Brian Knolley has spent nearly three decades in the trenches of Dallas' house music scene. He can be seen laying down sides as part of the Our House crew or as a guest at parties all over the city. Knolley's experience comes through with every needle drop, every mix, every...
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They began gathering well before noon Wednesday, greeted by police and gathered around barricades surrounding Lee Park. They wanted action, either to see the statue of Robert E. Lee taken down after a Dallas City Council vote that seemed preordained, or to see it saved at the last minute. Around...
Hall Johnson is a fledgling indie rock band from Colleyville, but if you visit its Facebook page, you'll see that its local presence is pretty small. It has 82 "likes" and no upcoming shows announced. On Spotify, though? You get the idea it's one of DFW's hottest new bands. Hall Johnson...
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott will not begin serving his potential six-game suspension until at least week two, when the team plays the Denver Broncos, after a federal court hearing in Sherman on Tuesday night. U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant III did not rule on Elliott's request for a...
Keeper (noun): 1. a fish large enough to be kept when caught. 2. a person or thing of value to be cherished. Suckers as we are for puns and bad jokes, The Keeper already had us hooked on name alone. The fresh seafood concept is the latest effort from Front...
Today, the Dallas City Council will vote to determine whether Lee Park's statue of its namesake, Gen. Robert E. Lee, will be removed. But in 1936, at least, the statue was such a source of pride that it drew President Franklin D. Roosevelt to town for its world debut. The...
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Thursday Literature is coming. It’ll arrive this fall in all of its diverse forms: poetry, storytelling, readings from novels, performance art, and expressions of culture and diversity. And WordSpace Dallas, local literary gatekeeper that it is, will usher it in and dole it out with a full slate of events...
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On Tuesday, U. Renee Hall officially took over as Dallas' chief of police in an atypical way. Traditionally, Dallas' chiefs have been sworn in on their first day in a public ceremony. Thanks to Hall's background, she was unable to do so. Officers coming to Texas from outside the state...
Leading up to September's Best of Dallas® 2017 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. It's so utterly, unflinchingly simple: tiny pieces of cauliflower, shaved thin. Fatty, salty pistachios and sweet golden raisins...
It was a long weekend, so there was plenty of time for sleuths to pour through the thousands of pages of exhibits that accompanied Ezekiel Elliott and the NFL Players Associations' request for a temporary restraining order against the league. While Elliott's lawsuit is intended to cutoff the six-game suspension...
Last March, over breakfast, Bobby Abtahi learned Mayor Mike Rawlings appointed him to replace Max Wells as president of the Dallas Park and Recreation Board. The position is more political than it sounds, but "I'm not a politician," Abtahi maintains during a recent interview with the Dallas Observer. "I'm a public...
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It was one menu description in particular that persuaded me to drive to Rowlett and try Fritzl’s Euro Grill. “Kick Ass Schnitzel,” it reads. “Ja! Ja! Ja! Hey, Bubba. Still feel Macho, Try me. I am a lonely Pork Loin covered in a Fresh Habanero Garlic Sauce and can’t move...
Being a DJ has become such a routine aspect of Blake Ward’s life that he can’t pinpoint the exact moment he began doing it. The 31-year-old is an established staple in Dallas’ dance music scene. His schedule is packed, but since March, he has primarily served as the regular DJ at...
Hector Rodriguez says he finally heard his calling to become a superhero comic artist and publish a superhero story that he created in college when a student came to him in tears. His father, the student said, had been deported. "He’s crying and that kind of hit me,” Rodriguez says. “What...
At some point in the weeks ahead, Congress will commit the nation to an immense investment in Houston and Beaumont/Port Arthur. The opening bid from the White House last week was almost $8 billion in federal funds, probably a mere fraction of the ultimate disbursement. The country should view this...
For eight hours or so Monday morning, self-help guru John Carpenter Dealey went missing, and police labeled him "a danger to himself and others." Dealey is the great-grandson of legendary former Dallas Morning News publisher George Bannerman Dealey. The Dallas Police Department issued an alert just before 11 a.m: "On September...
After almost a week of waiting and preparation, the city of Dallas finally, started receiving a steady stream of evacuees from the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on Thursday night and Friday. The travelers aren't coming from Houston, according to Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Instead, they're coming to North Texas from flooded-out southeast...
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Three years ago, it was Leon Bridges. Now it might be another old soul's turn to put North Texas on the map. Local bluesman Charley Crockett announced on Facebook last night that he's been signed by Thirty Tigers, a Nashville-based entertainment company that boasts heavy-hitters such as Sturgill Simpson as...
The NFL Players Association preemptively sued the NFL in federal court late Thursday, seeking to vacate the NFL's suspension of Ezekiel Elliott if it's upheld by Harold Henderson, the former league executive appointed to hear Elliott's suspension appeal. Elliott's suspension is based on a series of domestic violence allegations made...
There’s a super burger block in Deep Ellum. On the walkable stretch of Malcolm X Boulevard at Elm and Main, there are four cheeseburgers in place that are the American sandwich equivalent of Marvel’s Defenders: the happy hour burger at Hide, Junction Craft Kitchen's smashed beef, the oak-fire grilled at...