Last week when Dallas City Council member Chad West set up a vaccine registration drive outside a barbershop along Jefferson Avenue, several vendors showed up to peddle their goods. One was Chamoyitas Picositas, the brainchild of Esmeralda Sanchez, a Mesquite native who started this small business as a way to...
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Election Day is a lot like Christmas when you think about it. It’s comprised of equal parts happy excitement and anxiety. The run-up starts far, far too early. It’s filled with traditions and a fair number of lies. (No, Virginia. It’s your parents.) It costs a ton, adults are mostly...
Arrested Thursday night and booked into the Travis County jail, Todd Smith was released early Friday morning with a bond set at $10,000.
Dallas County and the nation are staring at a steep rise in COVID-19 cases. Eight months into the pandemic, little has changed in terms of broad strategy to contain the spread. Wearing a mask, hand-washing, social-distancing and avoiding large gatherings are the leading strategies to flatten the curve until a...
Dallas County is under a red level warning risk, restaurants have been required to reduce capacity and bars were closed after more than 15% of local hospital beds were filled with COVID-19 patients for more than seven straight days. None of that stopped Anime Dallas from holding its annual convention...
This Labor Day weekend in North Texas is all about festivals. Marc Anthony's show at American Airlines Center will open and shows by Between the Buried & Me and Black Magic Flower Power will close the concert week.
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Airbnb is stopping Dallas guests with poor ratings from renting one-night stays during New Year's Eve.
As of today, there's a new sandwich pop-up in Frisco. The Heritage Table, one of the Observer's Top 100 Restaurants, is closed - "until the pandemic has resolved whether via vaccine, herd immunity or another conclusion," according to a news release this week. In the meantime, we have another reason...
Dallas kept growing, but it's police department didn't. Some say this is why the police need the state's help with violent crime.
The upscale deep-fried corn dog business is expanding into Preston Center. After opening their first restaurant in northwest Dallas about a year ago, the mother-daughter duo of Vickie Fletcher, who worked at the State Fair of Texas overseeing the sale of millions of corn dogs since the 1980s, and Jace...
Filed by attorneys Paul Davis and Kellye SoRelle, the lawsuit claims changes in the election procedures implemented across the country violated the 2002 Help America Vote Act.
Hollywood celebrities aren't shy about disliking U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
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The emails often referred to the teen boys as “aliens,” “infectious” and potential criminals.
​​Seated in her recliner in November, Avi Colunga had just finished feeding her infant when she saw the "horrify[ing]" news. Since 2018, Colunga, 25, has worked at XTC Cabaret in Dallas as an entertainer. Before that, she had bartended. But scrolling through Instagram with her daughter Xeppelin in her lap,...
Some considered it the most dangerous book in Dallas, a moniker coined by D Magazine years after it was published. The Accommodation: the politics of race in an American City, traces race relations and politics in Dallas from slavery to the early '80s. It argues slavery was crueler in North Texas...
This pandemic season, Dallas-based rapper Gotti Mirano has chosen not to go to clubs. This abstinence from nightlife has given him clarity regarding the type of people he wants to be around. A self-described "empathic person," Mirano can feel the emotional energy of the people around him. His new album...
Overall, the event, which would be capped off with a speech from the former president, seemed like a watered down version of the Q-affiliated For God & Country Patriot Roundup event in Dallas over Memorial Day weekend.
The first voter arrived at the Oak Cliff sub-courthouse on South Beckley Avenue almost an hour before the sun rose on this Election Day. By the time the doors opened, more than 20 people were waiting outside. There are 463 polling locations throughout Dallas County, all open from 7 a.m...
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The DFW For All campaign is a platform of policy proposals and ideals that include issues like housing, healthcare, labor rights, climate change and government accountability.
Between North Texas Capitol rioter Jenna Ryan, the delta and omicron variants of COVID-19 and an endless series of worrisome new laws on the books, it was a hell of a year. It's hard to know where to start, but the Observer has a few suggestion for catching up on...
The idea of what can be labeled as "underrated" is usually dependent on many factors, but if you're a singer who has had four top five hits (including a number one smash) as a part of three different bands and yet still few people know your name, then you've probably earned the term.
Seven years ago a question was posed on Reddit, “What’s your idea of a perfect day?” The top answer, by an account that has since been deleted, was “Wake up next to someone you love, spend the day exploring the outdoors, spend the evening drinking with friends, fall asleep next...