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Marissa Heyl's sanctuary pods offer a modern solution for personal downtime in busy offices. The self-contained units provide private spaces for meditation, power naps, or focused work, with customizable lighting, sound, and temperature controls. [Image: Inclusive Wellness Design]
From Forest Baths to Recharge Rooms: How One North Texas Entrepreneur Is Transforming Workplaces Into Destinations
by Quincy Preston | Oct 15, 2024
Marissa Heyl is rewiring the workplace—with design. Her Inclusive Wellness Design firm uses neuroscience to create joy-inducing, productivity-boosting spaces that give employees another reason to step away from the home office. Think "happy brain chemicals" meets cutting-edge design, with a dash of "Meow Wolf-meets-Miraval" thrown in for good measure.
by Lance Murray |
Oct 8, 2024
Kaufman County's John Bunker Sands Wetland Center, an innovative water treatment system and one of the country's largest manmade wetlands, is looking to up its public profile with an environmental art installation unveiling at a "Wings Over the Wetland" WOW Event on November 16.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 8, 2024
Titled "FuturePresentPast," the one-night-only event will be held Saturday, Nov. 16, at Dallas City Hall and surrounding areas. Regional and international artists will be presenting "an expansive exhibition of technology-based public art" that explores North Texas' past "in order to shape our future through the present."
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2025 Silver Cup Honorees Gayle Halperin (left) and Jim Nugent [Photos: Patron Magazine/Victoria Gomez]
TACA’s 2025 Silver Cup Award to Honor Leaders Shaping Dallas Arts
by Lance Murray | Oct 4, 2024
TACA will recognize Gayle Halperin and Jim Nugent as the 2025 Silver Cup Award recipients at a luncheon on May 7. Here's how their individual contributions have left a lasting mark on Dallas’s arts scene, from dance leadership to arts advocacy.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 4, 2024
Beats for Good—a high school music competition for students in the Arlington, Hurst-Euless-Bedford, and Mansfield school districts—invited students to put their best performances forward by submitting videos of their talent in action. Back on September 6, the top judged entries were posted online with visitors asked to vote for their favorites—and the winners are in. First place went to 2024 Arlington High School graduate Mason Moore and his spellbinding acoustic guitar rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 25, 2024
“It’s VR without the goggles.”
Justin Renville
General Manager
Cosm Dallas
…via Inclusion Cloud’s Jayme Byrd after touring the newly opened Cosm Dallas at Grandscape.
Cosm Dallas, the new immersive entertainment venue at Grandscape, is turning heads....
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by David Seeley |
Sep 25, 2024
The $158 million Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum at UT Dallas in Richardson has begun to take living shape with today's opening of the Crow Museum of Asian Art's second location and Tuesday's groundbreaking for a new 680-seat performance hall and music building. The project's goal: transforming UT Dallas into a cultural destination for North Texas.
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Charisma Virtual Social Coaching is billed as virtual social coaching for the real world. [Image: The Center for BrainHealth]
Charisma’s Next Level: How UT Dallas’ Center for BrainHealth and AWS Are Using Gen AI and Gametech to Boost Social Coaching
by Lance Murray | Sep 24, 2024
Charisma, a social coaching program developed by the Center for BrainHealth, uses generative AI and gaming technology to create realistic virtual environments, helping individuals improve social skills with the guidance of a coach—and now it’s scaling up with AWS.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 24, 2024
The AIA Dallas Design Awards honor the architects, clients, and consultants who work together to achieve design excellence, both in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and around the globe, and to elevate the value of architectural practice in the local community, the institute said. Here's a look at this year's winning projects.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 19, 2024
While the Texas Rangers chased a .500 season this week, Rangers fans chased something else around DFW: 25 hidden "Baseball Forever" sculptures by Dallas' Brad Oldham Sculpture. But you may as well stay put—the "scavenger hunt" has ended with all 25 bronze prizes found.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 17, 2024
The sixth annual event will be free to the public Oct. 18-19 at Dallas Market Hall, with a VIP benefit preview on Oct. 17. The art fair exclusively features works by Texas women artists in an effort to promote, support, and connect exceptional yet under-represented regional talent.
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[Photos courtesy of Flamenco Fever]
Dallas-Based Flamenco Fever To Launch Texas Flamenco Festival During Hispanic Heritage Month
by David Seeley | Sep 3, 2024
From flamenco guitarists to celebrated dancers to stirring vocal artists, performers from around the world will be heating up passions across North Texas from Sept. 7 to Oct. 20. A film screening and dance classes are on tap, too, and it's all presented by Oak Cliff-based nonprofit Flamenco Fever.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 29, 2024
The agency's clientele list ranges from McDonald’s to Midas, Coca-Cola, Planet Fitness, Six Flags, and many others. The agency said its "reimagination of Moroch" reduced its physical footprint by 50%, showcasing a commitment to innovation and efficiency. Take a look inside the new digs.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 29, 2024
From a SkaterBIRD in downtown Dallas to a dragon's Fury in Southlake, Brad Oldham Sculpture has enlivened public spaces across North Texas. With art works popping up in other states as well, national recognition has made their works all the shinier. Here are some of the team's best-loved projects.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 23, 2024
Sometimes innovation is about finding new ways to recontextualize legacy software applications to solve vexing real-world problems. This is not one of those times. These innovations are sweet, salty, sticky, and crazily inventive—and they'll be waiting for you Sept. 27-Oct. 20 at the State Fair of Texas.
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