In case there's any confusion: Da Mafia 6ix (formerly Three 6 Mafia) are not conscious rap. Twenty-three years into the crew's storied career and it remains one of Three 6's only constants. Lineup shifts, name changes, reunions, even death haven't changed that, but just in case, on new release 6ix...
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BY DIANNA WRAY The hair has been the great constant. For the past 14 years, the state of Texas has been run by the guy with the best head of hair in professional politics. Now we are reaching the end of an era. Come January 20, Governor Rick Perry will...
In the past week, the 'burbs have not exactly been friendly to local Muslims. Keller ISD school board member Jo Lynn Haussman was asked to resign after her fiery Facebook post saying what a "SHAME" it is to "NOW HAVE A 'MUSLIM' on the City Council!!!" Keller ISD's board quickly...
After two years of scrutiny, controversy and corruption, the Texas Education Agency last month finally announced that it would revoke the charter of Prime Prep Academy, the publicly funded charter school founded and led by Deion Sanders. With the school plotting its appeal, the hits have only continued, in the...
For most chefs, the flavors that dominate their cuisine come from a very personal place, like a decades of mom's home cooking or a few years of intensive training at a French culinary school. For others, though, that passion for a cuisine develops in relatively unexpected places. Braden and Yasmin...
Tuesday was a very strange day for me -- an experience I am sharing with you today (or inflicting on you, never quite sure) both here on the blog and also in a short film I made called "A Note for Mary." I made it with my hat-cam, a small...
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There's no escaping it. When you gaze at the silhouette of the building that houses Pera Wine & Tapas from the parking lot, you're looking the shell of a decades-old fast food business. While a burger business or two and even a fish fry restaurant stand between them, what now...
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. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Somehow a mosquito has sneaked into Jenny Land's home. This shouldn't have happened. Land sprayed garlic in...
Todd Arko relapsed to using cocaine when he was still on probation for possessing the drug, then decided he would rather die than go back to jail. At the age of 53, he tried to hang himself. The rope broke, crushing his heels as he collapsed to the ground. Arko...
Fall may be a sad time for some folks. For instance, those who have to go back to school. There are also those who relish the oppressive heat of the summer (we swear, it was milder than normal this year!). But for the rest of us, the fall is something...
For the second time in three weeks, the SMU student body has shot down a proposal to add an LGBT student senate seat. Students voted on the measure on Wednesday and Thursday -- a re-vote after an initial attempt fell a few hundred votes shy of the two-thirds majority required...
Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. No matter the medium, the work of Roberto Munguia seems riddled with mystery. It's not that...
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Sometimes a band's message, sound and philosophy can be strikingly simple. For the Denton-born foursome American Werewolf Academy, simplicity is more or less a standard operating procedure. When one clicks onto the Biography page of the group's website, they quickly learn so much of what they really need to know...
On any given day, the 10th floor of the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas is filled with men, women and children waiting to appear before an immigration judge. On certain days, like yesterday, many of them are Central American children, having arrived at the United States border, alone,...
Related: It Really Sucks to Be Old in Texas Texas' notoriously porous mental-health system is in the news even more than usual this week. At Parkland, the psychiatric ER is yet again facing allegations of patient abuse. Last weekend, Dallas Police shot and killed Jason Harrison, a 38-year-old severely schizophrenic...
Synthetic marijuana -- K2 and its chemical analogues -- is the scary-new-drug du jour in Dallas, having sent somewhere close to 100 users to local emergency rooms in the past week. Even scarier: This represents a spike of only 50 percent. Baylor alone treats 70 fake-weed overdoses per month. Parkland...
Keller ISD board member Jo Lynn Haussmann was censured at a special meeting of the board last night. She was asked to resign, too, but that was never going to happen. She offered a half-hearted apology for the Facebook comment that led to the meeting -- the one in which...
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With June (finally) ending, it's time to assess the slew of releases from Dallas' best and brightest for the first half of 2014. Although news has been majorly slow on the scene so far, Dallas' rappers have been diligent in releasing quality material across the internet. This list is a...
Years ago Wesley Treat discovered an interest in roadside attractions. As a photographer, he'd found his subject and he started a blog to chronicle his travels. Around the same time two guys up in New Jersey had a blog called "Weird New Jersey" that eventually became a book and then...
Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. While the Dallas filmmaking scene may not have the hipster gravitas of Austin, we can claim...
Who is Bozo Texino? I have no clue. But The Public Trust plans to help answer that question at 7 p.m. Tuesday when they host artists Ralph White and Bill Daniel, who are currently on tour with their traveling exhibition, Tramp Species of the American Southwest...