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The 12 Best Dishes Our Food Critic Ate in Dallas in 2018

Every year is a good year to be a food writer, but 2018 was an especially interesting year to eat in Dallas. The city's diversity really came to the foreground: I visited restaurants as remote as McKinney and the far side of Arlington, and investigated the cuisines of Laos, Egypt...
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Best Things To Do in Dallas This Week

Friday “The only reason to visit Florida is to identify your daughter’s dead body.” That line from actor/comedian Patton Oswalt is funny because it’s true, as Homer Simpson would say. True and biting observations are the stuff of Oswalt’s stand-up shows. The diminutive comedian gave voice to Remy, the starring...
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Even Better Than Getting Rid of Curfew: Get Rid of Children

City Hall is having a big debate with itself about getting rid of the city’s long-standing youth curfew. We should do an experiment. Try this: Rigorously enforce the curfew outside late-night teenage house parties in the affluent white Lakewood and Preston Hollow neighborhoods. Then re-poll everybody on how many people...
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Lyft Will Take the Wheel for You, You Labor Day Alcoholics

Labor Day is almost here, and for many in DFW that means making a run to the liquor store and celebrating that day off work. Between pre-gaming at the house and going to the bars and also all the gray moments in between, there are many opportunities for you to...
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McDermott Bridge Bike and Pedestrian Lanes Won’t Be Open Soon

Two percent. Not a big number if you're talking about, say, the rain chances on your average Tuesday. A really big number, however, if you're talking about the number of cables that could fail on a suspension bridge. If they aren't repaired or replaced, about 2 percent of the cables...
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Ben Folds Makes Plea For Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

“Rock this bitch!” Those three words, hurtling out of the darkness, momentarily put the bespectacled, bearded Ben Folds back on his heels. The 52-year-old singer-songwriter was standing on stage, inside a sold-out Bass Performance Hall, with the 60-member Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra arrayed behind him. As conductor Edwin Outwater looked...
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Did Political Donations Change the Outcome of a $1 Million Case?

Political donations are behind an appellate court ruling that overturned a jury's verdict requiring an apartment company to pay $1 million to two women raped by a man who entered their Garland home through a window with a broken latch, the women's attorney claims in a motion filed this week...
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12 Days of Busking From Globe Trek Productions

Our music series Busking with the Dallas Observer is now in its fifth year and heading into its 43rd episode (Old 97’s later this month). So I sat down with my co-producer Mike Williams (that’s Dallas Observer’s Best-Magician-in-Dallas Mike Williams) over some suspiciously chunky eggnog to take a look back...
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Natalie Prass’ Sophomore Album Changed after the 2016 Election

After three years of touring, writing and rewriting, singer-songwriter Natalie Prass released her second full-length album, The Future and the Past, in June. Her fall North American tour supporting the album will have her making a stop Oct. 6 in Dallas at Club Dada. The Future and the Past has...
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Daphne Willis Will Open For Barenaked Ladies

Texas-born songwriter Daphne Willis will open up for one of her idols. She has been listening to Barenaked Ladies for as long as she can remember. As her career continues to grow, she feels increasingly humbled sharing the stage with artists she has looked up to throughout the years. She...
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Roy Oliver’s Conviction Is a Rarity Among Rarities

When cops shoot and kill civilians in the United States, they rarely get indicted for anything. It's rarer still when they get charged with murder and even rarer than that when they are actually convicted of a crime — usually manslaughter, if anything. That's what makes Tuesday afternoon's events just...
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21 Things To Do in Dallas This Week

Thursday Where would the world be without the miracle of nature's greatest mechanically separated meat product? Monty Python would not have turned Spam into a touchstone of modern comedy. Celebrate one of Britain's greatest contributions to the world with a live performance of Spamalot, the hit Broadway musical based on...
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Private Dam in the Suburbs Is a Coal Mine Canary for Us All

Next time somebody wants to charge you 25 percent extra for a house because it’s near a man-made private lake in Texas, ask him to tell you who’s on the hook when the dam blows out. That’s the lesson homeowners are about to learn in Arlington. Prestonwood Lake, about 3.5...