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Barry Smitherman Retweets Image of Noose, Accompanied by Names of Senators Who Voted To Consider Gun Safety Proposals

RT @psychscriv: Make sure none of these people have seats in 2014. twitter.com/PsychScriv/sta...We are in trouble when these Rs side w/ Sen Reid— Barry Smitherman (@SmithermanTX) April 11, 2013 The U.S. Senate voted only to consider gun safety legislation Thursday, which includes expanded ba ... More >>

Photos and Observations From The Drunkest Place on Earth: St. Patrick's Day in Dallas

This was my first time braving Greenville for St. Patrick's. I was expecting it to be bad. What I was not expecting was the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah. As I, the only sober person on the entirety of Greenville, struggled through a crowd roughly comparable to the population of Ireland itself (an ... More >>

MasterChef Season 4 to Hold Casting Call in Dallas, Interview with Casting Director

FOX is prepping for season 4 of MasterChef and will hold a casting call in Dallas on October 27, which means you have about one month to do whatever you think necessary to get TV game-ready. The concept of MasterChef is to find the country's best home cook. They start by scouring cities all of sha ... More >>

On Its 85th Anniversary, Local Big Brothers Big Sisters Reunited With a Historic Piece of Paper

Click to expand the historic document.​Out of nowhere, moments ago, I got an email from Dan Stuchal, on the executive team at the local Big Brothers Big Sisters. He's a Friend of Unfair Park, he explained, and well aware of my affection for historic relics. He said he had something at which I migh ... More >>

Cable TV Programmers Make Bait-and-Switch a High Art

Drunken yoga does not equal female empowerment. Show of hands: Who remembers when cable TV's A&E channel featured real art for entertainment? Been a long time, right? Back in the 1990s, the Arts & Entertainment channel, as it was known then, specialized in high-culture programming. Ballet. Opera. ... More >>

Whitt's End: 8.19.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End:Talked to the family of Shannon Stone for next week's Observer column. Wait until you hear their other sad story involving a souvenir ball from a Rangers' game. Sorry, you have to wait.Not ... More >>

Listomania: The Top Music Videos of 2010

This dude knew a thing or two about music videos.​The death of Michael Jackson in 2009 seemed to prompt a lot of artists to rediscover the art of music videos in 2010. Some, like Lady Gaga and Kanye West, took the artistic merit behind mainstream music videos from acts like Michael Jackson and Pri ... More >>

Brave New World

i Fratelli Pizza: Just What We Wanted, and No Sneaky Delivery Charge

​i Fratelli Pizza 2208 Dallas Parkway 972-608-8833 Promised Delivery Time: 30 minutes Actual Delivery Time: 26 minutes The Score No delivery fee or fuel surcharge: 10 points Polite, professional order-taker: 15 points No online ordering: -5 points Delivering sooner than promised: 20 Point ... More >>

Eye See You: SMU and Department of Defense Find a New Use for Their Paper-Thin Camera

​In July of last year, and again last January, we mentioned SMU's partnering with the U.S. Department of  Defense to develop a powerful paper-thin camera that uses low-resolution sensors to create a hi-res image -- a device otherwise known as "Panoptes," short for "Processing Arrays of Nyquis ... More >>

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Who Gets Constable Jaime Cortes's Computer Data? Not Cortes. For Now, It's the Court's.

Constable Jaime Cortes​During a last-minute hearing this afternoon, a judge ordered that data seized from Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes's office computer be returned -- only, not to Cortes, as his lawyers, Larry Friedman and Domingo Garcia, had demanded, but to the court, where it will remain ... More >>

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