New York has often been the setting for films about heroin addicts, with titles ranging from Shirley Clarke's cinéma-vérité-tweaking The Connection (1961) to Slava Tsukerman's new-wave cult classic Liquid Sky (1982) mining the drama of smack freaks tying off, shooting up and nodding out. But Josh and Benny Safdie's tough,...
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You have a big coal plant in Texas and you want to make sure the states says you're following the Clean Air Act, so you don't get in trouble. How can you ensure that Texas regulators will give you the clearance you need? By telling them what to do. Correspondence...
The news, at least as tweeted by the Dallas Police Department, is good. Of the more than 113,000 traffic stops performed by the department in 2014, only five resulted in racial profiling complaints being filed with DPD's Internal Affairs Division. The raw data paints a murkier picture. Of those 113,000...
More Dallas restaurants are grinding their own beef, an attempt to differentiate their burgers from the rising deluge of patty grease. They're also making the move because it results in burgers that are more delicious. Most recently, Braindead Brewery released a menu (pictured above) with a house-ground burger that's said...
Fruity drinks don’t exactly have the best reputation with bartenders. For years, the inclusion of “fruit” in a cocktail meant pouring a pre-mixed, bottled syrup into a shaker for a mai tai or boozy lemonade or whiskey smash.The craft cocktail renaissance has meant that fresh juices are practically a requirement...
Over the nearly 20 years Seoul Garden has been open in Korea town, the waiters and waitresses have seen their share of customers pushing unfamiliar dishes around with chopsticks. Non-Korean customers who order a dish with raw seafood or a funky, fermented ingredient will likely be met by an awkward...
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Dallas: The land of real barbecue and fuck-yeah tacos. A place where figuring out where you want to go to lunch takes at least 10 minutes every day because you and your coworker get into a face-punch fight over which burger is the best burger in Dallas. But, when you're...
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Nearly half a year into Café Momentum’s opening, it’s safe to say they’ve hit their stride. It’s no easy feat for any restaurant, but Café Momentum isn’t just any restaurant — it’s also a second chance. Here, young men released from the city’s juvenile justice department receive paid job- and...
Putting a list together of Dallas most psychically painful sports injuries was no easy task. For injuries to matter to fans — let's stipulate that every injury matters to the player to whom it happens, especially in the NFL, where contracts aren't guaranteed — the team being affected needs to...
In this week's Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area's most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. It meant everything, even though it would accomplish nothing. The Texas House of Representatives was not going to pass anything that could be construed as...
It’s high summer, and the weather is perfect for light beers and our favorite fruity cocktails. But it’s also the right time to pop a crisp, refreshing bottle of wine. We got tired of reading online “Top Summer Wine” lists of bottles you can only get in New York or...
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It's better to be lucky than smart, the saying goes, but being both is best of all, if you can pull it off. The first season of thinkspeak, the summer lecture series produced jointly by KERA and AT&T Performing Arts Center, managed to do that, wrapping up earlier this month...
Francine 13 is a really shy person, but you'd never know it from seeing her perform. Inspired by theater, she wears elaborate costumes and performs as four different characters, or as she calls them, "sonic shadows." She's heterosexual, but people have thought she's singing about the courage it takes to...
If the Dallas music scene had an official family, it would almost certainly be the González family. Together, Dennis and his sons Aaron and Stegan have spent decades playing jazz and experimental music and making tireless contributions to the community through education and youth programs. Sadly, the past year has...
Tanya Ragan insists on meeting at night. “DPD shift change around 11 p.m.,” she explains in a text message. “It is a different world at sundown.” It’s 10 p.m. when she pulls out of the parking lot of the Green Door, a pub in a building she owns by the...
Last fall, Dallas County announced that it and the Dallas Police Department were going to pluck the lowest of low-hanging criminal justice reforms and implement cite-and-release, a policy that gives cops the option of issuing a citation to people suspected of certain class A and B misdemeanors — notably possession of...
Five years ago, the trade group representing America's prison chaplains conducted a survey to find out which state prisons allowed inmates to grow facial hair. The results of the American Correctional Chaplains Association survey were mostly positive for beard-lovers. The majority of prisons allowed facial hair, no religious reason necessary,...
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Anecdote #1: Chris Farley made a habit of pouncing on Mike Myers — at the same exact time each week — during the early- to mid-1990s era in which the two starred on Saturday Night Live. The elfin Myers deliberately took showers at a fixed, quiet time, but each week,...
What is a “Glorp”? The legends are hazy, but the story goes that Charles Knowles, in a state of alcohol-induced clairvoyance, sent a noble Snapchat message containing the mystic word. From there, it was only a matter of time before he and his roommate, Keelan Tollefson, named their home studio...
My favorite part of the audit released yesterday of the city’s water meters: In 2008, when the water department was taking flak for too many “implausible” meter readings — meter readings that are either crazy, totally whacked out or you-gotta-be-kidding-me — they did what any head-up self-defending bureaucracy would do...
Taco Libre Fest With Ozomatli, Deep Blue Something, TEAM*, Pinata Protest, Dustin Cavazos, Party Static and Valise Main Street Garden Park, Dallas Saturday, June 27, 2015 There's a first time for everything. For instance, Deep Blue Something — back together again and getting ready to release a new EP —...