The American dream is becoming harder and harder to achieve, but the ABC reality show Shark Tank is doing its small part to keep it alive, one creative idea at a time. Since its debut in August 2009, over 300 entrepreneurs have obtained financing and partners for their companies through...
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A Carrollton resident is the first person in Dallas County to die from the West Nile virus in 2016, Dallas County Health and Human Services confirmed Monday afternoon. The name and gender of the victim, who was more than 60 years old, will not be disclosed for "medical confidentiality and...
It felt like we had entered a new era of technology when Dallas first got Pay-By-Phone, a mobile app that lets drivers use their phones to pay for parking meters instead of whatever change happens to be bouncing around in their pockets or hiding next to stale french fries under...
Ask any small or mid-size theater in Dallas and they will tell you lack of media coverage is a real concern. With so many arts organizations vying for attention it is hard to give equal voice to each one. The recent discussions about arts equity in Dallas drew attention to...
Leading up to September's Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we're sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. It’s rare to find a form of sizzling meat that Texans haven’t embraced. But through some shameful oversight,...
There had been whispers in the DFW radio market about it for months, but yesterday, it became official. The alternative rock staple KDGE 102.1 the Edge has ceased to exist after 27 years on the air. In between repeat plays of Semisonic's "Closing Time," there were teases of a new...
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The already congested streets of Deep Ellum are littered with masonry materials and construction vehicles as the neighborhood makes way for new high rises and redeveloped retail outlets, and amidst all this chaos the Deep Ellum Foundation is hoping to carve out a space for all to use. Reimagine Crowdus...
One of the most powerful documentaries of 2016, Keith Maitland’s Tower immerses the viewer in the 1966 massacre at the University of Texas, during which Charles Whitman fired from a clock-tower in Austin, shooting 49 people and killing 16. The film takes a somewhat surprising and stylized approach to re-creating...
Leading up to September's Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we're sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Not many foods are named after shoes. The huarache was originally a type of sandal used among the...
Few people can command the attention of a room more easily than comedian and talk show icon Arsenio Hall. He can make a room of complete strangers crank the lower part of their arm in the air and "Woof" simply by walking out on a stage. He makes it look...
A thick layer of vapor settles over the main hall of Dallas Market Center as consumers and vendors take their seats Aug. 19 for the advocacy program at the 2016 Vape Showcase. The panel includes representatives from consumer and trade vape advocacy groups as well as longtime anti-smoking crusader and...
Bucky’s Moonshine looked like the Fourth of July. Red, white and blue confetti, strands of beads, and patriotic streamers adorned the walls, tables and just about every other exposed surface of the Deep Ellum spot last Saturday night. Heaping portions of chicken and waffles, fried shrimp and jambalaya were passed...
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The SWAT team glide down a door-lined hallway in an abandoned juvenile center on the outskirts of Mansfield. Guns at the ready, they follow one another like soldiers on a sweep, sticking close to the walls, entering rooms two at a time. These are the guys police call when they...
Fort Worth artist and writer Christopher Blay spent the past few years working out an idea he had during a CentralTrak residency in 2014. Training his imagination on an actual conspiracy theory about a time machine inside the Large Hadron Collider, Blay places the stories of seven black victims of police...
Dallas Police officer Jesus Martinez, over the last two-plus years, has been charged, fired, let go by a grand jury and rehired by the Dallas Police Department. Thursday afternoon, the saga of this officer continued as he announced that he was suing outgoing Dallas Police Chief David Brown and the...
We know you're busy. So here's a roundup for those news junkies who missed out and now need their Friday fix. Family and Friends Remember Kelli Cox, a Recently Discovered Serial Killer's Victim In a house in Farmer's Branch, friends, family and police gather to remember Kelli Cox, whose body...
When I heard that Little Woodrow’s was about to open their first Dallas location, my Houston-raised heart rejoiced. Its beers were tasty and priced for undergraduate consumption, its patio an ideal spot to shoot the breeze and cheer on sports in every season. If you came on the right night,...
It's rare for a franchise, especially in the horror genre, to actually get better as it progresses — doubly so if the final part of said progression is a TV series. Yet in six-part miniseries form, currently airing on the you-didn't-know-you-had-it Pop network following a broadcast in Australia earlier this...
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“So a guy walks into a bar downtown and asks, ‘Where’s the closest subway station?’ ‘Sorry buddy, the closest thing you’ll find to a subway here is a Quiznos,’” the bartender replies. That’s how Amanda Austin, downtown resident and owner of Dallas Comedy House in Deep Ellum, started her comments...
The group of lawyers that shepherded the plaintiffs through the case that eventually led to the Supreme Court toppling most of Texas' onerous anti-abortion law, House Bill 2, is readying itself to take on the state again, this time over Texas Governor Greg Abbott's under-the-radar call to require facilities that...
Leading up to September's Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we're sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. This is one of those ephemeral Dallas dishes that existed for one night only, enjoyed once and never...
Do This!The annual Texas-OU game is early Christmas for football fans. People on both sides of the collegiate showdown flood Fair Park for this all-important game just so they can hold bragging rights over their rivals for the rest of the year. Watch the Longhorns and the Sooners go head...