This Friday at Poor David’s Pub, Denton’s Grammy Award-winning polka band Brave Combo will play music introduced to America by immigrants and refugees. Mayor Mike Rawlings will be there. Band member Carl Finch claims the band isn’t making a political statement — “It is just about acknowledging where a bunch…
The lead singer of Dallas’ newest pop band, Starfruit — who asks to be identified only as Bubbles and uses gender-neutral pronouns — says they hear a lot of music by queer artists that’s sad. They hope Starfruit can fill that void and be something bright that gets people dancing…
Dallas’ art scene is officially too big to be celebrated in seven days. This year, for the first time since Arts Week’s creation in 2013, Mayor Mike Rawlings has deemed the entire month of April Dallas Arts Month. “We have held Dallas Arts Week in the past four years, and…
Winners of the 42 Murals: Deep Ellum 2015 Edition contest were announced last week. After several participating artists spoke up about suspicions of voter fraud on Instagram, Scott Rohrman, creator of the contest, came up with a solution to recognize and reward six artists instead of three. “We created two…
Comics have always been a family affair for Dallas artist Brie Underhill. Her grandfather helped shape her love for the art form by introducing Calvin and Hobbes, The Wizard of Id, Nancy and B.C. to her as a child. “We would always read comics in the newspaper together,” she says. “I…
Tax refunds are finally rolling in, which means it’s officially treat-yo-self season. Skip run-of-the-mill spa centers and stretch your dollars by choosing something extra special. Whether you find yourself in a flotation cabin, Russian banya or Himalayan salt cave is totally up to you. Salt Cave of Southlake 200 N…
Untapped Festival, the 5-year-old Texas beer and music festival, announced last week that it is rebranding as Index Fest. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Spune Productions, which founded and then sold Untapped, also founded a music festival called Index Festival in 2012. It made waves during…
Last week, final votes, in this case “likes,” were cast in the 42 Murals Instagram contest to determine which three Deep Ellum murals get to stay up. The winners will be announced March 15, but some artists are already calling the judging process unfair for allowing contestants to purchase votes. Several murals…
Siamese’s debut album The Mesmerist is inspired by late 1700s German physician Franz Anton Mesmer and his cult of mesmerism, and it addresses everything from sexual identity crises to colonialism. The four-person performance group will perform at the Texas Theatre on Saturday to celebrate the record’s release and give us…
Between rare books from Sylvester Stallone’s personal collection and sports memorabilia as extraordinary as Evel Knievel’s leather motorcycle jumpsuit, Dallas’ Heritage Auctions is putting every single one of your estate-sale finds to shame. These are the eight most absurd items currently up for bids. Fair warning: They aren’t cheap, but…
Dallas dentist Michael Fooshée was eager to alleviate the problems associated with maintaining routine dental health, including unhappy bosses and paychecks docked for time. His solution was New Avenue Dentistry, a new mobile dentist office that provides all the same services as traditional dental offices but is more accommodating to the…
Don’s Used Photo Equipment stands amidst a hardened strip of industry on Irving Boulevard, near what’s now the heart of the Design District. When Don Puckett opened the store in 1997 he started hearing essentially the same thing every day from customers: “This is expensive, does it work?” “People come in…
From an early age, Chelsea DeVos watched as her mother suffered from epilepsy. “In 2016 her doctor recommended she look into CBD-rich hemp oil to help control her seizures,” DeVos says. “I had already been researching cannabinoids to help with my anxiety, so she and I started taking the CBD…
At DFW Nail Bar in Denton, partying and pampering go hand in hand. Unlike other nail salons, this one offers complimentary cocktails and karaoke with its spa services. “We traveled the world and visited many resorts and spas and came up with the nail bar concept,” owner Jennifer Tran says…
Will Heron, aka “Wheron,” would prefer if you didn’t put him in a box labeled “just a commercial artist who makes T-shirts.” You’ve seen the high school art teacher’s work in the form of murals, prints and growlers at tap houses, coffee shops and businesses all over town, including Local Press +…
L.A. lady Lola Rogers and her younger sister Taylor are the cool girls behind Blue Jean Baby, a Dallas-based, online-only boutique. At ages 25 and 27, the Allen natives are already kicking ass and stitching their brand name on bandanas and vintage denim. “To us, a blue jean baby is…
The Marvelous Nerd Year’s Eve convention that took over the Sheraton Hotel Dallas at the end of the year wasn’t so marvelous for its parent company. Thanks to poor execution of the four-day event, which featured Stan Lee as the main draw along with 40 other big names in the…
Forget cedar-smoked meats, steel-toed boots and rattlesnakes. Fort Worth’s own Brent Hull put Texas on the map for another reason, and it recently landed him his own History Channel show. As host of Lone Star Restoration, Hull takes a closer look at the beauty and craftsmanship of historical preservation. Whether…
Since opening in 1988, Fair Park’s Gexa Energy Pavilion has officially changed its name more times than Sean John Combs (also known as P. Diddy, Diddy, Puff Daddy or Puff). News recently broke that the Live Nation-operated concert venue will now go by Starplex Pavilion, a name similar to its…
Two Dallas artists – Jake Elliott and Pierre Krause of After Deth Productions (ADP) – recently directed and edited the video for Nelly Furtado’s single “Pipe Dreams” off her forthcoming album The Ride. The video was released on Pitchfork earlier this week and has already received praise by Rolling Stone,…
For some reason, watching Kim Kardashian undergo a “vampire facial” on Kourtney and Kim Take Miami sent people running to their dermatologists requesting the next big thing in skincare. Since then, many places in Dallas have started offering the same microneedling spa service seen on the show, but blood isn’t…
We have yet to coin a citywide slogan urging everyone to “Keep Dallas Weird,” and the truth is we don’t really need to. Refuse to admit that you live in a city as peculiar as its people? Time to rethink that notion and take a closer look at seven spots…
