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Yeah, That Looks Nothing Like Billy Crudup

Why, Billy Crudup Is a Golden God...and a Hillcrest Panther

All's Quiet on the Northwestern Front

They've Done Gone Batty at Hillcrest

Lost and found

Poor, brown, and inner-city. These Adamson High School kids weren't supposed to make it. They did anyway.

The making of an activist

Poor, brown, and inner-city. These Adamson High School kids weren't supposed to make it. They did anyway.

Follow the Money

Poor, brown, and inner-city. These Adamson High School kids weren't supposed to make it. They did anyway.

Dallas, Yet Again, Amuses the British

The UK Guardian has an oh-those-crazy-Yanks piece about locals spending $20 on those "Welcome Home, George and Laura" signs. Better still is the accompanying artwork by the great Nan Coulter -- a homemade banner from "the Maloufs," among the eight photos included in the sidebar slideshow (or, as I l ... More >>

Letters

The UK Guardian has an oh-those-crazy-Yanks piece about locals spending $20 on those "Welcome Home, George and Laura" signs. Better still is the accompanying artwork by the great Nan Coulter -- a homemade banner from "the Maloufs," among the eight photos included in the sidebar slideshow (or, as I l ... More >>

Master stroke

The UK Guardian has an oh-those-crazy-Yanks piece about locals spending $20 on those "Welcome Home, George and Laura" signs. Better still is the accompanying artwork by the great Nan Coulter -- a homemade banner from "the Maloufs," among the eight photos included in the sidebar slideshow (or, as I l ... More >>

DISD In the Hole

Teachers get axed and parents fret as Dallas' school leaders scramble to cover a budget hole

Yo Soy el Army

Uncle Sam wants you--especially if you're Latino

Narrow Escape

Plus: Havard Pleads Guilty

Paper Trail

Plus: Old Hand; When Fanboys Dream

The Unnatural

Jamey Newberg's a major-league hit with his minor-league reports

Crazy White Mother

From fake IDs to guns, Ecstasy and GHB, Doug Havard was one-stop shopping for Dallas' spoiled rich kids

Not So Special

DISD's special education program is anything but, say parents and state officials, and it too often abandons the children who need attention most

Public defenders

A surprising number of parents are shunning the 'burbs, pulling their kids out of private schools, and embracing DISD

The ghost of Tom Landry

In 1970, Pat Toomay was scared he'd get drafted by Vince Lombardi. Something worse happened -- he ended up playing for the Dallas Cowboys. Years later, he'd realize what damage that wrought.

Teacher-Turned-Author Questions How Dallas Landed Two Schools at Top of Newsweek List

Newsweek has yet again released its list of the top 1,500 public high schools in the U.S. -- and Dallas, with six on the list, has dropped one from the '08 scorecard: poor ol' Hillcrest High School, which last year came in at No. 547, dang. The School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell T ... More >>

For Reel, How Did We Ever Forget About Dennis Quaid's Shot-at-SMU '78 Sexcapade?

​When last we discussed the Best Movies Ever Made in Dallas, this one somehow missed the list: 1978's Seniors, a college sex romp filmed on the SMU campus starring Dennis Quaid and a topless Priscilla Barnes. It was on DVD for a while, but seems to be out of print at the moment -- damn it. Blessed ... More >>

And Now ... Introducing ... Your Dallas Mavericks! At the AAC's Open-Mike Night.

If this picture were at all legible, you'd see Donnie Nelson sitting at the table where wanna-be Humble Billys took their best shots yesterday.​So, yeah, I was only kidding, far as you know, when I mentioned that, oh, maybe I'd try out for The Voice of The American Airlines Center. As you're no do ... More >>

Spend a Few Minutes With Hillcrest High School Grad (and 24's) Glenn Morshower

Danny HurleyGlenn Morshower in a photo the great Danny Hurley grabbed at the Sci-Fi Expo in Richardson back in April. "I didn't realize I had so many freckles," says the actor of the picture.​My dad came by the office yesterday -- not to see me, of course, but to meet his favorite actor, Glenn Mor ... More >>

Adamson High School Alums Are Fighting DISD to Preserve the School Building and Their Bond With Its Students

Danny HurleyGlenn Morshower in a photo the great Danny Hurley grabbed at the Sci-Fi Expo in Richardson back in April. "I didn't realize I had so many freckles," says the actor of the picture.​My dad came by the office yesterday -- not to see me, of course, but to meet his favorite actor, Glenn Mor ... More >>