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The 10 Biggest Trades in Dallas Sports History

Tuesday is deadline day for Major League Baseball. After 3 p.m., players can't be traded without first being placed on waivers. For teams in playoff contention, it's the last chance to reload before a stretch run. For clubs that are hopelessly out of it, like the Rangers, the deadline is...
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When Two Makes III: Rapper Joe Mayberry and War Founder Team Up

Dallas rapper, songwriter and producer Joe Mayberry remembers the first time he worked with the man he respectfully calls “Mr. Scott.” It was nearly 20 years ago, and Mayberry — much to his own surprise — drafted the older man to reprise some vocals on a rap remake of a...
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The Truth Behind Pleasant Grove’s New Anti-Abortion Billboard

Dallas' shiny, new anti-abortion billboard isn't from one of the usual suspects. It's not paid for by Texas Right to Life or the Texas Alliance for Life, Texas politics' twin anti-choice behemoths. Instead, the billboard, which reads "Abortion is not healthcare. It hurts women and murders their babies," is the...
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Finally, a Dine-In Movie Theater That Serves Decent Food

After sipping cocktails in the lounge of Moviehouse and Eatery, a dine-in theater in McKinney, you check your watch to find your showtime is approaching. You make your way to your theater and into a cool brown leather seat and find a food menu so diverse, it gives Alamo Drafthouse's...
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Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend

Friday If you can tear yourself away from TV's breaking news, you can catch another Reign of Terror in Imprint Theatreworks' production of The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson, playing at 8 p.m. Friday at the Margo Jones Theatre in the Magnolia Lounge at Fair Park, 1121 First Ave. Set in...
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AT&T Performing Announces Fourth Season of The Elevator Project

The AT&T Performing Arts Center has plenty of space. Its website says it is the “largest contiguous arts district in the United States.” It includes the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, Annette Strauss Square, and Elaine D. and Charles A. Sammons Park. In 2014,...
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Dallas Observer Mixtape with DJ Megalomaniac from Move

Washington Charcopa is humble and zen, which is the exact opposite of his alter-ego, DJ Megalomaniac. In an environment where techno is once again topping the DJ charts and an increasing number of younger DJs are genre hopping over to techno every week, Charcopa is a bonafide veteran among the...
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Ted Cruz Makes Beto O’Rourke a Big-Time Debate Offer

Throughout his insurgent campaign to depose Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke has insisted that he wants to debate the incumbent as often as possible. Initially, O'Rourke suggested six debates, four in English and two in Spanish, before eventually settling on six debates in English when Cruz said...
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Control Over Trinity River Based on the Castle Frankenstein Model

The new $115 million bridge upon which no person may safely set foot is not going without notice or attention at City Hall. According to good sources who speak to me regularly in return for my promise of confidentiality, the city department that brought us the bad bridge is about...