Dallas puts its outdoor stage under the skyline and a Foster and Partners roof. Annette Strauss Square, the open-air venue of the AT&T Performing Arts Center at 2389 Flora Street, honours the late Dallas mayor whose advocacy shaped the Arts District around it. The original Artist Square opened in 1988 as a modest city-built lawn and stage for artists who could not afford grander rooms; renamed for Strauss in 1998, it closed in 2005 and was reborn in September 2010 as a permanent 128,000-square-f.....

Within easy reach of downtown Dallas, the Balloon Museum is a touring international immersive-art experience that uses inflatable sculpture and contemporary installation to fill warehouse-scale spaces with vivid, playful colour. Conceived in Europe and rolled out to host cities across North America and beyond, the museum's Dallas residency continues a model that has drawn enormous crowds in Rome, Paris, Madrid and other previous host cities. The format is built around a sequence of large-scale .....

The small room at House of Blues Dallas is where the chain's folk-art maximalism meets club-show intimacy. The Cambridge Room sits inside the House of Blues complex at 2200 North Lamar Street in the White Swan Building, a converted industrial landmark in Victory Park a few blocks from the American Airlines Center. The 65,000-square-foot venue opened in 2007 as one of the last full-scale House of Blues builds, and the Cambridge Room serves as its secondary stage - the 3,060-square-foot space wher.....

A performance-poetry troupe named for anti-art opened a bar so their shows would always have a stage, and accidentally built a Deep Ellum institution. Club Dada at 2720 Elm Street in Dallas opened on 26 September 1986, founded by David Border, Tom Henvey and Doak Boettiger of Victor Dada - the absurdist performance ensemble that had spent years roaming bookstores, galleries and bathhouse cultural centres - with live music booked by scene fixture Jeff Liles. The name honoured the original Dada po.....

Spread across sixty-six acres on the eastern shore of White Rock Lake, the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden has grown from a modest park founded in 1984 into one of the most visited botanical attractions in the southern United States. The gardens were created on the grounds of the historic DeGolyer and Camp estates, two adjoining residential properties whose previous owners had spent decades cultivating sweeping lawns, woodland walks and formal terraces. The grounds today encompass ninetee.....

Dallas has emerged in recent decades as one of the most exciting and underrated food cities in the southern United States, an unlikely melting pot where the great traditions of Texan barbecue and Tex-Mex meet a new wave of contemporary fine dining, an outsized cocktail culture and the steadily growing influence of immigrant cuisines from across Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Food-and-drink tours and themed experiences have become a popular way for visitors to taste their way through th.....

The slogan is printed on the wall - Dedicated to the Creative and Native - and the whole operation is built to prove it. Deep Ellum Art Co. at 3200 Commerce Street opened in the summer of 2017, founded by John and Kari LaRue in a late-1940s brick building that had served as an auto parts and service centre in the 1950s and later a printing press repair shop. LaRue, a restaurateur by trade, initially considered another restaurant for the site before deciding the neighbourhood - Dallas's historic .....

Seven names in thirty-seven years, but Dallas has never stopped calling it the Starplex. Dos Equis Pavilion at 3839 South Fitzhugh Avenue in Fair Park opened on 23 July 1988 as the Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre with a Rod Stewart concert - a 10-million-dollar outdoor shed built by the city, now operated by Live Nation, with 7,500 covered pavilion seats and a general-admission lawn lifting total capacity to 20,000, the first and largest venue of its kind in the metroplex. The naming-rights car.....

Mickey Gilley's legendary honky-tonk - the Houston-area club that inspired Urban Cowboy - was resurrected in Dallas in 2003, mechanical bull included. Gilley's Dallas, at 1135 Botham Jean Boulevard (formerly South Lamar Street) in the Cedars neighbourhood just south of downtown, fills the historic Schepps Grocery Supply warehouse with more than 92,000 square feet of event and concert space. The conversion, by preservation specialists Norman Alston Architects, kept the bones - original brick wal.....

Mud from the Mississippi Delta was ceremonially shovelled into the foundation beneath the stage before opening night - the House of Blues ritual that ties every club in the chain to the music's birthplace. House of Blues Dallas, at 2200 North Lamar Street in the historic White Swan Building where Victory Park meets the West End, opened on 8 May 2007 as the chain's Dallas flagship. The building supplies the character: a 1920s coffee-processing plant for White Swan Coffee, converted in a 90,000-s.....