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  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Now Dallas is the 15th "Smuttiest" City

    Dallas may be inhospitable to hipsters, but we're apparently a city filled with porn enthusiasts: Men's Health recently ranked Dallas 15th in a list of the 100 "smuttiest" American cities (Orlando won. Those perverts.) MH based its rankings on the number of adult DVDs purchased, rented or streamed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    EPA Regional Chief Al Armendariz is Accused of "Crucifying" the Energy Industry in Texas

    When President Obama appointed SMU prof Al Armendariz to the EPA regional post in Dallas back in 2009, it was to the sound of collective groaning from the energy industry and Republican politicos. Only months before, he'd authored a study citing oil and gas production as a major source of air pollut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Skinnygirl Wine is Now Available at Sigel's. Let's All Get Wasted and Gossip.

    I don't know a ton about wine, nor do I know much about "real" housewives in New York City (shout out to Oak Cliff Housewives, who truly keep it real). But word on the street, according to Jasper Russo at Sigel's, is that Skinnygirl wine "HAS ARRIVED!" I pass along this information because I watche ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    The Strange Tale of Tucker Max and His Failed $500,000 Planned Parenthood Donation

    For the past few days, several corners of the Internet have been all a-flutter over a recent piece on Forbes.com by a man named Ryan Holiday, who describes himself as a "strategist for big authors and big brands." Holiday apparently had tried to arrange a donation of $500,000 from one of his clien ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Dear Internet: All The Snickering About Madonna's Age Is Getting Real Old

    This week Madonna's 12th studio album and dive into the deep end of the EDM pool, MDNA, came out. I didn't like it very much. But what I like even less is the sexism-tinged age-baiting that the record seems to be inspiring in so many critics. Forbes was likely the worst offender of the bunch, going ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2012

    From This Moment Forward, Woodall Rodgers Deck Park Will Be Known As Klyde Warren Park

    ​Behind the paywall this morning is The News's exclusive concerning "stealth billionaire" (Band Name Alert™) Kelcy Warren's purchase of the naming rights for the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, which henceforth shall be known as Klyde Warren Park -- so named for the Energy Transfer Equity CEO and cha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Trinity Broadcasting Network Property in Colleyville is Getting Fracked, By God, Pesky Southlake Neighbors Be Damned

    TBN Newsletter​The denizens of tony Southlake successfully defeated the fracking juggernaut, turning industry leaders like Chesapeake back at the city limit sign. Or maybe it was the low natural gas prices that did it. Tough to say, really. But what can they do when a derrick goes up a stone' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    Why Smashburger Sucks More Than It Has To

    Gratuitous macro depicting maximum crustiness.​Late last year, Forbes named Smashburger America's most promising company. The article describes an American population as burger-obsessed and compares the Denver-based smashers to other chains, including Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Jack in the B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    The Next Generation Of Dallas Chefs

    ​Forbes recently listed 30 movers and shakers in the national food scene who are under 30. The article highlights the new guard, the young chefs and food purveyors who promise to carry the torch for the next generation of restaurant patrons. Dallas has some younger chefs worth mention on the ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 2011

    Fear and Fracking in Southlake

    In one of America's wealthiest suburbs, an unlikely band of drilling opponents helped drive away the world's biggest energy companies. Did they save the town or ruin it?

  • Film

    November 3, 2011

    Tower Heist: Lobby vs. Penthouse

    Stealing from the rich to ... oh, whatever. Funny is the message.

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    After Months of Debate, Southlake Keeps 1,000-Foot Setbacks From Gas Wells to Homes

    ​The Southlake City Council Hall, once packed from floor to gallery with residents for whom gas drilling in town was either a looming menace or a windfall, had only a smattering of attendees a little after 11 last night. Many had already wearied of the debate, which had raged since February an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Back To Football: Your 2011 Cowboys Preview

    Zuma Press​According to Forbes magazine, your Cowboys are the NFL's most valuable franchise at $1.85 billion. Second-wealthiest team on the planet behind only English soccer's Manchester United. They are also, in case you haven't noticed, in disarray. Chaotic. Disjointed. Injured. If not in a rebu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    They Said They Were Selling Interests in Oil Wells. Instead, They Were Buying Picassos.

    ​Actually, it was just one Picasso -- along with "real estate, boats and other personal water craft, luxury vehicles, artwork, furniture, antiques, musical instruments, jade, expensive jewelry and wine." Still. That's not how Tony Rand and his boys Greg and Bill were supposed to be spending more t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    What It's Like to Live in Plano, According to The Internet's List Makers. Everyone Loves Lists.

    Image via Plano.govThat baby is actually 45 years old. ​Perhaps you heard that Plano was recently named the 12th longest-living city in the country by the Daily Beast. But what you may not know is that a whole bunch of other listicles ranking places based on their General Pleasantness have spotlig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Dollars, Taxes: As City Manager Finishes Work on New Budget, the Comptroller's Good News

    Via.Click to embiggen​On Monday, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs will cut the city of Dallas a sales-tax revenue check for $16,658,081.23, as you can see above; City Manager Mary Suhm says that's 13 straight months the city has seen a "slight increase" in tax revenue, among the "slight, slow signs o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Whitt's End: 5.13.11

    ​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Went and watched the American professional debut of Cuban defector/Rangers' prospect Leonys Martin last night in Frisco. In a word, wow! With his father and agent in the stands at Dr Pepper ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Whitt's End: 3.25.11

    ​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Like me, do you think the Texas Rangers are kinda getting caught with their pants on the ground with their pitching staff exposed? The time to go get a reliable closer is not next year, it' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Someone Actually Wants to Buy the Dallas Stars. And Keep Them Here.

    ​The fear with the Dallas Stars is this: Tom Hicks would so bury the team that no one would buy them and eventually they'd leave Dallas. It appears, knock on ice-covered wood, that a savior has arisen. Goes by the name of Doug Miller. Everyone from Mark Cuban to Wayne Gretzky to Mike Modano h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Coke Unveils Massive Recycling Machine in Arlington

    ​Coca-Cola last week introduced a new type of freestanding recycling center, setting up its first "Reimagine" unit near a Kroger store at 2210 S Fielder Road in Arlington. The "Reimagine," described as "the size of a delivery truck", accepts unsorted bottles and cans in bulk -- even those not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Tom Hicks Files Suit Over Liverpool FC Sale -- and Finds Judge in Dallas to Stop It! For Now.

    Dallas Cowboy by Kit Nelson, never more appropriate than today​[Update at 4:41 p.m.: The original petition filed this afternoon has been added. It's after the jump.]This morning we told you the U.K. courts had cleared the path for New England Sports Ventures to buy Liverpool FC -- thus ending Tom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Sure, Plano's Real Safe and All. Nice. But What's This You Say About the Grow Houses?

    ​Yes, yes, yes, I've seen it -- Forbes has named Plano "America's Safest City," based upon a low-low-low violent crime rate and a relatively low number of killer car crashes. Thanks to the many Friends who've sent the piece, which says money matters -- so too homogeneity. Which is nice and all. I' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Lone Star's Still Shooting in Dallas. For Now. (Update: Not Anymore. It's Been Canceled.)

    A scene from last night's Lone Star, which may not be long for this world​Last night, if-you-don't-watch-my-show-we-kill-this-dog Kyle Killen wasn't the only one waiting to see if more than 4.1 million viewers tuned in to the second episode of FOX's Lone Star. As Dallas Film Commissioner Janis Bur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Welcome to the Forbes 400, Darwin Deason!

    Kelcy Warren, proof that a UT-Arlington graduate can make the Forbes 400​I've been told: Everybody loves lists, especially this one -- Forbes' annual countdown of the richie-richiest 'Merkins, which contains more than its share of locals, as usual. Tops, through, is a Fort Worth resident who I'm p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Legal Briefs: SLAPP and Jindal

    Bobby Jindal​Meant to be sung to the tune of this Squeeze single ...Remember Hiram Walker Royall? Sure you do -- he's the Highland Park developer who sued anyone who wrote, reviewed or pretty much read Carla Main's 2007 book Bulldozed: "Kelo," Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land, which d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    This Just In: People That Aren't Us Hate Jerry Jones

    ​Is it because he's so powerful? So rich? So over-the-top passionate? Or is it because he's won three Super Bowls? Built an unprecedented stadium that is gobbling up sports? Or kept his team popular, relevant and "successful" despite only one playoff win in 13 years? Whatever the reason, ... More >>

  • News

    February 18, 2010

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

    ​Is it because he's so powerful? So rich? So over-the-top passionate? Or is it because he's won three Super Bowls? Built an unprecedented stadium that is gobbling up sports? Or kept his team popular, relevant and "successful" despite only one playoff win in 13 years? Whatever the reason, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2009

    Baby Cardinals

    ​Is it because he's so powerful? So rich? So over-the-top passionate? Or is it because he's won three Super Bowls? Built an unprecedented stadium that is gobbling up sports? Or kept his team popular, relevant and "successful" despite only one playoff win in 13 years? Whatever the reason, ... More >>

  • News

    April 9, 2009

    SEC Says Texas Financier Sir Allen Stanford Swindled Investors Out of Billions.

    It didn't have to happen.

  • Calendar

    October 16, 2008

    Steve Says

    Forbes gives his election opinion

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2008

    Look Out, Avi, But Forbes Just Gave Folks a Reason to Move to Greenville

    Forbes gives his election opinion

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2008

    Jerry, Your New Stadium's Just Super

    Forbes gives his election opinion

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2007

    Pickens Says We're Running Out of Oil. But He's Not Running Out of Money.

    Forbes gives his election opinion

  • News

    February 23, 2006

    Trump-a-Rama

    Want to be like The Donald? First, get a few million dollars...

  • News

    April 1, 2004

    Mark Cuban Going Broke

    Plus: Jabari Sought Own Death; Who Saw This Coming?

  • News

    February 19, 2004

    Jerry-rigged

    Jones' stadium tax is in for one rough fight

  • Dining

    January 2, 2003

    Big Death

    Fading flashiness marked the year in Dallas dining

  • News

    August 8, 2002

    Tropic of Groceries

    Dallas' pent-up lust for exotic foods has finally been met with the opening of Central Market. Will shopping ever be the same? Will our appetites?

  • News

    May 9, 2002

    Cockfight

    A Plano homemaker finds herself in a legal pit with a very big rooster

  • News

    April 5, 2001

    With Friends Like These...

    CompUSA and Latin America's richest man get a $450 million lesson from a Dallas jury: Friendship and business don't mix.

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Whizzing inside the tent

    ExxonMobil shareholders use their stock to push a corporate giant toward change

  • Dining

    October 8, 1998

    Hash Over

    ExxonMobil shareholders use their stock to push a corporate giant toward change

  • News

    September 17, 1998

    Smoke-filled room

    When Dan Morales brokered Texas' $17.3 billion tobacco settlement, he blew away Governor Bush. He also made sure his friends got a few puffs.

  • News

    December 25, 1997

    LiL' Things, big problems

    Why no one is winning the battle of the baby superstores

  • News

    October 23, 1997

    Mr. Passion

    Meet Dallas literary agent Evan Fogelman, the brains behind the bodice-rippers

  • News

    August 28, 1997

    Year of the dog

    Wishbone's Dallas creator prepares to follow Barney down the PBS path to riches

  • News

    October 10, 1996

    Don't cry for me, Amarillo

    T. Boone Pickens Jr. has lost millions, been booted out of his own company, and his wife wants a divorce. Miriam Rozen chronicles the downward spiral of the once-fearsome Learjet Cowboy.

  • News

    May 2, 1996

    Scam Without A Country

    For con men the world over, there is no place like the Dominion of Melchizedek because it is no place

  • News

    February 1, 1996

    Blue-collar blue bloods

    Phil Gramm and the R's cozy up to the average working guy

  • News

    June 15, 1995

    Moncrief Family Values

    A wealthy Fort Worth oil clan's court battle isn't just about millions. It's about pride. Miriam Rozen tells a tale of favored sons

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