60 Minutes

It's the Weekend, Music for Our Ears

Re: Sometimes You Feel Like a Cult...

Net Gain or Net Loss?

Local TV Journalism Isn't Totally Dead...

60 Minutes of Real Sports

Craig Watkins Gets His 60 Minutes of Fame This Sunday

60 Minutes on the Justice -- and Injustices -- of Dallas County

After 27 Years in Prison, James Lee Woodard's "Adventure" Continues

Stolen thunder

Morales anoints himself hero

Perotnoia

The great mystery of Perot's 1992 presidential bid was his sudden decision to quit the race. Biographer Gerald Posner found that Perot was a victim of a shadowy soldier of fortune-- and his own delusions.

Rising star

Denyce Graves is the current Carmen of choice, and TDO has her

A tale of two towns

In Rosewood, the truth is black and white and red all over

Real cuisine--or gator bait?

Blue Conch brings Florida fare to Dallas

Noshing around the world

Barcelona Tapas Bar offers eclectic, if mediocre, grazing

Alex Rodriguez Wasn't Even "Tempted" to Juice. Except, This One Time, at Band Camp ...

In light of yesterday's revelations that Alex Rodriguez was juicing during his MVP tenure with Your Texas Rangers, a Friend of Unfair Park remind us of A-Roid's appearance on 60 Minutes at the end of '07, when he repeatedly told Katie Couric he'd never enhanced. Below, one video highlight among many ... More >>

Buzz

In light of yesterday's revelations that Alex Rodriguez was juicing during his MVP tenure with Your Texas Rangers, a Friend of Unfair Park remind us of A-Roid's appearance on 60 Minutes at the end of '07, when he repeatedly told Katie Couric he'd never enhanced. Below, one video highlight among many ... More >>

Getting to the heart

Pappas Brothers is belly-full of old-fashioned decadence

Buzz

Pappas Brothers is belly-full of old-fashioned decadence

The black eye

Kara Walker's silhouettes would piss off Malcolm X -- or would they?

Video Binge

The 12th Annual Dallas Video Festival offers all of the flavor with none of the fat of heavy TV consumption

Letters

Eyes wide shut; Vigilante justice; Long live the queen; And more

Scene, Heard

One Ton Records closes its doors

The Mommy Card

Kids T-shirts make a statement

Moolah for Mullahs in Charlie Wilson's War

All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols' good time Charlie

The Upside of Lions for Lambs

The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

Li'l Pollock? Nah, My Kid Could Paint That

Sure, your kid could paint that. So, hang it on the fridge

The Gatekeeper

Mary Mapes tells us a story

Devils in Disguise

A documentary portrait of a pedophile priest and his pious protectors

Mapesgate

Before you judge former CBS-TV producer Mary Mapes, take a walk in her shoes

The Piano

Before you judge former CBS-TV producer Mary Mapes, take a walk in her shoes

Poke in the Eye

Plus: Legal Warrior; Turncoats

Paper Trail

Plus: Old Hand; When Fanboys Dream

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Plus: Old Hand; When Fanboys Dream

Habitat for Inhumanity

The "asylums" depicted in The Magdalene Sisters are insane

What a Boob

Andy Rooney says female sideline reporters are no good. Well, they're OK by me!

The Way of the Gun

The untold story of why Lenell Geter was freed

The A-Team

Love it when a plan comes together? Not so fast. Sure, they've got A-Rod and I-Rod, but what about Rusty Greer hitting leadoff, Tim Crabtree closing, and Johnny Oates acting human? John Gonzalez goes to Texas Rangers spring training to look for answers.

Edifice complex

Michael Piazza wants his proposed $20 million cathedral to send a message to the world -- gays can go to heaven too

Surplus labor

The fashion for corporate downsizing cuts into the economy in many ways

Craig Watkins Is Ready for His Close-Up

I winced when asked to screen an advance copy of Dallas DNA, Investigation Discovery's new six-part series that adds to the growing legend that is Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. It took Henry Wade decades in office to achieve legendary notoriety, but with the global media fawning ove ... More >>

Craig Watkins is ready for his closeup

I winced when asked to screen an advance copy of Dallas DNA, Investigation Discovery's new six-part series that adds to the growing legend that is Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. It took Henry Wade decades in office to achieve legendary notoriety, but with the global media fawning ove ... More >>

Finally, the Story of the Wrongly Convicted Joyce Ann Brown Set to Become a Feature Film

​At long last -- which is to say, close to 20 years since Joyce Ann Brown was freed from prison for a robbery and murder she did not commit -- the South Dallas woman's story will become a movie. So reports The Hollywood Reporter, which makes special note of the announced film as it marks the featu ... More >>

Check Out the Gams on Grandma

​At long last -- which is to say, close to 20 years since Joyce Ann Brown was freed from prison for a robbery and murder she did not commit -- the South Dallas woman's story will become a movie. So reports The Hollywood Reporter, which makes special note of the announced film as it marks the featu ... More >>

Inside the Huddle: Jerry Jones on 60 Minutes and Gary Cartwright on Dandy Don Meredith

Ex-Channel 5-and-8'er Scott Pelley has, from the looks of it, been in and out of town this year working on his Jerry Jones profile airing Sunday on 60 Minutes. The sneak peek above provided by CBS offers a good look at the "agony" of defeat (after defeat after defeat) endured by Jones, who acknowled ... More >>

Jerry Jones and the "Season From Hell"

In case you missed it, here's the entirety of last night's 60 Minutes segment about the Dallas Cowboys' owner and general manager. The takeaway: Jerry Jones thinks he's "smarter" now as GM than he was when he bought the team. Oh, really? Really. On the other side, a bonus "overtime" piece in which J ... More >>

Jerry Jones: 60 Minutes of Sympathy

​I know he takes a lot of shit and he deserves most of it. But the one thing you can't deny is the passion of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. It was on full display again during Sunday night's 60 Minutes story on CBS. At one point Jones' eyes were watering as he talked of being motivated - ... More >>

See More Clearly

​I know he takes a lot of shit and he deserves most of it. But the one thing you can't deny is the passion of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. It was on full display again during Sunday night's 60 Minutes story on CBS. At one point Jones' eyes were watering as he talked of being motivated - ... More >>

Whitt's End: 5.20.11

​ Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Mavs got outplayed last night, plain and simple. The Rangers' loss to the Royals was more painful. Texas was one pitch from winning until .230-hitting Mike Aviles capped a gutsy 11-pitch at ... More >>

At Arlington City Hall, Locals Hammer TCEQ Panel for Stricter Gas Drilling Regulations

Photos by Leslie MinoraA panel of TCEQ reps maintained their poker faces for about two hours as citizens took the mic, almost all demanding tighter fracking regulations.​Shortly after the release of that Fort Worth air study, three reps from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality took a ... More >>

Why Those Black Truffles You're Eating Don't Taste Like Truffles at All

FlickrBlack truffles don't really work like this, as I recently learned.​I remember my first encounter with truffles vividly, probably because it was a simultaneously euphoric and traumatic experience. I was on a date at Al Tiramisu, a basement Italian restaurant in Washington, D.C., which I p ... More >>