Last week, a giraffe was sent home from the petting zoo at the State Fair of Texas after several visitors documented its poor condition on Facebook. One woman, Stephanie Coon, posted a video Sunday, Oct. 1, showing the giraffe — which came from Hedrick's Exotic Animal Farm in Nickerson, Kansas...
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If your itch for hard rock was to be scratched Thursday at the Toyota Music Factory, we have some bad news. Due to “severe laryngitis” suffered by Scorpions frontman Klaus Meine, the band has canceled the rest of its Crazy World tour with Megadeth. And that includes Thursday’s show at...
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, we're sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. North Texas has a robust international food scene, from Japanese dishes to Thai street food to regional Chinese...
During live tapings of Ja'Cory King's podcast, things can get a little tense. King, who goes by Hollywood Kas, recalls a particularly impassioned debate during a taping at Deep Ellum's Drugstore Cowboy. "I remembering thinking, 'This feels like a fight,'" he says. The source of the conflict was King's assertion...
On Saturday afternoon, 3,500 people filled Dallas Farmers Market for this year's sold-out Dallas Observer Tacolandia festival, an all-you-can-eat taco bonanza that brought together many of the city's biggest taco heavy hitters. A panel of judges nobly sampled every taco at this year's fest, and from the dozens available, they chose...
A 3-year-old Richardson girl remains missing Monday morning after her father sent her outside as a punishment late night on Saturday, according to police. Richardson police arrested the girl's father, Wesley Mathews, Saturday night for abandoning or endangering a child, a second degree felony. Mathews sent his daughter Sherin Mathews...
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For all its splendor, the three-story Alexander Mansion is easy to miss. It sits too far back from the road to catch with drivers' peripheral vision. Its neighbors are payday loan shops and long-shuttered shells of used car lots, their perimeters still fenced off by barbed wire and the occasional...
Jeanine Amapola is sitting in her Dallas bedroom putting on makeup and talking to the camera about her life — including dating, how she doesn't feel good enough and her faith. That video will eventually garner more than 48,000 views and pay her bills. A lot of the videos on...
We consume them in cascading mountains. The stats from the National Chicken Council read like satire: The NCC’s 2017 Wing Report (Americans are so batshit about chicken wings that the National Chicken Council does a Wing Report annually) projected 1.33 billion wings would be eaten on Super Bowl Sunday earlier...
Our annual Best of Dallas issue is basically Spark Notes. We try out all the places in Dallas to eat, play, drink and shop, so you don't have to, and can simply walk into your next date ready to impress. Now you really have no excuse for bombing. If the...
One night last spring, infamous right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Dallas' homegrown white nationalist, Richard Spencer walked into a karaoke bar on Abrams Road in Lake Highlands. They left less than a half-hour later after being kicked by One Nostagia Tavern's bartenders, but not before someone filmed a video of...
FridayCharles “Baba Chuck” Davis, known for traveling and studying across Africa in order to bring traditional dance to America, was the founder of DanceAfrica at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Davis died earlier this year at the age of 80. In its 40th year, the BAM program honors the life...
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An offer to audition for the role of Prince in a movie would be a dream come true for any funk aficionado, but when Dallas-based musician Ronnie Heart got the email, he didn't respond at first. A friend had seen an open call for actors by AMS Pictures and tagged...
Texas Rangers fans who checked their email boxes Thursday morning were greeted with something that's become fairly typical among local sports teams as they've made attempts to target their marketing: an end-of-the-year survey about the fans' experiences and what they might like to see moving forward. While about 80 percent...
These are times that try chefs’ souls. Abacus, a Dallas landmark for 18 years, is facing its most difficult test yet. Challenges are coming from every quarter. Its former celebrity chef is suing the restaurant’s owners; its neutral-beige interior feels like a time capsule from 1999; its menu, an abrupt...
This cocktail from Harlowe MXM's cocktail bar, Trick Pony, that only has three ingredients whose flavor is anything but simple thanks to its mushroom demerera.
If you have a Ghostbusters fan on your Christmas list this year, look no further for the perfect gift. The Dallas-Fort Worth Ghostbusters are putting their ECTO-1D vehicle up for sale. The DFW Ghostbusters are a local, nonprofit Ghostbusters franchise that celebrates the supernatural comedy movies by building costumes and props and...
Dead Flowers play Three Links on Saturday, Nov. 4. When Dead Flowers released their second LP, His Blues, in 2014, they planned to keep releasing a new record every year. That scheduled proved a bit too ambitious, but the four-piece rock band's third record is finally coming out, with a...
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The Dallas Observer received the following query Tuesday night from someone identified as "Big Poppa Pump" from New Jersey. Hi Stephen, I just finished reading your article, which was the most well informed article I read on the matter, and had to ask this question. Based off of all the information...
The Dallas Police Department released video Wednesday afternoon of three suspects in an early Saturday morning sexual assault. Just before 3 a.m. Saturday, two men approached a woman at a Chase Bank ATM on Wheatland Road in Duncanville. The men, caught on security cameras at the ATM and a nearby...
South Dallas' Pearl C. Anderson middle school has been closed for more than four years. Its abandoned, vandalized state serves as a picturesque backdrop for the new music video for Dallas rapper Buffalo Black's single “American Colors." The video, directed by Nick Melita of Cinderblock Studio, poignantly illustrates Buffalo Black’s...
The story goes that the stretch of snowy landscape at the end of the original cut of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner was actually B-roll from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, slapped on by Scott at the last minute to help deliver the more upbeat ending his studio requested. Those final moments...