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Senator John Carona's Bill Could Raise Cost of Beer Across State

On Tuesday morning the Business and Commerce Committee convened at the capitol in Austin to discuss, among other things, the future of beer in the state of Texas. In the front of the room, some of Texas' most powerful state senators sat behind their nameplates at a long curved table. Facing them in ... More >>

30 Essential Texas Restaurants to Visit Before You Die

My Oh Yes

"Big D" both song and city, is earning big laughs at Lyric and the Wyly.

British Petroleum Presents Galveston Island State Park: Texas Parks Department Wants Corporate Sponsors

The Texas Parks And Wildlife Department, the state agency that operates state parks and regulates hunting, fishing and related activities, announced today that it is seeking corporate partners. Seriously. Says so right on their website in big, bold letters: "Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Seeks ... More >>

Tiny East Texas Towns Join Fight Against Keystone Pipeline. Should Dallas?

Together, they have a population of fewer than 2,000, but the tiny East Texas hamlets of Reklaw, Alto and Gallatin have an outsized mission: To halt the southern portion of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, a conduit designed to ferry some 830,000 barrels of Canadian tar sands a day from an Oklaho ... More >>

Should We Celebrate Juneteenth?

I had lunch with Rev. Peter Johnson yesterday. He walked into CT's Real Deal Barbeque in South Dallas, shook my hand, and smiled. "How was your holiday?" he asked me. "Great!" I said. It was. I told him I spoke to my father for about 15 or 20 minutes, and I had even gotten a few texts and congratu ... More >>

On Saturday's Electric Daisy Carnival at Fair Park: Things Seemed To Be Going Smoothly...

[Editor's Note: We originally sent city columnist and noted curmudgeon Jim Schutze out to Fair Park on Saturday night on something of a lark. We knew he'd be a fish out of water, sure. But we also knew that, in some ways, covering the event would be right up his alley -- a chance for him to see one ... More >>

Author Engaged in Legal Tussle With HP Developer Tired of Being SLAPP'd Around

Carla Main testifying down in Austin yesterday​We've written a few times in recent years about author Carla Main, who remains locked in a legal tussle with Highland Park developer Hiram Walker Royall over Main's '07 book Bulldozed: "Kelo," Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land, which chron ... More >>

Hanna Raskin To Leave Observer, Taking Her Opinions and Her Bikes to Seattle

​When Eater last published my picture, Nancy Nichols told the crowd at Sidedish that it looked like I needed to eat more. Her remark was perhaps snide, perhaps sexist, but definitely true. I've lost 10 pounds since moving to Dallas, a result of my nightmarish reaction to short Texas ragweed and a ... More >>

Murder=Not So Good

Foodways Texas Offers a Tasty Road Trip to Gulf

​Foodways Texas, the new organization that aims to "preserve, promote and celebrate the diverse food cultures of Texas," has announced an event that should help make sense of all the fancy words in its ambitious mission statement. Tickets for the group's first symposium in Galveston go on sal ... More >>

Texas Oyster Season is Here. Time to be Greedy.

Brion Randall Won't Be Stealing Locals' Hard-Earned Millions For the Next 15 Years

Brion Randall​Based upon the handful of comments that just popped up on this 4-month-old Unfair Park item, some of his victims already know and have been celebrating the news: Brion Randall -- the Plano man who, from 2004 through '09, screwed some 30 folks out of around $6 million -- is going to f ... More >>

Whitt's End: 6.18.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Watching Thursday night's NBA Finals Game 7, it struck me just how far your Dallas Mavericks are from a championship. Lakers 83, Celtics 79 was a rugged, violent scrum on every possession. I' ... More >>

Plano Man to Plead Guilty to Bilking Local Investors Out of More Than $6 Million

​So says a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office that just landed in the in-box. His name is Brion Gary Randall, and according to the feds, on May 18 the 48-year-old will plead guilty in Dallas federal court to running a handful of scams between 2004 and last July that were eventually unea ... More >>

Appetite For Instruction: Marinara Cream Sauce

​Recipe Demonstrated by Anthony Russo of Russo's New York Coal Fired Italian Kitchen We all have big dreams. Some people want to win a Nobel Prize, others want to swim with sharks at the Great Barrier Reef and most just want to retire at the age of 30. Mine is simple, I want to move to Italy, dr ... More >>

Remember the Alamo, But Forget That Whole Kennedy Thing, Please

American Blues: Dallas-Born Rocky Hill, Dusty's Older Brother, Died on Friday

Rocky HillA longtime music publicist pal sends the sad news: Dallas-born Rocky Hill -- Dusty's big brother and one hellacious blues guitarist forever proud of his self-proclaimed rep as "The Anti-Clapton" -- died on Friday, with few details other than that available at present. All I've found online ... More >>

American Blues: Dallas-Born Rocky Hill, Dusty's Older Brother, Died on Friday

Rocky HillA longtime music publicist pal sends the sad news: Dallas-born Rocky Hill -- Dusty's big brother and one hellacious blues guitarist forever proud of his self-proclaimed rep as "The Anti-Clapton" -- died on Friday, with few details other than that available at present. All I've found onlin ... More >>

Last Night at SMU, Andrés Duany Took the Wrecking Ball to "The North Dallas Special"

Alexa SchirtzingerAndrés Duany pointed the way to Dallas's walkable future on the SMU campus last night.Mayor Tom Leppert's introduction of renowned urban planner and architect Andrés Duany last night at the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom on the SMU campus was less a please-welcome than a s ... More >>

Money for Nothing|Attention Must Be Paid|Free at Last|Welcome Home, George

Coot Trick

Oldest Living Graduate didn't do enough homework; Drowsy Chaperone wakes up the smile muscles at Fair Park Music Hall

American Toxic

The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim

The Price is Right -- Very Right!

Pod People|Cheap Bastard|The Nice T.O.|Fields of Green|Mr. *|Trinity Foundation

A Renowned Dallas Jury Consultant Has That Lovin' Feeling for Phil Spector's Murder Trial

County Settles Suit With Inmate -- For Close to a Million Bucks

Hard Rock Still Rockin'. For Now.

Fed-up Feds

U.S. Justice Department investigators find horrid conditions at Dallas County's jail

Paying the Piper

Legal bills mount as the county defends its failed jail health systems

Power Lines

Jimmy Webb wrote one of the greatest songs ever. Just don't tell him that.

Preservationist off the Reservation

More Dead at the Jail

TB or Not TB, That is the County's Question

Cell Disease

Being sick in Dallas County's troubled jail can be a death sentence

If You Can't Argue the Facts...

Plus: Every Picture Tells a Story

A Welcome Experiment

Mission Giant makes art-rock that is equal parts spectacle and sound. Just don't call them Devo.

Give Peace and Peppers a Chance

Chili cooks score one for multilateralism

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Suck It

Mug down on mudbugs during Crawfest 2004

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Hope in Hell

Cameron Park, Texas, is the poorest town in the U.S.A. But its residents say life has never been better.

"Today, a Generation Died."

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

Sunken Island

Gozo gets shuttered up

Unfair Share

High-pressure sales tactics and promises of fabulous prizes make Dallas-based Silverleaf Resorts the champion of Texas time-shares, but dissatisfied customers say, "Buyer beware"

Blink

Art movement

The intentional tourist

Texas artist Frank X. Tolbert2 gives us a new look at the Old World

Put up a fight

With bands like these, who needs Austin anyway?

The color of money

Two artists prove what the stunning use of color can and can't do

Fly away, little jailbird

Reports of Steven Russell's death were greatly exaggerated, but they were enough to spring him from a Texas prison