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After Giraffe Incident at State Fair, PETA Advocates Boycott

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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From Chocolate to Fried Cheese, the Best Tacos at This Year’s Tacolandia

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...
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3-Year-Old Richardson Girl, Banished From House at 3 a.m., Still Missing

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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The Show-Stopper Hot Chicken Wings in Dallas

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...
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Nine Dallas Dates That Will Woo Anyone

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...
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Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend

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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The Texas Rangers Want Fans to Give Players End-of-Season Evaluations

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...
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DFW Ghostbusters Car Is Being Sold on eBay

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...
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Answers to Your Ezekiel Elliott Fantasy Football Questions

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...