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8 Outside-the-Box Valentine’s Day Dates in Dallas

Cupid's day is nearing quickly. Its challenge is finding something to do that's not totally cliché. Candlelit dinners? Been there. Rose petals? Already sprinkled 'em. We've rounded up eight Valentine's Day activities for you to enjoy morning, noon and night. These are fun whether your Facebook status is single, in...
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Texas’ First Cannabis Oil Dispensary Opens This Week

It's something that feels like both a really big step and a tiny one at the same time: On Thursday, Compassionate Cultivation will open Texas' first licensed cannabis oil dispensary just outside of Austin in Manchaca. Don't plan on skipping work. Don't bother gassing up the car. The people who...
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5 Things the Cowboys Need To Do To Get to Next Year’s Super Bowl

Mercifully for Cowboys fans, the 2017 NFL season is over. Like seemingly every Cowboys team with high expectations over the last decade — here's looking at you, 2008, 2010, 2015 — this year's team crashed and burned thanks to regressions from key players — hello, Dak Prescott and Dez Bryant...
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South Texas Decapitator Sentenced to Life in Prison

When she saw her 24-year-old son sleeping in his brother's bed, Rebecca Alexander grabbed a heavier blanket and tucked it in around him. It was early in the morning in late April 2016, and she'd just gotten up to get ready for work. She was worried when Jubal told her...
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Please, for the Love of God, Do Not Take Sid Miller Away, Texas Primary Voters

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said something he wasn't supposed to earlier this week. Commenting on the uproar over the potential release of sensitive intelligence information in a memo drafted by Republican U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, Miller compared the situation to slavery. While this isn't the first...
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Sports Journalism Startup The Athletic Is Coming to Dallas

A little more than three weeks ago, Cowboys writer Bob Sturm — winner of the Observer's best sportswriter award two of the last three years — made a mysterious announcement. He was leaving The Dallas Morning News, Sturm said on Twitter, the paper for which he'd written, off and on,...
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Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend

Fri 2/2Oh, God, I need this show: Uptown Players’ staging of A Chorus Line at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. Marvin Hamlisch wrote the music for lyrics by Edward Kleban. Direction and choreography are by Jeremy Dumont, whose...
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Dallas Observer Mixtape with Mala Strana

Most DJs go through phases as their musical palette evolves, and Shawn Kasal's DJ journey has brought him to his current alias, Mala Strana, under which he recently signed to local label Audiophile. It reflects the new, deep techno sound Kasal is channeling behind the decks and in his production...
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What Trump’s Tax Cuts Mean for the Median Dallas Household

Whatever you think of President Donald Trump, his racism, his behavior towards women and his unpleasant demeanor, you might have been shocked, or will be in shock, when the IRS's new withholding tables take effect at your workplace. Those tables contain new tax rates, created by Trump's massive new tax...