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City Planning Committee Rejects Warehouse Project in Southern Dallas

The City Plan Commission on Wednesday rejected a zoning request for a 175-acre warehouse project in southern Dallas that nearby residents said would bring more pollution, more traffic congestion and lower property values to an area already overstuffed with warehouses. City staff had recommended approval of the rezoning for Dallas-based...
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How to Take Out: A Guide By Someone Doing a Lot of It

I'll start with a disclaimer: I'm not a doctor. I have no expert knowledge about the coronavirus or COVID-19, the illness that results from it. But I am someone eating takeout every day at this point (it's my job now, after all), exploring as many tips as possible on how...
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Madison Shepard Wants to Make Dallas Proud and Chris Rock Laugh Again

Madison Shepard and her dog Lexi sit on a couch in their home in Los Angeles, where it’s 75 degrees and sunny on a late November day, just like most days of the year in California. The multi-hyphenate comedian-writer-actor is currently “unemployed” during the pandemic, but for an artist, that’s...
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Homelessness Declines in Dallas, but It Isn’t All Good News

First, the good news: After several years of steady increases, the number of homeless people living in Dallas and Collin counties fell this year, according to the results of the city's annual homeless census. The bad news is that Dallas' efforts to reach out to some of its most vulnerable...
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Tenants in Former DHA Apartments Say New Owner Is Pushing Them Out

Residents in three low-income housing projects formerly managed by the Dallas Housing Authority say their complaints about poor maintenance and unsafe living conditions have been met not wit h repairs, but draconian regulations enforced by private security they believe are intended to drive them out of their homes. The authority,...
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Dallas County Puts Out a Call for Help as Mail-In Ballots Roll In

On Tuesday morning, the following email was sent to Dallas County government employees: “Dallas County Election Department is in need of assistance at Election Headquarters at 1520 Roundtable.”  It went on to say that both day and evening shifts are available. Elections administrator Toni Pippins-Poole and her staff are deep...
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4 New Restaurants Open and a Top-100 Closes in Dallas

Mubrooka Egyptian Street Food, one of the Observer's Top-100 Restaurants for 2020, has permanently closed, with its last day of service Thursday. "Koshari is one of the world's great comfort foods. A mix of macaroni, spaghetti noodles, rice and lentils, koshari gets topped with fried onions and a slathering of...
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A Little Coffee Shop Keeps Grinding

It wasn’t long ago that one could jump on a green bike and make her way from the central business district to the eastern side of Deep Ellum — the quieter side where the beautification efforts by the city stay cleaner and there are fewer people trying to make Deep...
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How to Get Pickup and Delivery From Our Favorite Restaurants

Colleague Brian Reinhart recently put together the Observer’s “Dallas-Area Chefs and Industry Insiders Vote on Their Favorite Restaurants,” where he went on, apparently along with the entire industry, to feloniously underrate Fearing’s restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton.  Brian revealed in his examination of the results that only one person in the...
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Slit Has a Lot to Give on Debut EP Nothing Left

Long before the pandemic had us all becoming just a bit more health conscious, the members of Dallas metalcore band Slit were concerned with another national health crisis. "The plan from the beginning was for the EP to center around a lot of mental struggles and the idea of giving...
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Pandemic or Not, Jackson Scribner’s Music Needs To Be Heard

A common question asked of many songwriters is whether the music or the lyrics come first when crafting a tune. Typically, the artist replies with something along the lines of “Well, it just depends, really, there’s no one set way to write a song.” For Jackson Scribner, such a question...
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Country Music Awards Draw Backlash for Oh So Many Reasons

Country music has had a tough year. With Lady Antebellum changing their name to Lady A, losses from COVID shutdowns, the death of country icons and backlash befalling critics of Dolly Parton for her support of the Black Lives Matter movement, 2020 naturally ended with a shit show known as the Country...