Hillary Clinton

It Seems the Dallas Police Department Has its Own Lowrider

Victor Lozada was a 19-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department when he was killed in a motorcycle crash while escorting then-presidential contender Hillary Clinton to a campaign rally in Oak Cliff on February 22, 2008. His death yielded a momentary pause to the hard-fought Democratic primary, a ... More >>

Texas AG Greg Abbott Warns Hillary Clinton to Keep European Election Monitors from Messing with Texas

On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, in a bit of international chest-pounding, sent a strongly worded letter to the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe threatening criminal charges if the group carried out a hinted-at plan to show up in Texas come November 6. ... More >>

Merle Haggard Tells It Like It Is

New Film Miss Representation Explains Why The Women's Movement Has Stagnated. See a Free Screening.

You've probably seen the photo (above) pinging around the Internet recently of the panel of old men making some pretty important decisions about women's health in the ongoing fracas about contraception. Here are five men sitting at the power table, while the women watch, waiting for a decision that ... More >>

Our Anaconda Don't Want None Unless It's Plush Art, Hun

Oh. My. God. Becky, look at this art. It's just so big and so small. It's just, like, opposites, like, a study in "differences in scale and color." < /valleygirl > A vocab word you may have missed on the GRE, "Dimorphism" is a biology term referring to dual variations within a species. There are ... More >>

Nude Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Statue's Sculptor Tells Us The Motivation For His Piece

"Justin and Selena as One."​The announcement yesterday from 46-year-old Connecticut-based sculptor Daniel Edwards -- that he'd created a (mostly) nude sculpture of teenage music superstars Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, and that it would soon be put on public display in an adult store right here ... More >>

Herrera's Mexican Café Opens New Location on Fitzhugh

Catherine Downes​The original Herrera's Mexican Café was located on Maple Avenue, right across the street from Observer HQ, where the lovable Grapevine Bar now resides. Amelie Herrera opened the restaurant in 1971, and it's been a popular spot for Tex-Mex in Dallas ever since, featured in a 1 ... More >>

Mixin' Up Phat Bleeds

On Whether To Bother With The New Hole

At DPD HQ Today, A Stop Along the 2,000-Mile Journey Across Texas to Honor Fallen Officers

Photos by Spike JohnsonAt DPD HQ today, a memorial for Senior Corporal Norm Smith included the presentation of a wreath to his wife, Lt. Regina Smith.​Not half an hour after David Brown was sworn in as Dallas's newest police chief at 3 p.m. sharp today, a caravan of police officers on bicycles rol ... More >>

No Need to Secede. Because, See, Texas is Already a Foreign Country.

Time magazine wonders this morning: "What's All That Secession Ruckus in Texas?" Um, Governor Rick Perry, maybe? And, natch, his very vocal support for House Concurrent Resolution No. 50, which, as we pointed out in February, states that the "81st Legislature of the State of Texas hereby claim[s] so ... More >>

Stories Of Misconduct

Every once in awhile I wonder just why some people are keen to lavish praise on restaurant owners. Yeah, I know--the Food Network and those in the media who promote the celebrity chef idea share a portion of the blame. But many of the folks who dine regularly simply don't wish to peer behind the cur ... More >>

Bi-Partisan Inspiration

Hillary Clinton and Kay Bailey Hutchison unite to inspire

Pete Sessions Doesn't Know Allen Stanford. Except That One Time, In Antigua ...

Pete SessionsOn Tuesday, just the feds were charging "Sir" Robert Allen Stanford with "massive, ongoing fraud" in Dallas federal court, a Friend of Unfair Park pointed out a report that Stanford had sponsored Senator John Cornyn's November 2004 $7,000 "fact-finding mission" to Antigua. Now, courtesy ... More >>

Gender On A Bun

Let your eyes bite into a Manwich

Is the Mexican Promised Land really in Arizona?

Hope to reclaim the American Southwest to fulfill Aztec prophecy? You must still be in college.

Bill Clinton Stops By Thomas Jefferson for Democratic Party Pep Rally

Motherhood for Dummies

Peel dishes tips at Barnes & Noble

Bush Bud Karen Hughes Now Working for Top Clinton Advisor Mark Penn

Left of the Dial: Liberal Chat Makes Its Return to Dallas Airwaves on July 1

Words of Wiz-dumb

Double Chuck

He's Osgood as he wants to be

Soon, Everyone in the Country Will Know the Ballad of Becky Miller

In Shine a Light, Seniors Scorsese and The Stones Together Again

More Than You'll Ever Need to Know About the 23rd Senatorial District's Convention This Saturday

That, Sir, Is Thinking Big

That's What Friends Is For

Dallas' Black and Brown, In Black and White This Morning

Back to the Future With Bill Clinton

Ron Kirk Tells CBS News He Suffers From "Bush/Clinton Fatigue."

Saturday's To-Do List: Clinton Rally, Followed By Many Pints of Guinness

Did Obama Throw a Town Hall Meeting or a Religious Revival?

Obama and Me

It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial

German Engineering

Is it March 5 Yet?

Our, Ahem, Supermodel Says Goodbye

Latino Vote Is No Slam Dunk for Hillary Clinton, Not in Texas

Clinton's Coming to Town. Not That One.

Northern State, Polyphonic Spree

Saturday, March 24, at Riprocks, Denton

Girls Gone Mild

Wasserstein's American Daughter soft-pedals feminism; interruptions cut short visit to A Small Planet

Man From Hope

Clinton comes calling at Nokia

It's the Chicks' "Time"

Zim Vs. Hag

How the two most polar songwriters of the '60s became the same man

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Truth Be Told

It's the docs that rock this year's USAFF schedule

Good Muck

You gotta know when to hold ’em

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Falling into The Gap

The chasm separating the haves and have-nots is getting wider

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