Anyone planning to gather outside Dallas City Hall early today and cheer as council members pedal their bikes into work for the Bike to City Hall event can sleep in instead. The event has been canceled because of inclement weather. What Bike to City Hall event, you ask? Beats us…
GOP Sen. Ted Cruz faces off against Democratic challenger U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke tonight at SMU in their first of three debates, and no doubt Texans everywhere will be glued to their screens to learn the answer to the race’s most pressing question: Will O’Rourke say the word? You know…
Sorry about that headline. It’s 4/20, the unofficial national marijuana holiday when America celebrates the happy wonders of weed. It should be cheerier, right? Weed is potent and plentiful. Yay! But this is Texas, where it’s still illegal. Boo! And it will probably remain illegal until the cows come home,…
What are the most vital questions concerning the marijuana industry today? No, not “Got any?” or “Hey, can you hook me up with your guy?” The truth is the marijuana industry is booming, medical use of marijuana is expanding and entrepreneurs are entrepreneuring, and there’s a whole world of valuable weed…
Most everyone in the case of John Doe Jr. and John Doe vs. the Episcopal School of Dallas agrees on this much: John Doe Jr., a student at the pricey private prep school in Northwest Dallas, broke school rules and drove off campus at lunch with a pal without permission…
Are you a recent college graduate in journalism or mass communications? Really? Didn’t want to learn computer coding, huh? Well, that’s OK because despite what you might have read on Twitter, America still needs reporters who can dig in, get the facts and break news. We at the Dallas Observer…
Do you dream of being a writer? Do you want to push the boundaries of language to bring new insight into the human condition with your amazing, creative prose? Well, good luck with your novel, pal. Now move on. You newshounds out there, take a look at this: The Dallas…
Plano City Council member Tom Harrison, after listening to his united council colleagues call on him to do the “honorable” thing and resign for publishing anti-Islamic posts on his Facebook page, delivered a short, simple reply: “I will not comment about anything on the advice of my attorney, but I…
Dallas’ favorite muckraker, Jim Schutze, will be live on video at 4 p.m. Wednesday on the Observer’s Facebook page. After his first Facebook Live appearance last month drew literally dozens of viewers, including members of his family, Schutze decided he wanted to take another crack at answering readers’ questions. So,…
Do you consider yourself a Renaissance man or woman? Are you a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, with some hip hop, EDM, pop and classical tossed into the mix? Do thoughts of Dallas music, books, theater, art, TV, film, freaks (we mean that in a good…
President Donald Trump says we should be importing more immigrants from Norway, rather than spots like Haiti or Africa and other places he diplomatically called “shithole countries” (allegedly). The obvious question, besides “Oh, God, is he really going to be in the White House three more years?” is, “What makes…
Michigan’s favorite son and Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze was on Facebook live Wednesday afternoon, responding to readers’ questions about politics, Dallas’ future, biting dogs, The Dallas Morning News’ Texan of the Year and a whole bunch of comments about whether he’s a Texan. (Hint: He doesn’t like okra. Enough…
The Texas Restaurant Association and a bipartisan group of state legislators say the Texas Department of Agriculture has put its thumb on the scale, flouting a new state law intended to lift a regulatory burden on restaurants. House Bill 2029, passed unanimously by the Senate and with only one “no”…
Amy Ero, the Dallas Observer’s advertising director, is leaving us for a gig as managing director of a Dallas-based design and consulting agency. It’s not so much a “goodbye” as a “see you around” — she’ll continue to collaborate with the Observer at her new job developing digital marketing for…
We understand that recent experience in the voting booth might have left a bad taste in your mouth, but don’t give up on democracy just yet. It’s Best of Dallas® time again, your chance to cast a ballot that really matters. This is an opportunity to help your fellow citizens…
“I always wanted to save the world with journalism,” says Candace Evans, the challenger for Lee Kleinman’s District 11 City Council seat. Considering the last time Dallas elected a journalist to the City Council, Mayor Laura Miller, that’s either a pretty bold statement or a give-up. Miller had a habit…
A lethal fungus that has driven some bat species to near extinction across the eastern United States has been found for the first time in Texas, researchers say. Biologists from Bat Conservation International and Texas A&M University’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Institute of Renewable Natural Resources spent…
Ever ready to rush in with a press release where the religious liberty of Texas public school students is threatened, even when it isn’t, the Texas Attorney General’s office fired off a letter to Frisco ISD on Friday warning them that a “prayer room” available to Liberty High School’s 2,100 students had…
Tyrone Paxton was shot dead in broad daylight in mid-morning on April 19. His body fell next to the road at 2800 Cleveland St. in Southeast Dallas, alongside a vacant, grassy lot overlooked by nearby apartment buildings and their parking lots. Dallas homicide Detective Derick Chaney believes as many as…
So, last week the city of Dallas reached an agreement in its battle with HMK, a company the city accuses of operating as a slumlord. Families that faced imminent eviction in West and South Dallas now need not worry being put out onto the street. They don’t, at least, until…
When former Dallas Observer Editor Joe Tone left the paper in 2015, he told us it was to work on a book about how a young FBI agent helped take down the Zetas drug cartel. Turns out, he wasn’t kidding. He not only wrote a book, due to be published…
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor has made himself perfectly clear: An order he issued in August to stop the Obama administration from enforcing guidelines that would push school districts to allow transgender students to choose which restroom and locker rooms they use applies everywhere in the U.S. Texas Attorney General…
