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  Dallas Needed Justin Pickard’s New Album, Heavy on the Heart

  March 19 at 4 a.m.

  In the course of Justin Pickard’s musical pilgrimage, his songwriting has covered a gamut of subjects: smoking to drinking, the ins and outs of grave-robbery, love and loss, and UFOs that resemble bananas. His subjects fall somewhere in between old cult movies from the turn of the century to vintage...

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  New Netflix Documentary Reminds Us That There’s Nothing Little About ZZ Top

  March 11 at 4 a.m.

  There’s a legitimate reason that ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas, the documentary that premiered on Netflix last week, currently boasts a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score: It’s simply fantastic. There’s also a major reason the iconic trio with over 50 years under its belt has long been worthy...

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  Texas Musician Robert Ellis Is an Honorary Cowtown Citizen Who’d Rather Record in Fort Worth

  January 23 at 4 a.m.

  Robert Ellis — a singer-songwriter born in Houston, briefly situated in Nashville, now calling Austin home — is deeply fond of Fort Worth. Appreciative of the city’s relaxed pace and its cultural fixtures, like the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Ellis also cites Niles City Sound and his longstanding...

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  After Council Speed Bump, Adelfa Callejo Statue Back on Track

  January 22 at 4 a.m.

  There's something about public memorials Dallas can't get quite right. Sure, Robert E. Lee has been kicked out of Turtle Creek Park, but the traitorous general's fellow travelers are still standing, albeit shielded from public view, on Pioneer Plaza near City Hall. Efforts to take down both memorials to treason...

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  City Hall Exhibit Aims to Educate About Dallas’ Segregated Past and Present

  Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Racially-based redlining practices divided Dallas and cities across the country for decades in ways that still impact neighborhoods today. An exhibit about the history of this practice and its effects, as well as what to do about it, will be on display in Dallas City Hall's main lobby until December 31.

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  Texas Lieutenant Governor Sorta Takes On Texas Capitol’s Monuments to Traitors

  Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Last week, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick finally followed through on a promise he made during one of the 2019 Texas Legislature's tensest moments. Good luck figuring out what it was without any help. Here's the announcement from Patrick's office, made during the middle of Thanksgiving week, when no one...