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  Toilet Seat Artist and Former Museum Owner Dies at 98

  July 29 at 4 a.m.

  Over his lifetime, Barney Smith designed, decorated and collected roughly 1,400 toilet seat lids. The master plumber-turned-artist died Tuesday at the age of 98. From art and knickknacks to spoons, coins and stamps, human beings have amused themselves by accumulating large quantities of similar items for thousands of years. Janet...

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  Battling in Art

  July 22 at 2:31 a.m.

  Deep Ellum Art Company hosted the 2019 Art Battle Dallas. Art Battle is live, competitive painting. Photos by Melissa Hennings

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  Perot Helped Shape Dallas’ Arts Scene

  July 9 at 2:13 p.m.

  Nationwide, Ross Perot was known as an eccentric Texas billionaire who launched two unsuccessful presidential bids. In Dallas, he's known, among other things, as the man whose name is on one of the city's better-known museums. Perot died Tuesday after a five-month battle with leukemia, a family spokesman confirmed to...

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  Noah Jackson Ditches ‘Sad Bastard’ Plateau, Finds Joy and a New Sound

  June 4 at 4 a.m.

  It’s been about a decade since the disbandment of Ghosthustler and the beginning of Noah Jackson’s solo career. We haven’t heard much from him since then, but now, after years of reinventing himself and searching for his sound, Jackson says he’s found it and that a new EP is just...

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  The Cosplay of Fan Expo Dallas 2019

  May 6 at 12:10 a.m.

  Fan Expo Dallas is a showcase of vendor merchandise with almost every kind of pop culture & superhero action figure, t-shirt, & cosplay prop imaginable. Ed Steele arrived ready to photograph all of the toys with his lens, then found himself photographing the amazing cosplay of the living action figures in attendance instead.

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  An Evening at the Nasher

  April 22 at 2:41 p.m.

  Claire Morales and Tippy Balady performed for free and the crowd watched the movie, Big Miracle. Another beautiful night at the Nasher. Photos by Brian Maschino