Christopher Wynn

Dallas

Assistant Managing Editor at The Dallas Morning News

Assistant managing editor for speciality reporting and innovation @dallasnews | collab with @keratx on Arts Access | make @strangepodcast. 🏳️‍🌈

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Articles

Guarding the Front Door: Smart School Visitor Management Strategies

Jul 23, 2024 | campussafetymagazine.com | Christopher Wynn

Districts across the country are facing similar problems in regards to visitor management, and front entrance safety and security. Many school sites were constructed prior to the 1999 Columbine massacre, which brought campus safety and security to the attention of administrators, boards of education and the general public.
A look inside late Dallas architect Ron Wommack’s AIA-award-winning shelter near Oak Lawn

Jul 5, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Christopher Wynn

The architect, who died June 30, designed the stone, glass and steel compound as his own residence.
Dallas native Presley Oldham gets a CFDA/‘Vogue’ fashion fund nomination

Jun 16, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Christopher Wynn

Perhaps it’s no surprise that Dallas native Presley Oldham is one of 10 finalists for this year’s Council of Fashion Designers of America/Vogue Fashion Fund. He comes from an accomplished creative clan. His uncle is famed fashion and design mogul Todd Oldham (who spent a good chunk of the ‘90s hanging out with supermodels on MTV’s House of Style). And his dad is Dallas sculptor Brad Oldham.
Country star Reba McEntire will host the ACM Awards in Frisco

Apr 25, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Christopher Wynn

She’s back. The Academy of Country Music announced Thursday morning that Reba McEntire will host the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards in Frisco. The event will stream live from the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco on Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m.This is McIntire’s 17th time to host the show, the most of any artist, according to an ACM statement. The country music superstar will also perform during the show and debut new music, ACM says.
The Dallas Morning News draws top honors in Best of the West contest

Apr 17, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Christopher Wynn

The Dallas Morning News has earned earned multiple honors, including three first-place wins, in the Best of the West annual journalism competition. The News’ series “Deadly Fake: 30 days inside fentanyl’s grip on North Texas” won first place in project reporting.
O.J. Simpson and the Ford Bronco are forever intertwined in pop culture

Apr 12, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Christopher Wynn

That moment in 1994 played out like a made-for-TV crime drama: A white Ford Bronco being tracked live on national television in a slow-motion L.A. police chase. The vehicle was driven by Al Cowlings, but in the backseat was Cowling’s friend and former football teammate, O.J. Simpson, who would go on to be tried — and controversially acquitted — of charges that he killer his former wife and her friend in what become dubbed the Trial of the Century.
‘Eyeboretum’ fantasy garden is Dallas Arts Month’s big scene stealer

Apr 1, 2024 | msn.com | Christopher Wynn
Instagram alert: ‘Eyeboretum’ fantasy garden is Dallas Arts Month’s big scene stealer

Apr 1, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Christopher Wynn

Artist Tony Tasset’s 30-foot-tall sculpture in downtown Dallas, the Eye, will invite a closer look in April as part of the second annual Eyeboretum, presented by Headington Companies and the Joule hotel. It used to be that the massive orb anchored a one-night-only private gala (named, what else, the Eye Ball) to close out the Dallas Art Fair, but last year organizers opened it up to the public for special programming all month long instead. It was a hit.
Dallas’ Power Station gallery offers patrons a jolt with Arts Month double show

Mar 31, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Christopher Wynn

The unofficial kickoff for Dallas Arts Month each year happens inside a 1920s industrial building — a former Dallas Power and Light substation — in Exposition Park. The aptly named Power Station gallery, owned by Dallas-based collector couple Alden and Janelle Pinnell, is known for its provocative shows and progressive patrons. This year’s jolt comes in the form of a double show.
Dallas Art Fair’s 2024 edition brings art from more than 90 galleries to downtown

Mar 31, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Christopher Wynn

Yes, it will be sensory overload, but in a good way. The Dallas Art Fair has long served as the anchor of Dallas Arts Month and this 16th edition will be no different. The festivities kick off Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m. at Fashion Industry Gallery (f.i.g.), 1807 Ross Ave., Dallas, with a Foundation Preview Benefit that gets you a first look at artwork from more than 90 galleries while sipping bubbles (the good stuff).