One of the Saturday Night Live characters Bill Hader was notorious for playing was Stefon, the eccentric clubs editor who had a penchant for peculiar places. In Stefon's world, these places often took the name of a single verb: Crease, Slice, Taste, Slash, Gush, Push, etc. Fans of Stefon may delight...
Search the results for: results
Showing 3037 - 3058 of 11762Use quotes to search for a phrase or name: "toy story", or "brooklyn bridge".
On Thursday afternoon, the Observer had the chance to sit down for the better part of an hour with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Rawlings, fresh off losses by several of his allies in this spring's City Council election, talked with us about the changing council, a changing city and the challenges...
What might have driven 30-year-old murder suspect Charles Bryant to kill 21-year-old Texas Woman’s University student Jacqueline Vandagriff, then partially dismember her body and set it aflame near the shores of Grapevine Lake in early morning hours of Sept. 14? It’s a question The Dallas Morning News reported a Tarrant County...
Last year, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that it's targeting the seat of U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Dallas, in Texas Congressional District 32. Sessions has drawn two competitive Democratic challengers, former Hillary Clinton adviser Ed Meier and civil rights attorney and former NFL linebacker Colin Allred. Last week, the Observer...
A French Village starts off on June 12, 1940, with a premiere that includes a German fighter plane shooting at children on a school trip. The scene is suspenseful but also staged with deliberate restraint, like a dream slowly turning into a nightmare before anybody quite realizes it. The series...
Leading up to September's Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we're sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Even if you had to literally trek to Nashville to sink your teeth into Rapscallion's "Long Walk to...
advertisement
Leading up to September's Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we're sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Over-the-top milkshakes were a thing in 2016, but "crazy" doesn't always equal "greatness." Grub Burger Bar's kitchen sink...
At the table next to me, two sharply dressed 60-something married couples are on a double date, the ladies wearing fine jewelry, sipping a nice Chardonnay and laughing a little louder after every glass. Once the second course has been cleared from the table, I take a seat and introduce...
Leading up to September's Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we're sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. For those looking to downright injure themselves with food for $20.99, it's hard to go wrong with Omi...
When DDFW Master of the Mic launched in 2015, its aims were ambitious: bring unity, collaboration and healthy competition to North Texas’ hip-hop scene, while finding its next great undiscovered talent. The result was impressive enough, finishing off with a packed house at Trees, celebrity judges and plenty of memorable performances...
For some adults, Halloween usually includes more hangovers than costumes. But this week offers plenty of cool parties to get dressed up for, namely Granada Theater's Day of the Dead Costume Bash. But if caked-on white face makeup and fake blood don't pique your interest, feel free to enjoy this...
Now we know why Dez Bryant's knee diagnosis took so long. The Cowboys wide receiver, injured on the second play of the game against the Bears on Sunday night, skipped out and missed a team meeting, an MRI and other medical treatment early this week. Cowboys coach Jason Garrett offered...
advertisement
Cellular Level6 to 8 p.m. Friday William Campbell Contemporary Art 4925 Byers Ave., Fort Worth Cellular Level, an exhibition of new works by acclaimed Fort Worth artist John Holt Smith, opens Friday at William Campbell Contemporary Art. While any mention of “stem cells” is often surrounded by controversy, Smith’s paintings...
In North Texas, there are burgers for every disposition: Fast-casual, fast-gourmet, fast-organic-cheap-casual, and slow gourmet that imitates fast. With the opening of Shake Shack in Uptown, Dallas has reached Roman bathhouse standards of fast-casual burger debauchery. Call them guilty pleasures, but some of the most reliably delicious burgers in the...
John Carpenter Majestic Theatre, Dallas Friday, June 24, 2016 John Carpenter's film scores weren't ever intended to be played live, but when the legendary director performed them at Majestic Theater Friday night, the result was better than anyone could have imagined. Carpenter scored most of the horror and science fiction...
Well, we've made it to the week when the country sees U.S. political power handed to former reality TV star and six-time bankrupted businessman Donald Trump. Whether this reality excites or angers you, there are plenty of ways to work out that energy this week. Dallas sees two iconic ska...
Vanilla Ice's hometown show at The Bomb Factory on Saturday night was as '90s as it could get. Dallas' loved and loathed one-hit-wonder, and still best-selling local hip-hop exponent, pulled out all the nostalgia stops in Deep Ellum. (The review is here.) But one thing was missing from the night:...
Having brunch at a restaurant for the first time is a risk. Will the chicken and waffles at X rival the familiar, golden-brown goodness served at Y? Or will it result in remorse and a hasty retreat back to well-tested ground? Diners perform this cost-benefit dance as they pursue something...
advertisement
Dak Prescott is the man. The Cowboys rookie quarterback has his team sitting at 11-1, one win over the Giants away from an NFC East title, and no more than three wins away from securing the NFC's top playoff seed. He's affable, talented and photogenic, the perfect fit to be...
Kitchen LTO has come back to life, in triumphant fashion. After its sudden closure at Trinity Groves, when the Shark Tank-style restaurant development declared it unprofitable, Kitchen LTO announced a move to Deep Ellum, financed by a crowdfunding campaign. (Read more about that story in our interview with owner Casie...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the federal government again, this time in hopes of stopping new labor rules that would make 5 million workers eligible for time-and-a-half overtime pay in December. The new Department of Labor regulations raise the minimum amount workers can be paid and anyone making...
Art, Beats & Lyrics Gilley's Dallas 1135 S. Lamar St. 7 p.m. Friday Free If you find yourself struggling to answer the question "What is art?" you have the chance to bounce around ideas with fellow art and music lovers at Art, Beats & Lyrics from 7 p.m. to midnight...