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Dallas’ Four Must-See Art Shows

Texas Researchers Investigate Who Speeds (Young Dudes), Why (To Get There Faster) and What Can Be Done About It (Nothing)

Several months ago, researchers gathered 164 volunteers in College Station, Texas and Seattle, outfitted their cars with GPS devices, and had them fill out questionnaires detailing how they drive (i.e. if they speed up for yellow lights, drive drunk, miss road signs, and any number of other factors) ... More >>

Scoremore Brings Your Favorite Rapper's Favorite Rapper to Town

Scoremore Brings Your Favorite Rapper's Favorite Rapper To Town

The Smoker's Club Tour hit Dallas last month, and it was a busy night, like so many Thursdays in our town. I sit in my car on Elm Street, trying to get around a sudden surge of traffic. I hear sirens. Four blocks away from Trees, I can smell the marijuana, mixed with the smell of burnt rubber. I can ... More >>

Brek Shea and the Making of an American Soccer Star*

*If there's even such a thing.

The Heartbreaking Tale of the Vet and the Woman Who Came Here to Slay the Demons

What you see above is the video -- the short film, really -- that accompanied a weekend Wall Street Journal story about two recent Dallas residents: Ian Welch and girlfriend Katie Brickman. Welch is a native Texan, born and raised near College Station; Brickman's from Mentor, Ohio. The couple, boyfr ... More >>

English Premier League Teams Kicking Around the Idea of Going After FC Dallas's Brek Shea

​Reports out of England have Liverpool and Manchester City of the Premier League taking a long, hard look at FC Dallas's Brek Shea, the 21-year-old College Station-born star just called to the U.S. National Team at September's end. Problem is, Shea -- a chief contender for MLS's MVP award -- is un ... More >>

They Must Be Ice Skating in Hades Because SMU is Laying Three Touchdowns. On the Road.

​With the Big 12 seemingly back together since the Pac 12 didn't want 'em, SMU is back in play as a potential member in the wake of Texas A&M's expected departure. But before the Mustangs play with the big boys, they need to beat the little ones. They have a chance to do that Saturday. ... More >>

A&M to the SEC! Texas as an Independent?! The Big 12 and Texas-OU is Kaput?

​As we speak I'm told University of Texas president Bill Powers and athletic director DeLoss Dodds are planning an informal lunch with state power brokers at Barton Creek Country Club in Austin to discuss the feasibility of the Longhorns becoming a football independent. Hell ... More >>

Labor Day 2011: Let's Work This Out

​One of the best things about being a sportswriter? Getting paid to go to games. One of the worst things about being a sportswriter? Working on holidays. Not that I'm complaining. I've got lots of media friends who are without full-time jobs, and there's nothing more stressful than trying to ... More >>

As It Tries to Bolt the Big 12, The Joke's On Texas A&M (Again)

Jealous and impotent until the bitter end, the Aggies try to flee for the SEC.

Guess A&M Finally Listened to its Own Fight Song

Like a lot of Aggie traditions, how is their nonsensical, yet sacred War Hymn going to sound in the SEC? Good bye to Texas University; So long to the orange and white Imagine the curious looks in Florida's Swamp when the Aggies, trailing 42-7 in the third quarter, start singing about abo ... More >>

A Look at How "Resilient" DFW Is (Or Isn't)

Developed by the University at Buffalo Regional Institute, State University of New York. Click to embiggen UC Berkeley's Resilience Capacity Index map​Patrick "Car-Free" Kennedy directs our attention to this University of California Berkeley look-see at the resiliency of the major metros in the U. ... More >>

Lyle Lovett,John Hiatt

Thursday, June 30, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

For Your Easter Sunday Listening Pleasure: R.E.M. Sends One Out to the Grads of SMU

Via.​Speaking of great shows at Moody Coliseum ...Floating out in the ether, all by its unmarked lonesome, is this resonant echo: R.E.M. at Moody Coliseum on November 18, 1987 -- a stop along The Work Tour in support of that year's Document, the band's fifth and final album for I.R.S. Records. I w ... More >>

Keen on Texas Music

Foodways Texas and Smoke Let You
Step Out of Your Shell

​One of the best invitations I've received this year was an e-mail beckoning me to College Station for the founding of Foodways Texas. Now, you too have the opportunity to support the organization, as august a group of chefs, food writers, scholars, fishermen, pitmasters, chuckwagon cooks and ... More >>

Decisions, Decisions: Shoveling Dirt on the New George W. Bush Presidential Center with a Handful of Old Friends

Photos by Stephen Masker​Of course you've heard that George W. Bush has a new book out in stores, and this morning, you couldn't help but hear he was getting started building his new library, too. Onstage under a big tent on the Southern Methodist University campus, Bush was shifting excitedly fro ... More >>

Raising Cane's Gives the Finger
To Greenville Avenue

​Raising Cane's (multiple locations) www.raisingcanes.com Dude Factor: 7, or House's cane, on a scale of 1 (Michael P. Fay) to 10 (Caine). We had never darkened the door at a Raising Cane's until the new Greenville Avenue location opened, tempting us with its promise of "chicken fingers" on ... More >>

Eat Away Dixieland: Looking for Uniquely Southern Dishes, Assuming This is the South

Frogmore stew: The dish is familiar, even if the name isn't.​If you think Texas belongs in a documentary about Southern food, now's the time to say so. The Southern Foodways Alliance is asking folks to submit, via its Facebook page, "the one dish/ingredient/food event/restaurant/etc. from your h ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape: The Flashback Episode

​Since DJs are frequently juggling projects, picking up new nights, creating new mixes, and, well, always trying to stay on top of the game, we thought that, before moving forward to our next batch of local DJs, it'd be fun to re-cap the first lot and see what some of them have been up to since be ... More >>

Lin's China Diner: College Station Import Brings Light Asian to Plano

​Promised delivery time: 35-40 minutes Actual delivery time: 22 minutes THE SCORE Delivery earlier than promised: 20 Points No online ordering: Minus 5 Points No MSG: 10 Points Fresh tasting food: 40 Points Food securely packaged: 10 Points TOTAL: 75 points E-mail menus, snail-mail menus, a ... More >>

Red Mango Pushes Back at Competition With Self-Serve

Red Mango: Help yourself.​Starting July 19, the Red Mango on Lovers Lane will convert into a self-service frozen yogurt format. Depending on the outcome of the Lovers Lane location, several other Dallas locations of the frozen yogurt chain may be following suit soon after. If the success of Pl ... More >>

Foodways Texas Drafts Recipe to Celebrate Lone Star Cuisine

There's a lot to learn about Texas food. Might as well start with the basics.​The Southern Foodways Alliance, an 800-member organization that's stimulated serious scholarly discussion of barbecue and pinto beans; produced dozens of movies on edible topics ranging from Sazeracs to pig ear sandw ... More >>

Nice Brisket, Toots

Snow's BBQ516 Main St.Lexington, TexasNoah W. BaileyThe line at Snow's. At 10:20 a.m.​Dude Factor: 10, or Billy Joe Shaver, on a scale of 1 (Beth Toben) to 10.On a recent weekend trip to College Station to visit my fiance's parents, I found myself with a few free hours on a Saturday while my lady ... More >>

Bubba's Cooks Country: Chicken Any Way You Want, Especially if it's Fried

Photos by Patrick MichelsAny closer to this chicken-fried steak and you'd be eating it.​Bubba's Cooks Country6617 Hillcrest Ave.214-373-6527Dude Factor: 9, or Benjamin Buford Blue, on a scale of 1 (Bubba the Grouper) to 10 (Bubba Ho-Tep)There's not much in this world that couldn't do with som ... More >>

Says Mayor, Thanks to UNT Dallas Is Finally About to Become a College Town

Get to know the University of North Texas at Dallas from UNTD Webmaster on Vimeo.That video above was just posted to Vimeo by the University of North Texas at Dallas -- but says here it was sent out a couple of weeks ago to "the Board of Regents, potential donors, the Texas legislature, and elected ... More >>

Too Much of a Bad Thing: Internet Lures Kids into Porn Addiction

Hut's vs Dixie Chicken: College Town Clash

Alex Flores​In one week, the tea sippers battle that redneck military school for all important bragging rights. Yeah, Texas has to get past the Chickenhawks of KU first, while the Aggies go up against (yawn) Baylor. But on Thanksgiving day, it's either "Hook 'em Horns" or...what the hell does "Gig ... More >>

So What Exactly Are You Eating When You Order Fajitas In A Tex-Mex Restaurant?

Democracy Inaction

Mr. Gonz doesn't go to Washington

Can't Go Home Again

Plus: Busted; Inside Track

Last Call

The career of Dallas sportswriter Jim Dent was skyrocketing, then booze and bad behavior caused a hard landing

Best Place to Eat a Monster

Freebirds World Burrito

Soul Power

The gospel according to Ruthie Foster

Even Handed

Lewis makes more progress with Deep Elm Records

Nappy Roots

Watermelon, Chicken and Gritz (Atlantic)

Food Fight?

Rumors circulate around the departure of George Papadopoulos from Voltaire

Access Denied

In the he-said, she-said world of child visitation disputes, dads like Doug Watkins say fathers have no rights

Vanity of the Bonfire

When tradition and death collide in Aggieland, tradition triumphs

Anywhere but here

Lewis doesn't care if it's really good or really bad, as long as it's not middle-of-the-road

Apocalypse right now

There was chaos both on and off the set at Deep Ellum Center for the Arts

What's in a name?

Everything, when you've got good luck with a capital 'F'

When the levee breaks

Cool River Cafe floods with flavorless monotony

Letters

Roadshows

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."

Aggies lose again

AG's office makes the last call of the season

Uncle Whopelo?

Slobberbone is the dumbest name for the best new band in town

Roadshows