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  Mr. Troll, Dallas Music Scene's Iconic Hippie, Has Died

  June 11 at 3:04 p.m.

  Ramon Mallow was a self-proclaimed hippie. People knew him as Mr. Troll in the Dallas-Fort Worth music scene, a moniker from his old biker days. His family called him Danny, after his middle name Daniel. His sister Faye Price said she always called her brother a bohemian. He prided himself...

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  Dallas Music Scene Remembers Record Store Owner and Icon Bill Wisener

  January 14 at 4 a.m.

  This past Friday, Bill Wisener, who owned the iconic Bill’s Records for over 40 years, died at age 75. Wisener was a venerable Dallas figure, a chain-smoking music connoisseur who had endless stories and meaningful pleasantries for customers. He died the way he’ll be remembered by most: sitting behind the...

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  Nothing Stopped Daniel Johnston from Being an Artist. Nothing.

  Friday, September 13, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  I’ve always hated the notion of the “tortured genius” since it essentially glamorizes an artist’s devastating struggle. Isn’t music supposed to, as Woody Guthrie once put it, “comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable?” I’ll admit, it has become harder for me to intellectually defend my disdain for this archetype...

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  Dallas Music Scene Mourns the Death of Rising Country Star Kylie Rae Harris

  Friday, September 6, 2019 at 11:28 a.m.

  Every 48 minutes, someone is killed in a drunk driving crash. It’s the leading cause of death on U.S. roads, ending more than 37,00 people’s lives in 2017, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. On Wednesday night, that someone turned out to be rising Texas country music star...

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  The Wandering Poet Is Dead: David Berman Died on Wednesday

  Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 12:12 p.m.

  “O Dallas, you shine with an evil light / Don’t you know that God stays up all night / How’d you turn a billion steers / Into buildings made of mirrors / Why am I drawn to you tonight.” David Berman penned those words more than 20 years ago. They...

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  Dallas Theater Pioneer Katherine Owens Dies

  Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 3:38 p.m.

  For 35 years, theater visionary Katherine Owens created expressive art in a basement in Deep Ellum, taking audiences to far away places and fairy tale lands created by legendary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and David Rabe. As co-founder and co-director of the Undermain Theatre troupe, Owens established North Texas...