Amazon and FedEx are beefing up seasonal hires in North Texas as the holiday season approaches. Amazon is looking to hire 3,000 new warehouse workers in DFW, according to the corporation, while FedEx is hiring 50,000 seasonal employees across the country, 4,200 of them in DFW, the company announced this...
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Jeff Tandy is a freelance writer who contributed this article as a tribute to his longtime friend, Bruce Corbitt. This writing was promised to Bruce as an epilogue to his life, including his career and battle with cancer, to be published for everyone to read. Herein is his final wish...
The year is almost over, and now’s the time to start making a list of New Year’s resolutions — not for yourself, of course. You're perfect. No resolutions for you are needed, and you can’t give people you know resolutions because that’s called an intervention. So what do you do...
Catch one, or both, of Nine Inch Nails' shows this week with Jesus and Mary Chain. Get into the holiday spirit with KIIS-FM's Jingle Ball featuring Kesha. Or check out the 30th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase with several local bands in various Deep Ellum venues. The Funky Knuckles...
As if you needed another reason to hit up the State Fair of Texas when it opens Sept. 28. Deep Ellum Brewing Company is debuting a new beer at this year's fair: No Way Rosé. Described as a "tart Southwest-styled rosé ale with a prickly pear punch," the beer is the...
We researched our Top 100 Dallas Restaurants the old-fashioned way: by eating. I dined at over 400 Dallas-area restaurants for this ranking, ranging from a $150-per-person tab at Flora Street Cafe to a Tibetan dumpling counter located inside a gas station. Deciding the top 10 required even greater scrutiny; I...
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“A farm-to-table Spanish tapas bar led by big-time culinary talents opens its doors inside a style-conscious youth hostel.” The summary sounds like a joke about those crazy foodies down in Austin finding yet another way to out-weird the rest of Texas. But it’s not a news alert from Austin. Deep...
Wednesday With elements of classic rock, soul, gospel and R&B, Anderson.Paak throws pretty much every style against the wall. Surprisingly, it all sticks. In February, he won his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance, an honor that served as a crescendo for an impressive past couple of years, growing...
Saloons just aren’t what they used to be. In his recent, wildly entertaining book A Short History of Drunkenness, Mark Forsyth traced the history of the saloon beyond the Hollywood myth, to a time when the word denoted a tent with a couple of barrels of whiskey inside. Saloons of...
Valentine’s Day is just two weeks away, and if you’re reading this, you most likely fit into one of two categories: Group A: You’re a romantic who's been planning weeks in advance to give your loved one an experience they’ll never forget. Whatever pronoun they identify with is the love...
After New York, that brazen tart, deserted poor Amazon at the altar, the brokenhearted Amazon said nobly it was done with love and would never seek a new headquarters again. But we all know how long that sort of thing lasts. The tingle returns. What we must fear in Dallas,...
This week offers some nostalgia from Motown legends The Temptations and The Four Tops, '80s pop icon Lionel Richie and '60s rock band The Zombies. Pop superstars Mariah Carey and Kelly Clarkson play some big concerts this week, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy plays some new songs at the Majestic Theatre on...
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Mirador launches a posh downtown Dallas brunch.
The Observer asked Dr. Stephen F. Waddell, an experienced educator and leader in school innovation, for his take on Texas' controversial new A-F grading system for public schools. See a longer bio and partial list of his bona fides at the end of his essay. This month school districts across...
Wednesday Sculpting a seemingly timeless vacuum between noise, metal and classical minimalism, Earth’s music is nothing if not brutally austere. This is metal ruthlessly denuded. With all the superfluous components deleted, all the ornate plumage slashed and burned, rock is given a new form, a sound-for-sound's sake gauntlet that’s equally...
The family of Botham Jean, the 26-year-old accountant shot and killed in his own apartment by an off-duty Dallas police officer on Sept. 6, sued the city in federal court late Friday. The suit alleges that Amber Guyger, the police officer who shot Jean, used excessive force and violated Jean's...
After four straight years of Affordable Care Act-inspired gains, Texas' uninsured rate for adults took a step back in 2017, according to newly released numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. About 4.8 million Texas adults, 17.3 percent of the population, do not have health insurance, up from 4.5 million and...
“It’s like make believe," a guest said of the Japanese sweet potatoes. But really, it could have referred to the entire meal. Maison Saint James is an invite-only culinary experience curated by Dallasite Marie St. James. Most recently, James teamed up with Tim Lavender of LAV’s Kitchen Table for a...
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Heather Hacker, Texas' assistant solicitor general, made it clear from the start Monday that one of the most controversial provisions of Senate Bill 8, Texas' latest and greatest piece of sweeping anti-abortion legislation, isn't about protecting women's health, as Texas Republicans have so often argued when they've defended anti-choice laws in...
The Dallas Cowboys fired offensive line coach Paul Alexander on Monday, continuing the bye week shake-up that began with the team trading its 2019 first-round draft pick for Oakland Raiders wide receiver Amari Cooper last week. Alexander got the ax seven games into his Cowboys tenure, following a number of...
Lee Chang-dong’s dexterity with the telling minutiae of human interactions ensures that Burning makes for an emotionally gripping film
Few are the foods with such power over the imagination that just hearing their names can stop your stream of thoughts and send you off to the internet to look at restaurant menus. They tend to be celebration dishes — whether eaten at a celebration or cause for one. When...