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McKinney Can Fight the Future All it Wants, But the Future's Coming, and It's Sockless

OK, we start with a cartoon on the web site of the McKinney Tea Party, depicting President Obama as a high-stepping, vaguely simian character dressed as a trumpeter in a marching band. The headline is "McKinney Sustainability Plan." A label over the president identifies him as, "Dear Leader Obama." ... More >>

Well, New York Daily News, The Ticket's a Station, Not a "Show." But Other Than That ...

​Yesterday our new New York Times contributor offered eight ways the Dallas Cowboys can win the NFC East tomorrow night, each one a thoughtful, stat-driven how-to. The New York Daily News counters this morning with one of those (yawn) things-we-hate-about lists, which, as you can see, even graces ... More >>

Let It Bleed

Hard at work on his eighth novel, Deadwood author Pete Dexter still packs a punch.

In Suburban Dallas, Loosening "Cheese" Heroin's Deadly Grip

Another round of deaths have another round of North Texas parents trying to wipe out a deadly combination of heroin and cold medicine.

Joe Jonas' New Solo Act Gets Booed, Pelted With Basketballs

Jason Merritt/GettyJoe Jonas​Just last month, DC9 reported that Dallas' own (Westlake, to be exact) Joe Jonas would be branching out on his own solo project. Seems the middle JoBro was feeling pigeon-holed in the Disney set, so he has taken a sort of bad boy approach with his new stuff. His people ... More >>

Oh Thank Heaven: 7-Eleven Unveils
Vegetarian Choices, but Not Here

​Vegetarian activists are rejoicing over the debut of five new vegan items at 7-Eleven stores in Manhattan, but a spokesperson for the convenience store says the sale of artichoke spinach noodles on 42nd Street doesn't portend the national roll-out of a meatless menu. "I'm not sure where they ... More >>

So You Think You Can Cook: MasterChef Dishes Up a Chance to Embarrass Yourself

And here's what Gordon Ramsay thinks of your tuna casserole.​A recent City of Ate post announcing Food Network's upcoming Dallas casting call has been hanging around in the most-viewed story list this week, so y'all are probably keen to learn about another chance for TV stardom. MasterChef, t ... More >>

TCU to Head (Big) East? Yup. In 2012.

TCU FootballTCU celebrates its second straight Mountain West title after Saturday's shellacking of New Mexico.​So report both AOL FanHouse and the New York Daily News this morning, in advance of what's expected to be a 1 p.m. press conference here. The undefeated No. 3 Horned Frogs, of course, are ... More >>

Spike Lee, Speaking in Denton Tonight, is Drawing Fire for His Taste in Liquor

​Spike Lee's at the University of North Texas tonight, and fellow Brooklynite Amaya Santos, 17, knows what she'd like to ask the filmmaker. "Spike Lee, what's going on here?" was Santos' first thought when she counted up 28 ads for Lee's Absolut Brooklyn in the Utica Avenue subway station. Santos ... More >>

Back, Back in the New York Groove?

​Writes Mike Lupica in the New York Daily News: "The Yankees showed up on Wednesday in Game 5, they did, hundred percent. Now they have to do it again in Texas, or they become another big, bad Yankee team of this decade that got hit somewhere before the World Series and never recovered. You know w ... More >>

Damned Yankees

​Groans Erik Boland of Newsday: "All the elements that put the Yankees in a three-games-to-one series hole materialized Friday night, ensuring they wouldn't be able to completely climb out of that hole. It was another night of ragged starting pitching, ineffective relief pitching and next to nothi ... More >>

For Now, At Least, a Fairytale of New York

​Sums up George A. King III in this morning's New York Post: "The Yankees arrived last night deep in the heart of Texas with a pulse. Faint, for sure, but enough of a beat that the ALCS stethoscope detected it. Can the pump tick long enough to get the Yankees to the World Series? That's not the wa ... More >>

Hard Times in New York Town

​Writes Mike Lupica in this morning's New York Daily News: "So it has come to this for the Yankees, after the Texas Rangers threw them down another flight of stairs, trying to throw them all the way out to 161st St., all the way into next season. It has come to CC Sabathia trying to keep them aw ... More >>

2010 ALCS - Rangers-Yankees: Game 5 Preview

Can it end right here? Right now? Abso-friggin'-lutely!​Pssst, I'm not supposed to talk about this. Like a no-no in the 7th inning, baseball's unwritten etiquette says you're not supposed to whisper a word about celebratory plans. Especially when you're on the enemy's fabled field. But ... More >>

This Morning, In a New York State of Mind

​Writes Mike Lupica in this morning's New York Daily News: "So now, after all the winning during the regular season that Joe Girardi talked about in a testy postgame interview session, after starting the postseason with four straight wins and maybe thinking the Rangers were going to be the kind o ... More >>

Anna Fermanova's Now Free to Roam North Texas. But Not NYC, Where She's a Mini-Celeb.

​As he told us a couple of weeks ago, attorney Scott Palmer was hired to represent Anna Fermanova two hours before her detention hearing in Dallas federal court on July 15. No way he imagined that a few days later, his client -- popped by the feds for trying to take to Russia three high-priced, hi ... More >>

The First Supernanny

Method Man vs. Redman: Tale of The Tape

Laura Miller's Now on the Stand. You Know What That Means: Schutze is Live Blogging

Former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller​Laura Miller has begun testifying in the federal City Hall corruption trial, giving the jury her history in politics. She's poised, of course. Prosecutor Sarah Saldana began by addressing her as "Ms. Miller," then caught herself and asked, "Is that how you address ... More >>

Another Dallas Money Man is Charged in New York State Pension Fund Scandal

In February, the Dallas Business Journal ran a Q&A headlined "Two Minutes with Saul Meyer," referring to the founder of and partner at  Harwood Street-based Aldus Equity. In the piece, Meyer said that what set Aldus apart from other private equity firms is its "degree of governance and tran ... More >>

The Whole Country Now Knows About "Cesar Chavez Boulevard"

Time to Make the Doughnuts

Zales Corp. smells sweet success in expanding Dunkin' Donuts

Tony and Jessica: Move Along. Nothing Left to See Here.

So, the Bushes Are "Househunting"?

Why Dallas Doesn't Deserve Those Federal "Congestion Mitigation" Funds

Jason Kidd Most Definitely Did Not Quit on New Jersey

A Giant Myth

Cuban Dancing

Exit to Eden

Tom and Rudy, Sitting in a Tree. Or: We Think We Now Have Boone Pickens' Phone Number.

Parcells: Not a Giant (Well, Not That Way)

The Bitterest Bill is Hard to Swallow

School for Scoundrels

Bush Think Tank = $500 Million

Highway Robbery

Crime doesn't pay? Tell that to truck cargo thieves.

We'd Rather Watch

Deal or No Deal for Channels 5 and 39?

CD-ROMs? What, No Eight-Tracks? Reel-t0-Reels?

Juan Gone...to Long Island

Free Tickets! Don't Thank Us.

Wading into Rough Waters

Game 1's Tonight. Uh, Don't Forget.

Monsters

Confessions of a white middle-class parent

What's Up, Doc?

Ken Burns’ Ken Burns

Farewell to the Flame

See the Idiots before they return to their villages

Beef Brawl

The beef is good, but other things are better at Smith & Wollensky

Crimes seen

Weegee and others peek behind the police tape

Miller leaves Observer for politics

Mommie dearest

Why I'm trading my typewriter for diapers and drool cloths

Easy street

DTC's Avenue X croons a theme of racial harmony