Accidents and Disasters

Police Searched For a Dying Man in Turtle Creek Before Realizing the 911 Call Was a Fake

Just before midnight last night, an Uptown resident received a frantic text message from her friend: He had just been hit by a car and had fallen into Turtle Creek. He didn't think he was going to make it. The friend immediately called police, who dispatched several units to canvass the creek, call ... More >>

Connection Between Quakes and Underground Frack-water Disposal Looks Solid

There's a reason State Farm wants to insure Johnson County homes against earthquakes. Injecting millions of barrels of fracking waste water loosens faults the way whiskey loosens tongues. Cliff Frohlich of the Jackson School of Geosciences deployed seismographs throughout a 43-mile grid in the Bar ... More >>

Pleasant Grove's Bret Egner Needs Your Help With Medical Expenses

On Wednesday, Pleasant Grove singer-guitarist Bret Egner was involved in a bicycle accident near Red River in Austin, when he swerved to avoid two jaywalking pedestrians and hit the pavement. Sadly, the pedestrians he swerved to avoid didn't offer help. Egner went into surgery today to repair a sh ... More >>

On Flood Control, Dallas Better Think Nationally or Be Ready to Drown Locally

Man, talk about whistling past the graveyard. At yesterday's Dallas City Council meeting, council members Tennell Atkins and Delia Jasso asked good questions about the city's flood control plans, and City Manager Mary Suhm and her assistant, Jill Jordan, gave good answers. But it was all deck chairs ... More >>

Between the Lines in Corps' Trinity River Enviromental Assessment: Don't Blame Us

​Buried between the lines in a 246-page document released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today is a significant national story about the future of flood control in American cities. I doubt very many reporters will dig it out. I'll give you the thumbnail sketch. You may wish I had kept my ... More >>

Dallas PD Needs Help Finding Driver Who Killed a Man in Cedar Springs Crosswalk Friday

​The Dallas Police report says, simply, "TRAFFIC FATALITY #78." There is a time and date: 10:30 p.m. Friday. A location too: 4100 Cedar Springs. But the DPD has no further information, which is why it's asking for help as it attempts to ID whoever was driving the SUV that struck and killed a 50-ye ... More >>

Shelter for the Storms

Sia, Oh Land, Ximena Sarinana

Sunday, August 7, at the Granada Theater

It's Been Truly Inspiring to Watch D Apologize for Rah-Rah'ing Trinity Toll Road. Oh, Wait.

​I'm sure at some moment in history, all of the people who had insisted the earth was flat went very quiet. After some centuries of debate, burnings at the stake and loud dinner-table arguments, the jury was in. Everybody knew it was round. The exponents of flat were suddenly extremely reticent o ... More >>

Tom Leppert on the Trinity River Toll Road, Again Slicing the Truth with a Razor Blade

​I'm doing an informal poll. Is there anyone left out there who gives a rat's ass what former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert did or did not say about the safety of the Trinity River toll road project? Wait. Wait. I'm looking. I've got my binoculars on. A-ha! I do spy at least one rat's ass out there ... More >>

Last Night: Here We Go Magic, Caveman, Carlo Canlas at Dada

Here We Go Magic, Caveman, Carlo CanlasDadaMay 24, 2011Better Than: Sitting in a bathtub at home with a dog and a baby both trying to eat each other.Pete Freedman's phoneHere We Go Magic goes unplugged. Because, you know, they had to.​First, there was a crash, followed by a series of booms, and th ... More >>

10 Cheap Party Spots for Fat Tuesday

​ You don't need an excuse to party tomorrow night because it's Fat Tuesday, the official holiday of fatty foods, booze and general debauchery. Restaurants and bars are offering some cheap food and drink deals, but unfortunately many of them are amping up their Fat Tuesday festivities with c ... More >>

Watch: The September Tornadoes Land A Direct Hit And Total Bonedome's Parked Band Van

The above fairly harrowing footage comes to us straight from the surveillance cameras mounted outside of Allan Hayslip's day job in West Dallas and focused on the warehouse's parking lot, where his Bonedome band van was parked as tornadoes ripped through the area in the early evening of September 8, ... More >>

What Two Sentences in The WSJ Suggest About the Future of the Trinity River Project

U.S. Army Corps of EngineersFrom the Dallas Floodway Extension Project Description, this 1989 photo: "US175 blocked by water backed up into White Rock Creek. Normally, this is a busy traffic artery leading to the central business district."​Wilonsky sent me an interesting Wall Street Journal artic ... More >>

North Texas Food Bank's Text Donation Program Falters

​Mobile giving, which was touted in the wake of the Haiti earthquake earlier this year as a high-tech way of invigorating philanthropy, hasn't panned out for the North Texas Food Bank. The hunger relief organization rolled out its text-to-give program this month, and has thus far collected on ... More >>

J.R. and SMU Reach for the Sun

​Not together, mind you -- this isn't a joint project between Ewing Oil and the Hilltop. But both Larry Hagman, now positioning himself as the Anti-Palin, and Southern Methodist are making a singular push for solar power -- the former Dallas star in a highly publicized ad for a German photovoltaic ... More >>

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Took A Meat-axe To Federal Law To Get The Mayor His Toll Road. But Did She Even Think About The Consequences?

Local Restaurants Help the Gulf Coast; Mextopia Holds Its Grand Opening This Weekend; Scardello Hosts Top Flight Wines; And More.

Blythe Beck​A few Dallas restaurants are gearing up to help out with Gulf oil spill. Executive chef Blythe Beck at Central 214 starts a new fundraiser today called "We Cook While They Clean." The restaurant will donate $1 from every purchase of the chicken-fried Kobe steak dish to the Gulf R ... More >>

Fido Vs. The Flood

Keep Your Eye On The Sky

Food For Thought 5.18.09

"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mot ... More >>

Getting to No | Eat Less Live Longer

Family of Fort Worth Officer Killed in Explosion Sues Ford Motor Co.

Courtesy Hurricane Ike, Now You Seafood, Now You Don't

Looks Like It's Not, Um, 3 Doors Down's Time? (Sorry, That Was Too Easy)

Courtesy Gustav, Dallas Might Feel a Little More Crowded This Weekend

It’s Okay, Relax, Nothing to See – or Feel – Here

Clinton Headed Back to Dallas, To Be With Family of DPD Officer

Spike Lee's School Daze at UTA

You Can't Go Home Again

Singing Samaritan

A Flood of Questions

The Blame Game

Hunt for Truth

Council member Angela Hunt rips open the Trinity project

Bayou Blues

Katrina hits the big(gest) screen

Schutze Defends Kunkle, and That's No Crime

Weird and Wonderful

A True Horror Classic

The Rip

When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?

When Evacuees Become Residents, Part 3

Who'll Pay the Rent?

Here She Comes to Save the Day

Katrina: Bad for People, Good for Business

You Can Run...

Hot Links

Hit the mini-greens downtown

Big Not-Easy

Thought the RIAA was bad when they sued downloaders? You ain't heard nothin'.

Edge of Relief

Clear Channel wins our good graces (for once) by spearheading local hurricane relief efforts

Shawn Sahm, Flaco Jimenez and Augie Meyers

Friday, August 19th, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Much Ado

Building mysteries--for those who care

Marked Man

Dallas police say Herbert Lee Madison caused the death of an exemplary officer. But an eyewitness who saw the entire incident unfold says Madison is no cop killer.