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It’s fun stuff, but in a deeply corrosive way — daring to suggest that people engaged in a soul-sickening endeavor will find, well, their souls sickened
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Musicians take gigs from almost anywhere. Want them to play in a dirty old bar? Of course they will. Need a musician for your company's fundraising event? They will play it. What about a bassist who will show up on time to church service every Sunday morning to play songs...
Over the weekend, Sen. Ted Cruz found himself, as he has so often, near the center of the political universe. Not for a good reason, either. In a series of reports released by The New York Times and The Guardian, Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company bankrolled by Republican mega-donor Robert Mercer,...
Shell Shack, the flagship Uptown seafood joint that opened in 2013, later spawning five other locations, is moving to Henderson Avenue, according to a press release. The restaurant is taking over the space formerly occupied by the short-lived Mellow Mushroom, "which means more interior seating, a patio and a bigger...
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On Saturday afternoon, hundreds of North Texas students are going to try to do what adults haven't be able to figure out. They're going to confront America's gun violence epidemic in a way that actually gets something done. When the students take to the streets in solidarity with the victims...
What better way to cap off a weekend of wild concerts than to host one of the biggest party shows at one of the smallest venues? That’s what happened Sunday night with the second-to-last show in Not So Fun Weekend’s five-day concert series with five bands: Omni, Okey Dokey, La...
As things stood in November, the last time the Dallas City Council took up Dallas' Confederate statue problem, it seemed the council was ready to accept the recommendations of the task force hastily assembled by the city this summer after a woman was killed during a fight over the fate...
Hollywood is smack dab in the middle of another busy pilot season, and one production vying for a full season on a major network is being filmed here in Dallas. ABC Studios officials confirmed that film crews are scheduled to shoot a pilot for a new dramatic television show titled...
Getting sucked into the wishful thinking of potential musical success is easy. MyAfton, a booking agency based in Portland, Oregon, thrives on this kind of naive optimism. At first glance, MyAfton’s unsolicited booking emails might look exciting and, to the uninitiated, like a revolving door of endless opportunity. However, after...
The days of baking in a tanning bed are a distant memory for most of us. And now spots and splats of skin discoloration stretch across our faces. Why didn’t we listen when we were teens who just wanted to bake to a crisp? These days, the spray tan scene...
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We love a good buffet. Doesn't everyone? But perhaps what we love most about buffets is that they're no longer the flavorless American feeding troughs of our youth. In DFW, some of the best buffets are filled with vegetarian food, Indian cuisine and even Persian fare. If you're hungry —...
... Everything about the series, from plotting to character development to tone, feels contrived, with every speck of subtext hauled up and nailed down to the show’s slick surface
Uthaug’s film, like the recent reboot of the video-game series, gives us a grittier Lara Croft, one stripped of the advantages of her wealth and all bruised up from the rigors of her adventure
Erin Brockovich, the crusading environmental activist who inspired an Oscar-winning performance from Julia Roberts with her work to ensure water safety in California in the 1990s, is taking on the water coming out of faucets in Plano and several other North Texas cities. It might not be safe to drink,...
Arlington already has the largest local monopoly on professional sports with Globe Life Park, AT&T Stadium and the University of Texas at Arlington's Maverick Stadium. Now it wants to gain an even greater foothold by making one of the biggest public investments in competitive gaming. Arlington officials this week announced they...
The Men's NCAA basketball tournament is in Dallas this weekend. It's a big, but not huge, deal. The games being played are just first- and second-round contests, and Texas Tech, trying to advance to its first Sweet 16 since 2005, is probably the biggest draw. Barring an unforeseen miraculous performance...
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Friday The name Nat King Cole brings to mind smoky jazz standards and vintage Christmas memories, but the artist is so much more. Beyond his enormous cultural reach, Cole’s songbook is immense and includes more than 100 hits, many of which were firmly in the pop realm, not jazz. The...
If there's one thing Dallas has a surprising deficit of, it's the kolache — or, more specifically, the kolache (the sweet one) and the klobasnek (the savory one). This weekend, Dude, Sweet Chocolate's Katherine Clapner attacks the issue head-on with a pop-up so Texas, we might have to dust off...
Bourbon & Banter's Pompadour gives the guest the chance to be destructive.
The Magic Lemon Drop Martini changes colors thanks to butterfly pea tea extract.