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  Top 10 Observer-ations: Greenville Avenue/ St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2019

  March 18 at 2:29 p.m.

  10. The three most naively optimistic words you can utter on Greenville Avenue during St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dallas: “Table for 12.” In 20 years of parades, I’ve been on the Observer float, the 105.3 The Fan float and even (in 2012) a co-grand marshal. But this Saturday I’m...

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  5 DFW Concert Disasters We’re Still Thinking About

  March 13 at 4 a.m.

  It takes years to build a good name and only seconds to destroy one, so should you choose to organize concerts or festivals, tread carefully, always be prepared to take a loss and don’t bite off more than you can chew. Some neophyte promoters are legitimately slimy characters, but sometimes...

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  When Awful Men Make Beautiful Things, What’s a Fan To Do?

  March 7 at 4 a.m.

  We asked three of our regular contributors, Taylor Frantum, Preston Jones and Jacob Vaughn, to tackle a tough question: Should we still listen to the music of the late Michael Jackson, R. Kelly or Ryan Adams, three hugely popular artists in the news over allegations they were sexual predators who...

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  Jon Bon Jovi’s Private Gig in Dallas Was Proof That Socialism in America Is Doomed

  March 5 at 4 a.m.

  “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." — Ronald Wright from A Short History of Progress *** We rightfully mock Billy McFarland and Ja Rule for the disastrous Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, but it would...

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  14-Year-Old Boy Learns About Feminism After Starring in Local Singer’s Music Video

  February 28 at 4 a.m.

  Johnny Wulff is the 14-year-old son of our writer Eva Raggio. He’s a first-chair trumpet player in the All City and All Region bands, who can solve a Rubik’s Cube puzzle in less than two minutes — and any technical problem his parents will ever have. A few months ago,...

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  5 Negative Pitchfork Reviews of North Texas Artists That Missed Mark

  February 20 at 4 a.m.

  On Aug. 13, 2017, Wall Street Journal writer Neil Shah wrote an article titled “What Happened to the Negative Music Review?” in which he stated, “[N]egative reviews are so few and far between that they rarely impact overall scores from an aggregator like Metacritic.” Despite this, online magazine Pitchfork has...