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Eat These 6 Lucky Foods to Ring in the Chinese New Year

It's that time of year again for Chinese families across the globe, when red lanterns and red and gold emblems are strung across ceilings, doors and street lights. Relatives convene and the elders tuck ornate red envelopes full of cash, or hong bao, beneath the pillows of sleeping children. The...
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Get Stoked: JMBLYA Announces J. Cole As Headliner

For faithful JMBLYA fans the wait is over. ScoreMore Shows announced this morning that acclaimed North Carolina rapper J. Cole will headline the sixth installment of the annual Hip Hop/EDM music festival. With Fayetteville’s finest anchoring this year’s lineup the complete roster of artist includes, Migos, Cardi B, Kevin Gates,...
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Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend

Fri 2/9 Echo Theatre will create an old supper club setting just in time for Valentine date night with Her Song, a music and dance revue at the Bath House Cultural Center, which overlooks WhiteRock Lake at 521 E. Lawther Drive. Shows start at 8 p.m. Friday and continue through...
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Dallas Observer Mixtape with Flash 45s: Electrofunk Mix

Dance music genres go in and out of popularity, and electrofunk is about to have its moment again. DJ Flash 45s is best known for spinning his vinyl 45s, but this week he takes a stab at electro. Today, the genre is most commonly associated with techno, but it has...
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We Ran Dallas’ Finest Through Google’s Portrait Matcher

Throughout the winter, much has been made about a feature in Google's Arts and Culture app that uses an algorithm to match a user's selfie to a piece of art from around the world. The results have ranged from amusing to terrifying, but Dallas has largely been left out on...
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Dallas Rapper Bobby Sessions Signs with Def Jam

Dallas hip-hop artist Bobby Sessions announced today that he has signed with Def Jam. The announcement comes almost three years to the day since Sessions quit his day job to pursue music full time. In a 2015 interview with the Observer, Sessions said that he only had $50 in his...
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After Lawsuit, Dallas County Faces Down Its Cash Bail Problem

A final fix for Dallas County's broken bail system is still a way off, despite a lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas filed against the county in January, which alleges the county unconstitutionally keeps poor people locked up because they don't have cash for bail. Meanwhile, the county's...
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21 Things to Do in Dallas This Week

Thu 2/8Here we have two of the best rappers in the world, two rappers who grew up together, two rappers who sit stylistically at different poles. There’s the stark, heady and cold philosophizing of Vince Staples set against Tyler, the Creator’s warm, technicolor revelry. Staples' tracks balance hardline street values...
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Inside a Dallas Class That Teaches Improv to Help With Anxiety

Performing requires confidence and focus. And performing improvisational comedy requires extra of both because the players make up the dialogue, movements and settings on the spot based on their fellow players' reactions. It's basically an ordinary social interaction, but onstage. A simple conversation with a complete stranger or a close...
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A Day in the Life of Sam Villavert

Unlike most musicians, Sealion bassist Sam Villavert wakes up at 4:30 a.m. “It’s a ridiculous hour,” Villavert says, “but it helps jumpstart my morning and puts me in a healthier mental state.” For Villavert, 26, exercise is indispensable. Usually, she works out before her 8 a.m. arrival at Nature’s Plate,...
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Texas Attorney General Paxton Pushes for New Checks on Voter Fraud

It's not Groundhog Day, but it's close. Late Monday afternoon, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, still under felony indictment and still taking on all comers, announced that his office has new plans to curb what he frames as an epidemic of in-person and mail-in voter fraud in Texas. In a...