46. Borders
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: 5615 Colleyville Blvd., (817)
Description: Borders stores often include a Seattle’s Best Coffee. There are several Tarrant County locations.
47. Sundance Square
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Description: Smack in the middle of downtown, there’s an eclectic mix of gifts, home furnishings, jewelry, and accessories stores, including Barnes & Noble, Barse Sterling Silver, Earth Bones, Flowers To Go, Haltom’s Jewelers, Jos A. Bank, Leddy’s Ranch at Sundance, Milan Gallery, Pappagallo Classiques, Parfumerie Marie Antoinette and Spa, Retro Cowboy, Schakolad Chocolate Factory, Sid Richardson Museum, Texas Rangers Team Shop, Thomas Kinkade Gallery, and Vessels.
48. Cd Warehouse
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: 4800 South Hulen St., (817) 36
Description: CD Warehouse is a leading outlet for new and used CDs and DVDs.
49. Fiesta Mart
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: 4245 East Berry St., (817) 531
Description: The Houston-based chain specializing in Latin American groceries and related food goods offers excellent pricing on items that are hard to find otherwise.
50. Turtle Creek Chorale
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (214) 526-3214
Address: 3630 Harry Hines Blvd. at Oak Lawn
Description: The 225-voice men’s choir has had three decades of success, spending hundreds of hours in rehearsal annually and working at as many as 50 benefits each year. Frequently playing to audiences in Europe, the choir specializes in a mix of classical and popular music and calls the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center its Dallas home.
51. Dallas Black Dance Theatre
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (214) 871-2376
Address: 2700 Flora St.
Description: The oldest dance company in town performs contemporary modern ballet with 12 professional dancers in the troupe. Dancing to a mix of modern, jazz, ethnic, and spiritual music, the company often works with schoolchildren.
52. Texas Ballet Theater
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (214) 369-5200
Address: 2100 Ross Ave.
Description: The foremost professional classical dance company in North Texas, TBT is based in Fort Worth but performs in both Dallas and Fort Worth for audiences of 100,000 people annually. The dual programs each year play at Fort Worth’s Bass Performance Hall, Dallas’s Music Hall at Fair Park, and the historic Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas, and has become the resident company for the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Traditional and modern performances typically fill the season, with The Nutcracker production a favorite during the winter holidays.
53. The Art Institute Of Dallas
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (800) 275-4243
Address: 8080 Park Lane, Suite 100
Description: You can work toward an associate’s degree in the culinary arts, fashion design, video production, Web design, photography, graphic design, and restaurant management, as well as toward a bachelor of fine arts in many of those same disciplines at this growing school. Students can receive financial aid and obtain health care, too.
54. Sofia Art Academy
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (972) 980-1717
Address: 14856 Preston Rd.
Description: Specializing in European-style classic art, the school teaches children and adults the Old Masters technique. You can work on your portfolio, too. Private classes and workshops are available.
55. Dallas International Film Festival
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (214) 720-0555
Address: 1155 Broom St.
Description: Associated with American Film Institute, this eight-day festival is one of the largest in the Southwest, bringing an international competition of features, documentaries, and shorts to judges, media, and the public. Held in the spring, the festival offers viewings at NorthPark AMC and Magnolia Theater.
56. Dallas Chamber Orchestra
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (214) 321-1411
Description: A small orchestra frequently heard on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, this group is led by Ronald Neal, formerly of the New York String Orchestra, and performs at the Meyerson and various university campuses and churches.
57. Dallas Opera
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (214) 443-1000
Address: 8350 North Central Expressway
Description: Chartered in 1957, the opera stages productions of the classics, from Madame Butterfly to La Bohème, as well as newer works, such as Heggie’s Moby-Dick. New is the performance space, the Winspear Opera House in the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts complex downtown.
58. Dallas Symphony
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (214) 871-4000
Address: 2301 Flora St.
Description: The Southwest’s largest performing arts organization is led by conductor Jaap van Zweden, who has taken the symphony on a European tour and has launched several premieres with modern and classic composers’ works. With a history dating from 1900, the DSO hosts a pops series, too, with artists such as Elvis Costello, Linda Ronstadt, and LeAnn Rimes. You’ll hear the orchestra also with the Dallas Summer Musicals. The DSO is at home at the Meyerson.
59. Dallas Children’S Theater
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (214) 740-0051
Address: 5938 Skillman St.
Description: A nationally ranked theater for youth productions, this company uses two venues, the Rosewood Center for Family Arts, found at 5938 Skillman St., and El Centro College Theater, 801 North Main St. Productions range from heavy, such as The Night They Came For Me, pertaining to the Holocaust, to sweet and traditional, such as the puppet show version of The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
60. Dallas Theater Center
City: Dallas, TX
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (214) 526-8210
Address: 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd.
Description: Often offering productions at the Kalita Humphreys Theater, a Frank Lloyd Wright design, the company moved to its new home at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theater at the Dallas Center for Performing Arts recently. A 50-year-old theater group, DTC produces contemporary and classic works, as well as traditional holiday programs.