In 2007, Carolyn Sortor was rehearsing a few lines from Macbeth for an amateur Shakespeare party when an idea struck her. “I knew there’s some juicy dialogue with Macbeth, in which they talk about whether he’s a man or a beast, and at one point Lady Macbeth compares him to...
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Last week, a woman waking her dog in the Ash Creek neighborhood of northeast Dallas noticed something amiss — all of the books were missing from the curbside Little Free Library box. The neighborhood quickly rallied. "She called another neighbor who drove around to check the other LFLs in our neighborhood," says...
Tension and release is the driving principle of a tearjerker, where every good fortune is countered by something worse. And as dismissive as critics often are of the genre, it’s actually quite difficult for a director to make people cry en masse and genuinely feel things. Derek Cianfrance’s foreboding melodrama...
North Texans really like beer. A short drive around these parts will reveal a plethora of independent breweries, craft beer stores and bottle shops featuring the best and latest creations being developed and issued. The only thing close to edging out our love of beer is our love of live...
The Dallas Police Department has been hit with everything a big city has to offer so far in 2016. There's been a well-publicized "spike" in violent crime and the murder rate, a string of robberies in Oak Lawn and a campaign visit by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. And then...
Gabe Reed opened the door to the house he shares with his daughter, grandchild and a couple of younger roommates in a middle-class neighborhood on the east side of McKinney. The modest house on Legend Drive is a far cry from the mansion, yacht and expensive sports cars and motorcycle...
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A few years ago, a night out in downtown Dallas meant either a fancy restaurant or a tourist trap. A few good restaurants were downtown, like CBD Provisions and the French Room, but not many of the kind of casual spots that graced Uptown and Deep Ellum. Residents commented on...
From the outside, Armoury D.E. is a little foreboding. The space normally carved out for windows is instead occupied by panels the color of old pennies. There is no traditional signage to inform passersby what lies within, only a single, neon letter “A” which hangs above the plank door. The...
In 2010, 20-year-old Marisol Valles Garcia volunteered for a job no one else wanted, police chief of the tiny Mexican border town Práxedis Gilberto Guerrero. The job was open because the previous police chief had been beheaded by drug lords. Officials mistakenly thought putting women in police leadership would deter...
Max Hartman, the lead singer of the band Mur, turned to his music after he grew tired of losing loved ones. “I’ve been to an amazing number of funerals of people who one way or another took their own lives, or accidentally OD’d or got themselves killed,” Hartman says. “That’s something...
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. The Observer recently published a list of some of Dallas’ best Reuben sandwiches. Few sandwiches, after all, can...
The Observer has an opening for a part-time social media editor. This twenty-hour/week position combines journalism with social-media skills to increase the Dallas Observer’s audience and serve as its online public face. The social media editor manages the Observer’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, among others, with the expectation of continued...
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Bill Longhorse, as troubled genius of a guitarist as Dallas ever seen, has a new album. That in itself is a miracle. There is a really good chance that if you polled Dallas’ community of rock, jazz, noise and noir musicians regarding who the best local guitarist is, Longhorse would...
Monday, 5:50 p.m. There is no line at Shake Shack. Only eight tables are occupied, six by people dining alone. I snag a parking spot right in front of the door. Is Dallas coming to its senses? We live in, probably, the burger capital of the world. There are dives...
Muffled by a silencer, the gunshots from the killer's 9mm made no more noise than a six-pack opening as he fired into a parked Range Rover. Wearing a hoodie, his face covered by a bandanna, the drug cartel hit man tattooed the front passenger side window with at least seven...
City officials are ready to jump out of their skins. A series of recent City Hall internal emails, apparently already in the hands of the Justice Department in Washington, show Dallas' city auditor, Craig Kinton, accusing City Hall of lying to federal officials about millions in unaccounted federal housing funds...
Tue 2/14 Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tells some pretty corny dad jokes, and it only adds to his charm. But aside from the adorable cosmic neck ties and one-liners, Tyson's extensive knowledge in astrophysics and understanding of the universe has cemented him as one of the leading heads in...
In 1971, Charles Connor approached his three children for business advice. Connor was a partner in Markham and Brown Company, which built levees, and he had decided to sell his ownership in the business. "He said, 'I need to reinvest the money. Do you want a car wash or a...
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On a sunny morning in early May, a wayward DART bus pulled to a stop in front of Paul Laurence Dunbar Learning Center in South Dallas. From the porches of tumbledown homes, neighbors glanced with mild curiosity as the school’s principal, Dionel Waters, stepped aboard. Waiting for him on the...
Huge news just happened at the Dallas Independent School District. It’s a story that solves the riddle of school reform and ought to end the debate about former Superintendent Mike Miles, at least among people with any intellectual honesty. But it’s about to slide by us virtually unnoticed. First, a...
Here in North Texas in July, it's not just hot outside — it's boil your armpits off hot. The level of heat here is totally inappropriate. When it gets this hot outside, it seems like there's one thing we all instinctively do to cope: constantly talk about how hot it...
It's official: Mack Rhoades is Baylor University's new athletic director. The former athletic director at the University of Houston and, most recently, the University of Missouri, Rhoades has to rebuild a program reeling with accusations of sexual assaults by players. The task he faces is hard to underestimate, and...