Yes, it’s hard to imagine wanting to watch 11/8/16 today. The film, a sweeping survey documentary created and produced by Jeff Deutchman, follows 16 Americans from across the country on election day of 2016: a Sikh New York cabdriver, a “Dreamer” in San Jose, a Massachusetts dad in a MAGA...
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(Joaquin) Phoenix plays a hammer-wielding veteran who is paid to save kidnapped children and who brings all his rage and regret and self-loathing and desire for oblivion to the job
When Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier took the ring March 8, 1971, it was the first time for two undefeated boxers to fight each other for the heavyweight title. And what a match it was — a true display of agility, strength and grit. Although two undefeated men entered the...
St. Patrick's Day comes a week early for us this week as Flogging Molly takes the stage as the Dallas Observer's St. Patrick's Day concert headliner on Saturday. Former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher brings his High Flying Birds to the Majestic Tuesday; Demi Lovato plays her second gig in town...
Regardless of genre or tenured status, a common thread among all musicians is the nightmare gig, the gig that just did not go the way you expected. It's the gig where that bassist shows up so hammered that he thinks he's the singer. Or maybe it's the night you forget...
Thursday The robots will soon overtake us, and Alexa will be their queen. The world’s most chipper shopping assistant is more intuitive than Siri, more confident and more pop culture savvy. It’s her job to connect you with you with binge-worthy, earwormy content as well as with household cleaning supplies,...
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It’s not clear yet whether there truly are dark forces gathering on the horizon against Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax or just a chain of fools, but one thing is unmistakably true: Dallas’ first city manager in living memory to come from outside City Hall had better not walk by...
Members of the Dallas City Council greeted Give Right-Dallas, Dallas city staff's latest proposal to combat aggressive panhandling, with less-than-stellar reviews Monday. The plan, which would cost about $200,000, calls for a public education campaign that would encourage Dallas residents and visitors to give cash to homeless support organizations through...
Wednesday If your parents drive you nuts now, wait until they are old and relying on you to decide their future. The Velocity of Autumn, a play at Bath House Cultural Center, explores what happens when Alexandra, an 80-year-old artist, gets in a showdown with her kids over how she'll...
His brain was bouncing. Eyes involuntarily darting. Left arm numb, dangling uselessly. Lincoln Coleman was in trouble. But on Thanksgiving 1993 on that memorable, sleet-covered field at Texas Stadium, he stubbornly persuaded himself not to call for medical attention and leave the Dallas Cowboys’ clash against the Miami Dolphins. He...
Khraish Khraish — he whose first name is the same as his last — has become the great binary mystery of Dallas. This 41-year-old West Dallas businessman is either the city’s greatest hero, savior of the poor and architect of a better tomorrow for all, or he is a duplicitous...
Out of the eighty-two feature films at Fantastic Fest this year, eleven were directed by women, and four of those were co-directed by a man. For the slow in math, that means women directed only about 13 percent, which is pretty dismal, though on par with Cannes and 8 percent...
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Early Sunday morning, Eric Jackson, special agent for the Dallas FBI field office, announced that Shavon Randle, the 13-year-old Lancaster teenager missing since Wednesday, was found dead inside an Oak Cliff home along with a then-unidentified man. "We didn’t have the positive result we were looking for, but being able to...
It takes all kinds, and if we've learned anything this year, it's that Dallas has them. The Observer published a lot of profiles in 2017, and in them you'll meet everyone from mermaids to sheriffs to movie producers. Here are 10 of the most interesting people we talked to. The Cowboys...
A Texas artist will have the opportunity to show his paintings in Miami during Art Basel, an international art fair, after discovering that a Miami gallery was promoting copies of his work. Jeff “Skele” Sheely first learned that someone was copying his paintings on Instagram. F.A.M.E. Gallery & Concept Store, based...
Leading up to September's Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we're sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. This summer, the Nameless Chefs — a collective of chefs who work in some of Dallas’ finest kitchens...
The other day in the daily paper, there was an item of a type I call a bathroom-wall story. By bathroom wall, I mean you read it and sort of get what they’re getting at, but there’s a lot of context missing, and you’re not sure why you’re reading it...
Dallas' most famous President John F. Kennedy conspiracy theorist and an FBI analyst turned JFK historian agree on one thing: They don't expect much from the of assassination-related documents set to be released on Thursday. For the conspiracy theorist, Robert Groden, the release isn't important because all the important stuff...
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Police in Mangham, Louisiana, pulled over actor-turned-singer Corey Feldman for speeding Saturday night. He was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana, speeding and driving with a suspended license. At his show in Dallas on Thursday, Feldman prophetically told Dallas Observer writer Eva Raggio that he was nervous to drive through Louisiana. "They...
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott will not begin serving his six-game suspension until the resolution of his federal lawsuit, which could last well into 2018. U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant III issued a preliminary injunction Friday afternoon, essentially agreeing with Elliott and the NFL Players Association that Elliott has...
Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas' cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. You can tell a lot about a bar by the hats...
Robert Jeffress spent Wednesday with Donald Trump, supporting the president during his fundraising visit to the Belo Mansion in downtown Dallas. On Thursday, the First Baptist Dallas pastor and Trump's biggest evangelical supporter had to do something a lot less fun — take to the Fox News airwaves to defend...