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  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Did Marc Veasey Call a Civil Rights Icon Senile? Domingo Garcia Says Yes.

    There are 11 candidates in the crowded Democratic primary for the new congressional district spanning from Oak Cliff to Fort Worth, but the race is quickly sinking into a political pissing match involving just two as the May 29 primary approaches. Marc Veasey, a state representative from Fort Wort ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    A Cowboys' GM Other Than Jerry Jones? Never Ever Never.

    ​Your Dallas Cowboys will someday get a new quarterback and will sooner rather than later be gifted with a different head coach, but Jerry Jones is and always will be the franchise's general manager. Not surprising at all - he's said it before, repeatedly - but today it just got pun ... More >>

  • Film

    October 1, 2009

    Attn: Wall Street. Michael Moore is a Marxist (but he's still selling the same old shtick in his Capitalism: A Love Story).

    ​Your Dallas Cowboys will someday get a new quarterback and will sooner rather than later be gifted with a different head coach, but Jerry Jones is and always will be the franchise's general manager. Not surprising at all - he's said it before, repeatedly - but today it just got pun ... More >>

  • News

    September 10, 2009

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

    ​Your Dallas Cowboys will someday get a new quarterback and will sooner rather than later be gifted with a different head coach, but Jerry Jones is and always will be the franchise's general manager. Not surprising at all - he's said it before, repeatedly - but today it just got pun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    Why Just Hitch a Ride on a DART Bus?

    ​Didn't wind up with one of those Dallas Fire-Rescue pumper trucks up for auction last month, which is just as well -- wouldn't have had room for one of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses that went up for grabs late yesterday on my favorite everything-must-go Web site. Really, it just makes more ... More >>

  • News

    June 4, 2009

    Texas Rangers Have Given Their Fans Something to Cheer About, Entering June With The Second Best Record in Baseball.

    ​Didn't wind up with one of those Dallas Fire-Rescue pumper trucks up for auction last month, which is just as well -- wouldn't have had room for one of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses that went up for grabs late yesterday on my favorite everything-must-go Web site. Really, it just makes more ... More >>

  • Music

    March 26, 2009

    U2

    No Line on the Horizon (Interscope)

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    As General Motors Tries to Move Cars Off the Lot, It Turns to One Local Saturn Dealer

    Saturn of North Texas managing partner Jim Smith in one of two G.M. national ad spotsJim Smith's been a hard man to track down this a.m. -- though, seeing as how he divides his time between his three Saturn dealerships (in Irving, Lewisville and Plano), that's completely understandable. (And, as a f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Scenes from the Dallas Auto Show

    Daniel DaughertyHey Chrysler, lookin' good!Just in time for the recession, the Dallas Auto Show revs its engines till Sunday, filling the Dallas Convention Center with a bunch of cars that nobody will ever buy. But that won't stop us from staring, glassy-eyed, like children with the JC Penney Christ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    SMU Economics Prof Ravi Batra Says You Need a Bailout, Not Your Bank

    After the jump, SMU professor of economics and prophet Ravi Batra's five-point plan for fixing the U.S.'s busted economy. No doubt, the sixth point of that plan involves writing books about the busted economy, then sending out press releases promoting one of those books exactly two years after its p ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 4, 2008

    Pyramid Room: As fun as a Vacation in Nebraska

    After the jump, SMU professor of economics and prophet Ravi Batra's five-point plan for fixing the U.S.'s busted economy. No doubt, the sixth point of that plan involves writing books about the busted economy, then sending out press releases promoting one of those books exactly two years after its p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    For Now, At Least, General Motors to Keep on Truckin' in Arlington

    WikiMapia The bossmen for the Big Three are having one hell of a time getting Congress to bail 'em out, and General Motors' stock is down 5.5 percent today to $2.72 -- or about 80 cents more than A.H. Belo, which has taken an inexplicable nosedive since the opening bell. But some good news, at la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2008

    GM's CEO Wagoner Insists GM Ain't Going Nowhere. But Where's the Beat?

    WikiMapia The bossmen for the Big Three are having one hell of a time getting Congress to bail 'em out, and General Motors' stock is down 5.5 percent today to $2.72 -- or about 80 cents more than A.H. Belo, which has taken an inexplicable nosedive since the opening bell. But some good news, at la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2008

    GM CEO Rick Wagoner's Visit to Dallas in July Just Got Much More Interesting

    WikiMapia The bossmen for the Big Three are having one hell of a time getting Congress to bail 'em out, and General Motors' stock is down 5.5 percent today to $2.72 -- or about 80 cents more than A.H. Belo, which has taken an inexplicable nosedive since the opening bell. But some good news, at la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2008

    House of Blues’ Cambridge Room Now a Garage

    WikiMapia The bossmen for the Big Three are having one hell of a time getting Congress to bail 'em out, and General Motors' stock is down 5.5 percent today to $2.72 -- or about 80 cents more than A.H. Belo, which has taken an inexplicable nosedive since the opening bell. But some good news, at la ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 6, 2008

    Murder at the Howard Johnson's Serves Up Flavorful Fare

    Also: Collin College kicks up heels with Li'l Abner and unfunny Nipples at Hub

  • 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.

  • News

    August 2, 2007

    Captain Casual

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

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2007

    The Case of the Purloined Playbill Page

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

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2006

    Texas Film Industry Spends Money to Make Money

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

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    ¡Ask a Mexican!

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

  • Dining

    December 29, 2005

    Is Screwing Hip?

    We twist open 2005 for a nip. Is this a sign of things to come?

  • News

    November 10, 2005

    The Human Race

    If you like NASCAR... you might be a redneck

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2005

    Deep-Fried Fun

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

  • Culture

    August 11, 2005

    Mod God In the Details

    Robert Bechtle finds a universe of order in car doors, roof lines and lawn chairs

  • 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

  • News

    March 24, 2005

    Give Peace and Peppers a Chance

    Chili cooks score one for multilateralism

  • News

    August 19, 2004

    More Bushwhacking

    Plus: Attack and Counterattack; Who Ya Callin’ Geek?

  • News

    May 6, 2004

    Dogtown

    Tailing downtown Dallas' pack of pampered canines

  • Film

    December 25, 2003

    House of Pain

    It's Kingsley vs. Connelly in a heart-wrenching real estate battle

  • News

    June 19, 2003

    Letters

    It's Kingsley vs. Connelly in a heart-wrenching real estate battle

  • Dining

    April 17, 2003

    Camp Ernie

    Do the time warp at Ernie's of Dallas

  • News

    April 11, 2002

    Whistling Dixie

    The South's mythical Mafia finds a home in Elmore Leonard's imagination--and new novel

  • Music

    November 16, 2000

    He Got Rhythm

    Ken Burns wants you to know why Jazz is America's music

  • News

    August 10, 2000

    Letters

    Where Did Our PLUR Go?; Just Shoot Him; Laughs for White Guys; Gone to Seed; New Ground

  • News

    July 20, 2000

    Highwaymen

    San Antonio conservatives and a professional road warrior try to hijack a DART rail election

  • Culture

    May 25, 2000

    Inside the soapbox

    Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

  • Dining

    December 9, 1999

    Lane straddling

    Is Maguire's Regional Cuisine plain vanilla or provocative adventure?

  • Dining

    January 21, 1999

    Oldie but goodie

    Lawry's The Prime Rib: an old wrinkle ahead of its time

  • 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 27, 1998

    Bugged By the Millennium

    A computer glitch has some Dallasites predicting an apocalyptic meltdown. They may not be that crazy.

  • Music

    August 13, 1998

    Fake the money and run

    Steve Miller learned everything he knows about music while living in Dallas--but has he forgotten it all?

  • Culture

    April 16, 1998

    Big strides

    Michelle Mullins trains winning horses. Oh, yeah--and she's a woman.

  • Music

    May 22, 1997

    Keeping up with the Joneses

    Dallas blues history according to two who lived it

  • 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.

  • Film

    August 31, 1995

    Valley of the dolls

    To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar is a plastic pleasure

  • 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

  • News

    March 9, 1995

    Dumb and dumber

    The Nation of Nitwits rolls along with the Republican Revolution

  • News

    March 2, 1995

    Rough road ahead

    NAFTA road warriors fight it out for federal funding

  • News

    February 16, 1995

    Pickup Games

    How a giant lawsuit against General Motors could leave lawyers with millions - and Texas truck owners breathing fumes

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