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Best New Music in Dallas

Six Shooter is a recurring feature in which we highlight six new releases by North Texas-based musicians. Bryce Bangs — "Chasing That Gold" Singer-songwriter Bryce Bangs is fresh off playing a sold-out show at the Granada Theater in which he heavily from his recently released self-titled album. With a stop-in-your-tracks...
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Thanks, Zuck, but Maybe We Should Stick with T.J. on This One

Facebook announced last week it will begin expurgating from its pages types of speech that the site believes may lead to actual violence, as opposed to just offending the hell out of people. I’m thinking thanks, Mr. Zuckerberg. I get it. I see why you’re doing it, but I wish...
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Sam Smith Gives His AAC Audience an Emotional Bear Hug

As the sold-out crowd filed into the American Airlines Center on Friday, there were the weighty quotations displayed on screens flanking the angular stage, which stretched out into the middle of the floor. Settling into your seat, you could ponder this, from poet Rupi Kaur: “What is stronger than the...
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Statler Hotel

We can admit when we’re wrong. (It’s easy after so much practice.) So we confess we had doubts the Statler Hotel, built in 1956, would ever come back to life. We had watched it sit vacant in a neglected corner of downtown for nearly two decades. But it’s amazing what people with vision, dedication and […]
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Bobby Sessions Hosts Listening Party for His New EP With Def Jam

As race issues take center stage in America, Bobby Sessions turned the lights up to the max and handed them a microphone. The Dallas legend signed with Def Jam Recordings hosted a listening party Thursday night at Alamo Drafthouse Cedars for his first EP with the record label, RVLTN: Chapter One: The...
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The Sunday-Only Chicken Sandwich at The Grape Should Be a Dallas Landmark

So you’re here for the cheeseburger. You’re not alone at Greenville’s long-running bistro, and you haven’t been for years. Look around, and you’ll see and hear Grape patrons whispering about the burger across their tables. It’ll be something like “This burger won a bunch of awards.” (In 2009, it was...
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Food News: Deep Ellum Loses a Coffee Shop and Gains ‘Selfie Shakes’

In this week's roundup of DFW restaurant news, Deep Ellum loses a coffee shop, Plano gets a new one and Arlington just keeps on enticing us (yes, really). Deep Ellum coffee shop, booze-slinger and music venue Drugstore Cowboy has closed, as originally reported by Central Track: "Shortly after the Fourth...
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Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend

Friday The 17th annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas brings more than 30 feature-length films and loads of shorts ranging from drama to doc to experimental and more. Among all those movies screening through July 26 at the Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, there seems to be a...