Uh, Why Is the World’s Largest Rubber Duck Coming to Fort Worth?
This week, one thing is bigger in Texas, with one enigmatic visitor: a giant, yellow rubber duck.
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New Dating App Called UnFiltered Only Lets You Show Your Real Self
One change that comes from the waning days of the pandemic is that our dating life is no longer confined to phone conversations or screen calls that feel like we’re in some kind of maximum security prison. We can and should actually meet the people we’re interested in dating now.
Best Things to Do in Dallas June 23–29
This summer, Legacy West (7800 Windrose Ave., Plano) hosts a free sunset movie series every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
10 Brilliant Ideas for Pop Culture Pop-Up Bars Around Dallas
Now that we’re allowed to go outside without walking around in a plexiglass box like the world’s shittiest mime, themed pop-up bars are making a comeback. This trend refers to when bars, pubs and taverns decorate and redo their menus to celebrate something seasonal like Halloween or Christmas or some…
Local Filmmaker Chyna Robinson Tells Horror Stories of Love in a Film About Domestic Abuse
Filmmaker Chyna Robinson is no stranger to telling ambitious, timely stories. The Fort Worth native’s debut film, Greenwood: 13 Hours, was a historical short about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
The Women in STEM Exhibition in Dallas Breaks Records
Increasing the number of women and minorities in STEM is Minerva Cordero’s life goal.
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Jared’s Epic Blaster Battle 5 and 6 Returns to AT&T Stadium
Last year Jared Guynes was all set to launch his fifth Jared’s Epic Nerf Battle — the annual Nerf gun war that started in 2016 at AT&T Stadium that set and still holds a Guinness World Record.
The Dallas Men We Wish Were Our Fathers (and Those Who Should Keep Wearing Condoms)
Whether you’ve mapped out an extensive breakfast feast or you’re waiting for a last-minute Amazon delivery, Father’s Day 2021 is the perfect opportunity to treat our dads. Seriously. You only have to do it once a year.
East Dallas Residents Want the Spaghetti Warehouse Trolley Back
For a group of Dallas residents, one streetcar is truly named desire.
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Best Things To Do in Dallas June 16–22
Like most artists, Tokyo-based Tomoo Gokita spent life during the pandemic lockdown working on his craft, and breaking the boundaries of his own art by abandoning his usual monochromatic and grayscale figurative paintings for vibrant pastels — with motifs ranging from pin-up models and female wrestlers to Donald Trump and socially distanced individuals — for a series titled Get Down.
In Honor of the New Simpsons Pop-Up Bar, Here Are the Show’s Best Dallas Moments
If a traffic jam on Interstate highway 35 inspired you to let out a “D’oh!” then we might have the place for you.
Oak Cliff’s Cold Soda Gallery Is a Cool Little Island of Urban Art
Graphic artist Michael Houlihan is not from Oak Cliff. When the 35-year-old moved to Dallas from California in 2014, he knew returning to the “Third Coast” would mean more questions like, “Where are you from?”
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A Group Called ‘Bible Bullshit’ Makes a Place for Those Rejected by Other Churches
One day, roughly 10 years ago, Tori Jensen was lying on the floor of a dorm room in Cincinnati with her sobbing girlfriend, Michelle.
The Most Famous Graves in Dallas-Fort Worth
Throughout the pandemic, hundreds — and in some places, thousands — gathered daily in North Texas without regard for social distancing.
A Dallas Filmmaker Says He Holds the Secret to Mussolini’s Death
Guy Mayfield’s debut short film, The Butterfly Keeper, will be premiering in a matter of days.
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The Black Creators of a New Social Media App Want to Get You Off the Couch
A small team of young, ambitious and mostly first-generation African Americans recently set out to solve a couple of constant problems in their lives: trying to find things to do and going to social events that end up being a waste of money. Less than a year after starting the app development process, the team is gearing up for the launch of their new social media app, Videloo, this fall.
The City of Dallas Is Looking for Its Very Own Poet Laureate
This upcoming Thanksgiving, you may finally be able to return home victorious and finally prove your family wrong: being a poet is absolutely a legitimate job.
The City of Arlington Wants to Solve Racism Through a Unity Council
Words are powerful, but ending inequity will require much more than euphoric language. Less than a month after George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was white, the City of Arlington created its much-heralded “Unity Council.”
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Free Play Arcade Makes a Big Comeback in Denton by Buying Its Own Square Space
The last time Free Play Arcade had a location in Denton, it ended in a lawsuit. Now the arcade chain is coming back to Denton in a much bigger way.
Oak Cliff Film Fest Bounces Back Big With Films from Questlove, Udo Kier, Riz Ahmed
The plans for last year’s Oak Cliff Film Festival didn’t go as they were originally planned.
Flaccid in Frisco: North Texas Cities Rank Least Horny in America
It may now seem like a foggy pre-war memory, but there was a time life used to feel like an orgy of instant, rampant, often unexplained horniness — a time where attractions were so plentiful and our excitement so, um, premature we had to deliberately conjure unsexy mental images to keep our libidos in check.
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In Dallas, More Employees Are Returning to the Office Than in Any Other City
We soon may have to put on pants again for work meetings. As COVID vaccinations become more widely available, offices are re-opening, prompting workers to return to the 9-to-5 grind.