In case you haven’t heard, Dallas voted for Joe Biden. So did other major Texas cities, such as Austin, El Paso, San Antonio and Houston. While most of the state was seeing red, Dallas was a little blue puddle in a sea of crimson, an oasis in a red desert,...
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Three Dallas ISD schools were celebrated for receiving National Blue Ribbon Scholar awards in a ceremony Thursday.
The City Plan Commission on Wednesday rejected a zoning request for a 175-acre warehouse project in southern Dallas that nearby residents said would bring more pollution, more traffic congestion and lower property values to an area already overstuffed with warehouses. City staff had recommended approval of the rezoning for Dallas-based...
As infections of the novel coronavirus surge across North Texas and around the state, a majority of Texans now say efforts to control the spread of the virus are going badly, according to a poll released this week. The poll, conducted by the Texas Politics Project at the University of...
There's not a lot of Central Asian food in the Dallas area — and there is a lot of it, at the same time. The Silk Road, threading its way across mountain ranges and deserts between Europe, Persia and China, carried recipes along with its cargo for centuries. Turkic peoples...
Madison Shepard and her dog Lexi sit on a couch in their home in Los Angeles, where it’s 75 degrees and sunny on a late November day, just like most days of the year in California. The multi-hyphenate comedian-writer-actor is currently “unemployed” during the pandemic, but for an artist, that’s...
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Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates are testing positive for the novel coronavirus at significantly higher rates than Texans who aren't incarcerated, according to new data from the agency that oversees Texas' prisons. Late Tuesday, the department reported that, of the first 1,635 inmates tested as part of the state's...
One of the most significant things the pandemic has altered is the sense of community and human connection. While interaction like this can’t be replaced, some restaurants are using social media pages to compensate for the lost community spirit and to connect with their customers. Before COVID-19, conversations about where...
Residents in three low-income housing projects formerly managed by the Dallas Housing Authority say their complaints about poor maintenance and unsafe living conditions have been met not wit h repairs, but draconian regulations enforced by private security they believe are intended to drive them out of their homes. The authority,...
When history called, current elected officials and city staff didn’t even pick up the phone to say they’d call back, Downwinders contends. They just left it ringing and never checked their voicemail.
On Tuesday morning, the following email was sent to Dallas County government employees: “Dallas County Election Department is in need of assistance at Election Headquarters at 1520 Roundtable.” It went on to say that both day and evening shifts are available. Elections administrator Toni Pippins-Poole and her staff are deep...
Mubrooka Egyptian Street Food, one of the Observer's Top-100 Restaurants for 2020, has permanently closed, with its last day of service Thursday. "Koshari is one of the world's great comfort foods. A mix of macaroni, spaghetti noodles, rice and lentils, koshari gets topped with fried onions and a slathering of...
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Colleague Brian Reinhart recently put together the Observer’s “Dallas-Area Chefs and Industry Insiders Vote on Their Favorite Restaurants,” where he went on, apparently along with the entire industry, to feloniously underrate Fearing’s restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton. Brian revealed in his examination of the results that only one person in the...
Dallas leadership is asking North Texans to reconsider Thanksgiving plans because of coronavirus.
It wasn’t long ago that one could jump on a green bike and make her way from the central business district to the eastern side of Deep Ellum — the quieter side where the beautification efforts by the city stay cleaner and there are fewer people trying to make Deep...
Many believe the race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden is critical in determining the course of the country's future.
On Sunday, an 11-story tower off Haskell Avenue was the subject of a failed demolition implosion, and as a result, it inadvertently became a new landmark and internet sensation colloquially referred to as the “Leaning Tower of Dallas.” On Monday, one of the below pictures of a Samoyed dog posed...
A Medical District sports bar is under fire after owners allegedly made homophobic comments. In a recording obtained by Dallas Voice, Redfield's Tavern owners Joe Tillotson and Scott Cecill were identified (by a source to the Voice) as having expressed displeasure toward LGBTQ clientele and employees in a conversation with...
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Monday, Dallas Hope Charity announced the purchase of a new transitional home for local LGBTQ youth, which will be named after late Power Trip frontman Riley Gale.
Long before the pandemic had us all becoming just a bit more health conscious, the members of Dallas metalcore band Slit were concerned with another national health crisis. "The plan from the beginning was for the EP to center around a lot of mental struggles and the idea of giving...
Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke endorsed the ambitious economic recovery plan unveiled by his one-time opponent, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, during a Zoom conference call Friday. Announced Thursday, the “Build Back Better” plan aims to create 5 million new jobs in the U.S.’ manufacturing and technology sectors. It...
A common question asked of many songwriters is whether the music or the lyrics come first when crafting a tune. Typically, the artist replies with something along the lines of “Well, it just depends, really, there’s no one set way to write a song.” For Jackson Scribner, such a question...