This Labor Day weekend marks the second running of a marathon broadcast that's destined to raise thousands for a worthy cause. The second annual Who Needs Sleep streaming charity telethon starts at 8 a.m. Saturday and will run 36 consecutive hours of live programming from Vokal Studios, the broadcasting hub...
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This spring’s election for all 14 Dallas City Council spots and a new mayor could have a transformative effect on our city. That extends to the ways in which we eat and drink. Food industry matters might not be the first or most contentious issues that come to mind when...
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...
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...
The old Beck’s Prime burger joint has been sitting empty for a year at the corner of Oak Lawn and Avondale avenues. It’s a premium location, with a huge wraparound patio and lower rent than the Highland Park businesses just blocks to the north. Chef Matt McCallister, formerly of the...
Practice forgetfulness. Forget about the bitterness over the new statewide grading system for schools and school districts. Forget the whole debate over school reform in Dallas. For two seconds, do the good kind of forgetfulness. Now ponder this: The overwhelming objective evidence is that the Dallas public school system has...
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When Alfred Kainga started doing stand-up comedy 13 years ago in Dallas, there wasn’t much thought of anything other than making the crowd laugh. This weekend, as Kainga headlines the Arlington Improv for the first time, he and the crew reflect on the journey that led to his name on...
Barefoot, nearly naked, sweating and seemingly disoriented, local artist Xxavier Carter carried a heavy weight on his shoulder during his Saturday performance of "Sweet Jesus." He walked 10 miles from The Great Trinity Forest to White Rock Lake wielding a wooden cross almost twice his size. The performance was a...
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott preemptively declared Hurricane Harvey a disaster last Aug. 23, chemical plants and oil refineries in the Corpus Christi area shut down before rain from the storm even started falling, according to a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project. That minimized unnecessary air pollution caused...
Bujalski frames most of Support the Girls as an almost real-time delineation of chaos, but his storytelling elegance — delicate, nearly invisible foreshadowing; cogent evocations of backstory — adds reflective layers to the surface anarchy
Almost every school and every school district in Texas got a report card Wednesday, spelling out for parents, students and anyone else paying attention how the Texas Education Agency believes the institutions it oversees are performing. The new, Legislature-approved measures are easy to read and make it easier to compare...
As places keep popping up around the Toyota Music Factory in Irving, the 500,000-plus square foot mixed-use entertainment and lifestyle complex has lost a large tenant. Word got out quickly late Tuesday morning that Big Beat Dallas was not reopening its doors after a rather rocky two months in business...
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Two protests Monday night outside police headquarters captured the range of emotions aroused by the death of Botham Jean, who was killed last week in his apartment by Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger. One was a silent sit-in. The second, louder protest was met by police firing balls of pepper...
My job is hard. Sometimes I hear terrible things — things I have to live with because of my work. For example, in a recent conversation I was told something positive about the Trinity Forest Golf Club. How do you think that made me feel? But I soldier on, and...
It wasn’t getting shot in the head by a sniper that made the worst day of Rick Turner’s military career. Getting shot while cradling a fellow soldier in 82nd Airborne wounded by the same sniper didn’t either. Watching him get shot again — and killed — made it the worst...
A verbal contract, the old joke goes, isn't worth the paper it's written on. Even Bronze Age tradesmen had the foresight to write down the terms of their agreements. Yet Dallas creatives in the 21st century are still struggling to learn this lesson. In Texas, oral contracts can be binding,...
The 30th annual Dallas Observer Music Awards marks three decades of celebrating incredible local music. Some hometown heroes have gone on to play arena shows, some pack up their bags and head to Nashville or L.A. or New York, and some find that DFW is the perfect home for creating...
Dallas health inspections are broken. The system suffers from arcane city rules that prioritize routine inspections over revisits to failing establishments, leading to rampant grade inflation, manipulation of data in the public-access database, and budgets that fail to cover new technology or keep up with the booming local restaurant industry...
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The West End is about to get its latest infusion of innovation. It will soon be home to a smart park, serve as the focal point of a case study for smart city technology and connect to Victory Park via a newly illuminated path. The developments are all happening in...
Gov. Greg Abbott and Dallas School board member Miguel Solis held dueling press conferences Tuesday at public school campuses barely a mile apart in East Dallas, Abbott calling for higher pay for teachers and Solis asking where the money is. Unspoken was a startling new theme shared by both sides:...
Bare-knuckle boxing has a 173-year history that was put on pause back in 1892. A little over a century later, this legacy picked back up where it left off. Dallas-Fort Worth’s own mixed martial artist, Johnny Bedford, competed in the first regulated bare-knuckle event earlier this summer.
... I imagined how whatever scene I was watching might have been staged and shot and acted out in a more traditional film — and I was inevitably disappointed by what has been lost ...