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Western Sports & Entertainment Co. Teton Ridge Names New Executive Chairman to Form an Office of the CEO

by | Nov 4, 2025
Shawn Colo brings a two-decade track record of success as an operator, investor, and entrepreneur building and growing businesses to Fort Worth-based Teton Ridge, which owns The Cowboy Channel and the Cowgirl Channel.
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French Restaurant Mamani Earns Dallas a Second Michelin Star, Weeks After Opening in Uptown
by | Oct 29, 2025
Michelin’s 2025 Texas Guide keeps Dallas on the culinary map with two one-star restaurants, a cocktail award, and a slew of recommended spots. Fort Worth, Arlington, and McKinney eateries also earn recognition in the second year of the guide.
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Social entrepreneur Byron Sanders, a former nonprofit exec, is CEO of Arete Health, launched in January 2025. [Photo: Michael Samples]
The Last Word: Arete Health CEO On a First-of-Its-Kind Health and Wellness Program for Dallas Creatives
by | Oct 28, 2025
Creatives Care Dallas brings virtual care, behavioral health, 2,000+ medications with zero copay, and more to Dallas County's gig workers. The community initiative is powered by Arete Health Shield in partnership with the Dallas Music Office.
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The Last Word: Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker On Film Becoming the City’s Next Great Industry
Fort Worth’s film industry has boomed with nearly $1 billion in impact, 50,000 jobs, and Taylor Sheridan's 101 Studios planning to move its HQ to the city, NBC DFW reports.
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Walmart Partners With OpenAI to Bring ChatGPT-Powered Shopping to Customers

by | Oct 14, 2025
Walmart has expanded its AI-first shopping strategy with ChatGPT-powered Instant Checkout. After rolling out “Ask Sparky” this summer, the retail giant is pushing deeper into agentic commerce. Industry leaders in North Texas and beyond are watching closely.
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Innovative Spaces: A Preview of Goldman Sachs’ New Campus in Downtown Dallas’ NorthEnd
by | Oct 7, 2025
Slated for completion in 2028, the new Dallas campus will be the company's second-largest U.S. office, accommodating more than 5,000 employees across all businesses and divisions of the firm.
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Dallas-Based ReadingGlasses.com Partners with Mensa for Glasses Celebrating ‘Greatest Thinkers’
by | Oct 7, 2025
With visual cues honoring geniuses from Mozart to Descartes to Voltaire, these designer glasses prove that intelligence is always in style. "For generations, glasses have signaled intellect, and The Mensa Collection turns that signal into a statement," says American Mensa's Tamesha Logan.
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Frisco-Based GameSquare Buys Talent Agency, Exits Ad Business, and Consolidates Tech Platform in Growth Push
In with Click, Out with Frankly. GameSquare Holdings is acquiring a top Australian digital creator agency for $8.5 million while streamlining its portfolio around creator talent, profitability, and onchain innovation.
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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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