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Get To Know Your 2012 DOMA Nominees: Bad Design

Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we'll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we've done on them, or new ones. As always, you can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. This piece originally appeared in our F ... More >>

Bad Design Talk About Their First Time

Bad Design's First Time, Plus the Premiere of Their New Video For "Stained Glass"

Remember when we said it was a busy week for Bad Design? Add the premiere of their new video for "Stained Glass," directed and shot by Christopher Bryan and starring Ally Hoffmann, both of Denton's Peopleodian. In this week's print edition, a shorter version of the My First Show Q&A appears due to ... More >>

See Fear, Smell Popcorn

Songs For Your Casey Anthony Trial Hangover

​OK, so it wasn't the trial of the century or anything. But with planking beginning to become passe, all the good sports either in their off-season or lockout, and no high-profile Robert Blake/Phil Spector/OJ Simpson murder cases going on, the Casey Anthony murder trial thing provided plenty to c ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Leap Frogging Through History With The Toadies

The beginning of history as we know it​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we look back at an infographic we here at the Observer published to chart the career arc of The Toadies, following the release of their seminal record Rubberneck and through the production of their at-the- ... More >>

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I Have A ... List. Of the Best Black Athletes in the History of Ever

​While a lot of you are off work today, take time to remember and refresh the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. The rest of us? Let's commemorate MLK Day with an impossible task: Selecting the world's all-time greatest black athletes. First step, choosing the criteria. Sheer athleticism? ... More >>

Big Screen Post-Impressionism

Emmitt Smith: The Best? Or Simply the Most?

​It's a no-brainer that Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith will get voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. The question is, will he enter Canton as the NFL's all-time best running back or simply the running back with the most yards? Hall of Fa ... More >>

The Top 10 Greatest Black Athletes in the History of Ever

Mission Accomplished Impossible. In honor of February's Black History Month, I set out to pinpoint a pristine list of the world's all-time greatest black athletes. But using what criteria? Sheer athleticism? Popularity? Accomplishment? Social activism? Transcendence? All of the above? ... More >>

Pairing Off: Buffalo Wings

Patrick MichelsWe all know the story by now, how a Buffalo pub owner took discarded chicken parts, fried them up and rolled them in a sauce composed largely of butter and Tabasco. Within a few years, wings were everywhere--the invention joining those other gifts that city has bestowed upon the world ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Liza Richardson's Infinite Axis of Influence

Life has a way of dragging us off the charted path and into rather randomly obtuse trajectories. Sometimes you just feel like you're everywhere, all the time. Like you've got the whole world in the palm of your hand.It often comes down to an intangible law of attraction: Many of us have that one ... More >>

With the Addition of Pacman Jones, Valley Ranch Has Become a Halfway House

"Did You Kill Bill Walsh?"

Forget Gun Control

Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously.

All-All-All-All-Stars

The Twelfth Man

The Smith Shuffle

The Longest Yawn

Heavily padded football movie hits all the familiar notes

Oh, Dear, Bill Dear

Out of the Closet

With Trees' fate nearly sealed, we look back at its brave beginnings--and, of course, the blood

Lots of Baggage

L.A. Law

If the talk doesn't rock, then you must walk

Rage Against the Machine

Bus 174 vividly displays the unfocused anger of the disenfranchised

Mo Funny

Plus: Sack of Kittens; A Gay Scam Robs Now

She's Baaaaaack

Paula Poundstone is an open book

Sacrificed Fly

What factors make for the ideal wingman?

O.J. Confidential

High-profile P.I. Bill Dear believes he knows who killed Nicole Simpson. It's not who you think.

It's Xmas: Must Be Pizza

The Domino's driver may be America's new holiday symbol

Critics' Picks

Veruca Salt

Letters

From the week of February 10

Rubberneckin'

Leap-frogging through history with the Toadies

Letters

At a Toad's pace

No, the Toadies haven't broken up. They're just taking their own sweet time

Black like him

Despite the Starr report's dirty details, Paula Jones' case against the nation's "first black president" hinges as much on race as on sex

Conspiracy Theory

JFK assassination buffs who peddle their wares on the grassy knoll think there's a plot to put them out of business. They may be right.

Events for the week

Out There

Hang 'em high!

Schroeder and Streep make clumsy co-conspirators in Before and After

A pox on 1995!

Next year will be better

Heavy load

White Man's Burden can't carry its flawed premise

Kress and the merry morons

Dallas' political rabble takes after minority students' best friend

Low-lifes on parade

Strange Days spikes your popcorn with entertaining sleaze

Events for the week

The all-O.J. channel

Buzz

Striking a Nerve

Laurie Anderson riffs on fame, death, and the political landscape

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