You may not know Michael Cheney, but if you’ve been hanging around Dallas’ music scene, chances are pretty good that you’ve seen him — usually in the front and always digging the music. This Saturday, Cheney will host his 50th birthday party at Three Links in Deep Ellum, with some...
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Burgers begin, for chef Jeff Bekavac, with a Big Mac at grandma’s house. It’s his first cheeseburger memory. He was sitting at his grandparent’s table with the iconic, mountainous double cheeseburger with the special sauce and the sesame seed bun. Bekavac remembers ruining his appetite for grandma’s dinner by devouring...
Earlier this week, the Texas GOP Twitter account tried to knock Democrat Beto O’Rourke’s past in the form of a couple of tweets. One was about an old DWI charge and the other was about O’Rourke’s time in the El Paso band Foss. With a young and lightly bearded O’Rourke...
A Dallas County jury sentenced Roy Oliver to 15 years in prison late Wednesday night. The ex-Balch Springs police officer faced as few as five years, and as many as 99, after being convicted of murdering Mesquite teenager Jordan Edwards in April 2017. The jury also handed Oliver a $10,000...
At the very core of the Hurricane Harvey story is a writing problem that has bedeviled me ever since Harvey hit Houston a year ago. When Harvey struck Houston in August 2017, it tied with Katrina in New Orleans a dozen years earlier: Together, they are the two costliest tropical...
Wednesday Def Leppard and Journey are halfway through a massive North American tour. Co-headlining each night, both acts are leaning heavy on the hits. If you want the most familiar, you'll not come away disappointed. You'll hear "Hysteria," "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and "Rocket" from the Lep while you'll...
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Weitz’s film, concerning a Mossad team’s 1960 hunt for Eichmann, is a sort of Argo Goes to Munich, blending heist movie jollies with some moral inquiry into justice, revenge, torture and execution
Ken Paxton's political ambitions, at this point, are probably best served by the attorney general staying out of the spotlight, and away from controversy, at least until his November general election contest with Justin Nelson is over. That's reality for a public official with low name ID and a bunch...
It’s a Monday night at The Rustic, and Frankie Leonie is waiting to get onstage. A schedule mix-up has resulted in the venue having no sound engineer for the night, and Leonie can’t perform until one of them drives in. Unfazed, she sits and eats with her mother and her...
Between all the fun, expensive rides and fried food at the State Fair of Texas this year, people might want to take advantage of what little free entertainment there is at this 24-day annual Texas tradition. There are 13 stellar musical acts ranging from Tejano music to hip-hop that will...
When cops shoot and kill civilians in the United States, they rarely get indicted for anything. It's rarer still when they get charged with murder and even rarer than that when they are actually convicted of a crime — usually manslaughter, if anything. That's what makes Tuesday afternoon's events just...
It's the heat. We're not talking about the weather; food spice finds you like a brass instrument that's played right in your ear. You feel an alarming jolt, your mouth and brain hurt and then go completely numb. Your eyes water and then the colors of the world - the...
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Carrollton’s Java Gaming Café was among the last three cities to host an Electronic Arts Sports-sanctioned Madden NFL 19 Classic Satellite: Dallas Open qualifier tournament on Sept. 22-23. However, EA announced they have canceled the remaining tournaments due to the events of a gunman, who opened fire at a Madden...
Roy Oliver killed Jordan Edwards. The ex-Balch Springs police officer fired his rifle into a Chevrolet Impala driving away from a party in the eastern Dallas County town in April 2017 five times. Oliver hit Edwards, 15, in the head, killing the Mesquite High School freshman. None of those facts...
OK, this just in, we’ve got the playbook now for the next Dallas mayor’s race, and it falls somewhere on a line between, “Oh, no, not again,” “Tell me you’re kidding,” “Wait, wait, this might be cool” and “Bring it!” Monday, The Dallas Morning News fired the opening salvo with...
Bureaucracy, not malice, forced activists to wait hours Friday as they attempted to bail 16 people out of Dallas County Jail, sheriff's office officials said Monday. Organizers with Faith in Texas and the Community Bail Fund of North Texas showed up to Lew Sterrett around 10 a.m. Friday with cashier’s...
Dr. Mark P. Jones is the fellow in political science at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies at Rice University and co-author of Texas Politics Today. We asked him to share his opinion on the Sen. Ted...
A Dallas esports player was among those injured when a gunman opened fire at a Jacksonville, Florida, video game tournament, killing two players before taking his own life Sunday afternoon. Player Drini Gjoka of the CompLexity Gaming team based in Dallas was one of the competitors at the Madden NFL...
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While the smart money, if such a thing exists among those willing to gamble on the whims of voters, is still on incumbent Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke got his most encouraging polling news yet in his bid to unseat Cruz. According to a new survey from...
You’ve gotten into a rut. Every date is exactly the same. You go to the same restaurant. You order the same thing. Date night has become a monotonous chore. That ends today, because if there’s one thing the Dallas Observer does better than anyone else, it’s saving relationships. You need...
Driving down Oak Lawn, you’ve probably passed Bellini’s Italian Café and Pizza, in an outdated shopping center between Maple Avenue and Cedar Springs Road, dozens of times. The sign is faded and the façade looks a bit worse for wear. It gives off some mobster vibes and, unless you’d heard...
America will get another look into Dallas drag queen Alyssa Edwards' life. Netflix announced the docuseries Dancing Queen will be added to its queue. It will follow Edwards, aka Justin Johnson, as he tackles drag life, home life and owning a dance studio in Mesquite. In 2010, Edwards was named Miss...