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The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes

If Mitt Romney won't tell you which need to be closed, we will

In a Hidden Texas Farming Village, the Making (and Selling) of a Cambodian Bumper Crop

Cambodian immigrants are growing and selling a plant so invasive it's banned in several states. How did you think that water spinach ended up in your bowl?

America's Petro-Terrorists

How greedy speculators bought politicians and drove up the price of oil.

Over The Weekend: Grace Potter & The Nocturnals and Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights at the House of Blues

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern LightsHouse of BluesFebruary 18, 2011Better than: watching Almost Famous yet one more time.Patrick MichelsGrace Potter performing at the 2010 Austin City Limits Music Festival, in a dress longer than the one she wore on Friday.​ ... More >>

With New Citizenship and Plans for a New Restaurant, Abraham Salum
Has Cause to Celebrate

Photo by Robert BostickAbraham Salum​Abraham Salum's restaurant always seem to be filled with happy guests, despite its odd location. He runs a clean, consistent, open kitchen at his namesake Salum, located in a tiny shopping center on Cole Avenue, a spot many people said couldn't possibly be ... More >>

Obama and Me

It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial

DART Doing Fuzzy Math

DART: What billion dollar shortfall?

Where there's a Will

Will Clarke has a deal with a New York publisher and a Hollywood studio, and it only took him eight years to become an overnight success

Heavy Traffic

Border drug lords get rich while attorney Mike Barclay gets worn out defending the poor smugglers

Dark Victory

15 years later, Frank Miller once more dons Batman's cape and cowl

Tortured Souls

Horribly abused children of the Hare Krishna movement seek justice--and peace--through a multimillion-dollar lawsuit

Make 'em Pay

Spurred by a horrifying wave of teen violence in the '90s, Texas today spends more money than ever to lock up young criminals. Are we getting our money's worth?

Tale of the Tapes

With headliners like Mike Judge and an impressive list of films, the Dallas Video Festival once again wins by knockout

Scene, Heard

Holiday schmoozing

In sync

The Dark Side of Oz? Man, that's just the tip of the iceberg

Stalker fiction

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's quite real... and really angry.

Sink or swim

Evolving Fish soars and flounders

Rock on

Chris Weber comes back to Denton to try his luck with Rock Lottery

Rock and roll eyes

For Matt Barnhart, Quality Park Records is job one

What a mess

With a new-but-not record and yet another bassist, The Darlingtons begin again

1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Clarity prevails

Jimmy Eat World proves you can make a good record for a major label after all

Jerry's kids

Jam bands burst into bloom

Soul survivor

Four decades after his first record, Solomon Burke is still in the studio and in God's arms

The quiet man

Cornell Dupree is the ultimate un-showoff

Don't call it a comeback

Meredith L. Miller sleeps with Elvis and dreams with Buddy