Ahmed Mohamed, better known as the Clock Boy, is back. He filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Irving, Irving Independent School District and Daniel Cummings, the principal of MacArthur High School. The then-14-year-old made national headlines when he was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school last...
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The Dallas Symphony and music director Jaap Van Zweden indulge, this weekend, in the time-honored classical music programming tactic of matching a new, unfamiliar work with a standard box office cash cow—in this case, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. This strategy can, and often does, result in an odd evening in which...
Like American Sniper (2014), Clint Eastwood’s Sully is a movie of nightmares. In Sniper, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) sits rigidly in the living room, imagining the gunfire, roaring helicopters and wailing bystanders of Fallujah playing out on a turned-off television as his children race through the house. In Sully, Chesley...
In 2013, Dallas Observer first reported about Shannon Brewing Co. in Keller, one of the few breweries out in the Mid-Cities. Owner Shannon Carter uses his great grandfather's recipes from Ireland, which include an old-school fire-brewing process. While that sounds like fancy jargon brewers throw around to impress beer snobs, the result...
Today’s fatal crash of a B525 helicopter is more than a tragic incident in aviation. It could be a blow to a local industry trying to create innovative aircraft designs. Federal officials are investigating the crash, in Chambers Creek, which killed two employees of Bell Helicopter. This investigation means very...
The NFL Draft begins one month from today. As Roger Goodell announces the results of the first round on April 28, the Cowboys, assuming they won't trade down, pick fourth. That's the highest they've stood in the draft in more than 20 years, thanks to 2015's abysmal 4-12 record. Considering...
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If Leon Bridges' story followed the typical plot line of a made-for-TV biopic, the Fort Worth R&B singer would have already unraveled after his quick rise to fame. In the span of a year, the now 27-year-old signed a major label deal with Columbia Records, performed on late night TV...
The saga of Pie Tap has been unfolding slowly for nearly two years. When Rich Hicks, the restaurateur behind Mooyah Burgers and Tin Star Taco Bar, which he later sold, announced plans for the restaurant's first location to open on Henderson Avenue, some people in the neighborhood fought his plans for...
You might say that Nikola Olic is an engineer. It's what he studied at University of Texas at Arlington and he's been working at a healthcare software company he co-founded, Doctor Alliance, since he received his degree. But you might also say he's a classical pianist, a professional BMX flatlander...
Friday night, the Rangers clinched the American League West title for the second consecutive season. It was the team's fourth division championship in seven seasons. The Rangers are in the middle of the deepest purple patch in club history, but still searching for their first World Series title. The 2016...
Cle Acklin is about as old school as it gets in Dallas DJ culture. As a member of the infamous Hazy Daze Collective in the '90s, he laid down some of the basic roots for the scene we have today. Although largely associated with house, Acklin is versatile and consistently...
Ah, the airport. It's where national security, the transportation industry, human psychology, aeronautical physics and government personnel collide in an awkward dance. Add into this mix the police who respond to Transportation Security Administration drug-related discoveries, and a collection of travelers that for whatever reason caught their attention. The Dallas...
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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. Macaron fever has yet to subside in North Texas. Bisous Bisous Patisserie, Kate Weiser Chocolate, Joy Macarons, Haute...
An effort by the Bureau of Land Management to lease mineral rights on 259 acres of BLM land near or under Lewisville Lake is off the table for now, thanks partly to protests from lakeside towns worried about what drilling for oil and gas might do to the reservoir's dam...
James Dunn comes hurtling out of the shade of the tree-laced AT&T Plaza downtown, holding a cell phone that just ran out of batteries and a folder full of looseleaf paper. The 59-year-old has been fielding calls from hundreds of homeless across the city and taking down notes for how...
The city of Dallas got poured out of court again yesterday in its decades long extra-legal persecution of Kennedy assassination expert Robert Groden, making the 82nd time the city has lost against Groden in its own municipal courts, not counting a major slap-down suffered by the city in the 5th...
Halloween is a big retail event, the second biggest behind Christmas, in fact, and that means that late September every year, thousands of "haunted" attractions pop up all over the country to capitalize on the chance to charge $20 a head to scare the living daylights out of people. Most...
There are a few things to know about the burgers at Dallas Beer Kitchen before walking through the door. There are two. One burger has a nearly-raw jalapeño, sliced into a canoe and chopped into big pieces, that delivers a punch across the face like Indiana Jones with heat. That...
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Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins is a likable study of delusions of grandeur. Working from real-life material, Frears creates an alternately funny and mysterious portrait of someone whom most viewers either don’t know at all or regard as an odd footnote in musical history. We first see Florence (Meryl Streep)...
These suggested events don’t have a speck to do with one another, but dammit if they’re not all affordable things to do that will make you reflect on really different topics after you leave each of them. We love a week with range. How about you? Baron Vaughn Comedy Residence...
Book of Love With JG and the Robots and Michael Douglas Duncan Granada Theater, Dallas Saturday, July 9, 2016 Ironies abounded at Book of Love's Granada Theater concert on Saturday night. Despite the above-average age of the audience members, it was one of the livelier shows at the Lower Greenville...
Dallas' police department has received intense scrutiny since Micah Johnson ambushed Dallas police following a march against police brutality on July 7. Our city has a complex history with law enforcement that the Observer has extensively covered. Here's a quick list of reading material that can help explain the dynamic between the...