Coffee Co.

What Coffee Co. lacks in frappuccinos, fancy espresso machines, free Wi-Fi and cushy armchairs for hanging out, it makes up for with longevity — they’ve been been roasting their own beans since 1971 — and really great coffee, including an extra-potent “Motor Oil” variety that will surely get your motor revving. Early risers will have […]

Common Desk – Deep Ellum

Common Desk is a network of coworking spaces across Dallas and Fort-Worth with locations currently in Deep Ellum, Oak Cliff, and Plano with a space in Fort Worth coming soon. The Common Desk staff works hard to build creative workspace environments that become home to many local small businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, and everyday professionals. We […]

Company Cafe

The second location of the Company Cafe builds on the first location’s foundation of gluten-free, seasonal and organic cooking. The kitchen has a way of making healthy cooking less of a drag and even the Southern soulful dishes don’t eat like lead. Chicken-fried steak, chicken and waffles, and cheese fries are made with a lot […]

The Conduit Gallery

One of the more popular modern galleries amongst the city’s art aficionados, this Design District gallery’s plain brick exterior belies the avant-garde works you’ll find inside. Bathing suits encrusted in nails? Random-seeming arrays of switches, wires and speakers that create “sound art”? Childlike drawings scrawled on old book covers? Check, check and check.

Contemporary Theatre of Dallas

This cozy old church-turned-playhouse off Lower Greenville Avenue is a solid choice for anyone who’s more into modern theater than Shakespeare. Previous seasons have featured everything from Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas to Brighton Beach Memoirs and Steel Magnolias, and the intimate space means there’s hardly a bad seat […]

The Core Theatre

THE PORTAL TO THE KEEP The Core Theatre June 26 – July 18 Written by Matt Gunther Directed by James Hansen Prince Truyon Vinch wants to take over the universe . . . mwaha ha ha ha ha!!! Who can stop her since The Keeper, the defender of the cosmos, has been seemingly absent for […]