This week marks another birthday for a country famous for its cookouts, fireworks and celebration of freedom in its simplest forms — from our right to purchase and consume three-liter bottles of wine in a single night to hitting snooze a dozen times before eating as many hot dogs...
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On Tuesday afternoon, city staff released the results of the first year of Dallas' so-called living wage program. In late 2015, the Dallas City Council voted to require any business with a city contract to pay its employees $10.37, about $3 more per hour than the federal minimum wage of $7.25...
The Dallas City Council's Housing Committee made it clear Monday that it doesn't want the city to face a crisis like the one in West Dallas over the fates of occupants of rental homes owned by the Khraish family. Rather than hoping that another landlord will offer to finance and...
What happens when ice cream masquerades as shaved ice? Lumi Snow Co. happens. Co-founders Cody and Lia Carta had a dream to bring their spin on Taiwanese "shaved snow" to Fort Worth, and the result is indeed dreamy. You'd probably never guess what kind of magic is going on here, given...
Josh Johnson had never seen pot trees before. They towered 14 or 15 feet in the air, their limbs blooming with marijuana flowers in the sunlight like rows of cornstalks. They weren't nearly as tall as the Douglas firs covering the Pacific Northwest mountains nearby, but these plants would produce...
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Clive Revill will appear at Infinicon at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Addison this weekend. Actor Clive Revill has more than 180 acting credits in films, television shows and video games spanning practically every genre of entertainment. Besides being a renowned theater actor with more than 60 years of acting experience,...
Under normal circumstances when a Republican member of the Congress from Texas calls you “unconscionable,” you probably should just report to the nearest convent and ask them to lock you up in the laundry for the rest of your life. Your moral struggles have come to an end. U.S. Rep...
For the latest on U.S. District Judge Katherine Failla's decision to reinstate Ezekiel Elliott's six-game suspension, check out the Observer's Monday night update. Just before 3 a.m. July 22, 2016, Tiffany Thompson called Columbus, Ohio, police to report an assault. Officers met her at a short-term rental property at 29 W. Third...
Say sayonara to summer this week as we ring in a season that promises pumpkins, picnics in the park and (hopefully) lower electricity bills. This week, an impressive music lineup will fill your heart with nostalgia and perhaps introduce you to your new favorite band. Depeche Mode, The Church and...
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave the keynote speech at 30th Drug Abuse Resistance Education International Training Conference in Grapevine on Tuesday afternoon. Ostensibly, the attorney general was on the program to talk to the drug-prevention educators at the conference about the growing epidemic of opioid abuse in Texas and...
Reliably, once every six months or so, the Arlington Police Department ends up in the news for screwing up, even though the city it serves is about a quarter the size of Dallas and less than half the size of Fort Worth. Here are five of the lowlights of the...
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Charles “Big Charlie” Flores and Richard Childs were searching for money when they slid under the garage door of a one-story brick home on Bergen Street. The Black family had built it in the early 1960s when the one-block neighborhood of Farmers Branch was nothing but pasture. They had raised...
Denton resident Earl Leroy Thompson Jr. has been arrested in connection with a string of attempted and actual sexual assaults near the University of North Texas campus and Denton's downtown square. Scott Fletcher, deputy chief of the Denton Police Department, told the Observer on Tuesday that Thompson confessed and gave significant details to...
At about 4 a.m. on a Tuesday in May, a woman in her early 20s woke up to the feeling of a strange man lying on top of her. He'd broken into an apartment in the 2300 block of West Hickory Street in Denton, which has buildings filled with students who...
On Tuesday afternoon — two months before training camp — the Dallas Cowboys 2017 defense suffered a huge blow. The NFL has suspended David Irving, perhaps the Cowboys' most physically gifted pass rusher, for the first four games of the upcoming season. Irving, according to the league, violated the NFL's...
Let’s talk chaat. It’s the unofficial favorite fast food of India, a quick cuisine of street bites, snacks, fritters and other savory treats to eat on the go. Chaat isn’t meant to be fancy. It’s almost all vegetarian, and it often repurposes other foods in surprising ways, but it’s the...
After all these years, Bread Winners is still a solid brunch option.
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Just after midnight Sunday, San Antonio police got a call about a suspicious tractor-trailer in the back of a Walmart parking lot. There, they found a horror that has captured the nation's attention. According to a federal criminal complaint released Monday, federal authorities have charged James Matthew Bradley Jr. with...
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. A good pub began with steamed mollusks. About 20 years ago, Dublin-born Feargal McKinney returned to Dallas from...
In the aftermath of the death of Mesquite 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, Balch Springs police and the Dallas County Sheriff's Office have acted quickly. Within a week of the honor student's and football player's death, police arrested Balch Springs Police Department Officer Roy Oliver for shooting Edwards in the head with...
Online theater publication TheaterJones had been investigating sexual harassment allegations against local actor and director Lee Trull for more than a year when Dallas Theater Center made the move Monday to fire Trull, its director of new play development, for "inappropriate behavior." Mark Lowry, who co-founded TheaterJones in 2009, was...