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Digital Edition: Dallas Innovates Magazine 2023

by | Jan 27, 2023
Welcome to the pulse of North Texas, where creativity and innovation converge to shape the future of business and beyond.
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Docu Series ‘Giving Voice: Black CEOs in Their Own Words” Highlighted at Dallas Event
by | Jan 25, 2023
Part of The Dallas Foundation's Voices of Hope initiative, the event at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Cedars featured screenings of "Twice as Good" and "Technicolor," about the lives and work of Interfaith Family Services CEO Kimberly Williams and Big Thought CEO Byron Sanders. A third short film about Taylor Toynes, co-founder and executive director of For Oak Cliff, is in the works.
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The Last Word: The USPTO on How Three Dallas Sisters Gave Maternity Wear a Stylish Innovation
by | Jan 23, 2023
Long ago, maternity wear was one of the unmentionables of fashion. That changed forever in 1937, when sisters Elsie and Edna Frankfurt founded Page Boy, America's first high-end maternity wear firm, in Dallas. In 1939, the sisters patented their game-changing solution: an adjustable skirt design for pregnant women that "accommodated" a baby bump instead of clumsily trying to hide it. They engineered a "window" in front of the skirt that expanded using drawstrings—while keeping the hemline stylishly parallel to the ground. 
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AD EX ‘Brickitecture’ Exhibition Shows the Landmark Building Power of LEGO
by | Jan 18, 2023
From Big Ben to the Parthenon to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, nothing beats flying there and seeing it yourself. Except maybe one thing—a new exhibition at AD EX on North St. Paul in downtown Dallas. AD EX, also known as the Architecture and Design Exchange, is currently showing an exhibition called “Building Toys & Toy Buildings: Brickitecture,” through February 11. The exhibition was curated by AIA architect Blane Ladymon.
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A Texas First: Meow Wolf’s Innovative Immersive Art Exhibition to Open in Grapevine This Summer
by | Jan 12, 2023
More than 30 local artists are teaming up to help bring a one-of-a-kind experience to Meow Wolf's first permanent installation in Texas this summer. The Sante Fe-based boundary-pushing interactive art company's debut in North Texas will have 30 rooms to feature their unique visions. Here's a sneak peek of the work in progress for the 29,000 square-foot immersive experience, set to transport visitors to a fantastical realm at Grapevine Mills.
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The Last Word: Rodney Hawkins on the History Behind ‘The Mount Experience’ Visual and VR Exhibition at AT&T’s HQ
Efforts to restore Black cemeteries and burial sites are increasing across the country—and now the unveiling of a buried past deep in East Texas's Piney Woods is the subject of an immersive visual and AR exhibition opening this weekend in Dallas' AT&T Discovery District.
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The Last Word: Co-Founder Brent Bushnell on Engineering Entertainment and Social Fun at Dallas’ New Two Bit Circus
by | Jan 11, 2023
After a soft open two months ago, Two Bit Circus officially launched yesterday at Dallas' Shops of Park Lane, featuring 35,000 square feet of tech-enhanced entertainment. Attractions include arcade games; VR, AR, and "extended reality" experiences; "story rooms"; reimagined carnival games; and more. We talked to the co-founders about how playing in groups is a big part of the fun, why their VR games prove "humans are hackable," and more.

Here's a look inside the Texas-sized micro-amusement park.
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Ready for Your Close-up? “1883” Spinoff Seeks Hundreds of Extras for North Texas Shoots

Calling all "Yellowstone" and "1883" fans: It's time to stop watching it and start starring in it. OK, maybe not starring exactly—the producers are looking for extras to play Union and Confederate soldiers for "1883: The Bass Reeves Story" a spinoff of the hit series "1883."  Legacy Casting is seeking "several hundred extras" for shoots in areas around Fort Worth, Glen Rose, and Weatherford to be produced in late January.
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Tony Collins Art to Relocate Its HQ to Historic Downtown Kaufman Square
by | Jan 10, 2023
Tony Collins Art makes custom lighting, art, and metal work for restaurants and skyscrapers, and is known for building the rotating structure for the 1934 ExxonMobil Pegasus at the Omni Dallas Hotel. After spending years in Dallas' highly urban Cedars neighborhood, TCA is moving 34 miles southeast to Kaufman's former city hall, fire station, and senior center property. And just in the nick of time—what could become a key city attraction was slated to be a parking lot.
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The Last Word: Hypnotoad Creator Eric Kaplan on TCU’s Viral Mascot
Millions are mystified by how the unranked TCU Horned Frogs have made it all the way to tonight's College Football Playoff National Football Championship game against the No. 1-ranked Georgia Bulldogs. But ask many TCU fans and they'll say the answer is obvious: Hypnotoad. 
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Where to See Holiday Lights in North Texas: A Roundup of Roundups
by | Dec 22, 2022
OK, your Ho Ho Ho may have just turned to Brr Brr Brr. But despite today's -3 degree wind chill, it's still the season to be jolly. And with Christmas just days away, a lot of our jolliness comes from seeing holiday lights that are more incredible—and innovatively high-tech—with each passing year. Luckily, news services all over North Texas have pulled on their mittens and checked out the sights. So here's a roundup of roundups: the best advice on what to see where this holiday season.
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The Last Word: Mosaic Makers Collective’s Katy Sensenig Schilthuis on Showcasing Talents of 80 Texas Women Makers

If you walk into Mosaic Makers Collective—a 2000-square-foot store at 8th Street and Bishop in Oak Cliff's Bishop Arts District—you can find everything from watercolor paintings to kitchen magnets shaped like sushi to casual fashions, wall hangings, jewelry, and more. And a sign on the wall—FEMALE DESIGNED LOCAL GOODS—tells it all.
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Dallas International Film Festival Seeks Scripts for 2023 Competition
by | Dec 20, 2022
Entries are being accepted for the 2023 screenplay competition presented by the Dallas International Film Festival, Torfoot Studios, and Event Horizon Films. The competition has a goal of supporting emerging writers and encouraging more Dallas film productions. One of this year's biggest prizes: Filmmaker Johnathan Brownlee will produce and direct the winning short script in Dallas and screen it across the film festival circuit.
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North Texas’ Sky Elements Breaks Texas Record With 1,001 Drone Light Show
by | Dec 19, 2022
Fort Worth-based drone show company Sky Elements broke a Texas record Sunday night—and spread a little holiday cheer as well. To attract attention for the North Richland Hills toy drive benefitting the Community Enrichment Center, Sky Elements presented a "1,001 Drones Holiday Show" over the Birdville ISD Fine Arts/Athletic Complex.
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Bubbly Debut: Coupes Champagne Bar Is Coming Soon to The Shops of Highland Park
Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. That soundtrack of delightful noises is coming soon at Coupes, a new "French-inspired champagne bar with a touch of Texas." Opening at the end of December in The Shops of Highland Park at 4324 Oak Lawn Avenue, the bar's setting was conceived by Dallas-based Coevál Studio. Coupes aims to be a destination for celebrating life’s little moments over a glass of sparkling vintage and small plates of gougères, wild mushroom tartine, oysters, caviar, and more.
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