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AART Stumbles with its Comedy about The Nacirema Society Snobs

A Man Shot Himself at a DART Station This Morning after a Standoff With Police

An early-morning police standoff that brought out the SWAT team and shut down DART's Westmoreland Station is now officially over: RT @keatonfoxnbc5: #BREAKING: Dallas Sheriff's Office confirms suspect took his own life in this standoff in Oak Cliff.— NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) January 2, 2013

A Naked Car Thief Was Arrested in a Dallas Daycare Center's Attic on Christmas Day

Early yesterday afternoon, about 1:30 p.m., police chased a stolen car from Red Oak, through DeSoto and into southeast Oak Cliff, nearly a dozen miles as the crow flies. They wound up on a mostly empty stretch of Camp Wisdom Road. It's not clear from a DPD incident report whether the thief jettison ... More >>

Texas Lawmakers Beware: The American Federation of Teachers is Coming for You

Last spring on the steps of the State Capitol, it was possible to buy a highly metaphorical cupcake, one that would cost you just $100 million. The "Billion Dollar Bake Sale" was put together by an outfit called Save Texas Schools, and it was meant to draw attention to the $5.4 billion Texas lawmak ... More >>

The Dallas Public Library is Looking for a New Director. Again.

It's been more than two years now since Laurie Evans stepped down as director of the Dallas Public Library. Since then, the operation has been steered by a pair of interim directors: first Corinne Hill, who set off for Tennessee earlier this year at least in part because the search for Evans' was mo ... More >>

Dallas is Proud of Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions By a Third, and Thinks You Should Drive Less

Back in 2006, Mayor Laura Miller joined with her colleagues across the country to sign the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, a promise to reduce the city's greenhouse gas emissions by seven percent below 1990 levels by 2012, It was just Dallas doing in its part to chip in on th ... More >>

DeSoto SolJazz Festival at DeSoto Eagle Stadium

Saturday, June 9, at DeSoto Eagle Stadium

The Fest Quest: How Many Festivals Are You Going To This Summer?

It's beginning to look at a lot like festival season. Has Dallas always had so many? And with such... random lineups? Here's a guide to some of the upcoming ones. And feel free to consult with Festy for more tips on how to maximize your summer festival experience, like the foolproof "Get backstage b ... More >>

The Bridge's CEO Explains Shelter's Role in Exposing Alleged $375 Mil Health Care Scam

​When the U.S. Attorney's Office unsealed the indictment yesterday alleging that Dr. Jacques Roy spearheaded the largest healthcare fraud in the nation's history out of his DeSoto office, they revealed that in 2010, he dispatched recruiters to The Bridge downtown. Their mission: pay homeless Medic ... More >>

Feds Allege Local Doctor Behind "Largest Healthcare Fraud Case" in U.S. History

​We received a release this morning from the U.S. Attorney's Office inviting us to a noon-thirty press conference at the Earle Cabell, at which time U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldaña, Deputy Attorney General James Cole and a host of other federal officials would address "a major health care fraud enfor ... More >>

The Hard Sell: Read Why These Three Finalists Believe They Should Lead the Dallas Library

​Yesterday we met the three finalists for the Dallas Public Library System director's position, one of whom's the current interim, Corinne Hill. The other two candidates presented to city officials by a DeSoto-based search firm (??) are out-of-towners: Juliet Machie, who actually remains the deput ... More >>

DeSoto's Von Miller Explains Why He Agreed to Sue the N.F.L. Before Even Being Drafted

​As we noted a couple of weeks back, former DeSoto High School Eagle and Texas A&M Aggie Von Miller is among the high-profile plaintiffs named in the lockout class action brought against the National Football League. His name's right there alongside the likes of Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Payto ... More >>

"Regionalism" Just Means Dallas is Going to Get Drilled When It Comes to Fracking

​So-called regionalism is a rip-off, a scam and a hoax designed to neuter cities and sell them down the river to the damned suburbs. A few weeks from now the Dallas City Council will take up the issue of fracking, the kind of natural gas drilling in which drillers pump millions of gallons of ... More >>

Say "Hi" to the Old Forest Hi Drug Store

eBay seller "mustangace"​I spent way too much time during the wee small hours of this morning looking at all the goodies posted to the Remember in Dallas Facebook page, where bossman Jim Hayes vowed only today that the website will be "up and running again soon," well, all right. Because as much b ... More >>

Priscilla Shirer, The Other Bible Girl

Priscilla Shirer, center, in a photo on the Going Beyond Ministries website​The New York Times just posted a lengthy oughta-read that will appear in this Sunday's magazine -- a profile of Priscilla Shirer, the Dallas Theological Seminary graduate and DeSoto resident who, with husband Jerry, is the ... More >>

A Family Feud Over the Life and Legacy of the Late, Great Hugh Robinson

Hugh Robinson was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' first African American general officer.​Dueling obits -- always a bad sign. This time the dark cloud of family unrest gathers over the death of Hugh Robinson (or Hughes, depending on which obit you read).The first obituary, which ran March 5 in T ... More >>

New Federal Program Aims to Help Student Debtors, But Is it Too Late?

​DeSoto resident Pamela Bradley, who once worked for the city of Dallas, feels cheated by the education system. She was raised to believe that education leads to better jobs, so she got a master's degree and started a Ph.D. program. But now Bradley finds herself in this disheartening position ... More >>

To Hell With The Recession -This Year Gave Dallas Audiences The Best Productions Of The Decade

African American Rep, In Its Production of Master Harold... and the Boys, Once Again Proves Why It’s The Strongest Small Theater Company in North Texas

Blessed With Sexy Synthpop Satire, Altar Boyz Zings

Running The Rock

In 1990 I finished the White Rock Marathon. And it almost finished me. This year, I get my revenge: Back then I was a 26-year-old flatbelly, just a couple years removed from competitive cross country and a full-speed dork who would precede Saturday morning flag football at The Village Coun ... More >>

Topdog/Underdog Could Be Your Way Back Into Dallas Theater

Make Me a Song Makes a Case for William Finn; Coronado Cast Stages a Walkout

Few Good Men

Well-acted dramas explore scandals and racism in the military. Can you handle the truth?

Josh Howard With Yet Another Turnover

What a Drag

Not long ago a rising All-Star, Josh Howard is suddenly regressing professionally and personally

Josh Howard Is Neither Humbled Nor Apologetic

Luke Campbell Talks Tying The Knot, Hip-Hop And Finding His Son's Porn Collection

Geritol Jump-Shooters|Voodoo Economics|Ellumized|Miss Potty Mouth|Carol Reed's Boo-Boos|Goodbye, Greg

Darin Archer, R.I.P.

Dallas loses another young talent

Sharing is Caring

Take the first step toward health

Whatdya Mean the Lakes Are Rising?

Home Sweet Auctioned-Off Home

Membership Has Privileges

Lost in Transition

How to Suck| No Butts About It| Funny Money

Zip-A-Dee Doodoo

Disney's On the Record never gets in the groove; Proof solves interesting problems

Vroom

Fast cars at Dallas Market Hall

Sob Story

Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

Very Clever, Boys

The top 10 indie-rock albums of 2003

Secret Revealed

A sexually oriented business in DeSoto? Nah, really?

Back From Babylon

He's just one Marine, but this returning trooper saw no quagmire in Iraq

Superiority Complex

How Glenn Heights turned a debate over starter homes into a nasty small-town war

:cueless

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

Wired shut

Jawbox's odds-and-ends Scrapbook makes a wonderful farewell

Hash Over

Letters

The Chief, the Scotsman, the Swindler, and the Killer

David Pasztor unravels a tangeled tale of death and international intrigue

Big men, big houses

For one sports star, home is where the bowling alley is

Buzz