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Dallas DJ John Walker is in A Coma: Here's How You Can Help

At 2:15 a.m. on Wednesday, March 27, local DJ, longtime musician and father of three John Walker had just left his job at Rockit Lab Studios and was traveling on Lemmon Avenue, near the intersection at Oak Grove Avenue. He collided with a taxi cab. Exact details of the accident are still unclear, ev ... More >>

The Ticket's Sean Bass and His Sobering Stance on Driving Drunk

After surviving the drunken-driving accident that killed his girlfriend, a local sports-talker takes his pain on the air.

Damien Falgoust, a Dallas Lawyer, Was Beaten into a Coma on Lower Greenville Last Week

The last time friends saw Damien Falgoust conscious was about 1:30 a.m. Friday, when he was sharing post-game drinks with his kickball teammates at the Knox Street Pub. He left the bar, got into a taxi and set off for his condo near the intersection of Matilda Street and La Vista. He never made it. ... More >>

Man Dies In Custody After Lengthy Struggle With Dallas Cop

The incident report on DPD's public access website regarding Marshall Moreno's death is bare-bones. Yesterday at 4:47 p.m., the 43-year-old died at Baylor Hospital of unknown causes, and his body was taken to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy. But the cause of Moreno's death isn't quit ... More >>

Former City Council Member Sandra Crenshaw Indicted For Theft of Rental Car

Former city council woman and intermittent Unfair Park commenter Sandra Crenshaw was arrested in August after she allegedly failed to return a rental car to Budget. Court records show that she was indicted on felony theft charges last week. We accidentally broke the news of her indictment to Crensha ... More >>

Can City Council Tell the Difference Between a Photo Op and a Hole in the Ground?

Drive around Dallas -- not the suburbs, Dallas -- and what do you see? You see a nice kind of new well-kept Dallas toward the northern end of the city, with a few glitches here and there. But anywhere south of Mockingbird you're likely to see a bunch of crapped-out streets and busted curbs. If you g ... More >>

Stackhouse: Right at Home in East Dallas

Yes, there's another Dallas burger joint worth a visit. Apologize in advance to your arteries.

One Dead, Dozens Hospitalized at 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival in Dallas. (Updated With Statement From Promoter.)

​By 1 a.m. this morning, at least one attendee at Saturday night's Electric Daisy Carnival in Fair Park had been declared dead. At least another two dozen had been hospitalized.After a first year in Dallas that had been deemed a "phenomenal event" by city officials, the second Dallas installment o ... More >>

Hungry on DART's Green Line? Here's a Big Honkin' List That Might Help

​It took four years and $1.8 million to complete the longest light-rail construction project in U.S. history -- says DART -- but a little more than one month since DART's Green Line opened, it's been for all intents and purposes a success. While the full line was officially opened on December ... More >>

Old Guard Board Members Are At It Again, Trying To Destroy the Magnets. But A New Coalition Of Trustees Seems Determined To Stop Them.

The State of Texas Cannot Execute The Mentally Retarded, But That May Not Prevent A Dallas Cop Killer From Being Put To Death.

Another Chance to Pick Up Some "Rare Miles" As DART Will Again Test Run Texas-OU Route

​Dallas Area Rapid Transit was awful happy with the outcome of April's test run of the "reconfigured" Green Line, intended to alleviate the f-bomb that was last year's Texas-OU train ride to nowhere. For the first time since its opening, DART had the Green Line going in one direction -- clockwise, ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: At the Theatre Gallery, Capturing Lightning in a Beer Cup

Outside the Theatre Gallery in Deep Ellum a quarter-century ago.It was the summer of 1984 and the city of Dallas was in the midst of a serious makeover. The Republican National Convention was coming to town and Big D was trying to put a conservative foot forward as the media spotlight fixated on our ... More >>

UT Southwestern Professor to Replace Bane of Sharon Boyd's Existence on Plan Commission

UT SouthwesternDr. Bill PetersonCouncil member Angela Hunt has nominated Dr. Bill Peterson, a professor of biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, to replace term-limited Neil Emmons on the city plan commission. Peterson's term as Hunt's appointee to the city's senior affairs commission exp ... More >>

Walking Tall on a Green Line Test Drive

Patrick MichelsA DART official strolls past one of the "Traveling Man" sculptures across from the Green Line's new Deep Ellum Station Tuesday morning. Tomorrow, Unfair Park will feature a video from today's sneek peak.​Check out more photos from the Green Line tour in this photo set.With less than ... More >>

It's a Grind in Deep Ellum is more than just a coffee shop, it's a sanctuary for second chances.

Riding Somewhere South of Heaven, Heading Back to the Newly Opened Santa Fe Trail

Alexa SchirtzingerWhere the Santa Fe Trail ends ... at Hill AvenueThis weekend marked a quiet little victory for East Dallas: the opening of a section of raised street crossings on the Santa Fe Trail, from South Carroll Avenue southwest to Hill Avenue, which means cyclists can now ride from Woodrow ... More >>

The Convention Center Hotel Vote is Not Just About a Building. It’s About a Mayor.

Cancer Won't Keep a Runner from the White Rock Marathon

Sexy Town

Imagine a city with flowing creeks, walkable neighborhoods and greenery. No, not Seattle, dummy.

Dallas Has a Real-Life Dr. Gregory House in Dr. Richard Buch

Some call Dr. Buch a troubled genius. His ex-patients and hospital bosses call him trouble.

Inner City Grows Despite Dallas City Hall

The Havoc of Force

You Might Be a Redneck If...

Local lawyer suspected in drunken Labor Day shooting

From the Ground Up

Central Dallas Ministries helps the poor find their own bootstraps

C'mon Get Happy

Even Buzz finds something to smile about in 2006

T.O., O.D.

Emotional Rescue

Love doesn't have to hurt, but steal my beer and I'll kill you

Out of the Closet

With Trees' fate nearly sealed, we look back at its brave beginnings--and, of course, the blood

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Bad Medicine

Plus: Big Idea

Dogtown

Tailing downtown Dallas' pack of pampered canines

The Next Breast Thing

Build a better fake boob, and women will beat a path to your door, along with the occasional lawsuit

Deadbeating the System

Eight years ago, Kim Sullivan turned to the state for help collecting overdue child support. She's still waiting.

Fear Itself

A journey of army-navy stores

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.

Grave City

Bobby Soxx, local punk-rock legend, died last week. Finally.

Good time Charlie

The don of Dallas criminal lawyers, Charles Tessmer reshaped justice through decades of hard-fought cases and hard drink

Huntsville Houdini

Federal prosecutors get tough with an escape artist

Still life

The Deep Ellum Center for the Arts is celebrating its first year. If it can't figure out what it wants to be, it may also be its last.

Prison sweet prison

Horace Caraker doesn't belong in federal prison. But he likes it there, and he'll threaten a president if it means going back.

Desperate Measures

Tim and Emilie Sherrod, parents of twin autistic boys, will do anything to find a cure -- even spend $14,000 to inject their sons with a hormone from pig entrails

Defending Darlie

Wealthy Waco businessman Brian Pardo spends his time and money helping death-row inmates he believes are innocent. His efforts on behalf of Darlie Routier have raised suspicions about her husband--and about Pardo's motives.

The good fight

Thirty years ago, Curtis Cokes was the world-champion welterweight. Now, he trains young boxers and just wants to be recognized in his hometown.

Wrestling With Tragedy

As the sole survivor of his family's ring dynasty, Kevin Von Erich struggles to keep a painful past alive.

Road warriors

East Dallas residents rally to buy time against Haskell Avenue bulldozers

The haunting

To the grief of his children and his wife's family, Walker Railey is resurrecting his story

Mouse

Paul "Mouse" Millender is in hiding after being stabbed 24 times. He says his old skinhead running buddies did it. But he swears he's not a rat.

Wish Woman

She hasn't got money or connections. But straight-shooting Linda Terrell is helping dying grownups live their dreams.

The Last Days Of Mickey Mantle

Booze, baseball, and broads: A tarnished hero's deathbed regrets--and final redemption Exclusive Observer excerpt from David Falkner's new biography