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There's a big plaster duck in the driveway of Rick Orr's mobile home in Scottsdale, Arizona. If you know Rick Orr, you know this can't possibly be just any plaster duck; it's...
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In Sergeant John M. Russell's chaotic Army world the morning of May 11, the enemy was closing in. For the previous several days at sprawling Camp Liberty outside Baghdad, the...
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Pay to stay: If Emma Lazarus were alive and living in Dallas these days, she'd probably throw up.
Lazarus—for those of you who were sleeping in civics class—is...
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I love plaintiff's lawyers. I wish they were way richer. I hate "tort reform." Plaintiff's lawyers are cool, because they sue the socks off bullies. That's what this column is...
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At long last, football season has arrived.
The draft? Organized team activities? Training camp? The NFL schedule's first three months? Bah humbug. As far as Dallas Cowboys...
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Dear Mexican: I used to frequent a cantina in Chicago where half of the bar was Polack, the other half beaner. The Polacks would speak in their native tongue and either start...
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It's right there on the packaging sticker—the only thing on Rachel Bazooka's head-spinning, 97-minute, double-disc debut release, Colorbl nd, that features any words at...
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The artist formerly known as Smog, Bill Callahan used to churn out lo-fi four-track cassettes mostly about sitting alone in his room, mumbling in a distracted croak over amp...
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Ryan Hendrix and Nick Turner, the founding partners of Colourmusic, aren't cut from the same cloth. Hendrix is an Oklahoma native who worships at U2's altar, while Turner is a...
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This week, denton Deluxe officially released the fifth volume in its ongoing series of compilation CDs featuring local music. And, like the previous four editions, Volume 5...
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The people of Dallas love a good patio.
But until places such as Dragonfly and Fearing's began sculpting refined enclosures and The Londoner found a location set back from...
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There is something oddly familiar about Jason Reitman's Up in the Air, in which George Clooney plays a commitment-phobic business traveler with no use for meaningful human...
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The Crystal City walkout of 1969 was one of the defining moments of the Chicano movement, as students from the small South Texas town walked out of school in protest of the...
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The work of two young local artists, Timothy Harding and Jennifer Jones, will explore deconstructivist ideas relating to architecture as well as personal reflection at The...
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Every year as Christmas rolls around, I amuse myself by taking out dog-sized Santa hats and reindeer antlers. Then I chase my two dogs around the house, put the hat and...
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There's just no way that Greg Mortenson had any idea that when he fell ill trying to climb K2, he--as just one man--could make such an impact on Pakistan and Afghanistan....
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Come on, Christmas only comes around one day every year; why not celebrate it for as long as possible? You can't celebrate it after it's already passed--that would be weird....
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Some folks treat weight loss as a private matter, quietly undertaken with the help of a personal chef or a diet book and a low-profile scale that neatly tucks into a bathroom...
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Some of the best weekends I spent with my granny involved a kid's meal at Burger King, late night Lifetime movies and a long afternoon at the McKinney Flea Market. Nothing...
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Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right...through downtown Dallas? Dallas is pretty far from the North Pole, but on Saturday the streets of downtown Dallas will...
