Even with the confusion that has surrounded Texas’ cannabis laws in the last few years, consumers and industry professionals from across the world gathered last week at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center for the first Texas Hemp Convention. The place was flooded with people and hemp. More than 10,000 attendees…
Friday, January 31 HEXA Launch Party 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31 HEXA Coworking Free Celebrate innovation and technology at Richardson’s new co-working space. Learn about how Richardson is on its way to becoming a new technological ecosystem. Plus, partake in great networking opportunities. Tayla Parx at House of Blues 7…
When he’s not shape-shifting into a part-time Bedford library assistant, Bret McCormick writes and edits hellacious horror stories. McCormick, along with E.R. Bills, another Texas author, began compiling an annual anthology of dreadful Lone Star-tinged tales about four years ago called Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers that’s been…
Starving or not, North Texas artists may want to heed the call for entries to an award being offered by the Meadows Museum. The museum, located at Southern Methodist University, will take applications through Feb. 14 for its annual Moss/Chumley North Texas Artist Award, which is accompanied by a cash…
Stephanie Adelina is persistently innovative. Just last year, she started a tattoo program at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, teaching a select group of high schoolers a viable (not to mention cool) job skill. Next week, Adelina will be relaunching Pegasus Studios, a space…
Clear your schedule for the first three weeks of April, because the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s SOLUNA Music & Arts Festival is back again, and you’ll want to attend every single performance. Since its inception in 2015, SOLUNA has aimed to foster collaboration across multiple genres and media while also bringing…
Golden Globe- and Tony award-winning performer Bernadette Peters held the Meyerson in the palm of her hand this Saturday night, and all you needed to see it was your Dallas library card. That’s all thanks to Culture Pass, a new partnership between the Dallas Library and the Office of Cultural…
Possibly Jane Austen’s most enduring work, Pride & Prejudice is a great novel about the personal judgments that guide and interfere with the social roles of men and women in the early 1800s. It follows Lizzy Bennet, one of five sisters (many adaptations reduce the number to four) whose mother…
The online presence of Dallas-based influencers and savvy Instagrammers within the LGBTQ+ community is particularly dynamic and inspiring. People from all walks of life make up a diverse group of individuals expressing themselves with pride on the internet. Scroll down for some fun and noteworthy, LGBTQ+ Instagram accounts to follow…
The act of looting cultural property such as art has been regarded as a significant problem during times of war, but most people don’t know that the practice also festers on a peaceful front. Case in point: Erin L. Thompson, professor of art crime ( by the way, imagine the…
Monday, January 27 Raphael Saadiq Coming off an eight-year break from releasing new music, the musician/producer Raphael Saadiq, aka Charles Ray Wiggins, is touring off his 2019 album Jimmy Lee. Just a couple of years before, the Tony! Toni! Toné! co-founder earned an Oscar nomination for the song he wrote with Mary J. Blige,…
At the end of January, the brand-new theater company Fair Assembly will be presenting its first production, Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet. It’s a play we all know well even if we’ve never seen it or read it: the story has wholly permeated our culture (and who didn’t have to…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s music director designate Fabio Luisi keeps a very busy schedule when he’s not in Dallas. The Italian-born maestro also serves as principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony and general music director of the Zurich Opera, in addition to high-profile appearances as guest conductor for orchestras…
Terry Jones, the founding member of the British comedy royalty known as Monty Python who passed away on Wednesday, said once in an interview about the team’s comic mindset, “We weren’t concerned with making anyone but ourselves laugh.” The comedy duo Tim and Eric, also known as Tim Heidecker and…
Friday, January 24 Open Coworking Day 9 a.m., Friday, January 24 Her.HQ $15 Are you a boss lady looking to network with other boss ladies? Join other creatives and entrepreneurs for open coworking day at Her.HQ. For $15, you get breakfast bites, coffee, tea and access to the coworking space…
Though Dallas is distinctly Texan (and proud of it), its fast-paced city atmosphere often overpowers its simpler Texan roots. But outside the city center, many North Texas suburbs have held onto their historic downtowns and haven’t let them lose their magic. Each one has a little something for everyone: They…
“There are three things that I need each day,” Matthew McConaughey told an eager audience at the Dolby Theater in 2014. “One, I need something to look up to, another to look forward to, and another is someone to chase.” It was a surprisingly tender moment for the Texas native,…
The next time you find yourself being amazed while watching Magic for Humans on Netflix, know that Dallas magician extraordinaire Trigg Watson had a hand in those stunning tricks. Magic for Humans, now in its second season on Netflix, stars magician Justin Willman as he explores themes like love, self-control…
Rarely does a film come along that stays in theaters longer than the first few months of release. Of course, most films aren’t The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a musical/ comedy/ science fiction/horror phenomenon that has continuously screened in select theaters for 45 years. The cult classic follows the adventures…
Have you ever watched a movie like The Maze Runner or Labyrinth and thought — or even said out loud — that you could beat those challenges if you were in the protagonist’s shoes? Now there’s a way to prove it, and you don’t have to risk getting compressed in…
Murder is bad, but the business of murder has never been better. The category of true crime, once limited to the occasional documentary collecting dust on a video store shelf, is now a billion-dollar industry. True crime podcasts are played during our daily commute, the ID Network recounts every grisly…
It’s the beginning of a new year, and the South Dallas Culture Center is halfway through its gallery season. The institution is kicking off 2020 with a new exhibition called Punk Noir by Nigerian American artist, Dawn Okoro, which will run from Jan. 25 through March 21. Okoro’s art has…
