“I’m tired of running from hurricanes,” storm evacuee Daphne Griffin says. Griffin and her family linger this Monday afternoon outside the Walnut Hill Recreation Center on Midway Road in Dallas. She's seeking shelter from Hurricane Harvey while experiencing flashbacks of her run-ins with Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike. Like many...
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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...
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:...
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...
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...
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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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...
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,...
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...
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. The Sandwich Hag may not look like much, but some serious banh mis passes through the window of...
Emily Heller had her entire career to write her first comedy album, Good For Her. On that album, she's single and, she says, immature. Now she has a boyfriend, and she wants her comedy to reflect life in a relationship and what she thinks about being in one — even...
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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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...
Sometime late Friday or very early Saturday, a massive weather system named Harvey, possibly a tropical storm but more likely a hurricane, is going to hit southeast Texas. While it appears North Texas will avoid the brunt of the winds, rainfall and flooding expected, Harvey is still going to have...
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...
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...
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,...
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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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...
In the past few years, Decks in the Park has become a staple of the Dallas summer music schedule. Each free event brings thousands of people out to listen to music in the open air. Jeff Mitchell is the DJ behind the concept and the party. He grew up in...
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...
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...