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Google Seems to Be Snooping Around Lower Greenville on a Super-Secret Mapping Project (Updated)

On Monday afternoon, two homeowners in the Lower Greenville West Neighborhood Association grew alarmed when they spotted a team of a half dozen or so guys who were snapping pictures and trespassing on private property. The homeowners were suspicious and called 911. Later, they sent out an email blas ... More >>

Congressman Louis Gohmert Really Has No Clue How Gmail Works

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act was first passed in 1986, when the thought of storing an electronic message online for any length of time must have seemed absurd. So Congress, in its foresight, gave law enforcement incredibly easy access to emails older than 180 days old. No search warrant ... More >>

Google Admits to Snooping on Texans' Unprotected Wireless Networks

Turns out, those camera-mounted compact cars Google dispatches to prowl America's streets haven't just been collecting the panoramic Street View images that help make its maps feature so incredibly useful. Nope. As the search giant admitted yesterday, those cars have been gathering email addresses, ... More >>

The Dallas Observer Has a New App

Today marks the arrival of our new and improved Dallas Observer app, your pocket guide to the city and direct line to our always fair-and-balanced take on things. It features: - Event listings and concert calendars searchable by date, artist, neighborhood, venue or genre - Restaurant listings searc ... More >>

The Dallas Observer Has a New App

Today marks the arrival of our new and improved Dallas Observer app, your pocket guide to the city and direct line to our always fair-and-balanced take on things. It features: - Event listings and concert calendars searchable by date, artist, neighborhood, venue or genre - Restaurant listings searc ... More >>

The Dallas Observer Has a New App

Today marks the arrival of our new and improved Dallas Observer app, your pocket guide to the city and direct line to our always fair-and-balanced take on things. It features: - Event listings and concert calendars searchable by date, artist, neighborhood, venue or genre - Restaurant listings searc ... More >>

How Bleacher Report Rules the World

Step 1: Be terrible. Step 2: Count the money. Repeat both steps as necessary.

SOPA is Dead, but the Copyright Debate Rages On

And it's happening where it belongs: online.

Meet DISD's Other Mike Miles, The 9-Year-Old Basketball Prodigy

I have a Google Alert set up for Mike Miles, e.g. DISD's new superintendent, so that whenever his name is mentioned on the Interwebs, I get an email. The past couple of weeks, though, the inbox has been flooded not with news of the Marine-turned-school reformer but with a 9-year-old who, I am told, ... More >>

Join Chef Tre Wilcox of Marquee Grill as He Hosts an Online Cooking Demonstration at 1pm

Today Chef Tre Wilcox of Marquee Grill is participating in a Google Hangout, which is a program designed by Zagat that brings foodies behind the scenes with top chefs around the country. Like this video of Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food in San Francisco and New York. At 1 pm, you can log on ... More >>

The Five Most Memorable Cheap-Ass Meals the Cheap Bastard Ate in 2011

Every week I try to find a lunch in Dallas that's less than ten bucks. (Of course, empty parking lots, barred windows, cash only and misspelled menu items are always a plus.) Not every meal I discover is delicious, but they're all memorable. Here were my five most memorable Cheap Bastard meals from ... More >>

If Google Swallows Open Table Too, Yelp Could Yelp Its Last Yelp

​Back in September, when we wrote about Google taking a bite out of Zagat, we wondered if the Internet giant had plans to compete with Yelp. Google already allows users to give restaurants a star rating and to offer their thoughts on recent dining experiences. Zagat's database, containing prof ... More >>

On The Pros and Cons of Google's Music Beta...

​Google, that seemingly all-encompassing entity, has its fingerprints all over just about every digital realm of our lives. And, in 2011, in addition to entering the social networking fray, the technology giant is also using the fast-evolving concept of cloud computing -- storing data on extern ... More >>

Will Google Be Able To Match Facebook and Myspace With Its Music Promotion Offerings (Or Lack Thereof)?

​In case you haven't heard, Google is trying to take down the Facebook empire with its new Google social networking site. (Seriously, though, if you haven't heard, it's really time to get out from under that rock). Because social networking sites have become an integral part of music promotion, ... More >>

Poster Of The Week: Big J, Ocelot, Tommy Lee Jonez & Fizzy Dino Pop, Friday March 12 at The Basement at Plush

​Maybe I'm still high on the release of the new TRON Legacy trailer earlier this week, but our Poster Of The Week definitely conjures images of Light Cycles and Recognizers in my head.

You Haven't Seen Today's High-Speed Car Chase Till You've Seen It With Shep Smith

Gawker points it out, and Google proves it: FOX News's Shep Smith never saw a high-speed car chase he didn't love to narrate. So, Dallas-Garland-Richardson, it our turn! I assume you have nine minutes to spare. Sure you do.

Short Orders: Fuel City

Fuel City801 S. Industrial Blvd.214-426-0011The filling stations/taco stand has quite a following.In the wee hours of just about any weekend, people spill from bars and somehow find themselves here--uncomfortably close to Lew Sterrett, swaying in long lines, awaiting a little hangover prevention. In ... More >>

Bargain Hunting at the City Store

Some of the amazing, ahem, finds at the City StoreI'm on a tight budget -- but, right, who isn't? So when my boyfriend suggested we check out the inventory of police-confiscated property for sale at a nearby warehouse, I jumped at the opportunity.The City Store, located off Stemmons Freeway on Irvin ... More >>

Given The Show At Dada Tonight, We'd Be Remiss Not To Post This Sketch...

If you don't go to tonight's Tapes 'N Tapes show, Clell Tickle might sneak into your apartment tomorrow to give you a Columbian necktie. I mean, he probably won't, but taking that chance is your call.

Nuts, Southwest

Southwest Airlines's stock is taking a beating today -- down $1.90 at last check, to $7.91, following an analyst's decision to downgrade the stock to "sell" from "underperform." That follows yesterday's announcement that, for the second quarter in a row, the Dallas-based carrier posted a loss -- eve ... More >>

And So It Begins

A traffic heads-up for tomorrow: Unless you're planning on protesting George W. Bush's move to the '229, you may want to avoid Mockingbird Lane at N. Central Expressway between the hours of 4 and 7 p.m. That's when Code Pink of Greater Dallas is planning on celebrating Inauguration Day by holding a ... More >>

See, This is How You Change a Street Name in Dallas: Very Quietly.

First, you pick something short and out of the way -- like, oh, I dunno, Shepherd Road, near Forest Lane and Greenville Avenue. Then you name it for a pastor who, in 2007, got a post office named for him, courtesy Pete Sessions' bill two years earlier. (It's for either that Robert E. Price or the pr ... More >>

This Morning, Lone Star to Demand City Return its License to Tow

The things you learn by peeking at the Permit and License Appeal Board meeting agenda set for this morning's hoedown. For instance, Jose Rodriguez will be down at City Hall this morning appealing the city's decision to deny him a late-hours dance-hall permit for the San Luis Night Club, which he wan ... More >>

Beginning Wednesday at Circuit City on Central, Everything Must Go

Where Wall Street Meets Main Street

In Downtown, There's a Bunch of Empty History Waiting to Be Developed

RA Sushi in Plano

The attitude's served up raw, but the execution is half-baked

In the Wee Small Hours, the Lower Greenville 7-Eleven the Site of a Stick-Up

This Just In: I’m Officially Old

Wait, What? The Metro Diner's Closing? You're Kidding Me. That Sucks.

No, No, I Said, "Matzo Balls."

Newsweek Goes House-Hunting, So Laura Bush Doesn't Have To

Pleasant Grove Is About to Get Much More Pleasant For Shoppers

Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To The Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival

Modest 1960s-Era Apartment Complexes in Oak Cliff Sell for Millions

Google Dallas, Gone?

Wanna Own a Slice of Local History? Because the Katy Building's For Sale.

More On Wilco Not Playing The Cavern..

Life Just Ain't Fare

Dallas' Next Big Business Opportunity: Regional Hub for Meth Distribution

A Fancy New Life for Wedgewood Tower, the Stevens Park High-Rise

Pssst, Want an Old Library?

Uptown to Get More, Well, Uptown

The Nine Ways Sexually Oriented Businesses Can Lose Their Licences

Dallas Is On the Map, Baby!

Henderson-Belmont, You Are Loved

Throwing a DART at Google

Shoes On A Blog

The Harder They Fall

The WWE comes to the AAC

Crystal Balls