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Fort Worth Adtech Firm Adds New Product and Revenue Chiefs Amid Growth Push

by | Oct 3, 2025
As Simpli.fi doubles down on AI tools and B2B targeting this year, its new CEO brings in execs from Neustar and Epsilon to scale innovation and help clients navigate the evolving advertising landscape.
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Shef Food + Wine Returns to Grand Prairie in October With Flavor, Star Power, and Purpose
by | Oct 2, 2025
The second annual culinary festival, curated by Tiffany Derry and Tom Foley of purpose-driven T2D Concepts, brings together nationally known chefs and mission-driven programming for a three-day celebration of food and drink.
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Dallas Innovation Alliance Brings Tech Festival to Oak Cliff Saturday
by | Sep 30, 2025
The third annual Get Connected Dallas event pairs on-the-spot job interviews and emerging tech demos—from robotics to VR—at a free community festival.
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Built by Gaming Veterans, This Dallas AR Startup Is Reanimating the Past to Own the Future of Tourism
by | Sep 29, 2025
Fresh out of stealth, Histoury launched its cinematic AR app for tourists in Rome—and beat its launch-day goals. Now the Dallas startup is targeting a $2B heritage travel market, one landmark and tour operator at a time.
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The Last Word: Dallas Plastic Surgeon on His ‘cleaVage’ Breast Implant Musical

by | Sep 23, 2025
The Last Word above ran through Friedman's mind in 2019, when he was seeing "Hamilton" on Broadway. The Plano-based plastic surgeon didn't just muse about it—he put his own music talent to work, collaborating with Laura Goodenow to create "cleaVage," a comedic musical "inspired by the trailblazing surgeons and brave patients who shaped the spectacular rise, equally spectacular fall, and ultimate resurgence of silicone gel breast implants—which were invented in Texas in 1962."
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RobotLAB’s Cruzr Robot Rolls Into Cast of ‘Only Murders in the Building’
by | Sep 23, 2025
If you worry that robots may be coming to replace us, you may have thought at least actors were safe. Think again. The newest cast member on "Only Murders in the Building" is a cloud-based, intelligent humanoid robot that can man a doorman's desk like nobody's business.
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Punk Noir’s Tasting Menu Restaurant Coming to Design District With ‘Irreverent Fine Dining’ and VIP Car Service on the Menu
Led by a James Beard Award–winning chef, the 20-course experience will unfold inside a 9,500-square-foot warehouse, with projection-mapped dining rooms and just 26 seats per seating. It’s all part of what the founders call a love letter to Dallas.
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‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Immersive Adventure Will Have Its U.S. Debut in Plano This Fall
by | Sep 8, 2025
Visitors start by picking the kind of adventurer they want to be, then embark on a quest to retrieve a magical gem from a fearsome dragon’s lair.
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Dallas Children’s Theater Names Philanthropic Veteran as Its New Interim Executive Director

by | Sep 4, 2025
Michael Meadows brings almost four decades of experience in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors to Dallas Children’s Theater. As the former CEO of the Dallas Zoological Society, he led the transformation of the Dallas Zoo into one of the nation's premier zoological parks.
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Hunger-Fighting CANstruction Dallas Competition Is Up at NorthPark Through Sept. 14
by | Sep 3, 2025
Sprinkled all around NorthPark, the 29th annual CANstruction Dallas design-and-build exhibit features 26 science-fiction-themed canned-food sculptures. The public decides on the winners by voting for their favorite and kicking in $5 for the North Texas Food Bank.
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5K Event ‘The Color Run’ Is Coming to Dallas’ Fair Park in November
by | Aug 28, 2025
On November 22, the untimed 5K event at Fair Park will feature color zones, DJ stages, themed music zones, and a Finish Festival with color throws, food trucks, beer garden, wellness zone, family-friendly games, and more.
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Immersive Experience Bubble Planet Is Coming to Grapevine Mills This Fall
by | Aug 27, 2025
Bubble Planet is an immersive sensory experience spanning a dozen rooms, all filled with vibrant colors, interactive installations, and larger-than-life bubbles for guests to navigate and explore.
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Dallas Museum of Art Names Longtime Portland Art Museum Leader as Its New Director

by | Aug 21, 2025
Brian Ferriso, who has led Portland Art Museum, known as PAM, for nearly two decades, will take the helm at the DMA on Dec. 1 as it enters a major transformation phase.
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Shane Scully behind the bar. [Courtesy: Caché]
The Last Word: On Dallas’ Newest Hidden Cocktail Lounge Above S&D Oyster Company, Coming Soon
by | Aug 19, 2025
Caché turns forgotten office space into a New Orleans-inspired sanctuary where every drink tells a story. Plus, take a look inside the Jones Baker-designed space.
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Dallas’ Verily Storyworks To Develop TV Series on Legendary Athlete Jim Thorpe
by | Aug 14, 2025
Verily Storyworks has deployed a crowdfunding model to develop "THORPE," a planned 3-season scripted drama series about the life of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe. The studio and IP company's founder is working with Thorpe family members on the project—and is inviting the public to become "capital ambassadors" for the series.
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Taylor Sheridan’s SGS Studios Launches Texas’ Largest Production Campus in Fort Worth, With More to Come
by | Aug 13, 2025
Sheridan—the powerhouse behind hit shows like "Yellowstone" and "Landman"—is partnering with Paramount Television and Dallas-based Hillwood on the new production campus in AllianceTexas. Additional production campuses are now planned across the huge development, with a goal of making Texas "'a global force in the film industry."
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