Local Profile Magazine • March 2022

40 Years Young

While Local Profile celebrates its birthday this year, these 10 businesses also celebrate their staying power in Collin County.

Island Soul Magazine • September 2021

Beach Town Tranquility, Meet Big City Thrills

Every year, millions of people travel down Interstate 45 and cross the causeway to visit Texas’ beloved Galveston Island. They come for a relaxing weekend away from busy city lives, or to board cruise ships headed south.

Dallas Observer • August 2017

We Stayed in North Texas' Coolest Hotel Room, 16 Feet Above a Lion Enclosure

Science says a lion’s roar is audible from five miles away, but at the Center for Animal Research and Education in Bridgeport, all that stands between you and two big...

Dallas Observer • September 2016

10 Best Texas Weekend Getaways, 2016

No matter how much you love your 9 to 5, chances are you’ll always live for the weekend. Make the most of those precious days off and start scheduling time...

Dallas Observer • August 2016

Just Outside Dallas, You Can Sleep in a Treehouse and Wake up to the Scent of a Lavender Farm

I awoke to the fluting of Texas songbirds and the morning sun on my legs. The wind blew lightly through the canopy net enclosing the bed. Moments after I removed...

Dallas Observer • November 2016

7 Strangest Places in DFW

We have yet to coin a citywide slogan urging everyone to “Keep Dallas Weird,” and the truth is we don’t really need to. Refuse to admit that you live in...

Dallas Observer • October 2016

An Hour South of Dallas, The Monolithic Dome Institute Is Preparing for the End of Times

The Taj Mahal, Texas State Capitol and Roman Pantheon put dome-shaped structures on the map, but now people are using those same design elements to build doomsday shelters. In Italy,...

Surveyor Magazine • October 2018

Sips & Steaks

Presented by the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau

Cross Timbers Lifestyle Magazine • January 2018

Deconstructed

Flower Mound’s finest farm fresh food can be found at this award-winning restaurant where carnivores and health-conscious consumers will rejoice alike.

Cross Timbers Lifestyle Magazine • November 2017

Defense Academy in Every Sense of the Meaning

Follow your GPS to 801 Patriot Way in Flower Mound, and you will find a brand-new, 42,000-square foot facility featuring a CrossFit studio, martial arts studio, indoor shooting range and...