The Dallas guides
Neighborhood by neighborhood, written by someone who lives here. New guides land every few days.
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This Weekend in Dallas: October 30-November 1
Free It on Main Street, Nosferatu with a live score and a downtown trick-or-treat parade: eight Dallas picks for Halloween weekend, October 30-November 1.
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Dallas Art Galleries Are Free, and Leaving After Eleven Minutes Is Allowed
Dallas art galleries are free to walk into and nobody checks your credentials. Where the rooms are, how a gallery night works, and when to skip it.
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Dallas Is a Car City That Rents You a Living Room by the Hour
Third places in Dallas: the free rooms where you can exist without a reservation, and why a city’s friendliness is measured in places to be.
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The Cedars Is the Oldest Neighborhood in Dallas, and Most of Dallas Has Never Parked There
The Cedars Dallas guide: Lee Harvey’s backyard, Gilley’s, South Side on Lamar, and why the oldest neighborhood in the city is ten minutes from your night.
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This Weekend in Dallas: October 23-25
Free Rocky Horror on Main Street, trick-or-treating at Klyde Warren and Bride of Frankenstein with a live ballet: eight Dallas picks for October 23-25.
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The State Fair Leaves and Dallas Forgets It Has an October
Dallas in October gets better after the State Fair leaves. Why the Fair’s exit is the starting gun for the city’s best outdoor month, not the end of…
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Lakewood, Dallas: Everyone Calls It Residential. The Neon Says Otherwise
Lakewood Dallas reads as residential until the theater neon comes on. The jazz room, the dive, the lake, and when East Dallas nights actually work.
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This Weekend in Dallas: October 16-18
State Fair closing weekend, Pumpkins and Pints at the Arboretum and Dia de los Muertos at TUPPS: six Dallas picks for October 16-18.
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A Food Hall Is Not a Food Court with Edison Bulbs. The Dallas Rooms That Know the Difference
Food halls Dallas actually needs: a test for the real ones, and why Legacy Hall, Harvest Hall, and The Exchange end the group dinner argument.