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  How to Not Piss off a Bouncer

  August 14 at 4 a.m.

  So your friend’s 21st birthday is here and the world of Uber surge charges and artisan cocktails are officially part of your playground. The only thing standing between you and your $11 ginger vodka soda is the door person who is hell-bent on preventing you from getting in, right? Not...

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  McMansion Hell Is Taking on Dallas' Own McMansions

  August 7 at 4 a.m.

  A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but affronts to architectural pulchritude live in infamy on Kate Wagner’s blog McMansionhell.com. McMansion Hell highlights a certain type of enormous, aesthetically baffling dwelling constructed across the country in recent decades. Wagner wants to unveil the worst offending home in Texas, her...

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  Facebook Thought Our Addiction Article Went Against Its Community Standards

  August 3 at 4 a.m.

  On Tuesday morning, the music section of the Dallas Observer published an article on local musicians talking about addiction following former Colleyville resident Demi Lovato’s recent drug overdose. The writers of the article (myself and Stephanie Salas-Vega) shared the article on our personal Facebook pages, as writers normally do in...

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  Some Musicians Are OK With Audiences Recording Their Sets; Comedians Aren't

  August 1 at 4 a.m.

  There's nothing worse for a stand-up comedian than seeing someone in the audience pull out a cellphone. “I’d rather someone get drunk and start throwing things at me during my set then pull out a phone," says Dallas comedian Wes Corwin. It’s not uncommon to be at a live venue and...

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  How Do Bands Feel About Audiences Recording Their Sets? Most Are OK With It

  July 25 at 4 a.m.

  As the lights go down, the curtains open and the band reveals itself onstage. Phones and cameras show up in the audience, too. Lit screens swerve back and forth, and instantly, there are hundreds of recordings of the concert on social media. More artists are encouraging camera-free experiences by banning...

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  Social Media Influencers Can Help Hotels, When They're Not Being a Pain

  July 19 at 4 a.m.

  Half a billion people scroll through Instagram daily. And to some of those peoples’ dismay and others’ envy, a small percentage of Instagrammers have made a career out of it. They are a select class of mostly millennial model-types whose interesting lives and devoted followers have made them attractive allies...