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Trey Edward Shults’s It Comes at Night Is a Horror Triumph

A red door is, biblically speaking, a sign of protection, an echo of the blood rubbed on posts and lintels during Passover to keep God from smiting you and your home. But like most things that the Bible insists are positive, the red door also comes with an undercurrent of...
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Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend

Friday Before Nine Inch Nails, Muse or even Marilyn Manson, there was Depeche Mode. A pioneer in popularizing electronic music, the English band peaked in the 1980s, offering a musical alternative to the exhausted bubblegum pop of Top 40 hits. The band has released 14 studio albums since its conception...
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Cheap and Free Events in Dallas This Week

Shakespeare in the Bar: The Tempest Wild Detectives 314 W. 8th St. 8 p.m. Monday $7 Theater doesn’t have to be in stuffy performance halls to be good. Sometimes all it takes is a small ensemble of actors, a modest stage in a bar and plenty of booze. And Dallas...
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Aziz Ansari’s Master of None Achieves Mastery at Last

There was never any doubt about the thoughtfulness with which Aziz Ansari, in the first season of his Netflix series, Master of None, addressed the kinds of societal divides — racial, cultural, generational, sexual — that most sitcoms either lack the vision to perceive at all or take on only...
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District Court Rules Texas House Map Intentionally Dilutes Minority Vote

For the second month in a row, a U.S. district court panel on Thursday afternoon found that a Texas district map illegally discriminates against minority voters. In March, a three-judge panel ruled that the state's congressional map unconstitutionally limits the effects of votes cast by Texas' ethnic minorities. Thursday, a...
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New Turkish Restaurant Ephesus Joins Dallas’ Booming Mediterranean Food Scene

Could this be the year that Middle Eastern food becomes Dallas’ hottest culinary trend? Signs appeared in summer of 2016, when a series of acclaimed halal fast-food spots opened their doors across the city, including Halal Guys, Big Guys Chicken & Rice, Amsterdam Falafelshop and, in Irving, Arabian Bites. Then, this winter, Zatar Lebanese Tapas took...
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21 Things to Do in Dallas This Week

ThursdayComedians must hear this all the time: “I’ll bet you’re really glad Donald Trump is president right now. The jokes must write themselves!” Comedian Chris Rock knows enough about telling the truth as he sees it and making people laugh that he could mine material from the world even if...
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5 Art Events for Your Weekend: March 31-April 2

Simeen Farhat: Blood Shot Is Blood Loved Cris Worley Fine Arts 1845 Levee St., No. 110 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday Artist Simeen Farhat uses cast resin and acrylic to create sculptures that play with form and shadow. For the pieces in this exhibition, the show’s notes...