Email Author Glenna Whitley

Awards

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published May 10, 2007

  "Fashion Foul"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published August 3, 2006

  "The Cult of Ole"

• 2006 - Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, published May 19, 2005

  "Generation Rx"

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2007 Stories by Glenna Whitley

• Turning the Tables on Trinity Foundation

  published November 22, 2007

  Ole's at it again. Ole Anthony and his cohort at the Trinity Foundation are behind Senator Charles Grassley's current investigation of... More >>

• Crazy Fish May Redefine Computer Industry

  published November 15, 2007

  The North Dallas apartment is tiny and as dim as a titty bar at noon. Only one light bulb burns in the ceiling fan fixture, so for the sake of... More >>

• Texas Concealed Gun Laws Loosen

  published October 25, 2007

  An amendment to Texas' so-called "traveling rule" regarding concealed handguns went into effect September 1 with hardly anyone noticing, though... More >>

• Joyce King is Promoting Justice to the Masses

  published October 11, 2007

  Dallas writer Joyce King, who recently joined the board of the Innocence Project of Texas, is spearheading the organization's month-long... More >>

• A Devil's Deal in Dallas Court

  published September 27, 2007

  When Gerald Pabst took the witness stand to testify against his brother-in-law, he looked scared. He was literally shaking. Yet he answered the... More >>

• Of Note

  published September 6, 2007

  A missing court reporter's stenographic notes and tape of testimony in a 1994 criminal trial shed light on the haphazard and antiquated way... More >>

• Ole Oops

  published August 9, 2007

  A film snippet showing a California preacher boasting about his opulent lifestyle on 20/20 has dunked ABC and correspondent John Stossel... More >>

• The Big 15

  published August 9, 2007

  The Quinceañera—a festive party to celebrate a girl turning 15--is a lovely custom not well understood by many people outside Hispanic... More >>

• Chains of Evidence

  published August 2, 2007

  A half-hour after her boyfriend left her Irving condo on an icy night in January 1988, Marilyn M. heard pounding on her door. Thinking her... More >>

• Orphaned

  published July 26, 2007

  News that some abused and neglected children have ended up sleeping in offices at Child Protective Services highlights the need for a kind of... More >>

• Almost Home-Free

  published July 19, 2007

  A week after their daughter Emily Dowdy was released from an Oklahoma prison and sent to a treatment facility, Nancy and Charlie Jackson say they... More >>

• The Soft Uncanny

  published July 5, 2007

  Dallas-based Lily Hanson is master of what art critic Charissa Terranova has called "the soft uncanny." Or maybe it's the "snuggly... More >>

• Fatal Web

  published June 21, 2007

  When he spotted the pretty woman standing on the front lawn of a stately home in Highland Park, Alan Rehrig whipped his Bronco into the driveway... More >>

• For the Birds

  published May 31, 2007

  You know you've made it as a Dallas birder when the guard at the south side sewage ponds knows your name. When you take binoculars on a run... More >>

• Woe Is They

  published May 24, 2007

  Woe is they: So if the best-educated minds in the country get together and agree on one particular point of view, what would you... More >>

• Fashion Foul

  published May 10, 2007

  When "Emily" first saw Anand Jon in October 2005, he was walking through the terminal at DFW Airport like a rock god: long mane of black hair,... More >>

• We Welcome You to Puppetland

  published May 3, 2007

  In elementary school I discovered Land of Oz in the public library. I'd never heard of the movie or Judy Garland. I thought the Land of Oz... More >>

• What's Your Gauge?

  published April 26, 2007

  The old-fashioned quilting bee had a lot to recommend it: skilled women trading gossip and sewing tips and a tad of wisdom when called for. The... More >>

• Mad World

  published April 19, 2007

  What it is about women and hats? The days are long gone when they were required daily wear, but we still leap at any opportunity to wear beautiful... More >>

• Bully on the Bench

  published April 12, 2007

  The 120 dutiful souls who'd answered their jury summons on January 9 had been sitting in the historic Waxahachie courthouse listening to lawyers... More >>

• Look Out Below!

  published April 12, 2007

  The second book in Patrick McManus' Bo Tully mystery series will make you shiver and giggle at the same time. In Avalanche, quirky... More >>

• Dick Adventures

  published April 5, 2007

  The late actor Jeremy Brett inhabits the character of Sherlock Holmes in my imagination now, thanks to the PBS series in which he portrayed the... More >>

• This Other Winner

  published March 22, 2007

  Germany's The Lives of Others won the Best Foreign Language category at this year's Oscars, but in a fair world, it would have won... More >>

• Tough Read

  published March 15, 2007

  Fascinated by the supposed discovery of the "lost tomb of Jesus," unveiled last week on the Discovery Channel? Karen King, professor of... More >>

• Where, O Where?

  published March 15, 2007

  The fact that O Brother, Where Art Thou? did not win a 2000 Oscar for best screenplay based on previous material—the award went... More >>