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Kidd Kraddick Dies at a Charity Golf Tournament [Update]

Update: The Times-Picayune in New Orleans has just reported that Kidd Kradick died of cardiac disease -- information they collected from the preliminary autopsy results of the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office. The investigation into his death is ongoing, but the coroner's office reports no abnormalities. Original post follows... Kidd Kraddick,...
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Stop Calling Elton John “Flamboyant”

Part of why I write is because I think words are important. They are similar to songs in that the right one in the right place at the right time can absolutely change your life. Words are not meaningless or forgettable, no matter what Depeche Mode might claim. By Jaime...
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The Rustic Will Open October 16, with Calf Testicles on the Menu

Every new restaurant faces obstacles to open, but The Rustic had an extra challenge that many don't. Owners Pat Green (country singer who likes Texas), Kyle Noonan and Josh Sepkowitz (Bowl and Barrel, Mutt's) started planning with empty lot. The restaurant had to be built from the ground up, before...
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Live Free or Die: The Dallas Opera’s Carmen Seduces to the End

French mezzo Clémentine Margaine bolted on stage at the Winspear opera house this weekend and stole the audience's attention with effortless sensuality and a strong, smooth voice. Making her American debut in The Dallas Opera's season-opening production of Bizet's Carmen, Margaine also brought depth and complexity to the classic title...
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Beats Antique May Have the Most Creative Live Show on the Planet

Beats Antique sold out Trees in Deep Ellum on Friday night, while on tour promoting their new album, A Thousand Faces- Act 1. I have purposely held off on watching any live videos of the band, since I was told the magic lies in their live performances, and wanted to...
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This Hobbit is Everything the Last Wasn’t

Elves snore, it turns out. Their maidens make teensy-peen jokes and pine for the hottest of dwarves. And Bilbo Baggins, so concerned about his doilies just three hours of screen time ago, now punches his sword right through the trachea of a goblin — and then looks rather proud of...
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Women vs. Big Pharma in the Battle Over Trans-vaginal Mesh

UPDATED SEPTEMBER 12, 2014: Dallas Jury Awards Woman Largest Amount So Far in Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit It felt like fishing line was scratching him: That's how he knew something was wrong. His wife had been complaining for a while that sex hurt, but he thought maybe she just didn't want...
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Nebraska is a Grand Slog Through Real America

In 1997, 87-year-old Richard Lusk flew from California to Florida to claim an $11 million prize he believed he'd won in a sweepstakes. The day after he returned home empty-handed, he had a stroke. Four months later, he bought a second plane ticket to Florida and stubbornly knocked on their...
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Meet the Latin/Tejano Dallas Observer Music Award Nominees

The importance, cultural relevance, and influential impact of Dallas' Latin music scene can not be stressed enough. Though often written off as a niche in the local market, tejano, cumbia, rock en espanol, and other Latin-centric genres are alive and thriving in Dallas. Which isn't all that surprising, considering that...
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The Best Day at the State Fair of Texas is Grambling vs. Prairie View

Editor's Note: Our nightlife columnist, Deb Doing Dallas, wrote about this year's State Fair Classic, a longstanding Fair tradition at least as much about the pageantry and the marching bands in particular as it is about the actual football game played between Louisana's Grambling State University and Texas' Prairie View...
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Asylum Insanity

Hussein Mohamed took a hard road to America. Born into a minority clan in a nation rife with ethnic conflict, the boyish 24-year-old with gangly limbs and intense brown eyes describes fleeing his village in Somalia in 2012 after gunmen threatened to kill him. Mohamed says he was forced to...
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Sheba’s Ethiopian Kitchen Cooks with Soul

The first time I encountered the phenomenon, I was sitting at the bar at Sheba's Ethiopian Kitchen, my fingers pinching a small portion of raw beef from the bread-lined plate in front of me. Two men were at the end of the bar, also eating with their hands but from...
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Bottle Rocket Screens Thursday, Hosted by Observer Alumn Matt Zoller Seitz

Before Wes Anderson became the director of quirky, mannered films like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and last year's Moonrise Kingdom, he was a University of Texas graduate sharing an apartment with brothers Luke and Owen Wilson. Before Matt Zoller Seitz became TV critic for New York magazine and Vulture.com, plus...