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08/30/2026

Hello Dolly! 52 years ago, Dolly Parton was singing at Arlington Stadium and Fort Worth’s WBAP Country Gold on August 26, 1974. Dolly performed at the fourth anniversary celebration, an annual music festival marking the station’s switch to full-time country music in 1970.
Dolly took the stage with her guitar in a dazzling green outfit covered in sequins and jewels. The event was photographed by WBAP-TV, the Fort Worth television station.
If you grew up listening to WBAP Country Gold, you might have been hearing Dolly on the radio—and seeing her right here at Arlington Stadium.
We’ll miss you, Dolly. Thank you for leaving us so many songs—and a little piece of North Texas history. 🦋🦋🦋
📸 Courtesy: UNT Libraries Special Collections, Portal to Texas History.

05/19/2026

FIFA-on-whale crime has been committed in downtown Dallas. The victim: "Whaling Wall 82" (aka "Ocean Life"), an 82-foot-high mural painted on an Akard Street building in 1999 by conservationist and artist Robert Wyland (known simply as Wyland professionally). The most likely culprit(s): Downtown Dallas Inc., the North Texas FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee, and Slate Asset Management, the Toronto-based owner of 505 N. Akard, which allowed the commercial building's mural to be painted over to make way for a World Cup mural. The City of Dallas claims Wyland was informed of the change. Wyland says he was not. The Dallas mural is not the first of Wyland’s 100 “whaling walls” to be covered up in the decades since he completed the project, but it’s certainly caused the biggest uproar. “We suck the soul out of everything,” Kacey Musgraves wrote in an Instagram Story this week.

04/24/2026

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