Here are some facts you need to know. Carrollton has a Korean dive bar called Ddong Ggo, in the same shopping center as H Mart. Ddong Ggo is Korean for “butthole.” In the restaurant's case, this refers to a chicken's, which is why its logo is an angry chicken with...
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Ten years ago, voters in Irving agreed to finance a 16-acre, mixed-use entertainment complex off State Highway 114. It would have more than two dozen restaurants, an Alamo Drafthouse, and indoor and outdoor concert venues, along with retail and office space. That complex, originally called the Irving Music Factory, was...
Denton ISD removed Eric Hauser — the Rodriguez Middle School assistant principal who courted controversy last week after the release of his self-published children's book, The Adventures of Pepe and Pede — from his post Monday afternoon. Hauser is being reassigned to an unannounced role with the district because of the...
First thing you probably will have to do, if you even hope to understand what’s going on these days in the Dallas public school district, is turn most of your assumptions upside down. On Aug. 17, the three African-American members on the Dallas school board voted to kill two tax...
MakeShift PhotoRama – Significance ImposedKettle Art 2650 Main St. Opening reception 7-10 p.m. Thursday Twelve Dallas photographers paired up with 12 Dallas writers and took a Texas-soaked road trip. Significance Imposed is the collection of photos, landscapes, characters and words that resulted from the statewide jaunt. Prediction: There will be...
The Dallas World Aquarium is gaining international interest, this time for good. As part of its documentary series, Earth From Space, BBC is documenting the DWA's project in which a team of veterinarians, biologists and conservationists have rescued and released five rehabilitated Amazonian manatees back into their natural environment near Iquitos, Peru...
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Suddenly, Jaws feels a little less scary, because now I’ve eaten a shark sandwich. Armoury D.E., the intrepid bar in Deep Ellum with a deserved reputation for ingenious bar snacks, is now serving a sandwich called the Jabber Jaw ($11.50), featuring, yes, battered and fried slices of mako shark. Eagle-eyed...
Despite, or probably because of, the density of its plot, Mr. Robot is almost more enjoyable if you don’t really know what’s going on
The only suspect in the Dallas County District Attorney's Office's investigation into voter fraud in May's City Council election is in custody. Miguel Hernandez has been on the lam for more than a month; a warrant was issued June 2 for his arrest on illegal voting charges. A grand jury...
Banks South Side Ballroom, Dallas Friday, Sept. 22, 2017 Jillian Banks, who goes by just her last name struggled to make her voice heard over the boisterous crowd at South Side Music Hall on Friday night. “Sometimes it's still crazy that people know the words to my songs,” she murmured...
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Wed 3/7 Demi Lovato With DJ Khaled, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, American Airlines Center, 2500 Victory Ave., ticketmaster.com, $29 and up Less than a month after her last Dallas show, Demi Lovato will grace fans with her lyrical stylings once more. Her Tell Me You Love Her tour is...
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Dallas concert promoter Gabe Reed wanted to be a rock star. In the late '80s, he assumed the persona “Tomi Child” and made an appearance in documentary filmmaker Penelope Spheeris' Decline of Western Civilization II: the Metal Years. Reed put down the microphone, picked up a law degree at SMU,...
It's not hyperbole to say that 2017 has been a defining year for Texas politics. The state's biggest cities openly warred with the state government in Austin, and many of those who'd built power bases in Austin over the last decade found themselves confused and frustrated by a new environment...
Dallas police confirmed Tuesday that the teenager found dead in a southeast Dallas creek Sunday morning is Mikayla Mitchell, the 17-year-old stepdaughter of Howard Diamond, a Sherman doctor whom federal prosecutors recently connected to seven overdose. Police found Mitchell in a creek near the 3000 block of Rochester Street just before...
LA Weekly film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. Writer-director Dee Rees is breaking all the rules with her third feature, Mudbound. In film school, they tell you, “No voiceovers,” yet this film about two WWII and post-war Mississippi families — one black, one...
Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, the follow-up to the breakout indie comic drama Tangerine, sparkles with joy and hope even as it tells a not-so-hopeful story. In the film, little Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) reside in Kissimmee, Fla., in a rundown motel that’s as colorful as...
Last we heard, preservationists were working with Texas A&M to save at least part of the building at 3010 Gaston Ave., which has been the bar Elbow Room for the last 20 years. A&M seized the building, built in 1933, through eminent domain in December. “[Texas A&M] could go on...
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L.A. Weekly film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. Filmmaking is not a poor man’s game. Even as digital cameras get cheaper, making a festival-worthy film still requires dough to get off the ground, which means the folks who tell stories through cinema...
New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie is accusing Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of hypocrisy over disaster relief, which does make for a certain kind of show. But here in Dallas we could tell people a thing or two about that show. Forget mere hypocrisy. The real show is way...
Calling in outside experts never was the Dallas way, sadly.
Dallas has been paying attention recently to some compelling research showing that racial segregation is bad for poor minority children. Truth. But only as an aside, no big deal, just me up here in the bleachers mumbling to myself: I’d like to point out that segregation probably isn’t too good...