlington last week what the Rolling Stones knew all along: Time is on our side. While reflecting on his reporting of Watergate, Woodward, an associate editor at The Washington Post, shared that the first real lesson to be…
You can read the synopsis. You can look at the production photos. You can even read reviews, previews, interviews. You still won’t have a complete understanding, when you sit down to watch Red Chariot, of what exactly the play is about. Something about tarot cards, something about the internet, something…
What began as a simple t-shirt design has now sparked a cultural movement for the Eans family of DeSoto. With the mark of three simple words, ‘I luv you’— the Eans have globally empowered black youth and families towards self-acceptance, self-love and most importantly, love for one another.
Monday, September 23 Margaret AtwoodMargaret Atwood didn’t need a Handmaid’s Tale TV series to stay relevant. The Canadian writer has enough brilliant novels (see Cat’s Eye and The Blind Assassin), short stories and poems to keep a lit professor agog for an entire semester without even mentioning her dystopian classic…
If Frisco photographer Alisa Eykilis can make you pause your mindless scroll through social media, she considers her job well done. “In today’s world, it is so overpopulated with fast-moving images,” Eykilis says. “If I can make my viewer stop, look at the picture and say, ‘Wait, what?’ I think…
Much like the ever-expanding restaurant scene, Dallas is also being saturated with co-working spaces. It seems like each month companies such as WeWork are growing, smaller spots like CityCentral are cropping up and spaces like The Riveter are creating places for women to get together and get things done. However,…
Deep Ellum is a neighborhood that thrives on putting on events and showcasing talent both local and from around the world. Yet in all the excitement of Elm Street’s bold new buildings and booming amplifiers, it can sometimes be difficult to see all Deep Ellum truly has to offer. On…
Friday, September 20 Greek Food Festival of Dallas 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 20 Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church $9-$20 Opa! Immerse yourself in Greek culture at Dallas’ iconic Greek Food Festival. In addition to trying some fantastic food, guests can see live music and dance performances and shop for imports…
Oh, Caroline Calloway. She’s trending on Twitter. The Instagram influencer’s drama has reached every major publication in the country. But is she likable, or just another person we can’t stop watching? Calloway is fresh out of her viral tour, the one we compared with Fyre Festival early this year, recovering…
Talking to actor, jazz pianist and a being of radiating light Jeff Goldblum is never a one-way conversation. He’s so genuinely interested in people and being alive in the moment that he can turn a simple press interview around on the person talking to him. Goldblum spoke to us about his…
We all have days when all we want to do is kick back, turn off our busy brains and turn on a classic, no-surprises, screwball rom-com. When such an urge strikes, we wouldn’t normally think of spending a night watching a play. After all, one goes to the theater to…
They arrived after dinner, as the cruel Texas sun was going to sleep in the perfect orange twilight. They carried skateboards, a cooler packed with Modelos and paintbrushes. From 7 p.m. to around 4 a.m., the small team of four friends painted the 4DWN Skatepark a vibrant blue, yellow and…
Happy hump day. It is Wednesday. The third episode of season 4 of The Real Housewives of Dallas airs tonight. Isn’t that exciting? Have you seen the first two episodes yet? A bunch of white women get mad at one another and they drink and do funny stuff. Oh, man…
What do a historic market town in the northeast of England and the city of Dallas have in common? For one, both share a love for Spanish art, but also, there are some similarities in the stories of the Bowes Museum from Barnard Castle and the Meadows Museum from Dallas…
Plenty of budding actors would kill for a Best Feature win to put on their IMDb page, but as actors Hilly Holsonback and Hannah Weir watch accolades stream in for their eccentric, no-budget film A Ship of Human Skin, they hardly know what to make of it. “It’s kind of…
Imagine being a neo-grunge musician and receiving a letter from Kurt Cobain that your band’s latest record is a masterpiece. Shaun Hamill is making that kind of splash in the horror and fiction literary world. On Sept. 17, his first novel, A Cosmology Of Monsters (published by Pantheon Books in New…
