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Habitat for Humanity Now Owns Four Drug Houses Once Run by the West Side Gator Boyz

Tyrone and Patrick Weatherall had a number of bad habits. Besides the obvious one, their fondness for selling crack, the brothers had lavish, attention-getting taste, which is probably ill-advised when you're in the drug-selling business. According to street lore, when the Weatheralls first united s ... More >>

America's Second Richest City Is ... Midland?

Writing in the Atlantic today, Derek Thompson reports from recently released data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis that Midland -- not Washington, D.C. or San Francisco, but a 110,000-person speck of dust out in West Texas -- is the country's second richest city, per capita. It might well be fir ... More >>

Louisiana Man Sues His Wife For Racking Up Toll Debt, Wants NTTA to Stop Harassing Him

Joel Schulman is not on the North Texas Tollway Authority's list of top toll scofflaws. In fact, he lives in Bossier City, Louisiana, three hours east of the nearest NTTA-controlled roadway. That hasn't stopped the agency from sending notice after notice demanding payment for tolls racked up by a c ... More >>

BMW For Some Reason Has Decided to "Restore the Outdoors," Including White Rock Lake

BMWs are not native to White Rock Lake, though they found a welcoming habitat among the mansions along Lawther Drive and have established colonies in the arboretum parking lot. On Sunday, for one day only, the car company will briefly introduce a new specimen: the 2013 X1. The vehicle -- whether it ... More >>

Big Hair. Big Boots. Big D. This is Reality?

Dallas is hot, hot, hot on reality television. Or at least someplace sort of like Dallas.

(30K) Millionaires: Where to Spend Your Cash This Week

If you have the cash, you could watch the Super Bowl with this old boat captain.​Let's pretend you're a big spender who can't score tickets to the Super Bowl. What do you do with all that cash next week? You could blow it all on one awesome party, perhaps the Leather & Laces event at Hotel Zaz ... More >>

More From This Weekend's Blues, Bandits and Barbecue Shindig in North Oak Cliff

Photos by Sam MertenSchutze's been having a tough time tracking down council member Dave Neumann for comments. So close.​As Robert pointed out below, Go Oak Cliff hosted the inaugural Blues, Bandits and Barbecue street party and Better Block Redux this weekend around the Kessler, where a clay ... More >>

Bandwagon Fans, Get on Board. Trendy Rangers T-Shirts on Their Way

​This isn't a sports town, but more so a winners town. It's substance over style. For all you I-love-the-Cowboys-but-wait-over-there-the-Rangers-are-winning-so-now-I-love-them- more fans, there's a chance for you to be trendy. All season long the Rangers have celebrated big hits with a "claw" ... More >>

Dallas Gang Leader, Drug Dealer and Apparent Exotic Animal Lover Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy

We're thinking the kiddos at Pinkston High School weren't having a tough time getting high last year. (The markers are streets where drug houses were located.)​Tyrone Weatherall, the 35-year-old leader of the "West Side Gator Boys," pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to possess wi ... More >>

Crooked Tree Coffeehouse Provides A Home Away From Home, If Only You Can Find A Seat

Photos By Daniel RodrigueOnly adding to the residential feel of the coffee house, a well-worn chest of drawers serves as the shop's condiment bar .​Yesterday, Roasted woke up craving a fresh cup of something different--a steaming-hot cup of new from a coffee house that we had yet to try. But, ... More >>

Wing It

Quittin' Time: Stoneleigh P

​Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin' Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn't take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Stoneleigh P, 2926 Maple Ave.When: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through FridaysWhat: Half-price ... More >>

That Was The Year That Was

​To me, Dallas was a very different place ten years ago.Yes, there are names and places that seem to outlast the march of time. Gilbert Garza runs things at Suze, just as he did when the decade was young. Fearing and Pyles still top the city's list of true celebrity chefs. In 2000 people flocked t ... More >>

DPD Says It's "Confident" An Arrest Will Be Made in Uptown, Highland Park Carjackings

​After the jump is an e-mail I received this morning from a Friend of Unfair Park, who received it this morning via a neighborhood crime watch mailing list. It concerns a carjacking in the parking lot of the Albertsons at McKinney and Lemmon Avenues. Though the e-mail says the incident occurred "T ... More >>

Judge Agrees Two Charges in Corruption Case Warrant Further Consideration, Dismisses Motions for New Trials

Sam MertenDon and Sheila Hill cross Commerce Street this afternoon after Judge Lynn said she'd consider arguments against honest services and money laundering charges.​Four of the five defendants convicted last month of bribery and extortion in the City Hall corruption trial gained traction in ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Mango Thai

​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Mango Thai Cuisine4448 Lovers Lane214-265-9996Promised delivery time: about 45 minutesActual delivery time: 48 minutesFriendliness of the guy on the phone: 11Ease of perso ... More >>

Irving Company Creates Technology That Allows Car to Do Your Texting For You

​So, driving while texting is 23 times more dangerous than just, ya know, driving; 88 percent of Texas teens do it anyhow; with the growed-ups, the number's probably closer to 104 percent; and some states are proposing legislation outlawing the practice altogether. To which an Irving-based company ... More >>

The Hottest Male Athletes According to Females

Second in a very sporadic, yet nonetheless fascinating series by Dallas Observer staff writers Merritt Martin/Megan Feldman. Ladies, as always, mi casa es su casa ... You've been waiting haven't you? We knew you wanted it, but c'mon, we had to make you yearn. It was a tease, all in good fun ... and ... More >>

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

Burning Question: What Should You Do When You Have No Cash For The Valet?

Photo By: Patrick Michels Set aside for now the question of whether valet parking represents an indulgence leftover from the pre-collapse heyday or a convenience necessary in congested parts of town. There are larger issues at stake. For instance, there we were at The Mansion on Turtle Creek wai ... More >>

Texadelphia Cuts the Mustard

Driving For Boobies

Komen-deer BMWs for cancer research

Douchebags in the Follow-Up Blog Item

$30,000 Millionaires: Douchebags in the Mist

Venturing into the Dallas jungle in search of the elusive $30,000 millionaire: Is he myth or fact?

Pie Quagmire

Wade on in to Olivella’s pizzas. It’s worth it.

A Bust Goes Bust

A former Dallas Police officer says her partner had no right to search a car for drugs

"Sooner than Later," She Says. Riiiight.

Color Theory

Tracy Rowlett's Tired of the FBI Investigation at City Hall

The Elite Eight, or: Get Your Mayoral Brackets Ready!

Heart Attack

Attempting romantic comedy, Sir Ridley Scott conquers neither

Don and Sheila and D'Angelo Makes Three

From the Highland Park Teen Affairs Desk

Buckle Up

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Motor Away

Get your motor running at the Cycle World International Motorcycle Show

Driven

Speed for a Cure

Do It Yourself

Remake yourself one book at a time

England's Dreaming

Get hooked on The Getaway

Those Poor Starvin' Cops

If Dallas cops are so destitute, how come police station parking lots look like the auto show?

Best Italian Restaurant

Ferré Ristorante & Bar

Bar Bore

Crú is corked in the wine-bar department

Best Yard Sales

Any house owned by a Yahoo! "millionaire"

Casual Day Casualties

Do clothes make the lawyer? One Dallas judge thinks so.

Wolf? What wolf?

A humongous lawsuit knocks on the door at City Hall, and we're gonna end up paying--one way or the other

Across the Bar

New Year's evil

Comfort food

Encore's performance makes the drive to Fort Worth palatable

Aiming low, hitting highs

Bistral shoots for cheap casual and hits with taste

Flying blind

With the mayor and city manager leading the charge, the city council moves full speed on an arena deal that doesn't even exist yet

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