Alpert checks in again and again with the same three families over 45 years of visits to the island, with sometimes heartbreaking results
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Need to get away from the fam for a minute this weekend? Get a respite from the holiday madness by stuffing your face — or drinking copiously — at some of Dallas' best food and drink events: ***** Unleash your inner Dowager Countess of Grantham at the Dallas Arboretum. The...
Airports are uniquely suited to use social media to advertise themselves and pass along useful information. When it comes to holiday travel, however, the area’s two airports have distinctly different strategies. One is posting a litany of public service announcements; the other feels like a meme campaign to promote the...
Thursday Look, you don’t need to do the 50th Annual Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot out of some sort of pre-emptive guilt about taking down a massive Thanksgiving feast. We get one day a year when gluttony is socially acceptable, and we should embrace it. Instead, you should do the Turkey...
It’s easy to pass by Pho Pasteur 2, tucked into an unassuming Carrollton strip mall near a Cici’s Pizza and a Colombian restaurant. With the same owners as Richardson’s Pho Pasteur, the Carrollton outpost of this Vietnamese gem delivers a large variety of inexpensive, traditional dishes. Taking its name from...
Fall this year in Dallas wasn't really much of a fall. The 95-degree days in October threw off our pumpkin spice mentality, so we're excited to finally be feeling a chill in the air — and warmer flavors on cocktail menus. Bowen House's newly released fall and winter menu offers...
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From the car window, Addison might seem like a mostly flat expanse of chain restaurants, auto repair shops and neutral-colored office buildings. But tucked inside the nondescript warehouses and storerooms that line Midway Road are several musical gems. Hand Drawn Pressing, a vinyl record manufacturing company that uses the word’s...
Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas' cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. You can tell a lot about a bar by the hats...
It’s official. Starbucks unleashed its holiday cups at the start of this month. That means it’s time to start holiday shopping. With Small Business Saturday coming up after Thanksgiving, we’ve gathered a list of local companies and their best-selling products. Shopping local often makes that special someone’s special gift a...
It was love at first listen. The first time cellist Alisa Weilerstein heard Sergei Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante — on the radio in her parents’ car when she was 13 years old — she knew she needed to learn and perform it. She made her father buy the sheet music. Now,...
It starts off as the portrait of a troubled child, but expands to become a film about community
Cruising down the Jefferson Boulevard drag, you’ll find a variety of Hispanic/Latino-focused businesses — from taquerias and quinceañera dress shops to grocery stores — and the historic Texas Theatre. Slowly, newer shops and eateries catering to different crowds are moving into this Oak Cliff neighborhood. One new resident is trying...
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You could sense the anticipation before setting foot in the venue. The closed lots were packed full of cars as fans anxiously scanned side streets for any available spaces. The frantic young people clutched phones and portable chargers. Niall Horan’s sold-out Flicker Sessions tour stop Friday night at the South Side Ballroom...
Whether out of a deep respect to Oliver Stone or just a desire to finally see a positive headline when he Googles himself, President Donald Trump declassified documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. More than 30,000 documents have been released (or in some of cases rereleased)...
Captured! By Robots plays Double Wide Saturday Jay Vance started his one-man metal band Captured! By Robots in San Francisco 20 years ago because he couldn't deal with people. "It was born out of my frustration with the human condition," Vance says. "I'm just as bad as everybody else but I...
In the '80s, cartoonist and Far Side comic strip creator Gary Larson drew a comic with the caption "Hopeful parents" that somehow came to fruition. The comic featured a pair of proud parents looking at their buck-toothed kid playing a video game. The thought bubble above their heads showed the "help wanted"...
The sixth and final exhibit of the late John Wilcox’s work to be shown in his studio, The Wilcox Space, is now open. The exhibit will be up for about six months. Wilcox died from AIDS-related complications in 2012. He had been living and painting in the studio that would...
If Mozart was around, we’d most likely be gushing over his latest film score rather than a new sonata. Composers rarely get their due anymore — the "makers of music" are often called DJs, producers or singer-songwriters. But brilliantly composed orchestral music has never gone completely out of style. Longtime...
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"In Bed With" is a new Dallas Observer series where we delve into the homes and personal lives of Dallas music industry professionals. The door mat outside photographers Cal Quinn and Aly Fae’s place announces “This must be the place.” It’s a necessary hint for visitors. The apartment numbers in...
Friday Oaktopia has delivered another stellar lineup, as versatile as it is fresh. From the cold, hardened storytelling of Atlanta rapper 21 Savage to the candied trap of Lil Yachty to the raunchy electronic music of Tobacco, this year’s festival promises a lot. Notable local talents include Blue, the Misfit...
There's no denying that Sunday night's tilt between the Cowboys and Eagles is a big one. The Eagles are 8-1, but untested, with their best win coming over the Panthers on Oct. 12. Beating the Cowboys in front of what's sure to be huge national TV audience in prime time...
The games that professional eSports athletes compete on aren't just netting them tired thumbs and a few pixelated coins. The collegiate and professional eSports industry that's on the rise in Dallas is fueled by games from a multibillion-dollar media industry and it's starting to rival the revenues of film and...