The Denton Black Film Festival, now in its third year, is gearing up for a culture-sharing celebration. The annual event, which will feature more than 40 narrative films, documentaries and shorts from filmmakers across the nation as well as internationally, is for “film lovers, art seekers and culture enthusiasts of…
Entering one of Charles Dilbeck’s homes is like embarking on a magical mystery tour. Glass with spider-web detailing and rooms cleverly concealed under the stairs are just a few signatures of the architect’s style that lend them this appeal. These features and more can all be found inside Paigebrooke, Scott…
For more than a decade, Dallas’ MLK Symposium has brought together a host of speakers who follow Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of social and economic fairness. The 12th annual symposium, titled “MLK’s Legacy: issues of social justice in the twenty-first century,” will examine modern rifts in America’s social justice fabric while also…
Last week, we shared a list of 10 decidedly unhealthy dishes that would be great for anyone whose only New Year’s resolution is “eat more awesomely.” Perhaps, however, you really are trying to better yourself this year, and a part of that bettering could involve eating better. If that’s the case, here…
Stanley Marcus Home10 Nonesuch Road A Dallas city landmark, the Stanley Marcus home sits on approximately three acres. The property originally consisted of six acres and, according to CBSDFW, was a gift to retail wizard Stanley Marcus from his father, Herbert, cofounder of Neiman Marcus. Lore has it that Marcus…
An Oak Cliff corner store with a fire hydrant out front is rebranding as Bruno’s Place, a do-it-yourself dog wash. Despite layers of dust on the showroom floor and an absent ceiling tile overhead signaling the work that lies ahead, co-owner Rochelle McKown says she envisions a February grand opening…
Dallas students can continue to step up their creative game next summer thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEA will award the Art Works grant to Big Thought, which has teamed up with the city of Dallas and the Dallas Independent School…
For the past decade, Faye Elder has helped to decode the secrets of the Earth. The Arlington resident teaches dowsing, an ancient technique that she says can detect unmarked graves, to groups as well individuals around Dallas and beyond. “I’ve had people come from Mississippi for me to teach them…
Seeing a woman chasing his train down on foot, a conductor ground the engine to a halt. He feared that tragedy had struck. But it was just Ashton Stauffer doing business. “It stopped for me about a half a mile down,” Stauffer said while seated at a poker table in…
Artist Anthony Howe went from building erector sets as a kid to sculpting a massive, moving, sun-inspired cauldron for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Now, he has left his kinetic mark on Dallas. Howe’s pinwheel-like masterpiece, “Lucea,” whose windblown dandelion look is pulled together with rotating arms…
Survivors who make it past belly busters and Black Friday specials into the post-Thanksgiving stretch may want to take a breather and kick around these 10 mom-and-pop shops on Small Business Saturday. Houston Street Toy Co. 309 Houston St., Fort Worth This boutique toy store opened its doors in Fort…
The craft beer boom has beer makers, local and abroad, spewing out artsy booze labels. The stickers range from cryptically coded to simply stated to everything in between. Whether they are designed exclusively by a beer company’s in-house artist or banged out on a home computer, quite a bit of…
There are living legends and some of them are national treasures. To his fans at a performance at Arlington Music Hall this weekend, Charlie Daniels embodied them both. Daniels, who turned fourscore last month, led the packed house on a revered, musical journey from the Wooley swamps of Lucius Clay toward a…
A purple hue hovered above a stage as hundreds of North Texas youth gathered to have their say. Some danced, some sang, some cried and some scrawled their names across a wall. Others recited original poems before a standing-room-only crowd at DaVerse Lounge. Spilling from a dance floor, a young…
Good beer isn’t relegated to Dallas proper, which people living in the suburbs have long known. Some of Dallas’ most interesting new beer is coming from beyond 635. In honor of North Texas Beer Week, we headed to one of these suburbs to find the town’s best-kept beer secrets: Division…
A surge of online booksellers has left some brick and mortar bookstore owners wondering whether old school words on paper are down for the count, but a counter surge of independent thinkers and bookstores around Dallas are hellbent on preserving open thought and culture. Wild Detectives 314 W. Eighth St…
His thick shock of hair, black suit and underlying white shirt gave Robert Darden the look of a musical composer as he walked into Starbucks carrying the wood-handled umbrella that shielded him from the day’s downpour. The former Billboard gospel music editor turned Baylor professor has spent most of his…
From his backyard studio, Oak Cliff artist Chris Bingham has detailed the face of a survivor. “Abdur” was granted asylum from his home country, Afghanistan, where he was accused of being a spy for the United States. In a mostly dark painting, a colorful bandana represents his loss of identity…
The Elbow Room, a low-key, 1930s building that houses a restaurant and bar in the Baylor district, has run out of elbow room. The historic 1,824-square-foot brick structure on Gaston Avenue could soon face the wrecking ball and has landed on Preservation Dallas’ 2016 Most Endangered Historic Places list along…
It all started with a load of gravel hauled in from around the Trinity River. When Bill Candler, former president of the Oak Cliff Gem and Mineral Society, was 5 years old he found a few fossils out in the driveway and displayed them in his bedroom. He was incensed…
Down the cobblestone streets of Hell’s Half Acre in Fort Worth’s Stockyards and up a flight of stairs on Exchange Avenue sits a historic hotel known as Miss Molly’s, which some say is haunted. The former bordello is a hot spot for paranormal investigators because of unexplained encounters, and was…
Those looking to have their pants scared off this Halloween won’t have far to look since a medley of murder houses, witch covens and zombie lairs are set to open across the metroplex. Writing about them all would fill the pages of an entire spellbook so we have spotlighted five…
