Alex Bentley

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Alex Bentley isn’t a Dallas-Fort Worth native, but with all his experience in the area, he’s the next best thing. He received his bachelor’s degree from TCU, and after a five-year sojourn to work for the Florida Marlins in Miami, he returned to the area to get his master’s degree at UNT. Prior to joining CultureMap, he worked for Pegasus News, helping deliver hyper-local news to the internet masses. He uses that experience to make CultureMap the go-to site for everything to see and do in Dallas.

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The Piano Man Returns

Billy Joel leaves New York post for blockbuster concert in Dallas

By Alex Bentley

11.13.14 | 12:55 pm

The 2015 concert season at American Airlines Center will kick off with rock-and-roll legend Billy Joel, who plays on Thursday, January 22, 2015. This will be the first time Joel ...

Weekend Event Planner

The Black Keys and Wanda Sykes top best weekend events in Dallas

By Alex Bentley

11.13.14 | 12:00 am

With just two weeks to go before Thanksgiving, you're going to start to notice holiday decorations taking over Dallas-Fort Worth. Two holiday-themed events make this week's list, along ...

A Bicycle Society

Downtown Dallas Inc. promises public bike sharing 'sooner rather than later'

By Alex Bentley

11.10.14 | 10:33 am

The recent appearance of a private bike-sharing stand in the Dallas Arts District leads us to wonder just how far off public bike sharing might be for the city of ...

Baymax to the Rescue

Big Hero 6 delivers intelligently cute antidote to superhero movies

By Alex Bentley

11.07.14 | 12:00 am

Since Marvel Entertainment merged with Disney back in 2009, the production of films based on Marvel characters has shifted into overdrive. Given Disney’s history, it was only a matter ...

Free Bike Rides For Some

Bike sharing comes to downtown Dallas, but it's a bit of a tease

By Alex Bentley

11.06.14 | 12:02 pm

Public bike sharing is currently a reality in Fort Worth and is on the verge of happening at Fair Park, but right now it's a pie-in-the-sky idea for Dallas ...

Weekend Event Planner

Lone Star Film Festival and Jay Leno top best weekend events in Dallas-Fort Worth

By Alex Bentley

11.06.14 | 12:00 am

It's a rare win for those living in the west end of Dallas-Fort Worth this weekend, as fully half of this weekend's best events will take place in ...

Tell Your Life Story

StoryCorps' tricked-out Airstream rolls into Dallas to record memories for posterity

By Alex Bentley

11.05.14 | 9:58 am

If you've ever dreamed of telling your life story but never had anyone to listen, your wish has come true. StoryCorps, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to recording, preserving ...

Movie Complexity

Interstellar reaches for movie heights but falls a bit short of the stars

By Alex Bentley

11.05.14 | 12:00 am

Director Christopher Nolan has never been the type to take it easy on anyone who watches his movies. From his early works like Following and Memento all the way through ...

A Diss From Swift

Taylor Swift shakes off rest of state to make Dallas her only Texas tour stop in 2015

By Alex Bentley

11.04.14 | 11:28 am

An argument could be made that Taylor Swift is the most popular musician on the planet right now, but on her 2015 tour, Texans will have only one chance to ...

Real Estate Innovation

Texas-based tech startup hopes to become Zillow of commercial real estate

By Alex Bentley

11.03.14 | 8:57 am

RealMassive, a burgeoning tech firm based out of Austin that is looking to change the way commercial real estate transactions take place, has officially launched in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston ...

One-Man Tour de Force

Jake Gyllenhaal is at his creepy best in Nightcrawler

By Alex Bentley

10.31.14 | 12:00 am

With both of his parents, not to mention his sister, involved in filmmaking, Jake Gyllenhaal has every reason to live off his name and make easy, unremarkable movies. Instead, except ...

The Science of Eating

TEDxSMU speaker explains why burgers may be more dangerous for men than women

By Alex Bentley

10.30.14 | 1:27 pm

It’s no secret that the United States has an obesity problem, which has been brought on by decades of high-fat, high-sugar diets. Dr. Deborah Clegg from Cedars-Sinai Diabetes & Obesity ...

A Hotel for Training Camp Fans?

Dallas Cowboys recruit Omni to build hotel at team's Frisco headquarters

By Alex Bentley

10.30.14 | 12:25 pm

The under-construction Dallas Cowboys headquarters in Frisco just received a big upgrade, as the team has partnered with Omni to build a hotel at the site. The new Omni property ...

Weekend Event Planner

Untapped Festival and TEDxSMU top best weekend events in Dallas

By Alex Bentley

10.30.14 | 12:00 am

Halloween weekend in Dallas-Fort Worth is full of great spooky events, but there are plenty of other things to do if you're not in a costume mood. Among the ...

Singing for a Cause

Luke Wade and other Voice contestants band together for Kidd's Kids charity concert

By Alex Bentley

10.27.14 | 3:31 pm

As we wait to see if Luke Wade will survive the Knockout Rounds of season seven of The Voice, he continues to perform locally, this time teaming up with a ...

Always a Classic

Driving Miss Daisy continues Dallas Theater Center's run of excellence

By Alex Bentley

10.27.14 | 1:22 pm

Some theater productions require myriad bells and whistles to be successful, but some need only simple stage decorations and a few great actors to achieve greatness. Dallas Theater Center’s ...

More Awards for Dallas

Klyde Warren Park nabs prestigious Urban Land Institute award

By Alex Bentley

10.26.14 | 12:02 pm

People have been oohing and ahhing over Klyde Warren Park since it opened in 2012, and now the attraction is earning national recognition: It was named the winner of Urban ...

Scary Good Times

Where to get your spook on this Halloween around Dallas-Fort Worth

By Alex Bentley

10.24.14 | 3:41 pm

With Halloween falling on a Friday this year, parties of all types take place that night. But you have many opportunities to celebrate the season in the days leading up ...

Jazzed Up Oscar Contender

Gut-wrenching Whiplash is one 2014's best films

By Alex Bentley

10.24.14 | 12:50 pm

Jazz is probably not high on many people’s lists when it comes to interesting topics for a movie, but in the hands of writer/director Damien Chazelle, it is ...

Michael Keaton Flying High

Weird and wild Birdman takes the high wire to movie greatness

By Alex Bentley

10.24.14 | 12:00 am

There are some films that defy classification, ones that don’t conform to any preconceived notion of what a film should be despite having much in common with their predecessors ...

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The Piano Man Returns

By Alex Bentley

11.13.14 | 12:55 pm

The 2015 concert season at American Airlines Center will kick off with rock-and-roll legend Billy Joel, who plays on Thursday, January 22, 2015. This will be the first time Joel ...

Weekend Event Planner

By Alex Bentley

11.13.14 | 12:00 am

With just two weeks to go before Thanksgiving, you're going to start to notice holiday decorations taking over Dallas-Fort Worth. Two holiday-themed events make this week's list, along ...

A Bicycle Society

By Alex Bentley

11.10.14 | 10:33 am

The recent appearance of a private bike-sharing stand in the Dallas Arts District leads us to wonder just how far off public bike sharing might be for the city of ...

Baymax to the Rescue

By Alex Bentley

11.07.14 | 12:00 am

Since Marvel Entertainment merged with Disney back in 2009, the production of films based on Marvel characters has shifted into overdrive. Given Disney’s history, it was only a matter ...

Free Bike Rides For Some

By Alex Bentley

11.06.14 | 12:02 pm

Public bike sharing is currently a reality in Fort Worth and is on the verge of happening at Fair Park, but right now it's a pie-in-the-sky idea for Dallas ...

Weekend Event Planner

By Alex Bentley

11.06.14 | 12:00 am

It's a rare win for those living in the west end of Dallas-Fort Worth this weekend, as fully half of this weekend's best events will take place in ...

Tell Your Life Story

By Alex Bentley

11.05.14 | 9:58 am

If you've ever dreamed of telling your life story but never had anyone to listen, your wish has come true. StoryCorps, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to recording, preserving ...

Movie Complexity

By Alex Bentley

11.05.14 | 12:00 am

Director Christopher Nolan has never been the type to take it easy on anyone who watches his movies. From his early works like Following and Memento all the way through ...

A Diss From Swift

By Alex Bentley

11.04.14 | 11:28 am

An argument could be made that Taylor Swift is the most popular musician on the planet right now, but on her 2015 tour, Texans will have only one chance to ...

Real Estate Innovation

By Alex Bentley

11.03.14 | 8:57 am

RealMassive, a burgeoning tech firm based out of Austin that is looking to change the way commercial real estate transactions take place, has officially launched in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston ...

One-Man Tour de Force

By Alex Bentley

10.31.14 | 12:00 am

With both of his parents, not to mention his sister, involved in filmmaking, Jake Gyllenhaal has every reason to live off his name and make easy, unremarkable movies. Instead, except ...

The Science of Eating

By Alex Bentley

10.30.14 | 1:27 pm

It’s no secret that the United States has an obesity problem, which has been brought on by decades of high-fat, high-sugar diets. Dr. Deborah Clegg from Cedars-Sinai Diabetes & Obesity ...

A Hotel for Training Camp Fans?

By Alex Bentley

10.30.14 | 12:25 pm