It's natural to draw a connection between the new allegations R. Kelly is facing and the news that the R&B singer has canceled four dates on his After Party tour, including one at the Music Hall at Fair Park on Aug. 13. On July 17, Buzzfeed broke the story that...
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Fifty years ago, in 1967, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, In the Heat of the Night and The Dirty Dozen rocked American cinemas. And somewhere in a field outside Pittsburgh, George Romero and John Russo were shooting on black-and-white 16mm film a low-budget movie that would found...
Dining at Mirador is like taking a brief, immersive vacation to the land of the wealthiest 1 percent and finding out that the rich aren't any better off than we are. They just spend more money. Its front entrance is at 1608 Elm St., where a parking circle of pavers,...
Why would anyone quit his or her job making six figures a year? If you ask Doc Wright, he'll say to make some of the greatest slab tables and desks Dallas has ever seen. “This isn’t normal,” Doc Wright says, turning to look at a pile of sawdust and grey...
Late last week, when Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax released his first proposed budget since the city hired him earlier this year, one of the things that stood out immediately was the way he managed to balance his budget without slashing services. Broadnax did this by targeting money used to...
With help from local design studio Swoon, the Adolphus Hotel downtown has gotten a bit of a face-lift in the last year, with renovations to hotel rooms, the lobby and its storied French Room restaurant, which is slated to reopen in the fall. This week, the Adolphus unveiled a new...
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During Hidden Gems Week, the Observer food and drink writers are celebrating an abundance of diverse, delicious restaurants and bars around Dallas, places that don’t often (or ever) get mentioned by big-name food media, trendsetters, bloggers or chefs. We’re taking you outside of the ordinary to help you discover something...
Earlier this week, as part of the ongoing process to select Dallas' next police chief, the seven remaining finalists for the job met with community members selected by City Manager T.C. Broadnax. Among those selected to participate in the panel interviews was Dominique Alexander, the leader of the Next Generation...
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While the length of Ezekiel Elliott's suspension might have come as a surprise, the fact that it came wasn't a shock. Since being picked fourth overall by the Dallas Cowboys in the 2016 NFL draft, Elliott has made a series of poor decisions, seemingly daring NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to...
Tuesday night, nearly three days after a woman reported being sexually assaulted near the Baylor Medical Center DART station in Deep Ellum, Dallas police released a photo of a man they've identified as a person of interest in the assault. Police say the man in the photo is Latino, about...
This week, CBD Provisions announced their new executive chef: Coner Seargeant, who up until now has been CBD's chef de cuisine. He takes over for Richard Blankenship, who left the restaurant late last year. Are changes coming to the menu as a result? Maybe, according to a press release. "Now as...
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Just after the Dallas City Council voted Sept. 6 to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from a public park, a crane and work crew appeared to take it down. Municipal government is not known for its speed, and it is constrained by rules to make spending slow and...
This week begins with a solar eclipse and plenty of watching parties around town. But if you packed up your telescopes and traveled to its path of totality because a partially eclipsed sun just isn't good enough, you're going to miss some seriously stellar shows this week. Pop-punk alum Simple Plan plays...
With all of the sexual harassment allegations surfacing in the news, it's appropriate that Nicole Stewart, founder of the storytelling series Oral Fixation, devoted the show Friday, Nov. 3, to women who have taken big risks. The theme for the program is “Jump Off a Cliff,” and former Fox News...
Recently, NASA announced it is looking for a planetary protection officer — someone tasked with protecting the planet from potential aliens, all to the tune of a six-figure salary. It sounds like something straight out of Men In Black, but if you meet the space program's qualifications, you could hold...
It's not fun, but it is interesting at times to watch the Washington press corps struggle with public education issues. I have empathy. If anything bollixes up our bookkeeping in the news business about who’s a black hat and who’s a white hat, it’s that damned education issue. Last week,...
“This is a David Lowery production,” says a 7-year-old Lowery at the end of Poltergeist, his short film shot with a home camera. It starred his little brother in a sheet and showed promise even then. Now 38, Lowery is still proud of that first cinematic attempt and posted it...
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It floats in the darkness, unspooling onscreen with a sepulchral glow. It has waited for what seems like an eternity to meet the eyes of its audience, and it senses in them both anticipation and dread. Yes, there was that bizarre miniseries back in 1990 (God, remember Tim Curry in...
A new study published in July's American Journal of Public Health attacks one of contemporary policing's biggest questions using data culled from the Dallas Police Department. The central question: Are white police officers more likely to use force against nonwhite suspects? The answer in Dallas appears to be no, according...
Dallas still hasn't shaken the Exxxotica monkey off its back. Although the case was dismissed, the Dallas City Council committed Wednesday to spending at least another $157,000 on its lawsuit to keep the porn convention away from the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center. This new expense brings the city's total...
Ed Butowsky is having a rough Tuesday. "The story is ridiculous, it's all made up crap," the Dallas financier told the Observer on Tuesday morning before begging off the phone. He'd love to tell us the full story, he said, but he just didn't have the time to talk. He might,...