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...
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Asian cuisine is having a moment right now in DFW. From the rapid expansion of Carrollton Korea Town to new locations of massive Asian grocery chains like 99 Ranch and H Mart and the micro-Asiatowns quickly gaining a foothold in suburban cities like Plano, we're swimming in xiao long bao,...
Dallas police late Saturday said Amber Guyger is the officer who shot Botham Shem Jean. DPD's announcement came after an attorney representing Jean's family named Guyger, 30, as the off-duty cop who shot and killed Jean Thursday night. Lee Merritt posted Guyger's name in a tweet Saturday afternoon.
Inside the Dulceria, it’s warm and quiet. The air, heavy with the scent of toasted cheese and griddled bread, seems to mute the sounds of the cafe like snowfall. Sure, there’s the airy splat sound of a mustard bottle occasionally, which is the yellow light that signals that you’re about...
When Sandra Montes prays for her restaurant, she asks for customers to come from the north, south, east and west. It appears someone out there is hearing her prayer. San Pedro’s Restaurante, a storefront off West Northwest Highway and Harry Hines specializing in Honduran food, recently celebrated its second birthday...
Lawrence Jordan says “the gift” has been passed down his family for generations. His techniques, he says, are ancient but streamlined by him to suit the needs of his clients' 21st century lives. Everyone from entrepreneurs and corporations, other homeopathic healers and even the spiritually intrigued have come to Jordan...
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Dallas artist Shelby David Meier is fascinated by food. "I think about food a lot," Meier says. "It ties to culture and experience. I also think about ideas of consumption. I also like the play around with the idea of taste." Food has appeared in her work before. Her 2016 video "In...
Dallas is a prosperous, forward-thinking place. It is, the tired catchphrase goes, a “world class city.” “Big Things Happen Here” is the city's brand. Dallas is also where: More than 115,000 children live in poverty, among the worst rates of any large U.S. city. The median income is the lowest...
Wednesday Hey, you, the grubby-handed 10-year-old sitting in a car at the DFW Autoshow. Is your credit good enough to buy a car? Can you even drive? No? Then how about you haul you butt from behind the wheel and let a man get his chance? Jeez, someone goes to...
In the South Oak Cliff food desert, Pan African Connection Bookstore's Harvest Project Food Rescue takes perfectly good food bound for the landfill and gives it to people who need it, no strings attached.
The final episode of what is perhaps the biggest podcast to have ever come out of Dallas is now out. Since dropping its first episode Sept. 4, Dr. Death has had more than four million listeners and racked up more than 21,000 five-star ratings on iTunes. But despite the rave...
Friday Who knew? In the ’50s and ’60s, companies such as General Electric, Ford and Xerox were producing industrial musicals for their clients and employees featuring performers who would become stars — Chita Rivera, Bob Fosse, Florence Henderson. The documentary film, Bathtubs Over Broadway, revealing the history of these productions,...
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This latest entry, directed and co-written by onetime wise-ass action screenplay wunderkind Shane Black (Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys), wears its self-aware humor as a talisman against the predictability of its plot and the gratuitousness of its carnage
Less than a day after laying off 70 percent of its U.S.-based employees, dockless bike rental company ofo confirmed to the Dallas Observer on Thursday that it is pulling out of Dallas after less than a year in the city. The China-based company behind the thousands of yellow bikes that have...
Tiptoeing toward the hot tub of camp without quite diving in, Double Lover starts to fracture Chloe’s point of view, resulting in at least one fabulous Cronenbergian dream scene ...
Jessica Sotero, a single mother of two from Irving who works as an administrative assistant in Dallas, signed up for WhatsYourPrice.com and found much more than a future boyfriend or husband.
Roth’s film is a funhouse throwback, a scare-the-kids goof with a top-shelf cast, an antique shop’s worth of creepy windup dolls and more heart than you might expect — and, like those jack-o’-lanterns, it’s got more teeth, too
A federal judge has called two key laws regulating liquor sales in Texas arbitrary and irrational. One possible result of his ruling? A string of standalone Walmart liquor stores across the state and maybe even package stores from other publicly held chains like Kroger and Target. U.S. District Judge Robert...
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Call it wild speculation, but I think we’ve just been struggling as a community to figure out the wildly troubling case of Amber Guyger and Botham Jean, a terrible event in which a white Dallas cop shot and killed an innocent black man in his own apartment last Sept. 6...
A Google search for "Dallas fashion bloggers" pulls up 1.3 million results. Walk through Nordstrom during the summer #NSale or attend a weekend SoulCycle class, and you'll likely spot a handful. Fashion bloggers are ubiquitous. They're becoming international fashion icons, sitting at the front row of runway shows, debuting their...
The bar that served mass-murderer Spencer Hight minutes before he killed eight people, including his estranged wife, at an NFL watch party in Plano is voluntarily giving up its liquor license on Aug. 1, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said Monday. The bar, Local Public House, did not admit any...
Results from this week’s primary election in Dallas do not illustrate a conservative/liberal split in the city. Lots of luck even trying to get those labels to work. The outcomes in a couple of key state House districts argue more for a widening divide between people whose views are basically...