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...
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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...
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...
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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...
With its cast of Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, its original non-franchise source material, its adult concerns and utter lack of superheroics, Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us stands as the kind of movie that grown-ups I know often say they wish the studios would make — and then tend...
Elle Gargano stood near the front of the stage at the Jason Aldean concert with a friend when the shooting began Sunday night. At 23, she recently graduated from Texas Christian University with a degree in strategic communication. She moved home to California, where she got a job as a...
Whether your thing is tacos, wine or endless amounts of Lebanese food, there's an event this weekend in Dallas where you can get your fill: ***** Head over to the Bishop Arts District on Thursday for the Shop, Eat, Drink, Pink Wine Walk. The walk supports local breast cancer early-detection...
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 cannot build a dive bar. Dive bars are formed slowly,...
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Today, just about every neighborhood in Dallas — and increasingly, more of the ‘burbs, as well — enjoys at least one coffee roasting company. There are specialty cafes aplenty, and even at Central Market or Cox Farms, the shelves are stocked with a variety of locally roasted beans. Rewind a...
ThursdayWhen it formed in the early 1980s, Tesla was a pleasant anomaly, a group of regular guys from California who for some reason got lumped in with the seemingly endless array of hair metal and glam bands. Although Tesla's music always had its pop-metal side, the band members seemed a...
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After Monday's U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals hearing, neither Ezekiel Elliott nor the NFL should feel comfortable in their nearly year-and-a-half-long legal battle over domestic violence allegations made against the Dallas Cowboy. The league, which desperately wants to enforce a six-game ban handed to Elliott by Commissioner Roger Goodell...
Grown-ups outnumbered kids at the Hello Kitty candy party hosted by Neiman Marcus on Saturday. Celebrating the unveiling of Sugarfina's new line of Hello Kitty candies, party guests were treated to lemonade, Hello Kitty-shaped sugar cookies and scoopfuls of samples at a shiny candy bar. The feline icon joined Sugarfina...
Meat Fight started as a backyard dinner to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Five years later, it's one of the city's best barbecue events, and it raised more than $175,000 last year. Money collected at the event is also used to buy specially outfitted bicycles for people...
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Marilyn Manson's sweet dreams turned to nightmares Saturday when a large prop from the rock singer's touring stage show fell on him during a performance at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, bringing an abrupt end to the show. As news of the accident spread, some Dallasites wondered if Manson...
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, on newsstands now, we're sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Are we really recommending that you eat mushroom toast at a motorcycle repair shop? We...
When Dallas City Council members grilled city staff during a committee hearing Monday about a lack of progress on affordable housing issues, staff forgot to mention the team of feds breathing down their necks. They could have told the council: “We’ll know more after we figure out who’s going to the pen.”...
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, on newsstands now, we're sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. The charred octopus appetizer at Sassetta has proven surprisingly divisive among Dallas’ food critics. Yes,...