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Ted Cruz Takes It As A Compliment When You Call Him a Crazy Wacko Bird

They called him crazy. And "crazy-pants," and "unhinged," and, at times, a "gay-hating conspiracy theorist." But when you call freshman Tea Party-darling Senator Ted Cruz any of those names, just understand that whilst you are merely boring, petty glue, he is rubber. Proudly crazy rubber. At a sp ... More >>

Five Texas Takeaways from Election Night

Now that our election night hangovers have been slept off, we can now cut through the chatter and attempt to forecast what last night's election results mean to you, Dear Reader. Dallas County is really, really blue Republicans had a strong showing in local legislative races, easily fending off cha ... More >>

Shape-Shifting Mitt: From Blue Blood to Blue Collar. That's a Laugh.

I had a private little laugh and moment of startled disbelief while my wife and I were watching Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last night. Romney described his father as having started out in life as an apprentice "lath and plaster carpenter," a term so arcane ... More >>

We Now Know Jason Garrett is Not on Facebook. When Does the Season Start Again?

At some point last week, the Dallas Cowboys surpassed five million "likes" on Facebook. They're the first NFL franchise to hit the mark, which I suppose is worthy of a Tweet, or maybe a Facebook post. But during Garrett's daily press conference on Friday, Cowboys beat writers, apparently out of vap ... More >>

Spraying to Stop West Nile - Is It Safe?

How to Cut the Price of Higher Ed: Don't Pay It

So Teresa Sullivan, the president who didn't cut costs at the University of Virginia, got her job back anyway. Meanwhile making the rounds of newspaper op-ed pages is an essay by Jeff Selingo, editorial director of The Chronicle of Higher Education, saying the way to get college costs down is more ... More >>

Mike Miles Taps Teach for America's DFW Director as DISD's New Chief Talent Officer

Teach for America, the elite student-teacher pipeline founded by Highland Parker Wendy Kopp, is often tossed into the bucket with the rest of the tools in the reform movement's toolbox, from charter schools to performance-based pay and the like. For that, and for its place outside the labor movement ... More >>

Rick Perry's Not Always Big on Science, But He Did Use It To Win Some Elections

​Even Rick Perry doesn't hate science all the time. His uneasy relationship with evolution and global warming notwithstanding, the Man Beneath the Hair understands that sometimes all that brainy shit with the white coats and clipboards can actually benefit him. And that's exactly what happened in ... More >>

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Chris Cornell​Chris Cornell hasn't fallen off the map like most of his '90s grunge-rock counterparts -- he's actually done the opposite. His impressive work with Audioslave and recent Soundgarden reunion tours have kept him in the public eye. Hell, even his dud of an album, Scream, couldn't slow h ... More >>

The Battle Between Parkland and Dallas News Rages On In Missive From Hospital CEO

Ron Anderson​Last week, Dallas Morning News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman penned a piece for Harvard's Nieman Watchdog in which she explained the paper's yearlong investigation into the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital -- two heretofore "sacred c ... More >>

With Shifting Attitudes and a Burgeoning Medical Marijuana Movement, the Future Looks Rosy for Legalized Weed

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

Q&A: Justin Bua Brings "The DJ" And The Rest of His Iconic Work To Dallas

Justin Bua at 4th Wall Gallery.Even if the name Justin Bua doesn't ring a bell, chances are you've seen New York City-raised artist's work--most notably, his almost ever-present piece "The DJ." It's the image on which Bua made his name as a prominently hip-hop-centric artist, leading the way to his ... More >>

The Convention Center Hotel Vote is Not Just About a Building. It’s About a Mayor.

Dallas has trouble locating planet Earth

Eric from Cincinnati, the Kimbell's New Boss

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth officially announced this morning that it has appointed Eric McCauley Lee as its new director. Lee's moving to Fort Worth from Cincinnati, where he's been director of the Taft Museum of Art for only two years. Notes the Kimbell's release, which follows in full af ... More >>

The Top 10 Most Athletic Presidents in U.S. History

NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 5

Forty Years Ago, A Man Had a Plan for Downtown Dallas ...

Son to Schutze: In Your Facebook, Dad

Kiss Me, Katie

Fairy tales can come true. Why, they can even win you an award from Dallas' less-than-vigilant press club.

No Snowshoes Required

Ascolese returns to Texas

No Regrets

Tom Rush continues his battle against the singer-songwriter stereotype

Subdivided Conquers KERA Tonight

Don't Be a Fool. Stay in School. Or Not.

¡Ask a Mexican!

The Man and the Myth

All Gave Some

Sir! No Sir! recounts the GIs who refused to ride the killing machine

"Exuberantly shallow"

Suspension bridge of disbelief

Wild Child

For Quinn Eaker, a son of the radical "unschooling" movement, school's out forever

If You Can't Argue the Facts...

Plus: Every Picture Tells a Story

Passing Strange

Arthur Schott's points of view

Mr. Behind-the-Scene

Paradise Lost

Letting the Yanomamö speak for themselves

Catcher in the Sky

Spielberg, once more, is caught up in the thrill of the chase

All Right Now

In Mike Leigh's latest, love means never having to say you're sorry

Bad Trip

Harvard Man does LSD right but can't get us to care

Crossing Division Street

How do white people learn what to think about race? It's best not to think about it.

Two Soldiers

Look Back, Don't Look Back

Perpetual Movement

Trance music pioneer BT continues to trip the light fantastic in a never-ending search for sound

Sweet bird of youth

In Guinevere, she's a lot younger, but he's a lot dumber

Growing pains

After 11 albums, the Mr. T Experience is starting to abandon the punk-pop sound it pioneered

The New School

Everything I need to know about the modern American teen I learned by going to the movies

Wet kiss

Bizu needs to tighten its menu before Dallas will pucker up

Hey, world

On the Watts Prophets and the author's days in the Writers Workshop

Objection overruled

Travolta, Duvall, and filmmaker Steven Zaillian make a strong case for A Civil Action

Night & Day

September 24 - 30, 1998

Cold bore

It's big and loud, but this Peacemaker is still a dud

Events for the week

Grateful Dead

Holly Mullen explains how a massive paupers' graveyard barely survived greedy landowners and a stealth real-estate deal