By Juliana Mitchell Hundreds of residents, staff, friends and family turned out for the CC Young Centennial Parade Saturday, April 2, which proceeded through the senior living community’s campus. The spectacular event was a perfect celebration of CC Young’s 100 years of service to seniors in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and to honor the legacy […]
By Dr. Beth Leermakers Have you ever wondered why the Easter Bunny — not the Easter Chicken — delivers eggs to children? According to neopagan legend, one winter a little girl found a wounded bird and called upon Eostre — the goddess of the moon, fertility and spring — for help. Eostre (aka Ostara) appeared […]
By Juliette Coulter Every spring at the Dallas Arboretum’s Dallas Blooms floral festival, there’s a magical moment when the 125 Japanese cherry trees begin to bloom along with the 3,000 azaleas. A wave of delicate pink and white cherry blossoms on the cherry trees are now starting to emerge, indicating that springtime is here in […]
Following a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the 24th Annual Long Run is back. The certified 5K and 1K Family Fun Run and Walk starts and finishes at Willis C. Winters Park (previously known as Randall Park — across the street from Woodrow Wilson High School) located at 100 S. Glasgow Drive in Historic […]
By Rachel Rossler If you have been around White Rock Lake on a Saturday morning, you may have seen a group of women paddling in unison on a 40-foot-long boat to the rhythmic beat of a drummer who is perched on the bow. Meet Dallas United PINK — the area’s first Breast Cancer Survivors’ Dragon […]
The 14th Good Local Markets season opened this past weekend with back-to-back markets in Little Forest Hills and Lakewood. The markets are special because organizers (pictured) work only with local vendors who come from within a 150-mile radius of Dallas and are carefully vetted to ensure they are local. The markets support local farms and […]
By Carrie Sanger The Meadows Museum, SMU, is the first museum in Texas to offer eyewear by EnChroma, Inc., to visitors with color vision deficiencies, or “color blindness.” Thanks to EnChroma’s Color Accessibility Program, which helps public venues, schools, state parks, libraries, museums and other organizations purchase and loan EnChroma glasses to students and guests, […]
The African American Museum, Dallas welcomes spring with an array of activities plus a powerful exhibition featuring the works by celebrated Oak Cliff artist Arthello Beck Jr., the first African American to open an art gallery in Dallas — and considered one of the city’s best artists. Also, a conference on the underground railroad in […]
By Shari Goldstein Stern A little rain, hard hats and a two-year pandemic could not keep Theatre Three (T3) patrons and newbies away from celebrating the theatre’s 60th anniversary season announcement Monday night. The dress-up affair that was planned for the Norma Young Theatre was thoughtfully replaced with electronics including laptops, desktops, cell phones and […]
By Katrina Craycroft Ten weeks of 2022 have passed. New Year’s resolutions have become habits — or not, and bathing suit season is just around the corner. So, it’s a good time to either reward yourself for setting and meeting goals, or take a hard look at reasons you don’t exercise and come up with […]