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Dallas Observer Mixtape With DJ Israel: Vince Watson, Scan 7 & More

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...
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Headless Body Discovered in South Texas Still Unsolved

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...
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Kurt Vile Kept an Awkward Distance From His Fans at Granada Theater

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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Tarrant County Plans to Fight Zika With Homemade Kits

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...
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5 Art Exhibitions to See this Weekend

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...
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Methane Sleuths Monitor Seeping Gases From Oil and Gas Drilling

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...
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Jeff Baker Makes Photographs That Don’t Look Like Photographs

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...
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Inside Wednesday’s All-Star Game for Anti-LGBTQ Texans

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...
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5 Art Events to See this Weekend

FOUND at Level Gallery After seeing pollution in the ocean and researching the effects, longtime underwater fashion photographer Jeremy McKane decided he wanted to do more than take pretty pictures. McKane uses his art to raise awareness of this urgent issue. FOUND is McKane’s latest ocean conservation exhibit featuring eleven...
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The Dallas Music School Where Students Learn From the City’s Best Singers

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...
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Fourth Zika Case Confirmed in Dallas County

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...
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Embark on a Musical Adventure with the Revenant Composer at DSO

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...