Who has a crime problem? Not me anymore. I don’t see crime outside my front door, and I sure used to see a lot of it. The new young people on my block in old East Dallas don’t believe me when I tell them, but in the old days when...
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Taylor Goldsmith has been going strong with his band, Dawes, for nearly a decade. The Los Angeles-based folk-rock quartet that features bassist Wylie Gelber, keyboardist Lee Pardini and Taylor’s brother Griffin on drums, have recorded six studio albums in this limited time, including the recently released Passwords. A large part...
A new year is about to dawn over Dallas, and it’s going to be for all the marbles. I’m writing about it in a piece that will run next week. But I want to preview that a little by sharing some things I am learning about how we elect mayors...
Fifty-one individuals are in jail and six others are being sought after a massive federal investigation into methamphetamine distribution and kidnapping by white supremacist prison gangs in North Texas. According to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox, federal authorities seized or diverted more than 190 kilograms...
Dallas Area Rapid Transit's first major fare structure overhaul since 2012 will get started this week with the rollout of a major update to the transit agency's mobile payment app. The update, effective Monday, clears the way for systemwide fare and collection changes this summer. Those who struggle to cover...
Before Vice President Mike Pence hit the stage Wednesday for the second day of the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas, the congregation of thousands sang a few worship songs. In one, this lyric stood out: “Yes, I shall see him, see him face to face / and tell the story...
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The Dallas-Fort Worth area loves to throw festivals. Whether people love attending them usually depends on the draw. Celebrations that work to combine arts, drink and food with live music tend to work the best. Index Fest (formerly known as Untapped) and the Wildflower Arts & Music Festival in Richardson...
The Harlem Globetrotters are in Dallas, preparing for a couple of their typically zany basketball exhibitions this weekend. The traveling hoops troop took advantage of some time at the Mavs practice facility Wednesday to show off their ball-handling with an assist from Mavs head coach Rick Carlisle and Dirk Nowitzki...
Practice forgetfulness. Forget about the bitterness over the new statewide grading system for schools and school districts. Forget the whole debate over school reform in Dallas. For two seconds, do the good kind of forgetfulness. Now ponder this: The overwhelming objective evidence is that the Dallas public school system has...
Despite major headliner Big Boi, the focus was on the beer rather than the music at Saturday's Index Fest in Fair Park. Things started to wind down around 9:30 when the Georgia rapper, best known as half of Outkast, took the stage. At that time, brewers began taking down their...
Tucked out of sight of the bars and restaurants on Greenville Avenue sits a nondescript building with a bright "4" glowing on top of it. It was once a church, and now it's the new home of Four Day Weekend East, the second location for the popular improv troupe that...
Competing to be a host city for a global sporting event like the World Cup might seem like a feat akin to winning the lottery, but the city of Dallas, the FC Dallas soccer club and some soccer experts believe the city has a solid shot. "We're very positive about the...
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Full disclosure: This article’s writer loved Nevada Hill. Stupid much. When Scott Newton first encountered Guinea Pig, it wasn’t a sprawling backyard halfpipe. Not even close. It was one piece of wood, and Nevada Hill was obsessively sawing into it. On the ground. With a jigsaw. In the snow. “I...
With this week's lineup, it may be hard to decide which show(s) to spend your money on. But any way you choose, you'll be in for a treat. Jay-Z starts us off with a stop through town in support of his latest album, 4:44, and Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett...
As Christmas approaches, the legacy of the 2017 Dallas Cowboys is still in flux. If the Cowboys win their two remaining regular-season games and get some help, they'll qualify for the playoffs, completing the resurrection of a season that appeared dead on Thanksgiving. If they miss the playoffs, this year's...
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...
Are we concert-ed out yet, Dallas? This fall has shown no signs of slowing down. There are so many shows filling the calendar pages for the remainder of 2017, and the upcoming months continue to look promising. Keep up the energy and keep putting a little cash aside because this...
Skate or Die Fest is from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22, at Gas Monkey Live. With all of the local music festivals — Homegrown, IndexFest, Spillover, Fortress Fest, Oaktopia and JMBLYA, to name just a few — it’s possible that North Texans have too many to choose from. Organizers...
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In a city burgeoning with privately owned, chef-driven restaurants that are too often short lived, it’s easy to overlook Dallas' quality chain restaurants. Often viewed as low quality, unoriginal and unhealthy, chains are omnipresent for a simple reason: They’ve mastered the formula of meeting customer demand while also making a...
Not my place, but would somebody else who knows what’s what please step forward and offer to give the new Dallas city manager and his top people a 45-minute seminar on recent city history? They seem to be good people, but they’re kind of traipsing out with a basket and...
A pair of fishermen report that there's a body floating in a creek in the obscure wedge of park space called the White Rock Lake Greenbelt. It's Nov. 21, two days before Thanksgiving. The police respond, calling it a "welfare check," but the description of the man makes it clear...
When now Dallas County District Judge Brandon Birmingham started working in the Dallas County District Attorney's Office's cold case unit, there was set of files that was forbidden fruit, even for the highest ranking members of the office. "There, in the warehouse of the DA's office in a corner, was...