Dallas, TX
Dallas’ Site 131 gallery is closing
One of Dallas’ most innovative contemporary spaces is closing in December 2024.
Opened in 2015 by longtime Dallas arts influencer Joan Davidow and her son, Seth, Site 131 was designed to be an ambitious, non-collecting gallery from the beginning.
Throughout the next decade, Site showed envelope-pushing work from artists including Manuel Burgener, Alicia Eggert, and Jeremiah Onifadé and mounted notable exhibitions of local collectors Carter/Wynne, Curtis E. Ransom and Howard Rachofsky.
A lifelong art aficionado, Davidow has worked as an on-air commentator for PBS and as director of the Arlington Museum of Art and the Dallas Contemporary. In 2015, she was inspired by her real estate investor son to take a gamble on a brick-and-mortar space of their own at 131 Payne Street in the Design District.
“The 131 thing was Seth’s idea,” Davidow explains. “Site 131 was a total invention to show art from there and beyond — there was nothing like that other than in museums. We ended up showing over 1,000 artists, but what happened in that time period was shipping art became very costly, and we couldn’t keep doing that.”
When Seth Davidow died last year from complications of Lou Gehrig’s disease, it was a substantial blow. Still, Joan Davidow felt it was crucial to keep the space going until the 10-year mark to honor his legacy.
“Seth didn’t have [the gallery’s provision] in his will. The people now overseeing his holdings since he died said they would rent it out to me for one more year, but only one more,” Joan Davidow explains. “It was meaningful to me, so I wanted it to be a decade.
It was Seth’s idea [to create Site 131], and it was such a sweet thing to do together, I can’t duplicate that.”
Davidow chose to close Site out with “Reply All,” featuring the billboard-sized paintings of interdisciplinary artist SV Randall. As the show continues, she is contemplating her next step, which could mean leading art tours for curious culturalists or writing grants for a new school at the University of Texas at Dallas that solves chronic pain management.
Says Davidow, “I am open to change after 45 years of working in a highly directive program that invited me to invent things in the culture and to do it with somebody that I loved. But there’s always room for invention; there’s always room for new ideas and awareness and matchmaking of audience potential. Who knows what comes next? It’s totally open.”
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“SV Randall, Reply All” runs through Dec. 14 at 131 Payne St., Dallas, site131.com
Dallas, TX
Jack Hughes scores twice as Devils beat Stars 6-4, end Dallas streak with four-goal first period
Jack Hughes scored twice in New Jersey’s four-goal first period, and the Devils handed Dallas consecutive losses in regulation for the first time in two months, beating the Stars 6-4 on Tuesday night.
Jesper Bratt and Connor Brown also had goals as the Devils put four of their first five shots past Jake Oettinger to end the Dallas goalie’s career-best point streak at 14 games. Oettinger was pulled after the first period.
Wyatt Johnston had two goals to reach 40 for the first time in his career, and Jason Robertson scored his 39th for Dallas, which hadn’t lost two in a row in regulation since dropping three straight from Jan. 13-18.
Johnston’s second goal was his NHL-leading 24th on the power play, extending his franchise record set two nights earlier in a 3-2 loss to Vegas.
Playing for the first time since clinching a Western Conference playoff spot, the Stars lost to an East also-ran and fell seven points behind NHL-leading Colorado, their Central Division rival.
Hughes beat Oettinger one-on-one for both his goals, the latter when Luke Hughes connected with him on a two-line pass for a breakaway and a 4-1 lead 17:19 into the first.
Hughes has eight goals in eight games after going without one in his first five games following the gold medal-winning goal for Team USA against Canada in the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Johnston tied his career high with his 38th assist when Robertson got Dallas within a goal midway through the second period.
New Jersey’s Timo Meier and Mavrik Bourque of Dallas traded third-period goals before an empty-netter from Dougie Hamilton.
Casey DeSmith replaced Oettinger and gave the Stars a chance late by stopping the first 12 shots he faced. Jake Allen had 23 saves for the Devils.
Devils: At Nashville on Thursday on the fourth game of a five-game trip.
Stars: At the Islanders on Thursday to start a four-game trip.
H-E-B is planning another store that will join its expanding footprint on the eastern side of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The San Antonio grocery giant is set to add a site in Royse City, which sits to the northeast of Rockwall, H-E-B said in a statement on Tuesday.
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“H-E-B has purchased property in Royse City where we have plans to build an H-E-B store on about 25 acres,” according to Mabrie Jackson, managing director, public affairs H-E-B/Central Market.
“We are still very early in the planning stages for this project, but we expect work on the store to start early next year, with an estimated opening sometime in 2028,” Jackson added in the statement.
The company is “gearing up for extensive site work that we look to commence this summer.”
Royse City, which resides along I-30, is another fast-growing hub in North Texas with about 26,000 people as of July 2024, according to the U.S. Census. That’s up roughly 95% from April of 2020.
H-E-B is ratcheting up its investments in North Texas as it competes for customers in the expanding region, which is drawing people around the country.
The company, competing with names like Walmart and Kroger, opened a store in Forney earlier this year, which also sits on the eastern side of the region. The move came after it launched a store in Rockwall last year.
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The company will share more details about the Royse City project “as things develop and look forward to serving more Texans in this dynamic part of the state,” Jackson said in the statement.
If you’ve driven along Commerce Street just west of downtown Dallas, you’ve likely noticed construction activity across the Trinity River.
The work marks the beginning of Harold Simmons Park — a $350 million project aimed at transforming the Trinity River corridor into a major recreational destination in North Texas.
The park’s first major feature, known as the “Play Cove,” is already taking shape, though much of it is being built overseas.
Tony Moore, CEO of the Trinity Park Conservancy, said the Play Cove will include six massive, two-story towers connected by suspension bridges, creating an immersive play space for visitors. While the site in Dallas is still in early stages, those towers are currently under construction in Germany, where designers were selected for their engineering expertise and craftsmanship.
“They’re about two stories high, connected by bridges, so you can walk from tower to tower,” Moore said. “We wanted the very best.”
Once completed, the towers will be shipped to Dallas and installed as the centerpiece of the park’s first phase.
The broader vision for Harold Simmons Park also includes a significant investment in green space. Nearly 2,000 mature trees will be added to the site, with many already selected and waiting in nurseries until construction progresses. Existing trees will also be preserved and protected.
Project leaders said the goal is to open part of the park as soon as possible, giving residents access while construction continues on future phases.
After years of planning, Moore said seeing work finally begin is a milestone moment for Dallas.
“This has been a long time coming,” he said. “Dallas has been waiting for this.”
If construction stays on schedule, the first phase, including the Play Cove, is expected to open by the end of 2028.
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