Last night's Dallas Observer Iron Fork was the best one yet. There was a ton of creativity in the room, from Norma's chicken-fried steak shooters to Hash House a Go Go's meatloaf sliders to Fresh Art Foodie's crazy sticky rice doughnuts with blood orange-pineapple chicken. Brisket seemed to be the...
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It is a busy Tuesday morning in California for Deafheaven vocalist George Clarke, who is getting ready to set off on a U.S. tour that will support his band’s fourth studio album, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love. Clarke has one day left before his first tour stop in Phoenix. He’s driving...
Consider the power of the Popsicle. For many, touching one to their lips sends the pitter-patter of childhood nostalgia racing straight to the heart. Its icy coolness instantly refreshes and shields the heat-weary Texan from the unrelenting summer swelter. To boot, it's one of the most democratizing desserts there is...
This weekend, Jaap van Zweden concludes his tenure as music director of the Dallas Symphony with performances of perhaps the most famous work in the orchestra’s repertoire: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. But there’s another piece on the program, a major world premiere of a new work written especially for the DSO...
Pilates reformer studios are popping up in Dallas more frequently. At Dallas staples Beyond Studios and One Lagree and at some of the other newer kids on the block, Dallasites are bending, stretching and strengthening their cores. Pilates reformer classes are said to deliver a significant transformation to your body...
The crew behind the Stomping Ground Comedy Theater, a new nonprofit comedy community space that's been in the works for the last year, has a week to go before its grand opening, and there's still a long to-do list. Managing director Lindsay Goldapp's vision of a nonprofit space dedicated to...
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For the young cowboys at the heart of Zhao’s film, mounting a horse and galloping across a field represents more than just freedom — it becomes a communion with the past and the future, allowing these riders to imagine and inhabit their best selves
Someone slashed a gay pride flag over the weekend that flew outside the Denton home shared by activists who support transgender people, immigrants and people of color. The vandal spray-painted "FAGS" on the house's garage door. Police say that happened sometime after 11 p.m. Saturday, just hours after Deborah Armintor stepped outside...
America has been at war for nearly 20 years. From guns to sexual harassment to immigration, we're divided, angry and active. Donald Trump is in the White House. Now seems like a grand time for a songwriter to pick up a pen and let fly with some sharp protest songs...
Deep Ellum has a new bar from the team behind Armoury — and although Ruins has a distinctive Mexican accent, it feels a whole lot like Armoury. That’s not a bad thing. Ruins is still in its “soft open” phase, with the grand opening party scheduled for Wednesday, but it’s...
Finally, finally, the Cowboys' long battles with the NFL over Ezekiel Elliott's 2017 domestic violence suspension and Commissioner Roger Goodell's new contract seem to be coming to an end. Wednesday, as first reported by ESPN's Adam Schefter, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones agreed to fork over nearly $2 million in legal...
When the first Liberty Burger opened in Dallas, there was an unexpected wave of chaos. It was a few weeks before Thanksgiving in 2011. The line at the register sprawled through the restaurant and shot out the door. Wait times for a simple cheeseburger hit one hour. “I had no...
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All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. There are many categories of heat at Pepe's & Mito’s. Depending on the Texas season and the...
It didn't take long Thursday afternoon for the Astros to debut their killer app for 2018. Houston broke out their new shift, designed to beat the Rangers' best hitter and a century-plus of baseball conventional wisdom all at once, two at-bats into their season opener at Globe Life Park in...
If you’ve ever cooked, you know there are scraps from vegetables you diced or leftovers from a meal that are never consumed by someone hungry, only by the tall kitchen trash can. Many restaurants aren’t better. Some are, but it’s not enough to counteract the fact that 40 percent of...
A flurry of activity and new development in Arlington’s entertainment district has had a negative effect on one longtime business. Half Price Books in Lincoln Square, which opened about 20 years ago, will close this spring. Although some on social media speculated that eager developers or rising rent costs may have...
David Wilson, sound engineer, venue manager and talent buyer for Double Wide, has always joked about teaching a class on stage etiquette. Hopefully, enough people will read this, and he won’t have to. “Don’t piss off the sound guy.” It’s a pretty common mantra in nearly every music scene. Most...
There’s a never-ending breeze at the Cold Beer Co. It rolls in through the open bar, lifting menus out of their holders and skating potato chips around on their metal trays. The bar feels open and doorless, like any Dallasite could saunter in the dining room from any point in...
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Friday The Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak St., presents El Encuentro, a love story that explores flamenco's Moroccan past. The Moors ruled Spain for hundreds of years, and their influence still pops up in Spain's music and architecture today. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, the concert will include Carlos Garcia...
If you’ve never found yourself in the middle of a mosh pit, there’s a good chance that you can't understand what’s happening. It’s easy to look at the men and women shoving into one another and think of it as an act of needless aggression at an otherwise friendly affair,...
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, famous for inspiring Julia Roberts' Oscar-winning performance in Erin Brockovich, is coming to North Texas. Brockovich, who blasted the North Texas Municipal Water District last week for using a common cleaning procedure, announced on Facebook on Tuesday that she's visiting Plano the first week of April...
The mode is comic frustration, the story centered on a reasonable man (played by Armie Hammer) frustrated at the eccentricities of a wild-haired genius (Geoffrey Rush, as the painter Alberto Giacometti)