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Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults

The Modern Texas GOP, a Viper's Nest of Mao-Lovin' Commie Bastards

On the one hand, our former mayor and Republican primary candidate for the U.S. Senate, Tom Leppert, wasn't afraid to break GOP ranks and tell us that his fellow Republican opponent Ted Cruz is a known communist sympathizer. Amazing. On the other hand, now we also know that Leppert himself is a fel ... More >>

Competence on Trial: The Strange Odyssey of Serial Dallas Lawsuit Filer Lester Ruston

Every decent-sized courthouse in the country has its own serial pain in the ass, the guy who thinks nothing of suing the kids who threw a ball over his fence or the cat who pooped in his yard. But there's a special subset of filing addicts: the inmates who while away their time in the pokey filing k ... More >>

Extended Q&A: Former Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Talks Symphonies, Drumming and What It's Like Telling Sting to Fuck Off

This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform "Gamelan D'Drum," a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensembl ... More >>

Chef Tell: Restaurant Wars, WTF?

​Ah, yes. The Top Chef fan's most beloved and anticipated episode: restaurant wars.But first, there was the tag team cook-off -- which, personally, I adore without restraint. It's stressful, it's frantic and it's a guaranteed opportunity for me to shout near simultaneous cheers and jeers at t ... More >>

Edge of Darkness: Mel Gibson Gets Some Kind of Revenge With a Semi-Successful Vigilante Flick

​Ah, yes. The Top Chef fan's most beloved and anticipated episode: restaurant wars.But first, there was the tag team cook-off -- which, personally, I adore without restraint. It's stressful, it's frantic and it's a guaranteed opportunity for me to shout near simultaneous cheers and jeers at t ... More >>

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

It didn't have to happen.

Spy vs. Why

Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor

Bushwhacked

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

Errol Morris Cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs Some Slack in Standard Operating Procedure

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

Che Guevara's Hair Sells for $119,000 to Houston Man Who Loves to Shop

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

The Thrill of the Hunt

Two hardened journalists and a newbie go after a war criminal in this dark and dirty winner

SMU and A&M are Damned Liberal Anti-Bush Bastions. Sure, Prof, Whatever You Sez.

Two hardened journalists and a newbie go after a war criminal in this dark and dirty winner

I Wanna Be Sedated

Hear the tale of Big D's most infamous photo

Royale Flush

The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy and comes up aces

Is This an Aggie Joke?

The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy and comes up aces

The Plague

Bizarre fibers. Black sweat. Bugs under the skin. Welcome to the controversial world of Morgellons disease.

Bang, bang

Cheney shoots, Buzz scores

Rogues' Gallery

Racists, louts and terrorists earned their place among the best of 2005

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Racists, louts and terrorists earned their place among the best of 2005

Where there's a Will

Will Clarke has a deal with a New York publisher and a Hollywood studio, and it only took him eight years to become an overnight success

In Cold Blood

Will Clarke has a deal with a New York publisher and a Hollywood studio, and it only took him eight years to become an overnight success

D'Angelo

Is there a better symbol for City Hall?

Our Pal

We'll never tell, despite the Supreme Court

The Shootist

Terry Anderson thought he'd be in Athens right now, chasing his lifelong dream of Olympic gold. Instead, he's in prison, his life plugged full of holes.

Radio Free Haiti

Jonathan Demme's documentary brings a joyful revolutionary to the screen

Wave On

Music's lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes on the shortwave radio dial

A Shot in the Dark

Plus: Tourist Trap

Rough Skies

Larry Wansley--former Marine, cop and FBI agent--has his biggest task ahead of him: making American Airlines safe from terrorism

Columbine Harvester

Michael Moore goes threshing about in search of fear itself

At Last, Justice

The killer Unicorn is corralled

Amused to Death

How will Hollywood react now that real life is more terrifying than fiction?

Stranger Than Fiction

A UFOlogist invades Dallas

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.

Sagging Bull

Stiller and De Niro square off in the big-screen sitcom Meet the Parents

Déjà Vu

The new Farrakhan sounds a lot like the old -- anti-Semitic

The truth is way out there

Jim Marrs believes that Kennedy was murdered as part of a vast conspiracy, that aliens vist us regularly, and that the Trialateral Commission controls our governement. So, what if he's right?

Empty head

Full of conspiracies, all The Skulls lacks is a brain

Cult of Madness

Seeking help for depression, Martha Hurt turned to therapists. That's when her insanity truly began.

Maverick rides again

Democratic media whiz Mark McKinnon left partisan politics behind until George W. Bush swept him off his feet

It's awful, baby, yeah!

Austin Powers can go shag himself

Dallas Video Festival, Part II

Austin Powers can go shag himself

Paper chase

William Morgan says he's just an innocent document dealer snared in a campaign finance scandal. And if you believe that, he has some old railroad bonds he wants to sell you.

We are the R.O.T.

The Enloes are Republic of Texas stalwarts, but they don't go for hostage-taking. They prefer using bogus money orders to battle "the eight banking families that control the world."

Video downs

Grand Prairie's horseless Lone Star Park offers the seedy side of the sport of kings

Letters

Grand Prairie's horseless Lone Star Park offers the seedy side of the sport of kings

They shoot movies, don't they?

Sydney Pollack does -- and his reliable, sturdy movies earn him this year's Great Director Award

Fishing expeditions

Free Willy 2 and Under Siege 2 try to recapture the magic of their predecessors

Oswald's ghost

Norman Mailer resurrects a tragically human assassin

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX