In this week's Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area's most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Deidra "Dee Dee" Roper, better known...

In this week's Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area's most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. In order for a city's music scene to...

Melinda says that every single hand is unique and that she is merely a channel who lets the hands talk to her. If there is an issue in your mind or heart, your hand and what she refers to only as her multiple "guides" will pull her toward it. Meli...

Blue, the Misfit and his Brain Gang crew are walking the streets of Deep Ellum like Dallas rap game's version of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. It's around 10 p.m. on a Friday and the street is buzzing with people, but this crew -- rolling eight dee...

This Saturday, the heart of downtown was buzzing with a sense of local pride specific to the fifth annual Homegrown Festival. Upon entering through the shut-down stretch of Main Street between Hardwood and Saint Paul, the barrage of sights, sounds...