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100 Favorite Dishes, No. 30: Beef Ravioli at Civello’s

Civello's Raviolismo is a humble factory. It’s bare-bones: There are a few metal tables; the ravioli-crafting equipment, most of it older than the internet; a few refrigerators rolling around; and a kitchen in the back. Sometime in the morning, Oralia Olguin presses her palms into a football-shaped wad of dough...
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New Dishes at This Year’s State Fair of Texas, Ranked

On Sunday afternoon, the State Fair of Texas hosted the annual Big Tex Choice Awards, where a panel of judges tasted 10 new dishes — each a finalist in this year's competition — that will be served at the fair, which opens Sept. 30. This year, there were three awards:...
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Confederate Memorials Debate at Dallas City Council is Huge

Let’s not get fooled on the Confederate memorials question in Dallas. It’s easy to do. It’s worse than a who’s-on-first routine. This one is more like where-is-first? What may camouflage the real controversy more than anything else, especially for people who are outside the city looking in, is the recruitment...
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100 Favorite Dishes, No. 31: Mariquitas at Havana Cafe

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. Havana Cafe in East Dallas recently expanded, taking over the space next door and opening a mojito bar...
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The State of Voting in Texas: Late Summer 2017 Edition

Last week, two court decisions came down that could change the course of electoral politics in Texas — and Dallas County — for the 2018 midterms and beyond. A U.S. District Judge in Corpus Christi tossed the state's new voter ID law Wednesday, ruling that it unconstitutionally discriminated against the...
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100 Favorite Dishes, No. 32: Nova’s Duck Pizza

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. Scenario: It's late at night and you're not entirely sober. You're also awfully hungry, and fast food just...
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The Next Solar Eclipse in 2024 Could Be Rangers Opening Day

People who live in or traveled to the path of totality for Monday's solar eclipse reported being awestruck by the event. Some were brought to tears. Meanwhile, others who watched from North Texas and made the effort to construct a cereal-box viewer or buy NASA-approved glasses found themselves unimpressed. Here,...
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Say Goodbye to Bolsa Mercado This Weekend at Its Last Bash

Oak Cliff loses one of its beloved neighborhood hang spots next week when Bolsa Mercado, the combination coffee shop/market/cafe/caterer on Davis Street, closes its doors and adopts a catering-only business model. The cafe opened in late 2011 as an offshoot of the nearby Bolsa restaurant, which is not closing. This...
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Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend

FridayDallas Green isn't just the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for hardcore screamo outfit Alexisonfire; he also plays his hand at the other side of the multifaceted alternative genre with his country folk project, City and Colour. The Toronto-based musician uses his softer sound to release music he's written...
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City Council Is Erasing Names of People Who Gave Campaign Money

Want a pretty good indication where things stand at Dallas City Hall? A majority of the members of the Dallas City Council have decided the city needs to stop keeping a record of where the council gets its campaign money. Gee. What could they have in mind? I stumbled into...
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Feel-Good Rapper Comedy Patti Cake$ Doesn’t Earn Its Mic

The story beats of Patti Cake$, a socioeconomic-sermonizing comedy about a thick young white woman with huge hip-hop dreams and little prospects, are as predictable as the ticking of an egg timer, as generic and tinny as the pulses of a drum machine. I rooted not for Patricia Dombrowski (Danielle...
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Pearl Earl’s New Video for ‘Meet Your Maker’ Is a Goofy Acid Trip

If you’ve never taken LSD and want to know what a good acid trip feels like, watch the video for Pearl Earl’s “Meet Your Maker.” It’s fitful and angular and giggly all at once, an astral spaz of ultraviolet confetti. Prismatic colors and neon-drenched shapes leap around, strobe lit, onto...
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Lemon Squeezes the Hipster-Antihero Thing Hard, but Not Much Good Comes Out

A grating protagonist alone does not a bad film make, but the episodic, unsatisfying Lemon revels in purposeful nails-on-a-chalkboard unlikability. Isaac (Brett Gelman), a struggling actor and stage director, spins out of control after his girlfriend, Ramona (Judy Greer), leaves him. Another film would make the ensuing tale a mope-fest,...
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The Rangers’ New Stadium Will Be Called, Get This, Globe Life Field

The Texas Rangers have announced the sale of the naming rights for their new stadium that's under construction to Globe Life Insurance, which owns the naming rights to the team's current stadium. The deal runs through 2048. For the next two seasons, the Rangers will ply their trade at  Globe Life Park,...
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500X Gallery Steps Up to Host Homeless CentralTrak Exhibit

CentralTrak, the University of Texas at Dallas’ graduate arts program, had its first show since going nomadic at the beginning of the summer. A Hard Place, which had been curated before the program's dissolution, was at 500X Gallery, just down the street from CentralTrak's old address. The show highlighted the...
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100 Favorite Dishes, No. 34: Taco De Jose at El Come Taco

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. Some of the best dishes in the world happen at family meal. Traditionally, in the kitchen, it’s the...
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Federal District Judge Tosses Texas’ Voter ID Law

A federal district judge in Corpus Christi ruled late Wednesday afternoon that the Texas' voter ID law, in all its forms, is unconstitutional. Her decision, which Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced he will appeal, says that the original 2011 law and a revamped version passed this year both...