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Jayden Frost, a Singer for '80s Pop Band When In Rome, Runs a Vintage Toy Shop in DFW

Under a circular blue awning in Lewisville lies a fairly unmarked store with generic white letters reading, "DFW Vintage Toys." The change of worlds stepping inside is jarring -- it's like walking back 30 years and into your childhood. The mastermind behind DFW Vintage Toys, Jayden Frost, is seriou ... More >>

Rolex is Not Amused by Dallas Pop-Punk Singer's Counterfeit Watch Business

Their bio on Jam Base chalks it up to a "magical combination of talent, perseverance and opportunity," but, whatever their secret, Forever the Sickest Kids has enjoyed a remarkably long run in the music business. The Dallas-based pop-punk band managed to land a major-label record deal months after i ... More >>

Dallas Got an Early Start on Weekend Crime With Diaper Bag Robbery, a Sort-of Kidnapping, and a Craigslist Heist

Typically, Dallas saves its wilder side for the weekend. That's when, once the booze and drugs are flowing in earnest, the weird crimes tend to happen. But the weekend arrived early, with police reporting an armed diaper bag robbery, a Craigslist heist and a low-budget movie production scaring the b ... More >>

How do We Book a Tour?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

The Search for the Perfect Guitar, Part III

"Vintage Silvertone Acoustic guitar," "1977 Dobro Duolian," "Martin 00X1 Auditorium Acoustic Guitar (14 Fret)" are just some of the headlines advertising guitars on Craigslist, but how are you supposed to play them, hear them, feel them? When you order a guitar online, you're missing an important p ... More >>

Turns Out, Cops Couldn't Find Eric Williams' Missing Getaway Car Because It'd Been Towed

When police officers raided former Kaufman County Justice of the Peace Eric Williams' Seagoville storage shed earlier this month, amongst the guns and other items they found a white, four-door Ford Crown Victoria that they were pretty sure had been the getaway car in the March 30 murder of District ... More >>

The Search for the Perfect Guitar, Part II

Editor: In last week's music feature, Christian McPhate began his search for a guitar. Not just any guitar, but his Trigger, his missing part. In that story, he went north to our weird music utopia, Denton, and came away with nothing. Here, he tries his hand in Dallas. I'll start you with his opener ... More >>

Area Woman Wants it Known That She's Had Lots of Random Sex Through Craigslist

Yesterday, we told you about an unfortunate area man whose plans for a Craigslist threesome resulted in zero threesomes and one potential watch theft. I indicated that I believed it was unlikely that a threesome would ever arise from a Craigslist-type situation, as finding even one woman who, A) doe ... More >>

Area Man's Craigslist Threesome Ends In Non-Threesome, Possible Watch Theft

Gentlemen. Let's get really real for a moment, shall we? It's very unlikely that a woman on Craigslist wants to have sex with you. Or rather, it's very unlikely that a woman on Craigslist wants to have sex with you for free. And when two women from Craigslist are proposing sexual activity -- togethe ... More >>

Understanding Dallas' Wave of Panty Thefts

Yesterday morning, a man walked into the Victoria's Secret at Mockingbird Station, grabbed $2,000 worth of shirts, sweatshirts and sweatpants, then ran from the store into a waiting Dodge Durango. It was, the Morning News noted, the fourth such theft from the location in about as many months. They ... More >>

Dallas Man Finds That Craigslist Ad Selling Chevy Pickup Actually An Setup For Armed Robbery

Last night, Ryan Ahrens showed up at the Davenport Apartments on the Dallas North Tollway to buy a Chevy pickup he'd seen advertised on Craigslist. He caught a ride there with a friend and the friend's young child, who was buckled into a car seat in the back, and he tucked the cash underneath the fl ... More >>

A Day in the Life of a Doc's Records Clerk

Adventures In The Vinyl Trade: Doc's Records' Dave Howard

Every so often, we get to wondering what people in the local music community do all day. So, we asked them. Today, Ken Shimamoto checks in with Doc's Records employee Dave Howard, and learn a little about the life of a record store clerk in 2012. I grew up in record stores: from the musty, dusty s ... More >>

Dildos, Missed Connections and More: Deb's Tips for a Great Solo Valentine's Night

The myth of Saint Valentine marrying young kids in the face of Claudius' imminent draft are nothing if not romantic. Yet Valentine's Day just isn't a real holiday. It's as tedious to loathe it as to love it. Those bemoaning their lack of roses or boasting of their pre-fixe dinner reservations are eq ... More >>

Village Voice Media Responds to Clergy Attack Ad in Today's New York Times Over Backpage

​Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to the Village Voice, the Observer's New York sister paper, and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times. The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult cla ... More >>

CNN's Amber B. Lyin', Reporting: How TV's Most Trusted Cable News Outlet* Got Played

Amber Lyon: "My scarf has better sources than Wolf Blitzer."​Over the last several months, reporters here and at some of our sister papers have published stories about the mythical child-sex-trafficking pandemic allegedly sweeping our nation. Prodded by activist researchers and research-adver ... More >>

You Can Watch Game 6 Inside the American Airlines Center. Just Not Outside the AAC.

The vibe, inside and outside the AAC, during Game 2 of the NBA Finals on June 2​Happened to be down in Victory Park for drinksa meeting during Game 2 of The Finals. Got there well before tip-off, and a small line was already beginning to snake around the American Airlines Center; folks were also s ... More >>

Women's Funding Network sex trafficking study is junk science

Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media

Greater Dallas Restaurant Association Seeks New Director

The Greater Dallas Restaurant Association is seeking a new executive director, according to an ad posted this week on Craigslist. ​Former executive director Jamee Jolly, who joined the organization in 2007, resigned last fall to become president of the Plano Chamber of Commerce. The Greater ... More >>

Cold Weather: Take a Trip to the Mysterious World of Mumble-Noir.

My Loko Night: Testing Black-Market Original-Formula Four Loko

​First they came for Sparks, and I didn't speak out because I didn't drink Sparks.Then they came for Four Loko, and I didn't speak out because I didn't drink Four Loko. Then they came for Moonshot '69, and I didn't speak out because I didn't drink Moonshot '69. Then they came for...well, nothing y ... More >>

MasterMinds: Matthew Posey, Joel Hester and Karen Blessen Are Winners in Our Inaugural Creativity Awards

Threaten the President's Life on Craigslist, And You're Going to Federal Prison for Two Years

​You remember Brian Dean Miller, right? Sure you do. He's the 43-year-old Northeast Dallas man who, back in March, posted to Craigslist's "Rants & Raves" section an item titled "Obama must die." Among its highlights, reminds the U.S. Attorney's Office today, he wrote: "People the time has come ... More >>

Dallas Architect Takes to Craigslist to Find Partners Interested in Rehabbing 807 Elm

Justin Terveen​I've left a few messages today for Taylor Burns, the officer at Park Cities Bank charged with tending to 807 Elm Street. As I noted Monday, PCB, which got the property in foreclosure, would like to raze the 85-year-old building sitting in a parking lot across from El Centro, though ... More >>

Czeching out the National Polka Festival

Man! Man in tights!​Maybe everyone who attended the National Polka Festival over the weekend in Ennis is too hungover from copious amounts of kolache and Czechvar to hop straight on the Craigslist to post their missed connections. Maybe that's why there's only this one lonely missed polka connecti ... More >>

"Cybersegregation in Boston and Dallas"

​This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone who's spent any time on the Craigslist Rants And Raves forum (what can I say -- it goes good with a glass of Franzia Sunset Blush), but science has now proved that Craigslist posters are -- and this is my own terminology here -- racist assbags. God ... More >>

Charmageddon

A Glorypark-ing Garage. Two, Actually.

​Below you'll find the lawsuit an architectural firm and a construction company filed today against Tom Hicks, Steiner Associated and pretty much everyone in the upper management at the Texas Rangers over the so-very-dead Glorypark development, which was to devour 75 acres next to the Ballpark i ... More >>

Interested in Owning a Piece of the Video Bar's Archives? Like, a Really, Really Big Piece.

Just some of the Video Bar-chives being auctioned off on Craigslist​A good Friend of Unfair Park sends word: Over on Craigslist, someone's trying to offload hundreds of old Video Bar videotapes for the low, low price of $1,000. That's quite the flashback for those of us who (barely, because we wer ... More >>

Would You Like an Arboretum Playhouse? Don't Cost Nuthin'. But There is a Catch.

Flickr user: Victor ChapaEragon, which could be all yours for the price of a forklift rental, for starters​Those astounding Storybook Playhouses out at the Dallas Arboretum are getting adiosed at year's end; they'll be good and gone by January 16. But that doesn't mean they're disappearing forever ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Mango Thai

​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Mango Thai Cuisine4448 Lovers Lane214-265-9996Promised delivery time: about 45 minutesActual delivery time: 48 minutesFriendliness of the guy on the phone: 11Ease of perso ... More >>

Last Night: Black Moth Super Rainbow, School of Seven Bells and Darktown Strutters at Hailey's

Black Moth Super Rainbow, School of Seven Bells, Darktown StruttersHailey's Club, DentonJune 3, 2009Better Than: Sulking at home last night while poking around on Craigslist and eBay for those Animal Collective tickets you should've bought months ago... Paul HeartfieldSchool of Seven BellsTurns out ... More >>

Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

Q: "Are You On Twitter?" A: "Not Till the Denton Cops Booked Me for Possession."

Plenty of government agencies are dipping their toes into the Twitter waters these days, but when we found the Denton Police Department's Twitter page this afternoon, we knew we'd found something truly special.With automated posts for everyone booked at the jail since Sunday night, the feed comes co ... More >>

Giveaway: Tickets To See The Avett Brothers At The Granada Theater Tomorrow Night

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John Freeman's Parting Gift to "The Scene" Before He Mo's Down NYC

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Do You Have What It Takes To Take...I Mean Make A Hit?

Light Sabers at the Ready!

That's All She Rote

Lady Liberty Never Takes a Day Off

Lookin' Fer Love In All The Wrong Places

Belo in Bed with Yahoo!

The Ugly Truth about the Beautiful Room

Our top DVD picks for the week of April 25.

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Rogue Wave

Descended Like Vultures (Sub Pop)