Rangers Show Off Renderings for Globe Life Field. Workers will break ground on the $1.1 billion stadium, which is expected to be ready in time for the 2020 season, next week in Arlington. Unofficial Twitter consensus, subsequently canonized by the Morning News, seems to be that it will resemble a cross between Minute Maid Park in Houston and Safeco Field in Seattle. Looks like a ballpark, all right.
J.J. Barea Raising Money for Puerto Rico. The Mavericks guard is from and has family on the island, which is shattered in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
Little (Lakewood) Park on the (Blackland) Prairie. Dallas will uproot up to 19 trees at the park to help preserve the blackland prairie ecosystem they’re planted in, to the consternation of some of the well-intentioned neighbors who planted them in the first place.
Get Used to Seeing These Pumpkins. The DMA recently acquired the exceedingly Instagrammable All The Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, one of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s popular Infinity Mirror Rooms. While the exhibit doesn’t open to the public until Oct. 1, museum members and press are currently getting a sneak peek, and your social media feeds should begin filling up with images of the the polka-dotted outer-space pumpkin patch right about now. That will continue until at least Feb. 25, much longer than the 45 seconds guests are allotted to step into the mirror room itself.
