Boy Scouts of America

In Iron Man 3, It's All Schtick and Explosions for Robert Downey Jr.

Highway-Closing Dallas-to-McKinney Bike Ride Cancelled in Sketchiest Way Possible

Last month, Gary Lacara was "100 percent" sure that Bike the City, his 30-mile, Dallas-to-McKinney charity bicycle tour scheduled for a Sunday morning in April, was a go. "I wouldn't attempt this if I wasn't," he told Unfair Park at the time. And there was no reason to think he couldn't organize a ... More >>

Titles and Tiaras

At CTD and Lewisville, two winning comedies reveal the ugly side of beauty pageants.

They Ain't Heavy: Recyclers on South Side Are the Foundation of a Better Neighborhood

It speaks volumes that people at The Dallas Morning News, like some other people in Dallas who should know better, do not know what heavy industry is. Two pieces in the print edition of the paper this morning describe scrap-metal and architectural remnant recyclers near Lamar Avenue as "heavy indust ... More >>

Good News About the Trinity Toll Road: Eventually, We All Die

At some point during last evening's North Texas Tollway Authority/Texas Department of Transportation Incredibly Boring Event, I realized I was having almost as much fun seeing all the same old pro-toll road partisans again as I was running into my fellow usual-suspect road-haters. These things have ... More >>

We Need a Mayor Who'll Cut Up City Hall's Credit Card.

Complete the Streets! And Sell Executive Airport While Yer At It! A Liveblog In Progress.

A Downtown Dallas 360 rendering, which also graces today's Complete Streets briefing. Because they are, you see, related. Very.​Afternoon, Friends. Thanks for tuning into today's liveblog of the Transportation and Environment Committee meeting up here in City Hall, during which we'll hear about pl ... More >>

What in the First World is Wrong with Mexico?

Green Zone: American Hero Matt Damon and His WMD of a Movie Confirm the Big Lie, Hollywood-Style

Clean-Air Fund to Stop Funding Natural Gas Projects Till Industry Cleans Up Its Act

Click to expand this map provided last week by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality​Way back in '97, and again last June, we told you the story of Sue Pope -- a Midlothian rancher who became legendary for taking on pollution-spewing TXI -- and the genesis of the fund named in her honor, w ... More >>

Federal Judge Barbara Lynn And The Observer Go Toe-To-Toe Over A Vague Legal Principle Known As The First Amendment

At the Don Hill Trial, the Definition of "Walking-Around Money" (Now, a Live Blog)

So I am here, back in the overflow room at the Federal Palace of Justice downtown watching the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial, and I see that we have come to one of the most fundamental and time-honored traditions of Dallas politics: that fine old institution called "walking-around money. ... More >>

The Nuns in the Runs of Two Local Performances--Hail Mary and Nunsense--Are Praying It for Laughs

Swingtown

Local swingers think life is a bowl of cherries, but Duncanville wants to spit out the Pit

America's Tease

With their best team since the '90s dynasty, the Cowboys can stop merely flirting with a championship

Ennis' National Polka Festival Ain't Nothing To Polk (Ha!) Fun At...Or Is It?

With the Addition of Pacman Jones, Valley Ranch Has Become a Halfway House

Sanctuary Isn't Simple for Dallas' Homeless

A-Rod = A-Fraud

Angela Hunt Proves It: The Mayor's Been Lying About the Trinity River Toll Road

That Trinity Thing You Doo-Doo

Detective Comics

Showbiz noir investigates TV Superman's real-life tragedy

Bah Hum-Buzz

Buzz gets his jollies keeping tabs on 2005's naughty and nice guys. OK, mostly naughty.

A Welcome Experiment

Mission Giant makes art-rock that is equal parts spectacle and sound. Just don't call them Devo.

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Contact

A half century later, witnesses insist little green—or maybe brown—men crashed in New Mexico

Dark Victory

15 years later, Frank Miller once more dons Batman's cape and cowl

Double Oops

Carrollton takes one step backward as it tries to make amends with Mother Nature

Left Behind

A Home Alone for the grown-up set, Italian style

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.

Pyramid Songs

Nile is the sole practitioner of "Ithyphallic Metal." Grab a dictionary.

Grave Matters

The tombstones in Oakland Cemetery bear names that reflect Dallas' greatness and its shame, from former mayors to klansmen. But years of neglect have left it overgrown and forgotten.

That's a Rap

Former employees of The Studios at Las Colinas say their ex-boss fudged facts

:cueless

Buzz hacks through the past in search of the cool cats and fools of the year that was

Hook, Line, Stinker

Don't bite, even if Bait does

Zzzzzz-men

Marvel's mutants are a modest squad of dullards in this frustrating adaptation

Letters

From the week of February 10

Out of bounds

Stone fumbles the rock in Any Given Sunday

South by South Austin

The Cornell Hurd Band is in it for the long haul

The garden of life

In East Dallas' Little Asia, a community blooms in fields of litter

Beach bums

With a tired plot and cutout characters, Six Days, Seven Nights seems longer

Punk angst debunked

Darlington does the twist

Letters

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.

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

The dark half

That Thing You Do and The Long Kiss Goodnight cast ugly shadows

Flight of fancy

Witless and laughable, Executive Decision fails the smirk test

BeloWatch

Icon

Mel Gibson talks about Braveheart, movie stardom, and media treachery

480 baseballs, 200 days

For Jeff Frye, North Loop Dodge is a long way from Port Charlotte