Serious effort here on my part. Really. I shall approach the story of our local mentally ill district attorney from a more positive perspective than in the past. Ahem. Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk has returned to Dallas from yet another institutional sojourn associated with mental illness – I...
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Israel Marcano Jr could be considered an ex-pat of the infamous 90s Dallas rave scene. He has witnessed Dallas go through it's many phases over the years. Israel's mix for this week reflects that by not settling stylistically. The propulsive pulse of house music with dashes of techno and breaks...
Welcome to "You Like This," in which we ask chefs two questions: 1) What's the best-selling dish at your restaurant? and 2) What's your favorite dish at your restaurant? We hope the answer to the first question will open your eyes to the fan favorites and the Dallas palate, and...
A new caffeinated option is popping up in Dallas: a tea-like drink made up of something that used to be considered an unwanted byproduct of the coffee-producing process. Cascara comes from same tree as coffee beans but is much closer to a tea than coffee — in fact, it is...
Headless, that’s how Jubal Alexander was found. Sitting in his blue Chevy pickup, parked underneath a bridge near a boat ramp in Brazoria County, he hadn’t been heard from since April 27, local news reported. Even though he worked overnights as a pipe cutter at a local chemical plant, the...
Kurt Vile Granada Theater, Dallas Saturday, April 16, 2016 Participation in the Revelation of Kurt Vile wasn't compulsory during his sold-out show at Granada Theater on Saturday night. Inviting people in wasn't really the Philadelphia native's objective. Much like his latest album, b’lieve i’m goin down, his goal seemed to...
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Wednesday, Tarrant County announced that it's identified its second and third Zika virus cases of the winter. One patient traveled recently to Puerto Rico, the other to El Salvador, both of which are currently in the midst of a Zika outbreak. No other identifying information about the patients has been...
2016 got off to a rough start for Dallas' DIY music scene. A series of busts that started on New Years Eve and ran for weeks after saw house show after house show get shut down by the fire marshal. Suddenly it looked like these underground shows would be forced...
Bearings Down at The Goss-Michael Foundation Paula Crown serves on President Obama’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities. Balancing traditional studio time while engaging technology, her art is about mapping experiences. Crown’s work centers on places and landscapes, exploring how they can exist as objects. This is an immersive installation...
Ah, spring break, our annual chance to find a warm beach, drink too many mojitos and come home with Zika virus. But if you can’t book plane tickets or get away to Padre this March, you can do the next best thing: Drive to Irving for a Puerto Rican meal...
Along the green, tree-lined country road, four large metal tanks tower on a gravel field, clean and tan-colored against a cloudless blue sky. But the breeze brings an odd metallic tang to the back of one’s throat, and the view changes through an infrared camera’s viewfinder. When the lens zooms in...
A fractured film about a fractured family, Louder Than Bombs takes a potentially tired premise and reshapes it before our eyes. It opens on a newborn’s tiny hand helplessly clinging to a father’s finger, and ends with a different father watching his two sons sleep. In between is a story...
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In 2009, when Jeff Baker retired from a 35-year career as a commercial photographer in New York City, he moved back to his hometown, Dallas, and began to feel directionless. He also began to feel portents of death in the form of three serious diseases: atrial fibrillation, macular degeneration in...
A little less than a month ago, Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios announced that they'd be closing their doors on June 5. Rubber Gloves has been called the CBGB of Texas; it is a venue that has been crucial to North Texas music over the past 20 years. But it's also...
Ostensibly, all the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs was doing Wednesday was addressing Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick's charge that, between sessions, the Texas Senate take a look at protecting religious liberties in the state — something that, it should be noted, means different things to different people. That happened...
Dalton Rapattoni has made it. He’s really made it. Sunnyvale's overnight success story is in the top 3 of American Idol’s farewell season and he’s so close to taking it all home, we can almost taste it. But while Rapattoni's rise seemingly has come out of nowhere, it's not much of a...
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5 Art Events to See this Weekend
Irving Penn achieved great artistic and commercial success and became one of the most iconic photographers of the 20th century. A touring exhibit organized by the Smithsonian and presented by The Dallas Museum of Art, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty is the first retrospective of his 70-year career in nearly two...
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When David Hall graduated from the University of North Texas in 2001, he didn't know what the future had in store. Armed with a shiny new bachelor’s degree in jazz guitar studies and not much else, Hall began teaching guitar lessons to make ends meet. By 2004, he had scooped...
A 55-year-old "non-pregnant" patient from DeSoto who traveled recently to El Salvador is the fourth person to test positively for infection with the Zika virus in Dallas County, the county's Health and Human Services Department said Tuesday. Of the four Dallas cases so far confirmed by the Centers for Disease...
In the weeks since Sturgill Simpson gave his first glimpse of his new album, A Sailor's Guide to Earth, much has been made about the country star's change of direction. Ordained by many as the savior of country music after his 2014 breakout, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, the Kentucky...
Three things you don’t expect at a Dallas Symphony concert: a free s’mores bar in the lobby, electric guitars, and a concert made up entirely of music written in the past thirty years. Such was the case, however, as the orchestra continued its Remix series—not at the Meyerson, not on...