Almost all of the homeless camps the city has scraped away for the TV cameras over the past year are back up, rebuilt close to their original locations or maybe half a mile away. If the city’s tent-scraping program was intended to resolve homelessness, promote health and safety or reduce...
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At 8 a.m., it's a common sight to see elementary and middle school students walking to school in northeast Dallas. For one man, it's also an opportunity. On Nov. 7, a Chevy Malibu pulled up next to a schoolgirl and the man behind the wheel asked for directions. When he...
There are few North Texas musicians with a style as distinct as bluesman Charley Crockett. His sound and taste in fashion both have an unapologetically Southern flavor. “It’s Texas-Louisiana gumbo baby!” he says. Crockett’s music pulls from various rich Southern musical traditions — blues, gospel, jazz and more — while...
Kris Cox — What Do I Know? William Campbell Contemporary Art 4935 Byers, Fort Worth Opening reception 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday For his upcoming solo exhibition at William Campbell, Kris Cox spurs to life the most primitive elements of his native Colorado: Dahlias in the field, Highland cattle hair...
Carrollton and Richardson are well known for Chinese and Korean fare, but Filipino cuisine is vastly underrepresented in the DFW area, which has only a handful of Filipino restaurants. Koya’s Place is a welcomed opening for those craving traditional Filipino dishes like bulalo, a beef and bone-marrow soup with potatoes,...
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings doesn't usually cast that long of a shadow on social media. He's content to let his staff run his Facebook and Twitter feeds, which usually stick to general news posts about city business or mayoral appearances. Thursday afternoon, however, Rawlings decided to mix things up on...
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T.C. Broadnax is starting to get a handle on what he calls the challenge ahead. On Thursday, a little less than a month before he takes over the Dallas city manager's office from A.C. Gonzalez, the Tacoma city manager sat down with the Dallas Observer for a discussion about his approach...
A local web series about heartbreak is getting an upgrade. Joshua “Jay Wil” Wilson began filming the second season of Matters of the Heart in December but halted production after the first episode to purchase a high definition camera. The second season is on target to be released next fall. Matters of the...
The Pixies play Bomb Factory on Saturday, April 29 Joey Santiago is one of the better rock guitarists since, well, forever. He’s the auteur of the crunchy, grinding, whining, ethereal, soaring aural experience that is the Pixies. He’s the guy who, while at the University of Massachusetts with Charles Michael...
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Thursday morning, Crowley police revealed the details behind the grisly double murder of Troy and Mary Brewer. Police say that Carl Brewer, 17, killed his parents and prompted a 10-hour standoff at the scene of the crime. On Tuesday afternoon, police received a 911 call from a friend of Carl Brewer's. The...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Stevens Transport, the Dallas-based refrigerated trucking giant, for discriminating against an Air Force veteran with bipolar disorder, the agency announced Wednesday. In its complaint, the EEOC alleges that Stevens Transport turned down Bill Brown for a job because of the medication he takes...
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The bar and restaurant industry is notoriously fickle. It's sadly considered notable if a restaurant lasts five years, and it's not uncommon for a restaurant to shutter in its first year. As consumers, we have emotional attachments to these places. They're where we have our first dates, our last dates,...
Dallas has too much fried chicken. 2016’s Southern comfort food bubble has brought our city an ever-bigger bucket of fried chicken restaurants. Omar Flores, of the highbrow Casa Rubia, opened Whistle Britches to mixed reviews. The family behind Black-Eyed Pea opened Street’s Fine Chicken, which is, indeed, pretty damn fine. Rapscallion’s...
With each new year, Americans summon whatever shreds of mental energy that were not suckled dry by the previous year’s exploits in order to set resolutions. Chief among these resolutions, of course, is to be healthier. For you, this resolution might take the form of increased exercise, losing weight or...
Ochre House Theater's original productions often focus on groundbreaking live music performed by notable local musicians. It's January production of Dr. Bobaganush and His Wonderful World Of The Bizarre and Macabre tells the story of an ancient arts wielding mystic traveling with his show in Nazi-era Europe. The musical delves into...
Whole Woman's Health and the Center for Reproductive Rights are suing the state of Texas again. This time, the team that beat the state in the Supreme Court this summer is seeking to stop the state from enforcing a new regulation that would require the burial or cremation of any...
Most of the time, the interests of the Texas Association of Business and Republicans in the Texas Legislature line up pretty well. Both groups want fewer government regulations on employers, expansive at-will employment and school choice vouchers for Texas parents, among other things. Over the past couple of years, however,...
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The Lure Texas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. Multiple showings Friday through Sunday $10 The directorial debut of Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska, The Lure looks like a haunting, musical-horror fairy tale filled with glittery and splashy (no pun intended) music video aesthetics. In her debut, Smoczynska very loosely adapts Hans...
Anna Elise Johnson — Inner WorkingsCris Worley Fine Arts 1845 Levee St., Suite 110 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday Anna Elise Johnson’s three-dimensional collages use photographs of political, economic and diplomatic meetings to create small-ish mise-en-scéne containing ambiguous yet striking narratives with characters frozen in time. Delicate mists of spray...
Larry Gene McCollum was 58 years old in 2011 when he was busted for a bad check in Waco. He was 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed 330 pounds, with a history of diabetes, high blood pressure and a tendency toward depression. He was sentenced to a year in...
It appears Texas has its first locally transmitted case of the Zika virus. Monday afternoon, state health officials announced that a woman living in Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley tested positive for the birth-defect causing virus. Unlike earlier diagnoses, she had not traveled to an area that's been...