Do This! Former Observer arts and culture editor Lauren Smart has collaborated with The Wild Detectives (314 8th St.) to throw a month-long festival, Women Galore, that celebrates the work of women in the arts. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday you can catch everyone's favorite 10-year-old comedian, Saffy Herndon, as she...
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Bernie lovers, I love you. But some of you are now officially out over your skis. You probably don’t get what just happened in Waco — the public humiliation of Ken Starr at Baylor University. But you need to figure this one out. The arc of Starr’s public career provides...
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony With B-Real, Scarface, Bun B, Z-Ro, Slim Thug and DJ Unknown The Bomb Factory, Dallas Saturday, November 21, 2015 Getting all five members of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony together is no given. The '90s rap legends have had their share of trouble over the years, with internal conflict resulting in...
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Over the past 10 years, Record Store Day has become a behemoth celebration of all things vinyl. Vinyl nerds line up as early as 7 a.m. to get their hands on the exclusive RSD deals, with the most in-demand specials usually gone within the first few hours. Longtime crate diggers,...
The Suffers have come a long way since they started out playing cover songs five years ago. The 10-piece "Gulf Coast soul" band from Houston started in 2011, started writing their own songs in 2013 and by 2015 had made their late-night television debut on The Late Show With David...
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The earthquake struck in the middle of the morning, shaking houses on their foundations and rattling dishes in cabinets. Surprised residents from Valley View, a town about 60 miles north of Dallas, all the way west to Pilot Point poured into the streets in the fall of 1985. “It felt...
On Thursday, Dallas ISD trustees will be confronted with some sobering statistics about the stark economic segregation that divides Dallas, more than almost anywhere else in the country, into silos of haves and have-nots. According to a 2012 study from the Pew Research Center, 37 percent of low-income residents in...
What am I supposed to feel here? Grief? Wrath? A strong desire to go fishing? I wish I could remember my Greek mythology better. What was that guy’s name? Sissy Fuss? Last week the Dallas City auditor gave a committee of the City Council a deeply depressing analysis of how...
El Paso quintet At the Drive-In have returned. Again. Four years ago, they played a short Texas tour (including a memorable stop at Trees) and then played Coachella. Now they’re touring the US and Europe between March and June (no Texas dates have been announced), and they have teased new...
Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez has ensconced herself in Texas Governor Greg Abbott's head. It wasn't even that hard, really. She just slightly — and we mean slightly, none of the changes have had a tangible result yet — changed the way the Dallas County Sheriff's Office deals with undocumented...
No one who lives in the Estell Village Apartments very much wants to live in Estell Village Apartments. It’s a housing project, after all, 291 units spread across a warren of white-and-beige barracks near Paul Quinn College in southeast Oak Cliff. The apartments themselves are nice enough, no frills but...
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Gabe Reed was supposed to be a ghost. The Dallas-based owner of Gabe Reed Productions brought together the Rock N’ Roll Allstars for a South American tour in 2012, but the promoter had disappeared on the third stop of the tour, hidden under sheets like a ghost, his former publicist...
Twenty-four years ago, Street Arabs guitarist and Carnival Barker's Ice Creams owner Aaron Barker lost his grandfather, Hub Barker, to lung cancer. For all those years since, Aaron Barker had been without his grandfather's most prized possessions: his guitars. Until last week. Hub Barker lived near Oklahoma City and...
It’s probably not a coincidence that February, the worst month of the year, becomes the busy season in Dallas theater. The post holiday hangover has passed but it’s still not spring. We need something to do, to invigorate us into leaving the couch. New works and premieres are popping all...
In all the discussion surrounding Texas' open-carry law when it was being considered by the state legislature last spring, the issue of individual liberty and Second Amendment rights came up a lot. The notion that allowing handguns to be carried en plein air might seriously reduce crime was a comparatively...
To untrained ears, it can sound strange, sometimes even a little threatening. Ted Cruz or one of his representatives, out on the campaign trail, will say something that sounds a lot like someone pushing for theocracy — like someone who views the constitutional separation of church and state as a...
Yesterday, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem set dance-punk world aflame when he wrote a letter to fans explaining the band’s return. Five years ago, Murphy announced the band's amicable break-up to the woe of their loyal fanbase, and they ended it with the biggest bang by performing a sold-out show at...
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Donald Trump is being lambasted for his Trump University, a business that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is calling “phony” and “heartless.” The company marketed itself as a school that would teach students how to make money in real estate, even though it wasn’t accredited in any way. Instruction included...
Cody Hernandez was beginning to wonder what he had to do to get his music heard. He'd been posting music to his Soundcloud page for over a year, but none of it had gotten much attention. Until last week, when his latest song, "Side of You," got spotlighted by a...
Do This!Obsessed with the HGTV show Tiny House Hunters? You've got at least one good reason to join the free Earth Day Texas celebrations at Fair Park this weekend, which will educate visitors about the environment and how us rotten humans can co-exist more peacefully with it. During festival hours, 10 a.m.-6...
Yesterday we learned that attendance for the Dallas Art Fair last weekend broke the record, with 12,500 people passing through the halls of the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Avenue. In its eighth year, the fair seemed more vital than ever. As we mentioned in our coverage of the fair...