Sports and Recreation in Dallas Observer
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Depending on your feelings toward America’s team (you know, the Cowboys?), this behemoth of a football stadium is either a marvel of modern engineering or a gross representation of American excess. Affectionately nicknamed the “Death Star” by some, Jerry Jones’ grand dome cost more than $1 billion to construct and boasts one of the world’s […]
Does having a really great bike shop make Garland hipster-friendly? Not quite, but nonetheless, anyone in the market for a new bicycle — including the tank top and jorts set — ought to check out this shop run by a former BMX rider. DJs carries a vast selection of bikes, from mountain to BMX to […]
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The beachy architecture of this minor league baseball stadium looks like it belongs more in coastal Galveston than the whitewashed corporate ‘burb that is Frisco, which is probably why it has won multiple awards for its design. That aside, the home of the Frisco Roughriders holds 10,000 fans (or, you know, regular people who got […]
Wouldn’t your middle school years have been way more rad if you’d had a skate park to hang out at? The lucky kids of northern ‘burb Allen have just that with The Edge, which boasts not only a concrete skate park complete with plenty of handrails, bowls, boxes and ledges just begging to be ollied, […]
Located in historic downtown Plano, Eisenberg’s offers something for kids of all ages. There are bike and skate ramps, a skate shop, an arcade and the occasional rock show. Just blocks from the DART rail station.
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Arguably one of the coolest things about the far-flung northern ‘burb of Frisco (well, besides Ikea, land of $20 disposable coffee tables), Fieldhouse is a 144,000-square-foot state-of-the-art indoor sports facility just a stone’s throw from the FC Dallas arena, featuring 12 basketball courts and a massive turf-covered “field” that’s used for not only the favorite […]
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Have you ever had fantasies of becoming a stripper, except not really because you have children/want to run for office someday/can’t walk in 5-inch clear heels? Enter The Girls Room, a Lower Greenville studio where you can learn the fine art of pole dancing in a totally non-threatening environment. They even have “Booty Pop” classes […]
Home of our beloved Texas Rangers, this behemoth of a baseball stadium that seats 50,000 screaming fans has loomed over the city of Arlington since its debut in 1994. The architects clearly had their eyes on the baseball stadiums of yesteryear, so the classically styled ballpark has plenty of retro details like arched windows and […]