After the humble taco stand Trompo was named one of Bon Appetit’s 50 Best New Restaurants in America, a Redditor named Thrill_of_life turned their nose up at the $1.85 cost of Trompo’s tacos: “Too expensive in my opinion, bet they’re also going to raise the price.” Another Redditor, signel, agreed:...
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The folks behind Fort Worth's newest brewery, Wild Acre Brewing Co., aren't screwing around. It's true, they might be the seventh brewing operation in a three-mile radius centered roughly on the Sundance Square area, but Wild Acre is coming in hot, already having built up a cache of cans of...
Abigail Fisher's long fight against the University of Texas' admissions system is over. Fisher, who has since graduated from Louisiana State University, didn't get into UT-Austin, her first-choice school, in 2008. She sued the school, claiming that the system it uses for admitting students who don't automatically get in thanks...
Last Thursday afternoon, 58-year-old Patrick Ward waited outside Austin Street Center, an emergency homeless shelter for men ages 45 and up and women 18 and up. He walked past the other men crowded under the shade of a tree on the corner of Hickory St., spilling around the corner along Jeffries...
This week marks the arrival of legit summer, with the longest day of the entire year upon us today. And if pagan rituals aren’t your bag, then maybe carpe some diem and load up your calendar with some extra arts and culture events instead? You’ll find plenty of options below...
Sorry, but I do think we are starting to have a Wylie H. problem. I know I am, and I believe others are, as well. We need to stop the speculation, the guessing, the false accusations. It is eroding our civic life and possibly even our psychological well-being. Yesterday during...
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One of the few downsides of having a real, big-girl or -boy full-time job that comes with a salary and benefits is that, no matter how many hours the job requires, workers are likely exempt from federal requirements mandating employers pay overtime wages for those who work more than 40...
Dallas, thank goodness, is not Cleveland or Detroit. Its economy and identity have never had the Rust Belt dependence on manufacturing, and so it hasn't been hollowed out by American manufacturing's collapse. But make no mistake. Even though the Dallas area's population and economy are both famously booming, the city...
Folding meats, starches and other delights into dough and frying it isn’t a uniquely Argentine idea. You’ll find some variation of that theme on menus from Ghana to the Virgin Islands, but equating Empa Mundo’s empanadas to beef patties or pastelitos is like saying Jorge Luis Borges and Dora the...
The popularity of Lakewood Elementary has effectively warped the East Dallas real-estate market as upper-middle-class-to-rich families outbid one another for homes within the school's attendance boundaries. This makes a certain amount of sense, as Lakewood is a really good school that the surrounding community is heavily invested in, but it's also...
Sherwin R Tibayan/IndexYou ready for a bit of mind-blowing trivia? Susan Sontag's tour de force, On Photography, doesn't have an index. I know, it sounds impossible, but if you dust off your copy from college, you'll find that it's true. Although, I suppose in some ways that bit of trivia...
For well over 30 years, Dallas resident Skip Hollandsworth has been an all-star storyteller as a contributor and editor for Texas Monthly. Whether he’s writing about a vicious motorcycle gang, a tragically injured high school football player or a wealthy women’s wild-ass closet, Hollandsworth’s longform stories are packed with engaging...
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It's been an interesting year for music festivals in North Texas. "Interesting" as in a year of transition, although to the most part essentially a year of growth. While Spune put its Index Fest on hiatus until 2016, it rolled out the first-ever Reunion Fest and moved its marquee Untapped...
On Tuesday evening, Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance president and CEO — with an assist from former homeless czar/current Mayor Mike Rawlings — delivered some bad news in her second annual "State of the Homeless Address." As we predicted two months ago, the homeless count in Dallas and Collin counties has spiked, jumping...
You have to wonder: Are daily newspaper people ever struck by the fact that a movie about what they do is so much more popular than they are? Spotlight, Tom McCarthy’s movie about The Boston Globe’s 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series on child molestation among Catholic clergy, was two things...
How funny, really, are dick pics? Millions of them must be snapped and shared each year, as inducement or harassment, celebration or shaming. Perhaps Harper’s Index could tell us the tonnage of coal mined each year to power the transmission of American crotches. So when a dick pic turns up...
Pretty much any festival of note in North Texas has undergone serious changes in the past couple years. Some have returned after being gone for a bit (35 Denton), while some are taking a break this year (Index Festival), and others have simply gone away (Suburbia). As for Untapped Festival and...
Been wondering when Index Festival is going to announce its 2015 lineup? For last year's festival, which took place in September, organizers Spune held a big to-do at Trees in the springtime to reveal the first round of bands. Here we are in August but still there's been no word...
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Darius Rucker is backstage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, the foundation and epicenter of mainstream American country music. He’s ready to perform, looking calm and casually hip in jeans, a black T-shirt and over-the-ankle lizard-skin cowboy boots. Rucker has decided to close his three-song set, on opening night...
Critics rarely receive love from filmmakers. Last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, Birdman, featured a vengeful harpy of a theater reviewer (played by Lindsay Duncan) hellbent on annihilating a play before she’d even seen it. Birdman was joined in its release year by other unfair portraits of critics in Top...
For the past three years, Dustin Evans has received the best club music education by living in Berlin, the beating heart of modern dance music. It's also a far cry from the more modest club scene of his native Texas. Every year he comes back to Dallas for a bit...
With the 27th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards just around the corner — in fact, voting is open right now at 2015musicawardspoll.dallasobserver.com — we're highlighting some of the nominees for this year's awards. And when we say these venues are the "Best," don't just take our word for it: We...