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7 Services in Dallas to Help You Live Your Best, Lazy Life

By Brittany Nunn

Jun 25, 2021

You work hard and life comes at you fast. Sometimes you just need a little extra help wrangling your seemingly ever-growing to-do list.

Raekwon released a line of limited-edition hats, hoodies, tees and more in collaboration with Dallas streetwear store Centre.

Wu-Tang Clan Founder Raekwon Visits Dallas to Promote Line With Streetwear Shop Centre

By Bryson "Boom" Paul

Jun 22, 2021

This past Saturday afternoon, hip-hop artist Raekwon hosted an exclusive pop-up shop inside Mockingbird Station streetwear apparel store Centre.

The smell of new and expensive sneakers is intoxicating at the Dallas Sneaker Con.

Sneaker Con Is Alive and Kicking (and Coming to Dallas in May)

By Eva Raggio

May 18, 2021

The pre-vaccine pandemic made us revisit a habit we’d long forgotten about thanks to our various streaming services: walking.

Nicky Hilton Was in Dallas and Talked Sustainable Line and Sister Paris' Documentary

By Paige Skinner

May 3, 2021

Inside Alice + Olivia in Highland Park Village, dozens of mainly white Highland Park women sip cocktails and chat among themselves. A DJ is blaring pop music, while nicely dressed men walk around offering Champagne to the guests. Everyone is seemingly relaxed while the night's guest of honor, Nicky Hilton...

Kristin Cavallari Brings a Bit of Orange County to Deep Ellum

By Eva Raggio

Mar 29, 2021

If you’re one of those people who have the new saying “Don’t California my Texas” then you might want to stay away from Deep Ellum. Kristin Cavalleri was in town this past weekend to bring some of her signature Golden State sparkle to Dallas with a new jewelry store in...

We've been dreaming of YooHoo Yeehaws this whole pandemic. See what the fuss is about at the iconic Dallas bar.

60 Cool Women-Owned Businesses You Can Support in Dallas

By Karyna Micaela

Mar 9, 2021

Women are rockstars in business, and that's just a fact. There are countless women-owned and women-run businesses in Dallas, but here are 55 to get you started. In honor of Women’s History Month, support one of these local shops, restaurants and services run by a bevy of badass bosses. Bars and...

How the Bernie Sanders Meme Helped an Oak Cliff Party Supply Shop Stay Afloat

By Alex Gonzalez

Feb 11, 2021

If you haven’t grown tired of the Bernie Sanders meme, in which the senator is wearing mittens and a large jacket at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, it’s not too late to add to your collection of memorabilia. At ABC Party HQ, you can order a piñata stylized as...

Eric Dallof, the owner of the Horror Freak collectible store in Bedford's Retro Plaza, has the first shop in DFW dedicated to grisly, gory and ghastly horror films and collectibles.

Every Day Is Halloween for the Owner of Horror Freak Horror Stuff Store

By Danny Gallagher

Feb 4, 2021

Eric Dallof has been selling the stuff he collects since he was a kid. "I was 8 years old and I had a baseball card business," Dallof says. "My stepdad got business cards made and I went around my neighborhood and didn't know this but I put them in my...

Bree Clarke is planting roots as a business owner in Uptown.

Bree Clarke Wants to See Plants and Diversity Grow in North Texas

By Jacob Reyes

Jan 11, 2021

Bree Clarke just wanted to support a local plant shop. Specifically, one owned by a person of color. What she found instead was that in the entire city of Dallas, she says, there were zero plant shops owned by Black women. For Clarke, that needed to change. Her new shop,...

North Texans are turning to MLM companies for extra cash during the pandemic.

North Texans Turn to Multi-Level Marketing Schemes and Scams to Get by in the Pandemic

By Caroline Pritchard

Dec 31, 2020

If you spent some time on social media looking for local businesses to support with your holiday shopping, you might have noticed more people selling nail polish strips, candles and skincare products from their homes. “Just in time for Christmas,” Deborah Ines wrote in a Dec. 9 Facebook post. “Scentsy...

This Christmas, you can support BLM by shopping at Black-owned businesses.

BLM Movement Moves to Online Shopping This Holiday

By Kian Hervey

Dec 11, 2020

Six months after the death of George Floyd and following months of protests calling for police reform, the Black Lives Matter movement continues its efforts toward social reform. Locals, meanwhile, have rallied behind another tenet of the movement, economic empowerment of Black communities, through online shopping. “During this year, many of...

President Donald Trump's supporters can now shop at the all-Trump Trump Store in Watauga.

North Texas Is Getting a Trump Store, and We Had Questions

By Eva Raggio

Oct 2, 2020

The suburb of Watauga now has something to “boast” about: It has the only Trump store in DFW. Owner Mary Talley has a background in entertainment as an owner and operator of carnival rides; when COVID hit and the State Fair of Texas and other fairs were canceled, she started...

Charles Smith II is a Dallas fashion designer.

Black-Owned Businesses You Can Support in North Texas

By Aria Bell

Sep 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has given the nation a chance to observe, reflect, mobilize and unite to end systemic racism. While there are many ways to get involved with social reform organizations and to plan and prepare for protesting, one significant way to uplift black communities is by shopping locally at...

A Record Store in Arlington Digs Through Dallas DJs' Vinyl Collections

By Lauren Drewes Daniels

Sep 21, 2020

A new and used record store, Growl, is blossoming in downtown Arlington along Abrams Street. This retail space has cycled through different phases over the last few years, trying to figure out what it wants to really be when it grows up. With low ceilings, a cement floor, bars on...

Legacy West has a "university" where they teach youth how to rock the vote.

You Can Now Learn to Vote at Legacy West in Plano

By Isabel Arcellana

Sep 15, 2020

Rock the Vote, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and empowering young people to vote, is coming to Legacy West, the shopping and entertainment district in Plano. Because of COVID-19, young people are more likely missing out on the usual activities and events that schools usually provide. Legacy West’s response to...

Alex Segreto holding his COVID-19 piñatas, which are ready to take a good beating.

An Oak Cliff Party Business Adjusts, Selling COVID-19 and Trump Piñatas

By Lauren Drewes Daniels

Aug 13, 2020

Years ago while I watched a show about a crew working in a sewer and heard one of the workers say, “You either gotta laugh or throw up.” But, there’s another option aside from illness or giving way to the insanity through laughter to survive when confronting a foul mess:...

Owner Katie Scott (left) and manager Bayleigh Cheek bring punk rock to McKinney with Red Zeppelin Records.

McKinney Finally Gets a Record Store With Female-Owned Red Zeppelin

By Eva Raggio

Aug 11, 2020

A few months ago, Katie Scott was standing outside her shop, The Groovy Coop in Downtown McKinney, when she came across the owner of another building on the square. His tenant, he told her, would soon be moving out. It was a long-standing salsa shop, “a staple,” Scott says, that...

You can buy it, but you can't smoke it. Make sense? The new hemp laws are an ocean-sized gray area.

CBD Shops Adapt to Gov. Abbott's Confusing Ban on Smokable Hemp

By Malen Blackmon

Aug 6, 2020

Just as the Texas hemp business begins to thrive, local industry professionals will have to take a step back and re-evaluate their business models as a ban on retail sales of smokable hemp flower is in full effect. In 2019, Gov. Gregg Abbott signed House Bill 1325, which legalized the...

TV interior designer Grace Mitchell gives us the scoop of the best places to shop in North Texas.

Grace Mitchell, of HGTV's One of a Kind, Shares the Best Antique Shops in North Texas

By Alie Dinger

Jul 24, 2020

Fort Worth native Grace Mitchell, the star of HGTV's One of a Kind, has been curating her design aesthetic for much of her life. Mitchell started out with a design blog called A Storied Style and wrote for publications at night while her four kids, all under the age of...

Online boutiques are perfect when you're a shopaholic but also want to social distance and support local businesses.

Shop Local: Dallas Boutiques with Online Platforms

By Myriam Diaz

Jul 22, 2020

COVID-19 has made an unfashionable impact on the fashion industry in Dallas, causing several stores to close permanently. The inability to open doors to customers has especially put a strain on boutiques, which rely on foot traffic to generate sales. In the last few months, many of our favorite small...

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