Being from Dallas, we're always looking for any bit of cultural credibility we can get. We're not Austin; we can't claim to be the chopped and screwed OGs. Or so the logic goes. So whenever we get an opportunity to fly the Dallas flag — or even rub our pride...
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Spent the morning yesterday out on Lewisville Dam at the foot of Lake Lewisville with an entire caravan of other mediatoids getting de-panicked by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which seems to be in sort of a public relations panic. Small wonder. Publication last weekend by The Dallas Morning...
So you’re alive and in Dallas during the release of Star Wars: Force Awakens. You know there’s no escaping the power. It’s everywhere: Star Wars is on your jewelry, in your food, on emblazoned on your buildings. It’s roving your house with gleeful boops and beeps. Many of you have...
When Stoney LaRue first headed out on the road 18 years ago, Texas country was in an entirely different place. It was a relatively insular scene, free of Nashville interlopers and incredibly tight knit. Today the scene has since expanded and plenty of Texas artists have moved on to Nashville,...
And just like that, the populist citywide art event pulls out from Dallas. A letter that went out to ArtPrize Dallas stakeholders cites reasons for canceling the event including lack of resources and disappointing resistance to an event, which was perceived by cynics "as threatening to the status quo." This...
The Volkswagen emissions scandal is not quite two weeks old, and it's already spurred lawsuits from dozens of angry car buyers. The first such suit in Dallas was filed Monday, though it surely won't be the last. All or most of these early cases revolve around a straightforward allegation of fraud. Customers...
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Big K.R.I.T. With BJ the Chicago Kid, Scotty ATL, DeLorean and Curtis Mayz The Bomb Factory, Dallas Friday, November 27, 2015 Big K.R.I.T. brought his Kritically Accaimed tour to The Bomb Factory on Black Friday. Many potential ticket buyers could very well have been shopping, recovering from shopping or arrested or...
As has been made abundantly clear over the last couple of weeks, some Texas Republicans are feeling pretty ... well ... pissy about Dallas changing some language in its 13-year-old-plus nondiscrimination ordinance. For the most part, they — here's looking at you state Senator Don Huffines, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick...
Dallas, a city that has repeatedly gotten in trouble for concentrating its affordable housing in poor, blighted areas, safely away from white people, is now being praised for housing poor people on a site that used to be contaminated with lead. So, hey, we're finally doing something right. The Environmental...
First, a few stipulations: Planned Parenthood offers abortions at many of its healthcare clinics. The tissue that results from those procedures is medically valuable. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and his predecessor, Rick Perry, have a deep-seated interest in making abortion illegal or as close to illegal as possible, as evidenced...
When last we checked in on the Rangers on August 7, they were taking in their first full breaths since the end of the 2013 season. Buoyed by the acquisition of erstwhile Philadelphia Phillies ace Cole Hamels, they'd put together eight wins in nine games, hauling themselves from 47-52 to...
Dallas ISD's Bonham Elementary was a gem. The school reliably received an exemplary rating from the Texas Education Agency plus an impressive number of accolades for one of DISD's workaday neighborhood schools. In 2009, it was one of 11 campuses nationwide to receive a National Excellence in Urban Education Award...
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If you haven’t already started your holiday shopping, you’re going to want to get on that pronto. December 25 will be upon us before you know it, and unless you’ve decided to forgo the exchange of material possessions on the holiday as some kind of anti-capitalist protest, you’d better get...
With the 27th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at 2015musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we will spend the next several weeks highlighting some of the nominees for this year’s awards. And when we say these artists are the “Best,” don’t just...
Now that 2015 is drawing to a close, the time is right to continue what has become an Observer tradition: looking back at the year that was and marveling at the incredible number of traffic tickets North Texas municipalities handed out to drivers. The methodology is simple. Texas' Office of...
The popularity of Lakewood Elementary has effectively warped the East Dallas real-estate market as upper-middle-class-to-rich families outbid one another for homes within the school's attendance boundaries. This makes a certain amount of sense, as Lakewood is a really good school that the surrounding community is heavily invested in, but it's also...
The biggest problem facing the city of Dallas isn't Tony Romo's left clavicle. It's not the Trinity toll road. It might not even be, despite a compelling case that can be made for it, the city's crumbling infrastructure. The biggest problem facing the city is a massive looming shortfall in...
There’s a pervasive itch that the always-busy scratch at around the holidays: Sometimes you just want to disappear from it all. You want to disappear into the mountains, carrying nothing but a grill fork, a thermos of whiskey and beef jerky. Become Gollum! Eat raw fish and whisper into the...
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Cured meats are damn near the perfect food. They were created out of a need to preserve meats before refrigeration, but today almost nothing better than standing in front of a case of salami, prosciutto and spicy coppa just waiting for your mouth to love it. The only thing that...
In April, Pope Francis continued his run of saying pleasantly non-regressive things by declaring that men and women deserve equal pay for doing equal work. He called the fact that women are often paid less a "pure scandal" at odds with the Christian notion of radical equality. But here he...
What was Saturday's City Council election about? It's a tale of two candidates, both of whom won election. In his most recent campaign finance report filed May 9 and covering his last month of fundraising, District 5 southeast Dallas candidate Rick Callahan, an incumbent, took in just over 30 grand...
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Nearly every culinary culture has a variation of the dish. The French have...