In 2010, a small building in Deep Ellum known as Dallas Comedy House hosted the first Dallas Comedy Festival. This week, DCH, now one of the neighborhoods’ longest-running establishments, is welcoming performers from all over the country for its ninth year of the festival, which is expanding to two locations...
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Host a straw poll that asks what go-to spot Dallas chefs hit for cheeseburgers in the area, and you are likely to hear Off-Site Kitchen as a quick response. At least a handful of chefs in the past year have conveyed this choice in interviews. It makes sense from the standpoint...
Pity Joppa. With a deep, proud history as a living, breathing freedman’s town, this little gathering of 500 souls in a crook of the Trinity River five miles southeast of downtown is one of the city’s most impoverished places. Still, so many powerful people are always trying to rob Joppa,...
Justin Irwin won't forget Feb. 14. After losing friends and classmates to an gunman that day in Parkland, Florida, he marched in Dallas’ March For Our Lives to show his support for gun legislation. Irwin was in Dallas to speak at Parkland Moves Us, a March 25 event hosted by...
Jason Call had made it. He’s been tattooing for almost six years and appeared in five tattoo magazines, all sold at Barnes & Noble, and was on the cover of one. His clients travel from all over the U.S. to showcase his art on their bodies. He says he books...
Nearly 2,000 people made it out in one of the first warmer days of the year for Between the Buns, a Dallas Observer event that had attendees tasting and voting for their favorite sliders from local restaurants. Chef John Tesar was on the griddle for Knife's pimento cheese burgers, and...
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Don't shun hip-hop. Give local musicians some money. Help them figure out how to fill out city paperwork. Generally, behave less like bureaucrats. Those are some of the messages members of the Dallas music scene delivered to Dallas' Office of Cultural Affairs as the city prepares to write its first...
Time preoccupied Beck at every turn Friday night. Whether it was the eclectic setlist slipping easily between moods, albums and moments in his career, or the singer-songwriter’s repeated remembrances of past North Texas appearances, the weight of years seemed omnipresent. Perhaps that’s merely a strong inference from someone who has...
Sasheer Zamata is a woman of many talents. While she gained prominence as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, she is also an accomplished writer, actress and stand-up comedian. On March 30-31, she will perform both her stand-up and her variety show, Sasheer Zamata’s Party Time, at the Dallas Comedy...
Chronic pain patients and their doctors have been sharing their worries with the Observer since the Trump administration announced it was escalating the war on opioids. Some have appeared in articles, more in front of a judge. Some have taken to the streets to secure their needed medication for unbearable pain, paying...
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, famous for inspiring Julia Roberts' Oscar-winning performance in Erin Brockovich, is coming to North Texas. Brockovich, who blasted the North Texas Municipal Water District last week for using a common cleaning procedure, announced on Facebook on Tuesday that she's visiting Plano the first week of April...
Fort Worth's Leon Bridges has undoubtedly become one of the biggest stars on the national stage in recent years. His 2015 debut album, Coming Home, charted in the Billboard top 10, scored a Grammy nomination and secured a spot on pretty much every critic's best-of-year list. Now, with his follow-up...
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It’s been 22 years since the death of Tejano musician Selena Quintanilla-Perez. But her legacy lives on, and although she never claimed Dallas as her home, the city and all parts of Texas claim Selena as theirs. Here are four ways to celebrate the Tejano superstar's birthday next weekend: 214Selena...
Friday Turtle Creek Chorale has chosen anthems of past and present "to help bring peace and harmony to our chaotic humanity" in its program at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. "We Shall Overcome" and the premiere of a new...
Jim Schutze, Dallas' beloved accommodation artist and Observer staffer of approx. 47 years, will take your questions live on Facebook today at 3 p.m. He was ambivalent at first, but then we offered soft lighting and a makeup artist. Editor in chief Patrick Williams is moderating again so try to make...
The film tells the story of a terrorized woman in a mental hospital who’s trying to convince the staff and patients that she shouldn’t be there and is being held against her will
Think of Flower as a little like Sofia Coppola’s teen-thief satire The Bling Ring with the realism and consequences to bad behavior of Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen
A bad day at work is never fun. At a typical 9-to-5, a bad day could involve being forced to stay late, getting into a fight with a co-worker or visiting to HR after they looked at your browser history. For a stand-up comedian, a bad day at work is...
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The city's Confederate war memorial, cozily situated between City Hall and the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, could be on its way out after a slim majority of the Dallas City Council expressed support for its removal Wednesday. Late last week, it looked like the towering statue might receive a...
There’s a never-ending breeze at the Cold Beer Co. It rolls in through the open bar, lifting menus out of their holders and skating potato chips around on their metal trays. The bar feels open and doorless, like any Dallasite could saunter in the dining room from any point in...
Even as Maoz seems to be addressing his themes head on, he’s cleverly setting up the conditions for tragedy, and when it hits, it’s somehow both shocking and inevitable
At heart, Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn are folk performers. Just a few years ago, both artists were deeply entrenched in projects — the Appalachian roots trio Mountain Man for Meath and heady folk-rock jammers Megafaun for Sanborn. When not touring the globe, headlining giant festivals or dropping new singles...