MORE►
Creative
Left to right: Natalie Yancy, Shawn Kruggel, Rachel Mosley, and Paula Serafino [Source images: Medium Giant/Rachel Mosley]
Medium Giant Doubles Down on Leadership Promotions to Future-Proof Agency
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | May 31, 2024
The wave of promotions, made under the umbrella of DallasNews Corp., highlights the agency's focus on internal growth and industry leadership.
by Lance Murray |
May 31, 2024
George Killebrew, a mastermind behind the Dallas Mavericks' top-tier revenue generation and former Major League Rugby Commissioner, has joined the United Pickleball Association (UPA) as chief revenue officer. The UPA, which oversees the Carvana PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball, taps into Killebrew’s 20 years of experience as one of Mark Cuban's key executives to revolutionize the fast-growing sport of pickleball.
MORE►
by David Seeley |
May 31, 2024
The best-selling video game of all time has inspired a "real-life, in-person" adventure called Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue—and it's getting its global debut at a site in Plano on September 20. Attendees will go on an epic rescue mission "at the crossroads of game design, experiential storytelling, and high-tech multimedia," organizers say.
MORE►
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 22, 2024
Earlier this year, Google asked students across the U.S. to submit their ideas through art to the prompt of “My wish for the next 25 years…” in celebration of Google’s 25th anniversary. Texas winner, McKinney elementary student Alice Kim, could be one of five national finalists. Cast your vote by June 4.
MORE►
TACA Silver Cup Award Luncheon Raises $650K; Spotlights 2 Philanthropists
by Lance Murray | May 10, 2024
The 46th TACA Silver Cup Award Luncheon raised over $650,000, the second-highest amount in event history, through sponsorships, table and ticket sales, and donations, TACA, The Arts Community Alliance, announced.
TACA said the Silver Cup Award spotlights two philanthropists each year for their volunteerism and extraordinary support for arts and culture in North Texas....
MORE►
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 9, 2024
“Welcome home Dallas Trinity FC”
Dallas Sports Commission
.…on the name reveal of Dallas’s first-ever women’s professional soccer team at Klyde Warren Park on May 9, via LinkedIn....
MORE►
by David Seeley |
May 3, 2024
Seattle's Optic8 has partnered with Fort Worth-based Trinity Broadcasting Network to launch Trilogy Studios, which is now building three new "virtual production" stages in a five-acre facility in Fort Worth—including one (above) with a Cinematic LED wall that’s 157 feet wide and nearly 24 feet tall.
MORE►
by Glenn Hunter |
May 2, 2024
Dallas Innovates, the Dallas Regional Chamber, and Dallas AI have teamed up to launch the inaugural AI 75 list. The 2024 program honors the most significant people in AI in DFW in seven categories—the visionaries, creators, and influencers you need to know.
MORE►
Video still: Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines Launches ‘Big Flex’ Campaign with Cheeky Humor and a Pooch
by David Seeley | Apr 25, 2024
How relaxed can you get? In a new brand campaign from agencies Spark Foundry and GSD&M, Southwest Airlines has some ideas. One thing that can help ease your way across the country: two checked-free bags packed with shampoo. (And not the 3-ounce kind.)
MORE►
by David Seeley |
Apr 25, 2024
The 18th Dallas International Film Festival opens today with a Majestic Theatre screening of "Dude Perfect: A Very Long Shot" from ESPN's "30 for 30" documentary series. Running through May 2 and featuring more than 100 films, the festival includes an array of titles from local filmmakers, producers, distributors, and investors.
MORE►
by David Seeley |
Apr 23, 2024
From its 17 offices across the U.S., business consulting firm Embark aims to shake up a "tired" $300 billion industry by replacing the reigning "rise-and-grind culture" with a focus on happiness. With an ad in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal and mini-coffins on the way to CFOs nationwide, the firm is looking to kill it—in more ways than one.
MORE►
by Lance Murray |
Apr 22, 2024
The center said visitors to the exhibit at the community center will be "transported through time" as they physically walk through a replica tunnel showcasing photos of murals that once appeared on the walls of the Good-Latimer tunnel, the gateway to Deep Ellum from the Dallas Arts District.
MORE►
Dallas Public Library's J. Erik Jonsson Central Library is located in downtown Dallas. [Photo: Michael Samples]
The Last Word: Dallas Council Member Jaynie Schultz on Proposed Improvements for Dallas’ Central Library
by David Seeley | Apr 16, 2024
The Dallas Public Library's J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in downtown Dallas—one of America's largest—was built in 1982 across from Dallas City Hall, and many agree it could use an overhaul. That especially includes library officials and consultants they brought in for a report on the building's future, among other needed investments in the city's library system.
MORE►
by David Seeley |
Apr 12, 2024
On the same weekend that dancers will be flying in the air above the Dallas Arts District, another mashup of dance and architecture will be happening at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Dance at the Modern: Ode," a contemporary ballet on the cyclical nature of life from generation to generation, will be presented April 13 and 14 at 1:30 p.m., with choreography by Alexandra Light.
MORE►
by David Seeley |
Apr 10, 2024
Dallas-based commercial litigator Talmage Boston has another avocation as an historian, and writes that his dual discipline "has made me a better lawyer and vice versa, since both callings require the same skills"—meaning researching, writing and rewriting, interviewing and interrogating, and public speaking.
MORE►
by David Seeley |
Apr 5, 2024
It may be cloudy in the Dallas area for Monday's eclipse. But if you're going to Irving's Total Eclipse in the Park event, at least you'll have one compensation: the World's Largest Moon Pie. But don't try to eat it all—it weighs nearly 200 pounds and clocks in at 365,042 calories.
MORE►
