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The Rise of the Texas Atheist

With help from a former church boy from Dallas, the state's "nones" are getting organized and going public.

Benny Barret is Homeless(ish)

For the past three and a half years, Benny Barret taught Latin at a Catholic high school in Waco. Now he's living on the streets and in homeless shelters in downtown Dallas. Except, that is, when he needs a break. "My job was killing me," Barret says, sitting at a table in Main Street Garden Park o ... More >>

Refugee Writers Means an Outlet for Refugees and Awareness for the Rest of Us

The other day, Unfair Park chatted with filmmaker Bentley Brown about his film Faisal Goes West, the tale of a Sudanese family moving to America and settling in Dallas' Vickery Meadow neighborhood. Brown mentioned his friend who convinced him to film in Dallas (and acted as script supervisor) starte ... More >>

Red Mango Is Racing to the Top With (Unfortunately) Guilt-Free Raspberry Cheesecake

​In the fight for yogurt supremacy, Red Mango is quickly becoming the dominant player. Not only has the fast-casual frozen yogurt and smoothie operation recently introduced a new 80-calories per serving raspberry cheesecake, as of this weekend the Dallas-based company will have 120 stores nati ... More >>

Foote Traffic: WaterTower, Kitchen Dog and Contemporary Theatre join the ongoing marathon of folksy plays.

Q&A: Christian Rocker David Crowder On Being Like Jimmy Buffet, Collaborating With Ted Nugent and Openly Crying On An Airplane

David Crowder​Even well into the new millennium, the term "Christian Rock" is still a practical oxymoron to some folks. But, for the fans of modern Christian music who don't see it that way, Texarkana native David Crowder's name is likely a familiar one.For 15 years, the wild-haired and goateed Cr ... More >>

Waco's Damned If It'll Be "Texas' Largest Bathroom Break" Anymore

​Portland-based urban planner John Fregonese's name should ring a bell -- he's the guy behind the Forward Dallas comprehensive plan, now in effect four years last June. Saw his name again today in the USA Today: Waco's done hired him too to create a plan "that includes mixed retail and residential ... More >>

SEC Says Texas Financier Sir Allen Stanford Swindled Investors Out of Billions.

It didn't have to happen.

Keys to the Jail

There's only one thing tougher than running for Dallas County sheriff—getting people to care

Disappearing Ink, or: Celebrating the Work of Editorial Cartoonists

Enter Stage Right

With the curtain falling on its old playhouse,Dallas Theater Center gets its act together with a new leader

Bushwhacked

Let's just say Bush gets charged with war crimes. Will Dallas be guilty by association with his library?

The Unseen Steals the Show at the Out of the Loop Festival

Rum and Vodka stops it and Fool for Love flops all by itself

God in the Details

For a quarter-century Roy Abraham Varghese has been assembling God proofs. Along the way he won over the world's most influential atheist.

Jesus in the Jailhouse

Old-time religion confronts 21st-century Texas prisons: Does it work, and is it constitutional?

Beeing There

Humble Boy, based on Hamlet, stings the heart; Scapino beats itself to bits

Play Dead

Texas has some of the weakest animal protection laws in the country

The Cult of Ole

Ole Anthony anointed himself the watchdog of America's televangelists. But who was watching Ole Anthony?

Aim right

The effective liberal

Lay On, MacBuff

Theatre Britain strips the Scottish play and its actors down to their bare essentials

Butt Naked

Jesse Jones, emperor of Singing Hills, had no clothes, it seems

Jesus in a Mullet

Del Hendrixson's uncertain journey from convict to Dallas gang guru

Monkey Business

Buzz picks a few nits with the year that was

No People Like Show People

Anton in Show Business: Everything about it is appealing in a new theater company's debut at DTC

Sex Toy Story

You can't buy a vibrator in Burleson, but there are plenty of dildos

Where Credit is Due

When the Morning News got scooped, it passed the exit for the high road

Go West

Hollywood makes fact into fiction

What a Bunch of Dummies

When Jeff Dunham talks to himself, people listen...and laugh

Kitten With a Quip

High School Hellcats bare their claws at Pocket; one-acts in Addison go to hell and back

Much Ado

Was the Morning News wrong to send an intern on a jailhouse interview? No.

Crusaders

In another holy war, the battle plan is to turn Muslims into Bible believers

Catch Those Tigers

Years of little or no regulation have made Texas a place where big cats prowl--and sometimes kill

Shallow Impact

Why don't tourists flock to the meteor crater outside of Odessa? Because most don't know a bona fide Texas treasure from a hole in the ground.

Courtly Language

Dallas lawyer Bryan Garner cuts through the muck of legal prose

Brave New City

What if people downtown actually got smart?

Love & Rockets

Andrew Beal spent $200 million trying to launch rockets without Uncle Sam's help. His dream went down in flames

Monkey Business

William Dembski thought Baylor University would be the perfect place to investigate a scientific alternative to Darwinism. He didn't know he'd be crucified for his cause.

Death in the Desert

Gary Patterson flew to El Paso for a job interview--and never returned. It took nearly two years for the Texas Rangers and Waco police to unravel the bizarre web of lies and treachery that led to his disappearance.

The Enforcer

Baylor grad Keith Bishop played in three Superbowls. Ten years later, he's become a star again -- this time, by fighting Dallas drug dealers.

Some things he did

Roxy Gordon was "one of the great outlaw artist misfits" and so much more

Caught in the crossfire

Denied his day in court, a former Waco TV reporter, falsely accused of setting up federal agents, becomes the last casualty of the Branch Davidian siege

The Lie Detector

From the mayor of Atlanta, who was unjustly accused of graft, to a California man wrongly sentenced to life in a Texas prison, polygraph examiner Eric Holden found the truth that helped set them free

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.

Deconstructing Richard

Richard Hamburger transformed the Dallas Theater Center into a regional marvel, but as he faces a million dollar debt and a host of angry critics, is it curtains for his daring vision?

Mr. Nobody

Bill Simpson is eager to dig up dirt on you. He'll even write down your license plate number if you visit a topless bar. But the self-appointed guardian of Dallas morals doesn't want you to know anything about him.

Fit to be fried

Idaho's potato king accuses a dead Dallas oilman and his sons of a multimillion-dollar scam