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Deep Ellum Art Park "Art Garden" rendering by Jerod Davies
Dozens of Artists Are About to Give Deep Ellum Art Park a Spray-Painted Transformation
by Lance Murray | Nov 7, 2024
Some two dozen new murals of performing artists from Post Malone to Edie Brickell to St. Vincent will be going up at Deep Ellum Art Park, located at the gateway to the historic neighborhood underneath Highway I-345. Attendees of the Deep Ellum Block Party on Nov. 23 will have the chance to pick up a brush and join in.
by David Seeley |
Oct 29, 2024
The Deep Ellum Foundation is installing new streetlight pole banners on Elm Street, Main Street, and Exposition Avenue that celebrate the neighborhood by highlighting business owners, artists, musicians, and other stakeholders "who have invested their talent, sweat, and tears into the incomparable Deep Ellum Cultural District," the foundation said.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 27, 2024
Hosted by THEM! Texas Car Club on Oct. 26, the free-to-the-public Invasion Car Show will feature pre-1965 cars from across Texas and beyond taking over a quarter mile of historic Deep Ellum. The car club and show were inspired by the cult classic '50s sci-fi film about the atomic age—and an invading gang of supersized ants.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 31, 2024
Dallas' Deep Ellum is famous for the 130 murals that cover walls, bridges, and columns throughout the neighborhood east of downtown. Now two of those mural artists are opening Blowouts & Company in a space where "southwest Boho meets Alison Wonderland inside of your cool grandmother‘s purse."
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Preliminary rendering of Goodsurf in Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood [Image: Goodsurf]
The Last Word: Goodsurf CEO Zach Shor on Next Thursday’s Deep Ellum Opening
by David Seeley | Jun 14, 2024
The surf's almost up in Deep Ellum, the historic neighborhood just east of downtown Dallas. Next Thursday, June 20, Goodsurf—a culinary and surf concept and subsidiary of Urban Entertainment Concepts—will open the doors and waves of its new venue at 317 S. Second Avenue.
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by David Seeley |
May 1, 2024
After acquiring the North American and Caribbean rights to Germany-based citywave "standing wave" technology last year through its parent, Urban Entertainment Concepts, Goodsurf is ready to start rolling nonstop waves in one of Dallas' most entertainment-oriented neighborhoods.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 4, 2024
Immersive Gamebox, a London- and Dallas-based group gaming company with two North Texas locations at Grandscape in The Colony and in Deep Ellum in Dallas, launched its new Tetris 1991 experience in late January and invited a special guest to kick it off: 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who earlier that month became the first person to "beat" the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Tetris.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 9, 2024
That was then. This is now. New streetlight pole banners are hitting the streets in Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood, offering looks at the past and present of the historic area east of downtown.
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Bowling for Soup is just one of many groups who'll be playing at the Deep Ellum Music Festival this Saturday. [Photo courtesy Deep Ellum Community Association]
Deep Ellum Music Festival Celebrates Area’s 150th Birthday, Benefits Mental Health Nonprofit
by Lance Murray | Nov 16, 2023
From noon to 8 p.m. this Saturday, Nov. 18, Dallas' Deep Ellum is continuing its 150th birthday celebration with the Deep Ellum Music Festival. Free and open to the public, the festival will benefit Foundation 45, a local mental health nonprofit born in Deep Ellum and serving musicians, artists, and the entire community with free group therapy.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 27, 2023
Saturday's event is one of many marking this year's 150th anniversary of Dallas' historic Deep Ellum neighborhood. Saturday's event will begin just down the street from the center beneath an overpass, where attendees will experience the Center’s outdoor installation, “Invisible Deep Ellum,” followed by a live music performance at the new center by the Light Crust Doughboys.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 12, 2023
The neighborhood just east of downtown will be the home of Goodsurf Dallas, a new entertainment concept that combines surfing with a bar, restaurant, and beer garden experience. It will deploy "standing wave" technology from Germany-based citywave—from which Goodsurf's parent company just made a major acquisition.
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by David Seeley |
May 24, 2023
In a 14-0 vote, the Dallas City Council has approved a TxDOT-recommended $1 billion "hybrid trench" plan to reconfigure I-345, the sprawling elevated highway that separates downtown Dallas from the Deep Ellum neighborhood to its east. Take a look at the new plan, and get ready for the gridlock to come when the bulldozers roll up—in 2028 or 2029.
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The menu at Slutty Burger will include the One Night Stand Burger [Photo: Madelynne Boykin]
Slutty Vegan Is Slipping Into Dallas’ Deep Ellum This Month
by David Seeley | May 1, 2023
Slutty Vegan got its start in Atlanta in 2018 when founder and CEO Pinky Cole began selling her signature plant-based burgers over Instagram. Now, after raising a $25 million Series A and opening 10 restaurants in Georgia, New York, and Alabama, she's opening her first Lone Star location right here in North Texas—and aiming to build "a billion-dollar brand."
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 14, 2023
Known as the “birthplace of the blues in Texas,” the district just east of downtown Dallas regularly buzzes with live music, street art, galleries, restaurants, clubs, and culturally creative retail. But all this year, Deep Ellum is kicking it up a notch. Here's what's in store over the next several weeks.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 21, 2023
Stelmarksi has been the design director of Perkins&Will's Dallas office since 2011. According to Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster, "nobody has done more to shape the city’s built environment this century."
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 10, 2023
Jerod DTOX Davies' collection of upcycled wearables is handpainted with an uplifting quote. Erykah Badu recently was spotted on social media wearing a custom Artwork For Humans sweatshirt backstage at her annual birthday concert.
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