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The Dallas Observer is a free alternative weekly newspaper distributed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and headquartered in Dallas.

It was started in October 1980 by partners Ken Kirk, Bob Walton, Jeff Wilmont, and Gregg Wurdeman as a weekly local arts and cinema review publication, with the credo "Advocate for Excellence in Arts and Entertainment" on the cover.

For a time during its early years, the paper switched to a biweekly publishing schedule.

In 1985, the paper reverted to a weekly schedule and began concentrating on local news as well as the arts.

While it is now known for its investigative stories of the local government, it also covers local sports stories, restaurants, events, and concerts.

Dallas is a major city in the U.S. state of Texas.

It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the United States.

The city's population ranks ninth in the U.S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio.

The city's prominence arose from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries, and its position along numerous railroad lines.

The bulk of the city is in Dallas County, of which it is the county seat; however, sections of the city are located in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties.

According to the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 1,197,816.

The United States Census Bureau's estimate for the city's population increased to 1,300,092 as of July 1, 2015.

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree.

The word applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles.

Journalistic media include: print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels.

Culture can be defined in numerous ways.

In the words of anthropologist E.B. Tylor, it is "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Alternatively, in a contemporary variant, "Culture is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses and material expressions, which, over time, express the continuities and discontinuities of social meaning of a life held in common.".

Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language and emotion through the inscription or recording of signs and symbols.

In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language.

Writing is not a language but a form of technology that developed as tools developed with human society.

Within a language system, writing relies on many of the same structures as speech, such as vocabulary, grammar and semantics, with the added dependency of a system of signs or symbols.

The result of writing is generally called text, and the recipient of text is called a reader.

Motivations for writing include publication, storytelling, correspondence and diary.

Writing has been instrumental in keeping history, maintaining culture, dissemination of knowledge through the media and the formation of legal systems.