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What’s the Hot Music at this Year’s State Fair?

Tripping Daisy

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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Dallas-Fort Worth’s Next Six Weeks Are Loud, Then a Little Louder

Dallas-Fort Worth is about to get loud. The next six weeks bring a run of arena rock, honky-tonk legends, and a few genuine bucket-list pairings, and the calendar only gets busier once the theaters and orchestras open their seasons behind them.

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Beer by the Bay 2026: The Lineup, the Packages, and Why It’s Worth the Drive 

Horseshoe Bay Resort is about to prove for the thirteenth summer in a row that a lakeside golf resort in the Texas Hill Country can throw one of the state’s better country music weekends. Beer By The Bay Music Festival returns August 7 and 8, 2026, two nights of live country music, Texas craft beer tastings, and an all-you-can-eat, chef-prepared spread set against the shore of Lake LBJ.

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Everything to Know About the BBQ at Feels Like Home Festival 2026 

Roy Hutchins

Brownwood isn’t a place most Dallas or Fort Worth diners think to plan a trip around, but come October, it might be worth the three-hour drive. Feels Like Home Festival has announced the first wave of barbecue joints joining its third annual return on Saturday, October 3, 2026, and the lineup reads like a highlight reel of what’s happening in Texas barbecue right now, not just the usual suspects.

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The Largest Record Store in Texas Is Hiding in Plain Sight in Grand Prairie

The largest music store in Texas — by its own count, though nobody has stepped up to argue — doesn’t sit in Austin, and it doesn’t sit in Deep Ellum. It sits on the service road of Highway 360 in Grand Prairie, in an unassuming building between Dallas and Fort Worth, and it holds more than a quarter million pieces of recorded music. Forever Young Records has spent four decades becoming a store collectors fly in for, and most of North Texas still drives right past it.

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Your Dallas Weekend Guide: June 19-21

This is one of those weekends where Dallas stacks everything on top of itself. Father’s Day, Juneteenth, the World Cup still running, a free block party in the Arts District, and a music calendar that goes from Randy Rogers to Killswitch Engage to the Dallas Symphony in a single Friday night. Pick your lane and go.

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Texas This Weekend: Three Roads Worth Taking

by Cassidy Everett

Some weekends are made for catching up on chores. This is not one of them.

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Nobody Has Done More for Bishop Arts than Amy Cowan

Walk through Bishop Arts on any given weekend and you’ll land in something Amy Cowan and Jason Roberts built. That’s been true for almost twenty years. Between them they’ve opened five concepts within a few blocks of each other in North Oak Cliff, organized the neighborhood’s two biggest street festivals, and done more to put Bishop Arts on the map than any developer or marketing campaign ever managed.

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