There’s been a virtual reality boom in DFW’s entertainment offerings, with story-driven experiences that put players in some of their favorite film franchises or in real world landscapes that would cost a fortune to actually visit. However, there hasn’t been a place to do what all gamers truly wish they…
In a fast-paced world teeming with technology, one man is slowing things down to a snail’s pace. “I’m in love with snail mail, always have been,” says Alex Kurkowski, who founded Tellinga, a company whose name is sort of shorthand for “telling a story” and whose goal is to artfully…
If you ever wished you could go to Coachella in your yoga pants, there’s a new festival for you. “The funny thing is people love to use that phrase, ‘Coachella meets fitness festival’,” says Mai Lyn Ngo, founder and CEO of the Dallas Fitness Ambassadors. “And I wish I could…
’Art lovers will have lots to revel about during the fifth annual Party on the Porch at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. The iconic building, named after former Star-Telegram publisher Amon G. Carter Sr., closed in June for an overhaul. And when the doors of…
Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons has been at the top of the classical music “charts,” so to speak, for hundreds of years now. One doesn’t even have to be familiar with classical music to recognize the piece, which was written in 1723 as a collection of concertos depicting each season of…
When nostalgically pondering Peter Pan, we suppose that we know what Neverland is. It’s the place you go to forsake growing up for having adventures with pirates and mermaids. Navigating to Neverland is even more instinctual to us than getting pretty much anywhere in Dallas — “second star to the right…
Dallas leads the way when it comes to producing data about the arts. But in terms of producing art itself, not so much, according to the 2019 Arts Vibrancy Index released by Southern Methodist University. The annual study — which is the first to measure the level of supply, demand…
Earlier this year we witnessed stores like Urban Outfitters, Loft and American Eagle enter the game of wardrobe rentals. Recently coined by Vogue as the “year of the rental”, fashion has taken an interesting turn in 2019, as retailers scramble to grasp that 20-somethings no longer want to own their…
Monday, September 2 Garland Labor Day Parade and Car ShowDo you enjoy Labor Day, summer’s last hurrah and a time to kick back with beer and barbecue? Well, you’d better get your pleasure in now, because you just never know. America could elect a socialist, globalist president in 2020, and…
Every morning during high school, esports entrepreneur Danny Martin spent hours running on sun-baked synthetic rubber. As a track athlete and Dallas native, Martin was indoctrinated into a world where athletics was an avenue to personal fame and fortune. “Sports is in our genes in Dallas,” he says. “When you…
The entertainment industry is said to be a cruel den of vipers, where nepotism reigns. True, having a strong work ethic is crucial, and you will generally have to start from the bottom and take your neophyte status in stride, but there’s no required penance behind success. The only true…
Friday, August 30 SEO Summer Camp 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30 Joe Youngblood SEO & Digital Marketing Consulting $10 Influencers, bloggers and writers, rejoice! If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to improve search engine optimization for your brand’s website, SEO expert Joe Youngblood is hosting an inexpensive workshop to…
The Dallas Holocaust Museum has a new home. The new venue is five times the size of the former location on Record Street. And the changes keep on coming. The museum acquired a new name too. Now it’s the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. The 55,000-square-foot building will open…
While many of us have brought our metaphorical baggage many times to Deep Ellum’s bars, the Dallas neighborhood now offers an option for travelers who are burdened by luggage in between hotel’s check-out and check-in times. Between ever-changing flight boarding times and strict hotel checkout times, traveling with heavy luggage can,…
If you’re like us, you savor and dread the advent of another Halloween season. Halloween traditions like dressing up in macabre attire, finding excuses to watch Evil Dead II on VHS and eating mountains of candy are great, but the ones that involve running down a darkened corridor from a…
Suppose that you are standing before a painting hanging on a wall. Perhaps you’ve been observing the painting for ten seconds and you’re about to move onto the one beside it; perhaps you’ve been entranced by the painting for ten minutes, maybe even an hour. It does not matter. Regardless…
Local classical music fans will have to get used to a new Tuesday night ritual. BuzzBrews on Lemmon Avenue shuttered last week, forcing its popular Classical Open Mic event to find a new home. Luckily, it didn’t have to look far. Open Classical co-founder Mark Landson says that, effective immediately,…
When was the last time you went to a comedy show? Better question: When was the last time you went to a comedy show where women were performing? It’s no secret that the comedy industry is male-dominated. But, without a doubt, women are a force to be reckoned with on…
School’s in. Maybe you’re a freshman and you’re in a new, exciting place, or maybe you’ve been around awhile. It’s your third, fourth, 10th year at a university, and it’s getting hard to sit in dinky lecture halls and pretend you care about the syllabus. Maybe you need some motivation,…
No matter how many reboots of CSI, Law & Order and NCIS are produced, crime shows tend to take place in major cities. In the case of Amazon Prime Video’s new original series, Vindication, a team led by Detective Travis (Todd Terry) solves crimes and mysteries in the small town…
Believe it or not, there was a time when our politics didn’t splinter us into humorless cliques, as jokes about “us versus them” weren’t an affront to the human ego. Writers like the political firebrand Molly Ivins could call a state representative as someone who “runs on all fours and…
Nestled away in the beating heart of Oak Cliff, Bishop Arts Theatre Center is building theater communities for groups of all ages, cultures, and theatrical backgrounds — including a weekly workshop for the elderly called Silver Stories. “Our Silver Stories Storytelling Circle was born out of a need to deepen…
