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Dallas’ Prism Cloud Meld Classical Music and Indie Rock on Golden Star

Prism Cloud, like innumerable bands, started in a garage. But instead of plunking around on guitars haphazardly and figuring it out themselves, they pulled from experience with a different genre: classical music. With this approach, Collin Pollitt and David Sanchez use their broadened perspective to manipulate a seemingly straightforward subset...
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17 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, March 19-22

If you're not in Austin for South by Southwest, you're probably going to need something to distract you from the barrage of social media updates your "cooler" friends are posting. We're here to help. There's plenty going on in Dallas this weekend and we've selected some of the best here,...
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The Best North Texas Experimental and Noise Acts

It's no secret that Dallas is an arts-minded city, one that is welcoming to experimentation and exploration in all its forms. This city's experimental music groups pull from a variety of wells for inspiration, from metal to electronic. When polled local music experts earlier this fall to help set our...
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Texans Think They Can Solve Traffic With Retimed Traffic Lights

Breathe easy, Texas. Your long-term transportation needs -- the one lawmakers and policy experts have been fretting about for years -- have officially been solved. The masses, in their wisdom, which the Texas Transportation Institute has distilled in a just-published survey, have settled on a sure-fire way to address the...
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30 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, April 9-12

Climb aboard the weekend cruise liner. First stop? A busy, fun-filled weekend complete with a film festival, an art festival, an art fair, numerous art exhibitions and events, poetry, music, and many more adventures, weather permitting. You won't be able to see it all, so pick from our handy dandy...
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100 Dallas Creatives: No. 30 Delicate Touch Margaret Meehan

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. The touch of artist Margaret Meehan is delicate. Which is not to say that her work is sugarcoated, but respectful, intricate and sensitive. Gleaning subject matter from history and literature, much of Meehan's work pulls...
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Oak Cliff Film Festival 2015 Full Line-up Announced

When the Oak Cliff Film Festival announced their first wave of films screening next month at their fourth annual festival it was so banging it had the possibility of knocking you off your feet. Of those first five films announced, the one I’ve seen is Rick Alverson’s quietly wild Entertainment,...
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Highland Park HS Keeps Genesis on Required Reading List Despite Smut

Last week, Highland Park ISD released its updated high school reading list. The list provided titles required for in-class reading, optional outside reading and the passive aggressive list of "approved" but not taught in the classroom reading. Students will have to get parental permission to read six books on the...
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Wesley Geiger Searches for Artistic Gold on Debut El Dorado

There is something almost magnetic about a good sad song. According to science, that irresistible attraction to songs that make us a little teary eyed comes from our brains' penchant for nostalgia. When we hear sad songs, we think of better times, and in turn actually end up happier than...
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Best Record Store (Tie)

Good Records and Dead WaxA record store isn’t just a place to go pick out the record you’re looking for, pay for it and leave. It’s a gathering place where you’ll run into old friends and meet new ones, where you can hang out for hours just thumbing through the racks and listening to music, discovering new favorites based […]
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The Six Best Condiments in Dallas

We get it: You're too good to put sauce on your barbecue or ranch on your pizza. Us? We like our food better when it's wet, especially when these condiments are involved. Have a condiment you like better? Dip your laptop in it or something. These are better. The BBQ...