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Weed, the drug that remains in the same class as heroin, LSD and cocaine, has been a staple of the counterculture for decades. With a handful of states legalizing the substance in some way, the taboo behind smoking pot is beginning to dissolve. People have become accustomed to marijuana’s influence on...
Because I’m not very good at remembrances — can’t remember — and because Jacquielynn Floyd at The Dallas Morning News just wrote a wonderful tribute to former first lady Barbara Bush that I know I can’t match, I wish I could just shut up, but, you know. Can’t. I have...
U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke of El Paso got some good news Wednesday from one of the first major nonpartisan polls of his U.S. Senate contest with incumbent Ted Cruz. According to Quinnipiac University's polling department, O'Rourke trails Cruz by just three points, 47 percent to 44 percent, within the poll's 3.6 percentage...
Wednesday Docs, shots and songs — Thin Line Fest has them all Wednesday through Sunday at a variety of locations in Denton. The festival offers free general admission for a host of events, including a documentary film fest, a series of live music and a photography exhibition. Films (primarily shown...
Crystal Mason thought she was doing the right thing. Newly out of federal prison after a three-year stint for helping people file inaccurate tax returns, Mason was pulling her life together while serving out the rest of her sentence on supervised release. She'd found a job and headed back to...
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Iron Fork, the Dallas Observer's annual food event celebrating some of the city's best food and drink, is just a week away. It has one of the best restaurant lineups ever, and there's an even better reason not to miss this year: For the first time ever, two badass female...
Alan Avila, better known as “AlanAvi,” went from kicking a soccer ball with his soccer cleats, to virtually moving a soccer player with a video game remote. FC Dallas, a Major League Soccer Club, signed Avila as its first eMLS professional player and finished fourth in the first eMLS Cup...
Every once in a while, you hear someone snuff, "There's a day for everything now." They're referring to whatever National Pickle Day or National Button Day they happened to read about at that given moment. And sure, OK, maybe they're right. Maybe the holidays with a singular, highly marketable focus...
Jon Alexis knows how to run a seafood restaurant. Now he hopes the chops he’s acquired since buying TJ's Seafood Market and Grill helps put a unique stamp on a burgeoning poke market. Even though he purchased TJ’s from his parents in 2009, opening up Malibu Poke down the street...
Late Tuesday afternoon, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly refused to guess at what caused an engine on one of his airline's jets to explode Tuesday morning, shattering one of a Dallas-bound plane's windows and killing an Albuquerque woman. Jennifer Riordan, a 52-year-old bank vice president, is the first passenger to die...
A plane headed to Dallas Love Field from New York City's Laguardia Airport made an emergency landing in Philadelphia Tuesday morning after an engine on the aircraft blew out, breaking one of the plane's windows and injuring a passenger. Marty Martinez, the founder and CEO of Dallas-based digital marketing agency...
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Comedian Maria Bamford may be brilliant at playing with comedic concepts and characters and finding new ways to elevate her art, but she says she doesn't have goals beyond doing comedy. "The goal is to just keep doing it," she says. "I don't have any higher aspirations except to make...
The bags of mulch in the front yard for new flower beds resemble any ol’ house in the suburbs. It’s a nice red brick home, and the subdivision has one of those typical names, like Canyon Lakes, Dove Ridge or Grand Oaks. Do not judge a book by its cover...
Somewhere along the way, what started as a jokey counterculture half-holiday for stoners has become a mainstream, commercialized faux-holiday in the vein of the now-ubiqitous national ____ days. Just as we see restaurants creating specials and hosting events for National Macaron Day or Pi Day on March 14, brands are cashing...
Six years ago in April, Jason Boso found himself sweating away behind the kitchen of his burger joint, painstakingly separating meat from a beaver carcass. The process was arduous. He’d purchased around 60 pounds of the prehistoric rodents to grind into burger patties that he’d serve for $8 each. The...
After a brief hiccup in the form of a disputed set of recommendations from Dallas city staff, all signs point to the city of Dallas getting rid of the Confederate war memorial in Pioneer Park sometime later this year. During a City Council meeting last month, Dallas Assistant City Manager...
This is how it works at City Hall. The city gives a mixture of city money and federal money to a community group to build affordable housing. The group sucks down the money. But the group barely nibbles away at the construction project — doesn’t get it done, in other...
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Texas Rangers announcer CJ Nitkowski has, once again, made himself the center of the story. With the team he covers coming off its best series of the year, having taken two of three from the world champion Astros in Houston, all anyone on Rangers or Astros social media could talk...
Displayed on the walls of Kettle Art Gallery were snapshots and video footage from the 25 years of Dallas band Old 97’s. Jason Janik, a local photographer, curated Friday's show filled with concert photography and Old 97’s fan art. It coincided with the group's annual Country Fair. People began to...
After 2.5 hours of deliberations Monday morning, a Tarrant County jury convicted Charles Bryant in the murder of 24-year-old Jacqueline Vandagriff in September 2016. Bryant, 30, killed Vandagriff before dismembering her and burning her remains in a kiddie pool he left at Acorn Woods Park near Lake Grapevine. Bryant and Vandagriff met...
The victim of pit bull mauling near Fair Park early Sunday morning remains hospitalized in stable condition, according to the Dallas Police Department. About 2 a.m. Sunday, four pit bulls cornered a woman, whom DPD hasn't identified, as she walked through her neighborhood in the 4300 block of Hamilton Avenue,...