In 2013, the Arlington Police Department began experimenting with a then-novel way of looking at crime. With money from a National Institute of Justice grant and in partnership with academic criminologists, Arlington used Risk Terrain Modeling, a data analysis tool, to combine existing crime reports with geographic information in hope...
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The $2 trillion CARES Act, which established the Paycheck Protection Program. A new report shows how it hasn't all gone as planned.
Last week, a Republican Party of Texas staffer was fired over controversial social media posts.
Thanks to the design of the American healthcare system and Texas' failure to expand access to Medicaid, the results of a new Kaiser Family Foundation study into COVID-19's effects on access to health insurance aren't surprising. It doesn't make them any less of a crisis or Texas Sen. John Cornyn's...
About five years ago, Remedy, chef Danyele McPherson’s Greenville Avenue joint that harnessed nostalgia like fireworks, debuted an unforgettable cheeseburger. Three years ago, it came up for air at Standard Service in Heath. It had cheddar at some point, a, frankly unacceptable modification for McPherson, now culinary director for 80|20 Hospitality: "American is...
As the air gets a chill and trees are bedazzled with festive lights, we should all celebrate not only the fact that we made it to the holiday season of 2020, but also the local craft breweries that have traversed this path with us. And because every day should be a...
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Though most of this year hasn’t been ideal for dining inside our favorite restaurants, there was still plenty to write about. And readers read. Here are some of the most-read food-related pieces in the Dallas Observer over the last year. Before we look forward to vaccines, getting together with others...
All City Plan Commissioner Wayne Garcia had to do was disclose his conflict of interest and recuse himself from the zoning case, but he didn’t, according to an anonymous ethics complaint against him.
Holiday season has arrived, which means we’ll once again be inundated with the holiday spirit by many of our favorite films. You know, those. It’s a Wonderful Life. Miracle on 34th Street. White Christmas. Home Alone. Elf. Fred Claus (just kidding with that last one). These movies have carved a place...
Some people will show up to the opening of an envelope. Such is the case, it appears, with Mark Sahady and Brandon Navom from Massachusetts, who were recently called out on social media for answering President Donald Trump’s call to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Navom and Sahady have a...
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Houston U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw tries his hand at acting in "Georgia Reloaded," an ad urging people to vote in that state's senatorial runoff races.
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The shelter-in-place order that started in March pretty much brought Dallas' comedy community to a standstill. If there's no audience, there's no show, right? Comics and comedy groups have really had to step up their MacGyver-like resourcefulness to set up virtual shows during the pandemic. The results are some truly...
Carol Donovan and Rodney Anderson, the chairs of Dallas County Democratic and Republican parties respectively, issued a joint statement on this beautiful Monday afternoon in an effort to assuage high tension just before Election Day. While some businesses in downtown Dallas are hanging plywood over windows and Trump caravans ride...
Since the earlier part of the century, the sound of saxophones and soul-heavy vocals have been heard coming out of Deep Ellum bars. In the history of Dallas’ music scene, funk and R&B have always enjoyed a prominent position. The nominees for Best Funk and R&B for the 2020 Dallas...
Movies will never be the same. The industry has been changing rapidly over the past several years, but the biggest development has been the antiquated notion of seeing new theatrical films in theaters. Maybe Parasite winning Best Picture was the last good thing to happen? This was a big year...
On a balmy evening last November in Tyler, Enus Lewis finally came undone. After dark, Lewis left his mother's house and staggered into oncoming traffic on the busiest road he could find, hoping an oncoming car would kill him. Months of battling a tidal wave of grief had sharpened Lewis'...
The Texas Restaurant Association and the Texas Conference for Women announced they have donated $177,500 to 71 women-owned restaurants in Texas. Of the 71 restaurants, 10 are in North Texas with just one in Dallas — Asian Mint, which has four locations in the area. "As we have continuously stayed...
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The ever-narrowing collision course of the COVID-19 pandemic and a vaccine can’t get here quick enough. This week Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Tweeted that distribution of the Pfizer vaccine should begin as early as Dec. 14 and 7,200 providers, including major retail pharmacies, have already been selected. Climbing hospitalization rates...
Problems with the city's online portal for submitting and processing permits have persisted since it was launched last year. The pandemic made things worse.
Many Texans support police reform, but Gov. Greg Abbott's back the blue campaign has proven politically popular.
Around the time humans started dipping their fingers in ochre and telling stories on cave walls, a group of shamans forged flutes from bone and drums from animal skin. Those shamans were, by definition, healers, and the sounds they made with their flutes and drums were part of the therapeutic...