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  Starck Reality: Reappraising Dallas’ Most Controversial Nightclub, 30 Years Later

  June 12 at 4 a.m.

  Under a sweltering midafternoon sun one day in late May, a backhoe digs at the earth where Dallas’ Brewery Building once stood on the edge of Victory Park. Traffic snakes along the nearby Woodall Rodgers overpass, circling the parking lot and rail yard at its far end. A dull, gray...

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  Meet the Blind North Texas Artist Who Painted a Four-Story Mural in Dallas

  June 6 at 4 a.m.

  There’s a new mural in the Bishop Arts District that towers over anyone who walks past it. It’s an explosion of color that would otherwise be a dull cluster of bricks on the side of an apartment building. The mural took about a week and a half to finish. During...

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  Here Lie Bonnie and Clyde: 9 DFW Places To Get the Truth Missing From the Movies

  May 30 at 4 a.m.

  Eighty-five years after their deaths, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are inescapable. They’re in The Highwaymen, released this year on Netflix. Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson star as Frank Hamer and Maney Gault, former Texas Rangers who helped bring the Barrow Gang’s gruesome, two-year spree of 13 murders and numerous...

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  Revamped Acoustic Kitchen Studios Is Cooking Something Good

  May 29 at 4 a.m.

  Tucked away on the far west side of an old Dallas office building is a spot where the Deering family helps bring music to life, through a space called Acoustic Kitchen Studios, fit for small live shows and recording sessions. The studio itself is in stark contrast to its own...

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  The Rise, Fall and Rise of The Effinays

  May 28 at 4 a.m.

  If you're a local music lover, chances are you've seen The Effinays playing somewhere. They’ve done their time at festivals, outdoor shows and venues. And with major successes, sometimes come public fallings-out. Audiences were saddened to hear of the news that they were calling it quits in fall 2018 after...

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  Singer Alex Blair Finds Freedom Through Music and Modeling

  May 15 at 4 a.m.

  Alex Blair has a show in an hour or so. It’s her Thursday residency at The Mitchell, a spot she calls “chill,” which may be the perfect adjective to describe the soulful jazz singer. “The Mitchell fits me nicely,” she says, sipping a vanilla cold brew at a Starbucks off...