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The 10 Best Wine Lists in Dallas, 2018 Edition

If the average Dallas diner listed ways to get drunk at mealtime, wine might come in third. Any restaurant with any ambition at all has a list of house specialty cocktails, and the Texas craft beer revolution is still going strong — the region is opening at least 13 new...
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Dallas Park Board Signs Off On Fair Park Deal

Stop us if you've heard this one before, but Dallas is one step away from settling one of the biggest civic issues left on its plate. Thursday, the Dallas Park and Recreation Board voted 13-2 in favor of the latest, greatest city plan to turn over control of Fair Park...
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Attention, Artists: Come Get Business Advice for $400

Many artists, regardless of their skill level, never become business savvy enough to make ends meet without some other part-time or full-time job. The Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists, a nonprofit organization, aims to change this with its weekend-long art business summit “Conquer the Changing Marketplace” on Sept. 7-9.
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In City Hall Diatribe, John Wiley Price Warns Against White Liberals

In a speech to the Dallas City Council on Wednesday, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, the longest serving and most influential black elected leader in the city, warned that the most serious threat to racial amity in the city comes from white liberals. It was vintage Price. The 68-year-old...
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Federal Judge Stops Texas’ Fetal Burial Law

Texas' fetal burial law is out, pending appeal, but, oh boy, will there be appeals. U.S. District Judge David Ezra ruled Wednesday afternoon that the Texas Legislature's requirement that all tissue resulting from an abortion, miscarriage, still birth or ectopic pregnancy be buried or cremated, rather than disposed of as...
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20 Things To Do in Dallas This Week

Wednesday A dark musical about the life of a toy: think Toy Story but Mr. Potato Head has gone into a crisis. Ochre House Theater presents the world premiere of Mousey, in which Mrs. Mousey begins to think that life is more than just being a toy. When she launches...
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Former Paxton Staffer Livens Up Kavanaugh Confirmation in Twitterverse

Did Zina Bash, a star of Brett Kavanaugh's U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, flash a white power symbol while sitting behind Kavanaugh at his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday? Some people on Twitter think so, but then some people on Twitter think anything. Bash, who until recently worked for Texas...
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Today, Fort Worth Is the Center of the Political Universe

A federal lawsuit that could end up harming millions of Texans kicks off in earnest this morning in Fort Worth. A coalition of states, led by Texas and its attorney general, Ken Paxton, will argue in front of a federal judge that the Affordable Care Act, despite being ruled constitutional...
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Meet Paul Allen, aka the Official Dallas Naked Cowboy

Paul Allen has a unique side hustle in this day and age of Uber drivers and Instagram influencers. When he's not at home, out with friends or doing software engineering for Verizon, he steps out in public in a ten-gallon hat, Texas flag cowboy boots, a pair of Speedos and nothing...
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The Wild Ride of Lucky Campbell

Decades ago on the first day of school, Eddie Campbell’s teacher asked students what they wanted to be when they grow up. While others presumably offered the standard answers — athletes, astronauts, president — young Eddie said he wanted to own bars and nightclubs. It earned him a trip to...
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10 Things Ken Paxton Doesn’t Like

The short week that starts today is a big one for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Wednesday in Fort Worth, Paxton will take his first big swing at ending the Affordable Care Act, arguing in front of a federal judge that President Barack Obama's signature achievement is unconstitutional. Paxton is...
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Tiny Victories

This cozy cocktail den just west of the Bishop Arts District has a patio and happy hour that winks and says, “Well, hi there, neighbor.” Inside a small shrine to Bob Ross evolved randomly; a bartender just put something on one day, the next day a repeat customer asked why the famed happy little clouds […]