• Home
  • popular
  • Events
  • Submit New Event
  • Subscribe
  • About
  • News
  • Restaurants + Bars
  • City Life
  • Entertainment
  • Travel
  • Real Estate
  • Arts
  • Society
  • Home + Design
  • Fashion + Beauty
  • Innovation
  • Sports
  • Charity Guide
  • children
  • education
  • health
  • veterans
  • SOCIAL SERVICES
  • ARTS + CULTURE
  • animals
  • lgbtq
  • New Charity
  • Series
  • Delivery Limited
  • DTX Giveaway 2012
  • DTX Ski Magic
  • dtx woodford reserve manhattans
  • Your Home in the Sky
  • DTX Best of 2013
  • DTX Trailblazers
  • Tastemakers Dallas 2017
  • Healthy Perspectives
  • Neighborhood Eats 2015
  • The Art of Making Whiskey
  • DTX International Film Festival
  • DTX Tatum Brown
  • Tastemaker Awards 2016 Dallas
  • DTX McCurley 2014
  • DTX Cars in Lifestyle
  • DTX Beyond presents Party Perfect
  • DTX Texas Health Resources
  • DART 2018
  • Alexan Central
  • State Fair 2018
  • Formula 1 Giveaway
  • Zatar
  • CityLine
  • Vision Veritas
  • Okay to Say
  • Hearts on the Trinity
  • DFW Auto Show 2015
  • Northpark 50
  • Anteks Curated
  • Red Bull Cliff Diving
  • Maggie Louise Confections Dallas
  • Gaia
  • Red Bull Global Rally Cross
  • NorthPark Holiday 2015
  • Ethan's View Dallas
  • DTX City Centre 2013
  • Galleria Dallas
  • Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty Luxury Homes in Dallas Texas
  • DTX Island Time
  • Simpson Property Group SkyHouse
  • DIFFA
  • Lotus Shop
  • Holiday Pop Up Shop Dallas
  • Clothes Circuit
  • DTX Tastemakers 2014
  • Elite Dental
  • Elan City Lights
  • Dallas Charity Guide
  • DTX Music Scene 2013
  • One Arts Party at the Plaza
  • J.R. Ewing
  • AMLI Design District Vibrant Living
  • Crest at Oak Park
  • Braun Enterprises Dallas
  • NorthPark
  • Victory Park
  • DTX Common Desk
  • DTX Osborne Advisors
  • DTX Comforts of Home 2012
  • DFW Showcase Tour of Homes
  • DTX Neighborhood Eats
  • DTX Comforts of Home 2013
  • DTX Auto Awards
  • Cottonwood Art Festival 2017
  • Nasher Store
  • Guardian of The Glenlivet
  • Zyn22
  • Dallas Rx
  • Yellow Rose Gala
  • Opendoor
  • DTX Sun and Ski
  • Crow Collection
  • DTX Tastes of the Season
  • Skye of Turtle Creek Dallas
  • Cottonwood Art Festival
  • DTX Charity Challenge
  • DTX Culture Motive
  • DTX Good Eats 2012
  • DTX_15Winks
  • St. Bernard Sports
  • Jose
  • DTX SMU 2014
  • DTX Up to Speed
  • st bernard
  • Ardan West Village
  • DTX New York Fashion Week spring 2016
  • Taste the Difference
  • Parktoberfest 2016
  • Bob's Steak and Chop House
  • DTX Smart Luxury
  • DTX Earth Day
  • DTX_Gaylord_Promoted_Series
  • IIDA Lavish
  • Huffhines Art Trails 2017
  • Red Bull Flying Bach Dallas
  • Y+A Real Estate
  • Beauty Basics
  • DTX Pet of the Week
  • Long Cove
  • Charity Challenge 2014
  • Legacy West
  • Wildflower
  • Stillwater Capital
  • Tulum
  • DTX Texas Traveler
  • Dallas DART
  • Soldiers' Angels
  • Alexan Riveredge
  • Ebby Halliday Realtors
  • Zephyr Gin
  • Sixty Five Hundred Scene
  • Christy Berry
  • Entertainment Destination
  • Dallas Art Fair 2015
  • St. Bernard Sports Duck Head
  • Jameson DTX
  • Alara Uptown Dallas
  • Cottonwood Art Festival fall 2017
  • DTX Tastemakers 2015
  • Cottonwood Arts Festival
  • The Taylor
  • Decks in the Park
  • Alexan Henderson
  • Gallery at Turtle Creek
  • Omni Hotel DTX
  • Red on the Runway
  • Whole Foods Dallas 2018
  • Artizone Essential Eats
  • Galleria Dallas Runway Revue
  • State Fair 2016 Promoted
  • Trigger's Toys Ultimate Cocktail Experience
  • Dean's Texas Cuisine
  • Real Weddings Dallas
  • Real Housewives of Dallas
  • Jan Barboglio
  • Wildflower Arts and Music Festival
  • Hearts for Hounds
  • Okay to Say Dallas
  • Indochino Dallas
  • Old Forester Dallas
  • Dallas Apartment Locators
  • Dallas Summer Musicals
  • PSW Real Estate Dallas
  • Paintzen
  • DTX Dave Perry-Miller
  • DTX Reliant
  • Get in the Spirit
  • Bachendorf's
  • Holiday Wonder
  • Village on the Parkway
  • City Lifestyle
  • opportunity knox villa-o restaurant
  • Nasher Summer Sale
  • Simpson Property Group
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2017 Dallas
  • Carlisle & Vine
  • DTX New Beginnings
  • Get in the Game
  • Red Bull Air Race
  • Dallas DanceFest
  • 2015 Dallas Stylemaker
  • Youth With Faces
  • Energy Ogre
  • DTX Renewable You
  • Galleria Dallas Decadence
  • Bella MD
  • Tractorbeam
  • Young Texans Against Cancer
  • Fresh Start Dallas
  • Dallas Farmers Market
  • Soldier's Angels Dallas
  • Shipt
  • Elite Dental
  • Texas Restaurant Association 2017
  • State Fair 2017
  • Scottish Rite
  • Brooklyn Brewery
  • DTX_Stylemakers
  • Alexan Crossings
  • Ascent Victory Park
  • Top Texans Under 30 Dallas
  • Discover Downtown Dallas
  • San Luis Resort Dallas
  • Greystar The Collection
  • FIG Finale
  • Greystar M Line Tower
  • Lincoln Motor Company
  • The Shelby
  • Jonathan Goldwater Events
  • Windrose Tower
  • Gift Guide 2016
  • State Fair of Texas 2016
  • Choctaw Dallas
  • TodayTix Dallas promoted
  • Whole Foods
  • Unbranded 2014
  • Frisco Square
  • Unbranded 2016
  • Circuit of the Americas 2018
  • The Katy
  • Snap Kitchen
  • Partners Card
  • Omni Hotels Dallas
  • Landmark on Lovers
  • Harwood Herd
  • Galveston.com Dallas
  • Holiday Happenings Dallas 2018
  • TenantBase
  • Cottonwood Art Festival 2018
  • Hawkins-Welwood Homes
  • The Inner Circle Dallas
  • Eating in Season Dallas
  • ATTPAC Behind the Curtain
  • TodayTix Dallas
  • The Alexan
  • Toyota Music Factory
  • Nosh Box Eatery
  • Wildflower 2018
  • Society Style Dallas 2018
  • Texas Scottish Rite Hospital 2018
  • 5 Mockingbird
  • 4110 Fairmount
  • Visit Taos
  • Allegro Addison
  • Dallas Tastemakers 2018
  • The Village apartments
  • City of Burleson Dallas

    Une soirée magnifique!

    A 40-foot-high Eiffel Tower and acres of roses and peonies set the scene forCrystal Charity Ball

    Shelby Hodge
    Dec 3, 2012 | 6:00 am
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Robert Bostick
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • The 40-foot tall Eiffel Tower was created especially for the Crystal CharityBall.
      Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Key players gathered in the ballroom of the Hilton Anatole for pre-dinnerphotographs.
      Photo by © Robert Bostick
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Tom Addis created the decor as splendid as anything in Paris.
      Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon
    • The ladies carrying star balloons sold a wealth of raffle tickets.
      Photo by © Sylvia Elzafon

    Louis XIV could not have imagined a more opulent setting than that created for Le Grand Bal Parisien, a gilded soirée celebrating the 60th anniversary of the venerable Crystal Charity Ball. And who would expect anything less from the evening that serves as the unchallenged epicenter of the Dallas social swirl?

    As the 1,650 grandly attired guests glided into the Hilton Anatole, they were dramatically transported far beyond the confines of a massive convention hotel. The 40-foot Eiffel Tower, bedecked with blinking lights, was the visual harbinger of things to come.

    Surrounded by boxwood hedges and voluminous banks of white cyclamen, tastefully punctuated by French-style statuary, the structure was the pinnacle of the various vignettes that came together in a grand French tableau. And this was just for the two-hour cocktail reception.

    Stepping through the looking glass into this world of magnificent beauty were notables including Annette and Harold Simmons, who had donated $1 million to the annual fundraising effort.

    As the A-listers arrived, gala chair Aileen Pratt, husband Jack Pratt not far afield, greeted guests as if she were the queen for the day. And, indeed, to chair this ball is to establish coveted social credentials that only 60 women have previously enjoyed. Wearing a glittering, golden gown by Oscar de la Renta, she filled the role convincingly.

    Stepping through the looking glass into this world of magnificent beauty were notables including Annette and Harold Simmons, who had donated $1 million to the annual fundraising effort that for 2012 brought in some $4.5 million for eight local charities serving the needs of children. (So important was the couple that they had their own special waiter to oversee the needs of their well-placed table.)

    Kudos to 2012 underwriting chair Michal Powell, who spent much of the night thanking major donors, a proud Loyd Powell joining his wife.

    After bidding on silent auction items, shopping the gift boutique and challenging Lady Luck in the packed casino, guests moved into the ballroom where Tom Addis' decor rivaled any Versailles reproduction — though he modestly described the look as more Petite Trianon than the grand palace. But, we must say, "Au contraire." The ballroom was a Marie Antoinette spectacular.

    This was the special events guru's 19th year to create the ball environment — a monumental effort for 2012 that included draping ballroom walls in floral murals and adding mullioned mirrors and gilded columns. Bountiful bouquets of peonies, roses, hydrangeas and Casa Blanca lilies filled the vast ballroom with heavenly fragrance and enveloped the soaring cocktail lighting at each table.

    The beauty of the room was not lost on guests such as Caroline Rose Hunt, Del Frnka, Yvonne Crum, Cynthia and Forrest Miller, Cissy and Plack Carr, Sarah and Ross Perot, Amy and Malone Mitchell, Jane and Pat Bolin, and Renee and David Winter.

    Before the dinner (which started with caviar, lobster and pate de foie gras), guests were treated to a lively dance presentation that included rollicking can can dancers, 18th century minuet-style presentations and more. The enthusiastic crowd flanked the dance floor with few taking their seats until after the vibrant entertainment.

    Casting a thoughtful eye across the proceedings was 2013 Crystal Charity Ball chair Caren Kline, who, at midnight received the chair's baton from Aileen Pratt in the traditional passing-on of power.

    Among those wining, dining and dancing were Lucy Billingsley, Alan and Randy Engstrom, Nancy Carlson, Pam Perella, Kimberly Schlegel Whitman, Lynn and Allan McBee, Leigh and Ryan Friend, Linda and Steve Ivy, and Laura and Mark Flagg.

    unspecified
    news/society
    CULTUREMAP EMAILS ARE AWESOME
    Get Dallas intel delivered daily.

    Cowboys news

    Netflix series about Jerry Jones & the Cowboys gets starry L.A. premiere

    Stephanie Allmon Merry
    Aug 12, 2025 | 5:18 pm
    Jerry Jones, Cowboys movie premiere
    Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images
    Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (from left) Reece Weaver, Sophy Laufer, Camille Sturdivant, and Charly Barby; Charlotte Jones, Jerry Jones, Ted Sarandos, and Bela Bajaria

    Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys headed to Hollywood on August 11 for the silver-star-studded premiere of Netflix's forthcoming series America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys.

    Releasing August 19, the documentary series will "tell the story of how 'America’s Team' established a legacy," Netflix says, adding, "America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys is the definitive story of the Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones’ impact on NFL history. What began as a daring purchase led to the assembly of the iconic ’90s football team."

    Watch the trailer here:

    Jerry, his wife, Gene Jones, and their extended family - including children and Cowboys execs Charlotte Jones, Stephen Jones, and Jerry Jones, Jr. - walked the blue carpet at the The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood in Los Angeles ahead of the premiere.

    They were joined by an A-list roster of Cowboys greats, Hollywood stars, and celebrity athletes and TV broadcasters. Among them: Michael Irvin and Emmitt Smith (with Smith's kids Elijah and Rheagen Smith), Marshawn Lynch, James Washington, TV host Mario Lopez, broadcaster Al Michaels, sports reporters Andrea Kremer, Jamie Erdahl and Taylor Bisciotti, Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Nastia Liukin, actress Molly Burnett, and Dallas-based reality TV star Rachel Lindsay.

    Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, and Bela Bajaria, chief content officer for Netflix, helped throw the event for the Cowboys. New Paramount-Skydance owner David Ellison was there, as well. In fact, he was a driving force behind the series. America's Team is the first project to come out of a joint venture between NFL Films and Skydance Sports.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix's Bajaria told the audience before the screening, “Back in March of 2023, I was having lunch with David Ellison at the Tower Bar, and he mentioned he had secured the rights to the telling of the Dallas Cowboys. I don’t think he got the sentence out before I said, ‘Wait, wait, wait, stop, we have to have it no matter what.’ And he said, ‘No, no, no, I’m telling you I’m getting the deal, I don’t have it closed yet.’ I was like, ‘It doesn’t matter, we just have to have it,'” as she’s a big Cowboys fan. “So, David thank you for saying yes; Cowboys, too, thank you for saying yes.”

    America's Team will feature appearances by players who became household names in the ’90s, Netflix says — Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, Deion Sanders — as well as head coaches Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer and high-profile fans such as former President George W. Bush and Nike co-founder Phil Knight. It is directed by brothers Chapman and Maclain Way.

    America's Team will be available for streaming on Netflix on August 19.

    It follows the highly successful Netflix series about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, America's Sweethearts, now in its second season. Several DCC stars were part of the America's Team L.A. premiere, including Reece Weaver, Sophy Laufer, Camille Sturdivant, and Charly Barby.

    Tailgate with CultureMap
    Dallas Cowboys fans who are inspired by the Netflix show can then get in the gameday spirit at CultureMap's big fall sport bash, The Tailgate. Taking place at The Empire Room on Sunday, October 5 (aka the day the Cowboys take on the New York Jets), the party will include tailgate-inspired cuisine from local restaurants, premium cocktails, sports celebrity appearances, a silent auction of sports memorabilia, and more.

    Early-bird tickets are already on sale for just $35. Read more about The Tailgate here and nab discounted tickets here. With sponsors like FLIGHT by Yuengling, Sportsmo, Puttshack, Mizzen+Main, Antone's Famous Po' Boys, and more, this party will score big with everyone. You don't want to stay on the bench.


    Jerry Jones, Cowboys movie premiere

    Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images

    Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (from left) Reece Weaver, Sophy Laufer, Camille Sturdivant, and Charly Barby; Charlotte Jones, Jerry Jones, Ted Sarandos, and Bela Bajaria

    moviesjerry jonespremierescelebritiessportsdallas cowboys
    news/society
    CULTUREMAP EMAILS ARE AWESOME
    Get Dallas intel delivered daily.
    Loading...