Ford Motor Company

The Ticket's Sean Bass and His Sobering Stance on Driving Drunk

After surviving the drunken-driving accident that killed his girlfriend, a local sports-talker takes his pain on the air.

Blaming City, Museum of Automotive History Pulls Out of Fair Park. City Says: Not Its Fault.

​One year ago, or close enough, Stephen Page gave us a tour of his Texas Museum of Automotive History in Grand Place at Fair Park -- its temporary home, we were told, but an appropriate one, given the space's estimable past as the site where the Ford Motor Co. had its exhibit during the Texas Cent ... More >>

For Sale, This Vivid Reminder of a Time When Fords Were "Built in Texas by Texans"

​I just stumbled across an item of intrigue that's presently for sale on eBay for the whopping buy-it-now price of $499. And it's not just any ol' auction item: This vintage photo, which comes on a 38"-by-58" "ready-to-hang stretched canvas," pulls in via the fine folks at the Ford Motor Company, ... More >>

Dallas Billionaire Charles Wyly Was Killed in a Traffic Accident in Aspen This Morning

Courtesy the AT&T Performing Arts CenterDee and Charles Wyly​Earlier this evening, word began circulating: 77-year-old billionaire Charles Wyly, namesake of the Dee and Charles Wyly Theater in the AT&T Performing Arts Center, had died. There were no details at first, but, slowly, they emer ... More >>

A Signless Hot Rod Shop in Deep Ellum Attracts Plenty of Attention (Like, Say, a TV Pilot)

Photos by Leslie MinoraAaron Kaufman will pimp your ride -- oh, and his beard is better than yours.​A long-time Deep Ellumite gave me a tip the other day: If you want to see a cool place where a guy with a great beard makes motorcycles from scratch, check out the gray building on Main Street.So I ... More >>

Michael Hinojosa: Why Should We Blame Him for Leaving a Sinking Ship?

​We all need to splash our faces with cold water in this matter of the superintendent of the Dallas school system leaving town for a job as superintendent of schools in Cobb County, Georgia. What the hell do we expect? Governor Rick Perry and the Tea Party are charging ahead with an agenda a ... More >>

Serious Pizza Brings Out the Big Guns

Cheap Bastard finds that size matters. Of course she did.

Taking a Spin Around the Texas Museum of Automotive History Parked at Fair Park

Danny FulgencioStephen Page surveys his Texas Museum of Automotive History at Fair Park.​More than a year ago we mentioned that Fair Park would be getting a new attraction: the Texas Museum of Automotive History, which would be parked in Grand Place -- the very site where the Ford Motor Co. had it ... More >>

35 Conferette Adds More Acts, Including New Sub Pop Supergroup Featuring Michael Cera

If nothing else, Michael Cera is cooler than Danny Masterson, right?​After announcing last week the addition of another 135 bands to its bill, you'd think the folks up at Denton's 35 Conferette might need a breather -- or, I dunno, maybe some time to focus on the actual logistics of the fest, sinc ... More >>

35 Conferette Adds A Whopping 135 More Bands To Bill, Including A Whole Slew of Locals

Big things happening today in the world of 35 Conferette -- bigger news, even, than the fact that the-festival-formerly-known-as-North-by-35 now has an actual website to call its own (!). Bigger, too, than the really awesome web teaser/advertisement that the fest's organizers have created to promote ... More >>

RSVP To Ishi's Free Show at The Loft on Thursday and Maybe Send The Band to Bonnaroo

Dustin HollywoodIshi's live shows tend to get a little crazy.​Local dance/pop act Ishi is no stranger to a contest. The band recently won a spot on the main stage at this year's Edgefest, and now the band has its sights set on the massive Bonnaroo festival coming up this summer in Tennessee.How? W ... More >>

Fair Park to Get a Classic Car Museum! Now, The Trick Will Be Making It Permanent.

While we're on the subject of Fair Park (and when are we not this week?), I'll assume you missed this when we first mentioned it on Christmas Eve: Fair Park's getting a car museum. Or, to be more precise, the Texas Museum of Automotive History.Stephen Page​Just this morning, matter of fact, the ci ... More >>

Only Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Could Build A Palace Big Enough To Match His Larger-Than-Life Persona

If You Drive a Ford Pick-Up Truck, You Might Want to Pay Special Attention to This

Welcome to "Watch Your Car Month" -- and, no, we're not referring to this. Not exactly. But this morning at 10 at the Dallas Police Department Auto Pound on Vilbig Street, officials from several local auto-theft task forces will gather 'round stripped and recovered cars -- and a working one made en ... More >>

Family of Fort Worth Officer Killed in Explosion Sues Ford Motor Co.

Faking It

Patrolling South Texas for Illegal Immigrants

Border Patrolman Jorge Diaz left Mexico at 12. For 20 years, he's trolled the South Texas brush for illegal compatriots.

Genuine Fake Robots

Captain Casual

Wade Phillips ushers in a kindler, gentler, better Cowboys era

Buck Noodle

Sakurai focuses on sophisticated soba

Deep-Fried Fun

The State Fair of Texas is as eccentric as the state's residents

Live to Ride

A motorcycle accident cost Bill Rucker his leg, but that won't stop him from building-and riding-bikes

Fat Boys

An elderly gang of seedy Mississippi bluesmen anchors Fat Possum Records and the label's documentary

Dogtown

Tailing downtown Dallas' pack of pampered canines

Strange Days

Errol Morris gets history right by recognizing that it's usually all wrong

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

For Hal Samples, who uses photos to help the homeless, nothing—and everything

Grave Robbers

Even in the great beyond, no one is safe from identity theft

Kings of Clubs

The coke-drenched era of nightclubs is over, but now a new group of entrepreneurs is ready to reinvent the scene

Bad Apples

Is a teacher's effort to free two convicted killers a rush to bad judgment?

Big Murk's Kids

Politics and mismanagement closed the books on the city's anti-gang program, but try telling this South Dallas fixture the problem's solved

Burned into memory

A county employee questions the safety of vehicles powered by compressed natural gas

Whiskey-bent and hell-bound

With a monumental new boxed set, Hank Williams gets out of this world alive

The Art of the Wheel

No matter what you think, your car is not fully loaded

Bad Judgement

State District Judge John Marshall is snared in allegations of misconduct

'What is that, a muffler?'

Texas is home to an eccentric group of outsider artists celebrated as far away as New York. But if you want to see their work here, you'll have to travel to a renegade art gallery in Waxahachie.

"I'll Fight for You!"

You want Brian Loncar on your side, all right. Ask anyone who's made the mistake of crossing him.

Tales From The Crypt

Fort Worth's famous undertaker, the Rev. Gregory Spencer, has buried a lot of friends-- and made a lot of enemies. Now he claims someone wants him six feet under