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  Fort Worth Artist Wesley Kirk Overcame Heartbreak by Wearing a Spacesuit in the Desert

  October 16 at 12:19 p.m.

  A man in an olive green spacesuit pauses mid-stride half way down a red sand dune. Leg cocked to the side, he looks off into the distance. Bright pinpricks of stars dot the sky above him and a smudge of orange-tinged cloud rises up from the horizon. It could...

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  Only Grumpy Old Fucks Could Be Mad about J-Pop Metal Band Babymetal

  September 25 at 2:18 p.m.

  For those of you still without YouTube access, Babymetal is an act from Japan that overlays a teenage J-pop girl band on top of a heavy metal base. If everything in life has its opposite, then this is about as divergent as it gets. Both the group and the performance...

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  Photographer Mick Rock, Who Worked with David Bowie and Lou Reed, Has an Exhibition in Dallas

  September 24 at 4 a.m.

  To say we listen to music with our eyes would sound counterintuitive and foreign, but it wouldn’t be inaccurate. Think about it. How different would the live music experience be if we didn’t have eyes? How would record collectors listen to an LP in their living room if they couldn’t...

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  Russian-Born Dallas Photographer Alisa Eykilis Hopes Her Photos Confuse You a Little

  September 23 at 4 a.m.

  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...

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  Behind the Curtain: A First Look at the Sleeping Beauty Ballet Opening Friday

  September 6 at 10:31 a.m.

  As I pull up to an unassuming, windowless building on the outskirts of Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth, I find a small sign on the reflective glass doors that reads "Texas Ballet Theater: Press button for entry." Fort Worth, the town of the cow, railroads and rodeos. This is the...

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  A Dallas Boutique Hotel Asks Guests to Untag Them in Photos. Does It Have the Right?

  August 21 at 4 a.m.

  DFW music promoter Callie Dee was trying to be body positive when she booked a room at the Lorenzo Hotel and brought a professional photographer friend for a photo shoot. It was Valentine’s Day 2018, and Dee had just lost weight, mostly due to stress, and was seeking to love...