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  Nothing Stopped Daniel Johnston from Being an Artist. Nothing.

  September 13 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

  September 6 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

  August 8 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

  July 24 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...

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  Tammi True, Texas Burlesque Queen, Died Tuesday, Leaving Behind a Legacy Tied to History

  July 12 at 4 a.m.

  They called her Miss Excitement. Her real name was Nancy Bolen, then Powell, then Myers. But she was better known as Tammi True. With blonde, big hair like Marilyn Monroe’s, True looked like a movie starlet. She thought she resembled Kim Novak, who was best known for Alfred Hitchcok's Vertigo...

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  Star Wars Colleagues and Friends React to Death of Chewbacca Actor Peter Mayhew

  May 3 at 4:05 a.m.

  Peter Mayhew, the actor who played the towering Wookie Chewbacca in several Star Wars movies, has passed away. Mayhew's family delivered the news of his passing in a statement on his official Facebook page. He died Tuesday at his home in Boyd surrounded by his family, according to the statement...