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Ford Motor Company

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    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 >>

  • Dining

    May 19, 2011

    Serious Pizza Brings Out the Big Guns

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

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    September 10, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Dining

    July 31, 2008

    Faking It

    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 >>

  • News

    January 24, 2008

    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.

  • Home Entertainment

    October 18, 2007

    Genuine Fake Robots

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

  • News

    August 2, 2007

    Captain Casual

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

  • Dining

    June 7, 2007

    Buck Noodle

    Sakurai focuses on sophisticated soba

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2005

    Deep-Fried Fun

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

  • News

    June 23, 2005

    Live to Ride

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

  • Music

    May 12, 2005

    Fat Boys

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

  • News

    May 6, 2004

    Dogtown

    Tailing downtown Dallas' pack of pampered canines

  • Culture

    February 5, 2004

    Strange Days

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

  • News

    January 15, 2004

    What’s Wrong With This Picture?

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

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Grave Robbers

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

  • News

    May 1, 2003

    Kings of Clubs

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

  • News

    October 25, 2001

    Bad Apples

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

  • News

    February 8, 2001

    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

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Burned into memory

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

  • Music

    October 8, 1998

    Whiskey-bent and hell-bound

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

  • News

    August 21, 1997

    The Art of the Wheel

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

  • News

    August 21, 1997

    Bad Judgement

    State District Judge John Marshall is snared in allegations of misconduct

  • News

    March 13, 1997

    '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.

  • News

    January 9, 1997

    "I'll Fight for You!"

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

  • News

    June 8, 1995

    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

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