East Texas

A Tarrant County Water Fight Descends into the Slop with the Help of a Dallas Hotel Magnate

You'd think the race for the Tarrant Regional Water Board would be a sleepy affair. Ensuring that Fort Worth and its environs enjoy an adequate water supply is undeniably important work, but not the kind that stirs the passions. As you can see from the mailing above, which was uploaded to the Inter ... More >>

As the Texas Lege Tackles $2 Billion Water Legislation, Drought Records Are Set

The Texas House and Senate took up legislation Tuesday to address a drought-induced water crisis. A proposed bill out of the House would pull $2 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund to implement a 50-year water plan. Municipalities and water districts could apply for funds the state would priorit ... More >>

State Department's New Keystone XL Pipeline Report Proves Battle to Stop Tar Sands Is Probably Already Lost

On Friday afternoon came the unheralded release of a pretty important preliminary analysis from the State Department regarding the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a conduit for diluted bitumen mined in Alberta and destined for the Texas Gulf Coast petroleum refineries. The takeaway, however, has to ... More >>

30 Essential Texas Restaurants to Visit Before You Die

Art: Well Hung

There Will Be Tar Sand

Tarry Canadian bitumen is barreling its way to Texas via the Keystone XL pipeline. Will it bring energy independence or environmental calamity?

Judge Recuses Himself From Keystone XL Protesters' Cases Over Conflict of Interest

A $65,000 bond for three young people arrested on misdemeanor charges sounded unusually high to us when we wrote about the Keystone XL protesters locked up in Smith County a week ago. Bail was halved Wednesday, but that was only after the presiding judge recused himself from the case over a conflic ... More >>

Land Comissioner Jerry Patterson Draws a Line in the Mud Over Keystone Protests

You'd think a guy with the job title "Texas land commissioner" would know a thing or two about Texas land. Little items, you know, like what the state boundaries are, what a landowner is and how to tell a Texan apart from, say, a Canadian. See also: - Keystone Pipeline Protesters Tie Themselves to ... More >>

TransCanada Can Move Ahead With Texas Portion of Pipeline, But the Fight Isn't Over

Earlier this month, three East Texas hamlets with a collective population of fewer than 2,000 souls filed suit in a federal court in Oklahoma City to halt construction of the southern half of The International Pipeline Formerly Known as Keystone XL. The Keystone was to be a massive piece of infrastr ... More >>

Food & Wine's Best BBQ City List Includes A Few Spot in "East Texas: Dallas"

Food and Wine took some time this week to evaluate our great nation's best barbeque cities in a feature titled "Best BBQ Cities." First noticeable local on the list is Tim Love. Standing next to a grill, right? No, in a Hellman's mayo commercial. What the heck is the deal with the mayo? No mention ... More >>

Class Wafare? Fine, Let's Get This Party Started.

The Republican presidential candidates all agree on one thing -- the same mantra between all their lines. They all want us to believe that the extreme polarity of rich and poor in this country is an expression of natural law. The super-rich just have to get super-richer. Everybody else, sadly, must ... More >>

It's True, Dogs and Their Owners Do Become Alike. Mine Bites.

Not much sleep last night. Wide awake at 4 a.m., hiding beneath the sheets. A pretty sad state of affairs when a fellow of my years has to hide under his own bedding to avoid being bitten in the face by a dog. But there you have it. Rescue dogs. Two of them. It's how my wife and I handle things. I ... More >>

Postcard from Texas Meth Country

In one East Texas town, a new brand of meth lab has business -- and the occasional house -- booming.

In the Midst of Historic Drought, Council to Look at Dallas's Long-Range Water Supply Plan

​The plan to siphon off the water from Lake Palestine, which is just southwest of Tyler, has been around for close to four decades; in '72 Dallas acquired the contractual rights to the lake, at a rate of 102 million of gallons of per day. In 2007, the city council was reminded: Dallas had "The Lak ... More >>

Looking for Good Texas Peach Amid the Drought? Try a Pizzeria.

Lauren Drewes DanielsReplacement peaches. ​ A few summers back when I was a punk-ass kid, a few friends and I were driving from Germany to Switzerland. The trip itself was an utter fiasco, but one highlight was stopping at a store and finding some peaches for sale. True to our arrogant form, ... More >>

DART, East Texas Transit Officials Sign Letter They Hope Leads to Light-Rail Love Affair

DART chair Bill Velasco, left, and North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority's Jeff Austin III look at the line that could one day connect their parts of the great state.​Ever wished you could take Dallas Area Rapid Transit to ... oh ... let's say Tyler? Or Canton? Or Shreveport, even? Because ... More >>

Restaurant Ava's Southern Brunch Done Way, Way Right

​Walking into the crisp, white linen-and-dark wood decor of Rockwall's Restaurant Ava on Sunday morning was a welcome change from my weekend of fireside beer-swilling in East Texas. It's not that campfire kebabs and Jiffy Pop don't make for a great meal, but it's nice to go from one extreme to the ... More >>

Drip By Last Drop, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Goes With the Flow

Ron Jackson/Texas FreewayThe Neches River Bridge​In April 2009, I wrote about the court battle between the city of Dallas and people in East Texas over a proposed dam and reservoir on the Neches River. The East Texas people won that one, successfully persuading a judge to kill the planned reservoi ... More >>

Paranormal Investigators Descend Upon Jefferson In Search Of Answers

Members of the Upshur Paranormal Society and Southern Paranormal Investigators in their command room last night at the Pride House.​"I got a hit on the K2!"Heard a fair bit of that last night at the Pride House Bed and Breakfast out in Jefferson. Get a big enough hit on your K2, and you might feel ... More >>

An Uncertain Victory at Bread Winner's Holiday Brunch

http://www.flickr.com/photos/breadwinnerscafe/Oh, delicious Breadwinners pile of upscale, Uptown foodie goodness.​Having gotten most of my holiday-related drinking done at an East Texas lake between Friday night and Sunday afternoon, I awoke Monday morning refreshed and ready to eat something that ... More >>

Georgia's Farmers Market: Worth the Drive to Collagen Country

​ Georgia's Farmers Market 916 E. 15th St., Plano 972-516-4765 Try: East Texas peaches Don't try: apple cobbler in a jar When I heard there was a farmers market in Plano, I was like, "Oh, you mean Sprouts?" And Plano looked at me all shocked (because her botox-ed face is stuck that way) and ... More >>

Get lost with Jim Schutze while canoeing the Neches River and find the wildlife refuge Dallas wants to dam to secure its water supply

Watch Your Step, East Texas

Winona's about an hour and a half east of Dallas on a good day -- just out I-20, little north of Tyler. Out thataways you'll find what remains of Camp Fannin, so named for James Walker Fannin and, from 1943 till '46, an Army infantry training center. Ever since then, it's been privately owned land - ... More >>

At 94, Trammell Crow Has Died

Anne Raymond at Crow Holdings tells Unfair Park this morning that Trammell Crow died last night in his sleep at the age of 94. She says the real estate developer -- a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School who wound up owning and developing much of his native Dallas -- had not been ill and that he " ... More >>

Some Appealing Morning Items

See what I did there? "Appealing"? As in, the City of Dallas, still trying to get its hands on the Neches River water, is sending attorneys to New Orleans this week -- luckies. Specifically, the barristers will be setting up shop in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (there ya go), where, at 9 a.m, ... More >>

The Mess With Texas

That's Nacho River. Get It? C'mon, People.

Strange Fruit

See the faces of Winona at the MAC

Scoring Texas

The Gourds are back in town

Bible Girl: The Merry Christmas Edition

Dierks Bentley/Miranda Lambert

Friday, November 10, at American Airlines Center

Running Scared

Lee Ann Womack

Saturday, April 15, at Lone Star Park

The Gourds

Heavy Ornamentals (Eleven Thirty)

Tinseltown Treasures

Tyler's reels get special screenings

Susan Gibson, Adam Carroll

Friday, July 29, at The Horseman Club

Maltoro, Spitfire Tumbleweeds

Friday, January 21, at Double Wide

Horsin' Around

A Fort Worth museum is offering tickets to ride

Best Place to See Old-School High School Football

Seagoville High School, Seagoville Stadium

"Today, a Generation Died."

Revisiting the story of the 1937 New London gas explosion--the worst tragedy involving schoolchildren in American history

Down by the Old Mill

A band of East Texas environmentalists takes on a polluting paper plant and proves that might doesn't always make right, even in a company town

Poe Boy

East Texas author Joe Lansdale rises to the top of a bloody literary heap

Letters to the Editor

From the week of February 8

Best produce (tie)

Farmers Market & Groceryworks.com

Belly up

Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So des the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.

The biggest pump wins

Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumping water nearby. Under the state's "rule of capture," he has no right to complain.

Out Here

Trail of Tears

Ruth Smith set out to enshrine a Cherokee battleground and started a war of her own

Bo? Hell no!

Chicken king Bo Pilgrim wants to bring a new plant and new jobs to East Texas. But East Texans say they want no more of his filthy business.

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