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While Players and Suppliers Wait to be Paid, Dallas-Based United League Baseball Eyes Expansion

The Fort Worth Cats were rescued from the brink of insolvency 13 months ago when former Congressman John Bryant led a group of investors in purchasing the minor league ball club. And things were going swimmingly for about six months ago until, in the middle of the 2012 season, vendors stopped being ... More >>

Last Night's Hail Storm Will Cost Insurance Companies Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

If you are a roof, a delicate glass sculpture or one of the cars stuck in the open because of the assholes who took shelter under one of the overpasses on Central, yesterday was not a good day. Days usually aren't when you're pelted with chunks of ice the size of baseballs. Or were they grapefruit-s ... More >>

So Many Questions About The American Bible Challenge, Which Casts in Dallas Saturday

So. This happened yesterday: Hi, I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know that GSN (Game Show Network) is coming to Vista Ridge Mall in Dallas next Saturday, June 2nd looking for Dallas' best and brightest contestants to cast in our upcoming series, "THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE," a ... More >>

Ray Luzier of Korn: "I Almost Peed My Pants Before My First Gig With David Lee Roth."

Before earning a spot as the drummer for Korn, Ray Luzier played some high-profile gigs with David Lee Roth and Stone Temple Pilots. So the guy obviously knows something about working with temperamental frontmen. Speaking from a car while driving from Abilene to Lubbock, and in anticipation of Kor ... More >>

What Do "Prettiest Teacher in U.S.," James Bonham Elementary, Candy Barr, Watergate and SMU Death Penalty Have in Common? This.

​Amidst all the ruckus over the Dallas Independent School District board's more-than-likely decision to close James B. Bonham Elementary, one thing's been overlooked: Its storied past as The School Where The Prettiest U.S. School Teacher once taught. That's a certifiable fact: In December 1952 spe ... More >>

Stripping's Suze Orman

Naomi VaughanRebecca Avalon's No. 1 Rule: Stay off the pole, ladies.​Rebecca Avalon likes to say she did things backwards: went to college, got a master's degree in science education, became an elementary school teacher, then started stripping. She's quit dancing full time twice but keeps goin ... More >>

Kevin Glasheen Fought to See Innocent Prisoners Compensated, Then Fought To Take Millions For Himself

The Lubbock lawyer teamed up with Innocent Project lawyer Jeff Blackburn to see the state compensation for exonerees raised. Now both men are under fire from their clients.

Ryan Turner On Hank Williams, Kenny Chesney and The Problem With Modern Country

Opinionated, but still down-to-earth, Austin's Ryan Turner is the epitome of an old-school country singer. He prefers Merle Haggard to Kenny Chesney any day, and believes most popular country singers have simply lost their way. Turner has just released a new EP called Sweet Time, a five-song affa ... More >>

Last Night: Deerhoof at The Loft

DeerhoofThe LoftFebruary 2, 2011Better than: Ice, ice babyDoug DavisDeerhoof​It was a stroke of good luck, aided with a bit of coaxing by Loft promoter Kris Youmans, that got two luminaries to agree to share the bill on Wednesday night at The Loft. And, for fans of more experimental music, the o ... More >>

Six Months After La Familia Bust, Dallas Boss Pleads Guilty to Meth Trafficking

Kimberly ThorpeSome of the drugs and money seized by law-enforcement officials in the fall of 2009​We were there in October of last year, when the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the I.R.S., the U.S. Secret Service and Texas Air National Guard -- and every other law-enforcing acronym -- ... More >>

Yesterday's Cry Was But One of Many Great Days in Randy Neugebauer History

McBloggerRep. Randy Neugebauer and some friend of his​First we didn't know who shouted "Baby Killer!" at Rep. Bart Stupak last night, during the health care debate. Joe Barton knew, but he wasn't talking. Then, we found out: It was Lubbock's own Rep. Randy Neugebauer, which, according to Jim anywa ... More >>

Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada

Looks like this time they picked the wrong country.

Bosque Brown's Mara Lee Miller Expands Her Vision While Sticking Close to Home

Cornerback Dwayne Goodrich: "The Cowboy Who Killed Those Kids"

Former cornerback Dwayne Goodrich comes to grips with his hit-and-run of three Good Samaritans as he plans for life after prison

Having a Cavalli, or: Economy? What Economy? It's Fashion at the Park!

The Scratch Pad...With Sydney Confirm Of The Fallout Lounge's Disqo Disco

The Caretaker

One mother's crusade to better the life of her mentally retarded son and the system that failed him

It's Dr Pepper Time!

As least for those bootlegging the sugar-sweetened stuff out of Dublin, Texas

Nothing Left Behind in Southland Tales

Committing Arson

Thorn vs. Side's sizzling mix of metal and punk should help them escape those local band blues

Love in His Heart

Brandon Carr takes his band name literally and offers the world's first taste of the next Earlies album

KT Tunstall, Micah P. Hinson

Monday, May 15, at the Gypsy Tea Room

Micah P. Hinson

Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress (Sketchbook)

Letters

Grumpy Old Men

Lions tames Duvall and Caine with feel-good cornpone

Soldiers of Misfortune

Ranch Rescue’s paramilitary posse may have guns and camo gear to keep the border safe, but what they need is a good lawyer

Clone Ranger

The old roundup may never be the same, thanks to Zech Dameron’s herd of genetically duplicate longhorns

Open Season

Border authorities fear a return to the law of the Wild West as Texas homeowners take up guns against illegal Mexican immigrants

The Naked Truth

When it comes to Dallas' practice of prosecuting low-level porn clerks, jurors know hypocrisy when they see it

Drug Crazed

Millions in federal tax dollars are being spent by narcotics task forces in Texas to nab low-level users and dealers. Is this any way to wage a drug war?

The Unbelievers

Minister James Simmons says he awoke from a coma one day to find himself a gay amnesiac. Some of his Dallas parishioners aren't buying it.

Crying Shame

If the art alone can't get you out for Artwalk, maybe goading will.

Born again

The Texas-Louisiana league claims it's about to resurrect the Fort Worth Cats

Cruel and Unusual

Mentally ill Texans used to go to hospitals. Now, increasing numbers of them go to prison instead.

Good at being the best

The youngest man in rock and roll, Ronnie Dawson gets hitched and grows up (sort of)

Letters

Milking it

Terri Hendrix proves you can't keep a girl down on the Farm

Dallas Confidential

The Texas Troubadour's Fatal Rendezvous and other amazing stories from the police department's cold case squad

Honed alone

A free-jazz disciple gets the last laugh

Publicity Paul

U.S. Attorney Paul Coggins loves feeding his name to the papers. But what's he done that's news?

Prophets Without Honor

The self-proclaimed ministers of capitalism have gotten a cool reception to their gospel in Dallas. But Chevis King Jr. and Joe Howard won't give up till they've found a better way to spend black people's money.

Smut fight

Adult publishers bring Dallas a good, old-fashioned newspaper war

Two for the Road

When Houston's 1st Amendment rights were threatened, a bus full of female porn stars came bouncing to the rescue

The Ice Man

Diamond broker Bryan Wilson Taylor is so smooth, people say he can charm the horns off a billy goat. If he tries to sell you anything, run.

Saddlesore

How Fort Worth's rhinestone socialites bushwacked the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame

Events for the week

Letters

Smut patrol

Cincinnati stamps out sin--and civil rights, besides

Uncle Whopelo?

Slobberbone is the dumbest name for the best new band in town

Another view

What City Hall isn't willing to hear about the new arena