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Pension Officials Have Done $1 Million of "Due Diligence" in Luxury Vacation Destinations

The Dallas Police & Fire Pension Fund stumbled into a PR disaster when it went all in on the allegedly-art destroying Museum Tower, but that was far from its only foray into real estate. At times, as Anna reported last year, as much of a third of the fund's $3 billion portfolio has been tied up in l ... More >>

Pension Officials Have Done $1 Million of "Due Diligence" in Luxury Vacation Destinations

The Dallas Police & Fire Pension Fund stumbled into a PR disaster when it went all in on the allegedly-art destroying Museum Tower, but that was far from its only foray into real estate. At times, as Anna reported last year, as much of a third of the fund's $3 billion portfolio has been tied up in l ... More >>

KDT's Ruth Links Dust Bowl Okies to Modern Xenophobia

Komali is Mentioned (and So Honorably!) Among Esquire's Best New Restarants

Esquire has released its annual Best New Restaurants list. Sorry, Dallas, we weren't included in the slideshow of winners. We did, however, get an honorable mention in the intro that described several growing trends in national dining. While describing gastro pubs, the continued rise of southern coo ... More >>

Beats by Dallas' Own Hip-Hop Doctors

Play-N-Skillz Launch New Sunday Residency at Rio Room This Week With Guests Mya, Ray J

Hey, we know those dudes!​ Unless you've been living under a rock, this is old news: Rio Room is kind of killing it these days. Forget the fact that Playboy named it one of the best clubs in the states last month; the Travis Street hotspot has played host to the likes of Erykah Badu (twice!), Ques ... More >>

Play-N-Skillz Go Fully Electro, Release Free Download With Akon, Pitbull and Nelly Collabs

Steve VisneauPlay-N-Skillz​We've seen this coming for quite some time now -- that the Dallas-based, Grammy-winning hip-hop production dup of Play-N-Skillz was going to be taking things in a more electronic direction at some point.We saw it in the videos they've released, in their (highly successfu ... More >>

Dirk, Diplo, Others Flocked to Rio Room on Saturday For Erykah Badu, Questlove DJ Sets

Via Diplo's Twitter accountDiplo and Dirk Nowitzki​Yes, it's true: Dirk Nowitzki celebrated turning 33 years old yesterday by hitting the town on Saturday night -- stopping off, even, at Rio Room to catch DJ sets from Questlove and Erykah Badu. There, as the clock struck midnight, the Mavericks fa ... More >>

Download: Play-N-Skillz Release New Celebratory Mavericks Song Called "Victory"

Speaking of both Play-N-Skillz and Dirk, we'd heard on Friday that the hip-hop production duo was working on a track about the Mavericks and their NBA Finals victory. This morning, the brother Salinas formally released the track, called "Victory," no doubt a reference to both the championship and th ... More >>

Operation Streamline costs taxpayers millions, tramples on the Constitution, treats immigrants like cattle and doesn't work. So why are the feds so committed to it?

Dallas' Play-N-Skillz Are Getting An MTV Reality Show--And Want You Be On It, Maybe!

Steve VisneauP-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-play-N-Skillz!​I was lucky enough to spend some QT with Dallas hip-hop super-producers (not to mention two-time Grammy winners) Play-N-Skillz last week on the set of Tum Tum's new music video for his Salinas brothers-produced track "Smoke Something" off his excellent n ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Inertia feat. Lil Wayne and Tum Tum -- "Beddy Crocka"

Steven VisneauInertia​Tonight, at the House of Blues, Dallas-based super-producers Play-N-Skillz will perform a set as part of a bill its sharing with Bone Thurs-N-Harmony and Play-N-Skillz's own G4 Muzik-signed artist, Inertia.Seems the similarly Dallas-based Inertia has been the major focus of t ... More >>

Ballers and Shotcallers: Play-N-Skillz and Def Jam's All-Star Weekend Finale at PM Lounge

Steven VisneauPlay-N-Skillz​Play-N-Skillz and Def Jam's All-Star Weekend Finale PartyPM LoungeFebruary 14, 2009For Grammy-winning hip-hop producers Play-N-Skillz, Sunday night--the last night of a jam-packed, celebrity- and part-filled weekend--saw the brothers Salinas hosting not one, but two par ... More >>

Dallas Musicians Say Goodbye To Michael Jackson

Play-N-Skillz Among Winners at 22nd Annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards

Congratulations are in order for Dallas-based production duo Play-N-Skillz, whose work on Lil Wayne's "Got Money" was honored, along with 12 other 2008 rap songs, as the tops in its genre at this year's ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards on Friday night.Granted, it was just one of four songs from ... More >>

Listen: Play-N-Skillz Go On K104 To Explain Why They Haven't Yet Been Paid For Their Lil Wayne Work.

On Tuesday afternoon, Play-N-Skillz went to K104's studios and talked with DJ Bay Bay about the recent stories circulating in which they claim they never got paid for their work on Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III. Turns out, the brothers Salinas aren't necessarily blaming Wayne, or anyone in particular, ... More >>

Got Money? Not So Much, It Turns Out

You hear the Play-N-Skillz name dropped at the start of the Lil Wayne song "Got Money," sure--which makes sense, as the local products produced the beat for the song--but word today is that, despite all the talk we heard in the past year about how much producing the track would boost the local rapp ... More >>

"Dallas Week" Keeps Rolling...

...and here's another clip of Too $hort and Bun B talking about our fine city.In other news, Play-N-Skillz has announced that it will now be hosting a weekly radio show on K104 (KKDA-FM 104.5) every Saturday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Quite creatively, the Salinas brothers are calling their show "Play-N- ... More >>

It's "Dallas Week" Over At MTV.com...

Looks like the fruits of MTV's labor from a few weeks back, when the network followed D-Town production wunderkinds Play-N-Skillz around town for a party at plush and a dance instruction deal at Big T Bazaar are gonna be unraveling over on MTV.com all week--if the above promo, which features non-Da ... More >>

Play-N-Skillz Check Their Fresh, Comment On Their Grammy Win

Given the amount of hoopla surrounding the red-hot local production duo of Play-N-Skillz lately--the abundant MTV coverage, the Grammys pre-party, etc.--the brothers Salinas (Juan and Oscar) had plenty of confidence heading into Sunday night's Grammy Awards--maybe too much, considering how, last we ... More >>

Last Night: Play-N-Skillz Grammy Party At Plush

Play-N-Skillz, Big Tuck, Slim Thug, Pitbull, Paul Wall, Too $hort, morePlushWednesday, February 4, 2009Better than: Parking a filthy, body-damaged Scion Xb in a metered spot and walking two blocks to avoid using the valet service, all the while contemplating how out of place you are anywhere near a ... More >>