Finally, the weekend we've been anticipating for nearly four years has arrived. All that build-up and excite will all culminate in Arlington on Sunday for Super Bowl XLV.And, trust us, the parties surrounding the event are many. So many, in fact, that we've created our own Super Bowl event page,...
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Clips from Josh Hamilton's Interview with Dr. Robert Jeffress from First Dallas on Vimeo.Josh Hamilton, who is second, was First Baptist Dallas's special guest speaker this weekend. The result is the Q&A above, in which the Rangers' center fielder talks about getting this close to a title, how he got...
Back in June, Steve Miller and his Band released a new album called Bingo!, it's first studio release since 1993's Wide River, believe it or not. Of course, it didn't exactly feature new material -- instead, it featured cover songs from artists such as B.B. King, Lowell Fulson and Jimmy...
The third public meeting for the 2011 Dallas Bike Plan, billed as an opportunity to review the first full draft of the document City Council will see this spring, was as much pep rally as policy session. The map unveiled last night has been tweaked to incorporate citizen suggestions, so...
On November 2, as you'll recall, pro surfer Andy Irons's body was found in a room at the Grand Hyatt DFW, a cache of prescription pill bottles by his bedside. His family insisted, no, those had nothing to do with the 32-year-old's death. Instead, they said, the world champion, who'd...
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Go Out — Way Out — for Pizza
Some people have wild stories on how they became band members. Others just grew up together. And some, like Freelance Whales, meet each other on Craigslist.And sometimes, that can make for the best results. Freelance Whales' electro-pop debut album, Weathervanes, has garnered massive critical acclaim, along with the requisite comparisons...
They're an indie rock band that just about every music fan in western civilization has heard of. But 10 years ago, The Polyphonic Spree had only played three shows.In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, music writer Jessica Parker introduces Dallas Observer readers to the new brainchild...
On Christmas Eve across Santa-revering areas, many little tykes put on their jammies and set out a plate of treats and (usually) a glass of wholesome milk (or perhaps, cider) for Mr. Claus to nibble on. This, of course, is in appreciation of the gifts he'll stuff in their stockings...
Council elections are in May, and this morning we learn that District 3 rep Dave Neumann will square off against a political newcomer (of sorts): Scott Griggs, with whom you're probably familiar by now. The attorney is, after all, among the more outspoken and visible of the North Oak Cliff...
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Last week, Dallas Morning News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman penned a piece for Harvard's Nieman Watchdog in which she explained the paper's yearlong investigation into the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital -- two heretofore "sacred cows" in Dallas. Wrote Beelman, both institutions received nothing...
Take a moment and peruse the apps listed at CivicApps, a competition launched by the city of Portland last year for which cash prizes were handed out in such categories as Most Useful, Best Use of Data and Most Original. Portland's hardly the only city using apps to make city...
Everything about Guy Fieri is big and boisterous, and has been that way ever since he walked off a winner in the Food Network's second season of the Next Food Network Star. His voice's volume and rasp call to mind an overworked cattle-auctioneer. His shock of hay-colored hair has only...
A few weeks back we took a look at the back-and-forth between The Dallas Morning News and Parkland Memorial Hospital, which, in recent months, has been the subject of numerous investigative pieces detailing patients put at risk and "needlessly harmed," in the words of News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman...
Cornell Companies, the private operator of correctional facilities 'cross the country, has a motto: "People Changing People." A lawsuit filed this week in Dallas County District Court proposes an alteration: "People Filming People." At least, so suggest 36 former inmates of the Dallas County Judicial Treatment Center in Wilmer, a...
Be Our Guests We're Getting the Hell Out Anyway On behalf of the Host Committee For Pimping Out the Super Bowl, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to Dallas. It seems as though we have been waiting forever for you (and your debit cards) to get here. That's...
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Texas Comptroller Susan Combs was at the University of Texas at Dallas today, where she unveiled the state's Financial Allocation Study for Texas website, which measures how well the state's school district's spend their dough. Dallas ISD only got two stars out of a possible five on the overall chart,...
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For those following along, it seemed all but inevitable that Gov. Rick Perry's appointees to the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission would sign off next Tuesday on Harold Simmons's license application to bury 36 states' nuclear waste out in West Texas. The commission -- consisting of six...
Malaysia is a country of vast and diverse cultures, all marrying to create one united cuisine. The nation's food borrows and combines elements of Chinese, Indonesian, Thai, Filipino, and Indian menus, creating a robust flavor profile. The use of spices is generous, and fat is celebrated. Malaysian food offers myriad...