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Masterminds Leaves You Time to Wonder: Does Director Jared Hess Hate Poor Folks?

When Relativity Media — the production company/distributor behind Masterminds, the newest vehicle for Zach Galifianakis to do his painfully committed schtick — started getting press, co-founder/co-CEO Ryan Kavanaugh boasted of his secret sauce for success. A proprietary risk-evaluation algorithm that crunched variables like cast, release date, relative examples in the...
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Dallas Gets Its Own Dead Poet’s Society

Contemporary poets will breathe life into the work of writers we may have forgotten at Deep Vellum Books this Sunday. Other People's Poetry (OPP) is a new reading series created by author and teacher Joe Milazzo, who is on a mission to bring poets who've fallen out of the oral...
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21 Best Things to Do in Dallas This Week: April 11-17

Tue 4/11 Man, zombies are getting faster and faster every year. Did the undead take a Zumba class and start watching their carbs? Here’s some quick horror film history for the uninformed: The answer lies director Dan O’Bannon’s classic splatterpunk comedy horror action epic The Return of the Living Dead...
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Best New Music in Dallas, October 2016: A.Dd+, Erykah Badu & More

Six Shooter is a recurring feature where we highlight six new releases by North Texas-based musicians. The month of October is supposed to bring in the fall weather but that didn’t really seem to happen. You can, however, start to hear the fall mood in some of this month’s releases,...
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Ezekiel Elliott Will Not Be Charged With Domestic Battery

The Columbus, Ohio, city attorney's office will not prosecute Dallas Cowboys rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott for domestic battery. Tiffany Thompson, Elliott's ex-girlfriend, had accused the former Ohio State star of injuring her on at least five previous occasions. Early on the morning of July 22, Thompson called Columbus police. Elliott,...
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In This Election Season, Only the Media is Guaranteed to Lose

At various points in the election season just ending, each side complained bitterly about the media coverage of the other. During Trump's good months, his Republican primary opponents and then later the Clinton campaign were convinced the media would never stop lavishing him with free publicity. And of course later...
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The 2016 Dallas Observer Music Awards Winners

You might not always get what you want in this world, but Tuesday night at the Dallas Observer Music Awards the Dallas music community got a whole lot of what it needed. As the Observer honored local artists for the 28th year running at The Bomb Factory, handing out awards...
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Dallas Observer Mixtape With Mr. Rid: Moog Tribute Mix

He is Mark Ridlen by day, but Deejay Mr Rid by night. There are few musicians in Dallas that have earned veteran status, but Ridlen earned the distinction as a member of seminal art and psyche bands in the '80s and '90s. One of the original DJs at the legendary...
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Baylor Continues to Flail in Response to Sexual Assault Scandal

The hole Baylor University is in due to the sexual assault scandal that has enveloped its football program is getting deeper. So far this week, the university's Title IX coordinator has resigned due to inaction from the university, two more women have joined a federal lawsuit against Baylor and a...