Every October, a handful of North Texas buildings stop pretending to be warehouses and meatpacking plants and go back to what they apparently always wanted to be, which is terrifying. Dallas-Fort Worth has one of the strongest haunted house scenes in the country, including the attraction USA Today readers just voted the best in America. If you want a real scare before Halloween, these are worth the drive.
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Fort Worth finally has its Michelin star, and it went to a barbecue joint on Dick Price Road. Anyone who has stood in that line on a Saturday morning will tell you it was only a matter of time.
The 2026 Michelin Guide Texas arrived this morning with no ceremony and no red carpet, just a list posted online. North Texas came away with a modest but meaningful update. Here is what actually happened, straight from Michelin’s own selections, and what we make of it.
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Most people show up to the State Fair of Texas thinking about corny dogs and butter sculptures, and forget there’s an entire free music festival built into the ticket price. The Chevrolet Main Stage has been doing this for almost 30 years, and this year’s lineup is one of the more genre-scrambled ones the fair has put together in a while. Country one night, classic rock the next, then a Pink Floyd laser show, then a Norteño act, then a tribute band. Nobody’s pretending it’s curated for one kind of fan. It’s built for everybody who walks through the gate.
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The corny dog was born at the State Fair of Texas in 1942, when Neil and Carl Fletcher figured out how to get a hot dog on a stick into hot oil without it falling apart. Eighty-four years later, a member of that same family just won one of the fair’s biggest honors by taking the family’s own invention apart and putting it back together as dessert.
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Thirty years ago, a handful of Dallas restaurants agreed to knock a little off the check in exchange for sending a cut to a food bank. Nobody involved could have guessed it would still be running three decades later, or that it would grow into the second-longest-running restaurant week in the country. This week it did exactly that, officially kicking off its 30th year on August 10, with more than 175 restaurants across five counties taking part.
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Fort Worth’s ultimate test of appetite and speed is back for a historic milestone. Riscky’s Barbeque—the legendary 99-year-old smokehouse staple—will host its landmark 20th annual Rib-Eating Competition at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 25, at its Stockyards Station location at 140 East Exchange Avenue.
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Dallas is hosting nine World Cup matches — more than any other city in the tournament. Most people watching those matches won’t be inside AT&T Stadium. Tickets are expensive, parking in Arlington is a commitment, and frankly some of the best World Cup viewing in North Texas happens nowhere near the stadium. The city has been building toward this summer for years, and the watch party scene that has developed around it is genuinely impressive. Here is every option, organized by neighborhood and type, so you can find your spot before June 12.
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If you have spent any time in New York and wandered into one of those rooms on the Upper East Side or in the West Village where the espresso is perfect and the pastel-colored cakes look like they came from a set designer’s dream, you already know Sant Ambroeus. If you have not, you are about to get a proper introduction. The celebrated Milanese hospitality group is opening its first Texas location on Knox Street in Dallas, and it is the kind of announcement that makes the city sit up a little straighter.
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