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Inflammatory Social Media Posts Highlight Guyger Sentencing

Sentencing of Dallas ex-cop Amber Guyger began Tuesday afternoon, hours after a jury found her guilty of murdering her upstairs roommate, Botham Jean, in a shooting last September. She faces five to 99 years in prison Prosecutors presented additional evidence, including Guyger’s application for employment at the Dallas Police Department...
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Best Men’s Clothing Store

Travis Austin CustomsSometimes there’s no one more qualified than an outsider to demonstrate what a city is all about. Take Michigan-born fashion designer Travis Austin. His custom leather and denim jackets, band tees and Stetson hats embody Dallas’ flamboyance better than just about any clothing line we’ve seen. He finds the vintage pieces and then reconstructs them […]
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TCU Percussion Orchestra To Play Prized Spot in Showcase After Earning Global Honor

This week, percussion students from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth are being recognized with an international honor. The TCU Percussion Orchestra will head to Indianapolis to perform at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. At PASIC, percussionists, drummers, enthusiasts, performers and educators from around the world all head to...
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Problems Plague Rollout of Police Oversight Office

Until Friday morning, anyone looking to report police misconduct to Dallas' new Office of Community Police Oversight would have had a hard time figuring out how. Instructions on a Dallas police website for submitting complaints led callers to a disconnected number. A link to the office responsible for collecting complaints...
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The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is Back This Sunday, Dallas

The Popeyes chicken sandwich is on its way back, after leaving us more than two months ago. It had to go away for the same reason Lenny’s rabbit had to go away: People loved it too much. There was a lot of hubbub. This writer has found it a bit...
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You Have to Try These Duck Fat-Chocolate Cookies in Deep Ellum

When Deep Ellum's Will Call relocated down Main Street to the former Independent Bar and Kitchen spot, they ended up with a new space and a new chef. Josh Farrell (you may know him from Nameless Chefs) has taken over the kitchen here, where he's already impressing some with nearly...
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These Machines Are Winning Return with a Literally Explosive New Video

Counting from 2012, you'd be very hard-pressed to locate a more artistically ambitious project in the North Texas music sphere than These Machines Are Winning. Led by veteran Dallas rockers Dylan Silvers, Ryan Hartsell and Blake McWhorter, the group is really hard to define, at least in typically simplistic music...
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A Family Affected by Cancer Uses Games to Give Back

In 2015, the lives of Chris and Christina Haslage changed the moment a friend forgot where he had parked his car. While it's a relatable mishap for many, the couple from Ohio said the level of confusion in their friend was uncharacteristic. Worse, it sparked an all-too-familiar feeling of dread...
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Why I Am Eternally Thankful for Patty Melts

Thanksgiving or not, I’m thankful for patty melts. Sitting at Dairy-Ette with a root beer, glass glazed with frost, iPhone’s predictive autocorrect hopes to change “patty melt” to “party melt.” Sure — that’ll do just fine. Do whatever you want, iPhone. Either way I’m having a buttery, toasted party melt...
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The Best New-ish Burgers in Dallas Right Now

Over the bar, chef Miriam Jimenez is holding her arms out as wide as her reach can go. It’s a striking photo that spans nearly the length of the wall. The meaning feels crystal clear: Chef Jimenez is ready to wrap the entire restaurant in a vigorous hug.
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Dallas County COVID-19 Page Is Lousy, Funky, Hard to Use and no Surprise

Local officials here are doing a lousy job providing us information about the pandemic. The Dallas County Health Department COVID-19 webpage looks like a DOS-based jigsaw puzzle from the 1990s. You don’t know what DOS was, right? My point exactly. (It was an early and now primitive computer operating system.)...