Downtown Dallas got a new burger joint yesterday when Village Burger Bar opened a new location near the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. The new restaurant off Woodall Rogers Freeway is the local franchise's fourth location. Firebird Restaurant Group, which owns the concept, has other burger joints in West...
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For much of The Final Year, convinced of Hillary Clinton’s victory, the members of Obama’s crew insist that their successes and failures are part of a continuity – that their work will inform the work of the next administration
That’s the real thrill: Those mind-blown moments when your perception of what is possible on this Earth expands like a blowfish puffing up its stomach with water
Become intimately acquainted with the Scoville Scale at ZestFest 2018. This three-day festival celebrating all things spicy will include food tastings, celebrity chef appearances and, of course, obligatory atomic wing- and fiery food-eating contests. Admission is $12 to $15. What it be: ZestFest When it do: Friday, Jan. 26, to...
When they’re made right, sliders are a flawless food. Contrary to the lackluster sliders you've been burned by before, they are not lazy, brunch versions of a cheeseburger. They shouldn't be throw-away sandwiches, carelessly fired on the grill until they taste like charred hockey pucks. When they’re great, sliders are...
Seventeen years ago, the Dallas Cowboys and the New England Patriots finished the 2000 NFL season in the same spot, 5-11, well out of the playoff hunt. Both teams featured first-year coaches — Dave Campo for the Cowboys and Bill Belichick for the Patriots. Both teams, although they didn't know...
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Thu 1/25The meaning of the word “truth” used to be widely understood, but in the last two years, fake news, alternative facts and the like have forced us all to give the concept more thought. The well-timed film and video exhibit Truth: 24 frames per second at the The Dallas...
Let’s not you and me try to answer the question of whether 2018 will see a huge, biblical, roaring, wrathful, tsunami-sized day of reckoning for Republicans in which they will be abraded from the surface of the earth. For the sake of conversation, we’ll take that as a given. And...
The Dallas Fuel eSports team's inaugural season got off to a bad start when one of its starting players was suspended and fined for discriminatory talk about a rival player's sexual orientation. Felix "xQc" Langyel, who serves as the Dallas Fuel's "Main Tank" in Blizzard's newly formed Overwatch League, received a...
Mother-son duo Boonmie Phennara and Xay Senephoumy are bringing their family recipes to diners in downtown Irving, including noodle soups, whole fish, Hawaiian loco moco and a bowl of pho topped with a beef rib.
Josh Johnson had never seen pot trees before. They towered 14 or 15 feet in the air, their limbs blooming with marijuana flowers in the sunlight like rows of cornstalks. They weren't nearly as tall as the Douglas firs covering the Pacific Northwest mountains nearby, but these plants would produce...
Earlier this month, Paul Hernandez, the guitar player and vocalist for Fort Worth post-punk band Bummer Vacation, made an announcement. “This next [show] is something I’ve envisioned since day one and finally found the person to help make it possible," he posted to Facebook. "Two piece BV.” That person is...
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A venue’s sound is best when it’s not a distraction. You notice when the sound is bad — when a mic cuts out, when you can’t distinguish one instrument from another or when the feedback makes your ears feel like they’re about to bleed. When the sound is good, all...
In a Jan. 9 article, the Dallas Observer spoke with Dallas County officials from pretrial services about the changes being made to help reduce the high number of poor people serving time in jail without being convicted of a crime.The changes were a response to the Texas Commission on Jail...
Starting next Monday in the Dallas Police Department's South Central Patrol Division, a new kind of team will respond to mental health calls placed to 911. Instead of sending just police officers or paramedics, the city will dispatch a three-person team made up of a specially trained police officer, a...
Now that the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area is on the list of 20 finalists for the new Amazon second headquarters, I feel compelled to offer two observations: First of all, there is no such thing as a second headquarters. Companies are like people. It is in their nature to have...
When you fly into Dallas, Gas Monkey is one of the first things you see. Richard Rawlings' hot rod garage near Interstate 35 and Royal Lane has become one of the city's biggest exports. It has spawned multiple reality TV shows, the most famous of which is Discovery's Fast 'N...
A dozen strangers are typing away on computers inside a open, modern and brightly lit space on a weekday afternoon. In an adjacent private room, a group is preparing a presentation. Printers are operating at full capacity. Flyers on the walls announce lectures to take place that weekend. At the...
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A heterogeneous mass of marchers espousing support for women’s rights paid little mind to the blustery conditions muffling their chants of, “Women! United! Will never be divided!” Hovering nearby, however, were women threatening unity with ideas out of step with traditional feminism — they oppose abortion. Wind did not prevent...
In September, Chili's told us that it was headed back to its roots. The burger joint that got its start on Greenville Avenue found itself as a global chain with a menu some 125 items long. Chili's set out to refocus on "what we’ve always done best: our burgers, ribs...
Late last week, 20 cities, Dallas and Austin among them, learned that they're finalists for what's sure to be one of the biggest corporate developments of the decade, Amazon's second headquarters. The city or region selected by the retail giant is in line for $5 billion in economic development and...
Last year's inaugural brunch affair, the Morning After — a festival showing off the city's best not-quite-breakfast, not-quite-lunch eats — sold out weeks in advance. This year's fest looks equally popular; VIP tickets already sold out. But before we throw down on a cornucopia of biscuits and Champagne at Dallas...