Hurst

The Feds Indicted a Fort Worth Dry Cleaner After Finding His Guns, Meth and Fake CIA ID

On October 2 at 5 a.m., a delivery driver spotted a wrecked Chevrolet Silverado behind the Mayflower Place shopping center in Hurst. When police arrived to inspect the vehicle, they spotted two gun cases that contained a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol and a Hawk Industries 12-gauge shotgun. That ... More >>

The Hurst Cop Who Told a Teen to "Move and F-ing Die" Thought This Advice Was "Helpful"

Late last week the Hurst Police Department announced that officer Disraeli Arnold, who delivered a flying knee during the arrest 17-year-old Andrew Rodriguez for a trespassing warrant, would be "suspended indefinitely," which the police chief has said basically means "fired." The reason for Arnold' ... More >>

Burn It All Down

Buzz looks back on 2012 before the memories go where they belong: up in smoke.

Hurst Teen Did Not Enjoy Being Kneed in Head By Enraged Cop

You'll remember Andrew Rodriguez as the 17-year-old who learned the hard way what Hurst police officer Disraeli Arnold's knee feels like when it strikes the back of one's head. The video of that encounter, and Arnold's expletive-laced threats ("Move and fucking' die."), went viral, embarrassing the ... More >>

A Day in the Life of a Doc's Records Clerk

Adventures In The Vinyl Trade: Doc's Records' Dave Howard

Every so often, we get to wondering what people in the local music community do all day. So, we asked them. Today, Ken Shimamoto checks in with Doc's Records employee Dave Howard, and learn a little about the life of a record store clerk in 2012. I grew up in record stores: from the musty, dusty s ... More >>

I Fucking Love Girl Scout Cookies

It's Girl Scout Cookie Time, bitches! I heard them say it on the radio, so it must be true. And it is! If you go to the Girl Scout cookies website, you can type in your ZIP code and they will tell you exactly how many minutes and miles you are away from shoving two sleeves of Thin Mints into your fa ... More >>

The Little Golden Ticket

Dr Pepper Thefts Are Probably a Local Job, Says One Cargo Theft Expert

​If police have any new leads in that statewide run of Dr Pepper truck thefts, they're not saying much -- days of phone messages left with Fort Worth PD spokesmen and detectives have gone unanswered. (As if they've got more important things to do.)I was, however, able to reach Sherman Police spoke ... More >>

Whitt's End: 4.8.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *So Nuggets coach George Karl wants some of the Mavs, huh? "If we had to pick and choose, we would probably say 55 percent Dallas and 45 percent Oklahoma City," he says of his preferred ... More >>

Hornblower

The Island One

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Complete Elliott Smith Covers Collection

​Every now and then I check in on Hurst's Jessica Peters to see how her Elliott Smith doc is coming. It would appear her film about the singer-songwriter, who lived here from the time he was 5 to 13, remains a work-in-progress. Fingers crossed she gets it done sooner than later, as we've already h ... More >>

Richardson Theatre Centre And Onstage in Bedford Present More Jewish Comedy Than You Can Shake A Shiksa At

Raves for Dallas-Based Rave Theater Chain

​Our pal Allison V. Smith has a rather nice photo in this morning's Los Angeles Times: a portrait of Thomas W. Stephenson Jr., whose Rave Motion Pictures is on the fast-track to becoming the fifth-largest movie-theater chain in the U.S. once Rave's acquisition of 35 theaters from Sumner Redstone's ... More >>

Pocket Sandwich Theatre's Fangs For The Memories Revives A Biting Comedy; Artisan's Swing! Falls Flat

Peace On Earth and Blah-Blah-Blah

What’s So Appealing About Gorgeous Women in their Underwear Tackling Each Other? If You Have to Ask, You Won't Want To See the Lingerie Football League's Dallas Desire.

Whitt's End: 9.11.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *As for August's PPM radio ratings - surprise! - 1310 AM The Ticket continues to dominate. Among men 25-54, The Ticket remains No. 1 in the market leading every hour from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. ... More >>

Very Big Deal In America

The Nuns in the Runs of Two Local Performances--Hail Mary and Nunsense--Are Praying It for Laughs

Seven Months After Local Soldier Was Murdered in Iraq, Details Begin to Emerge

Sgt. Wesley DurbinOn September 14, 26-year-old Army Sgt. Wesley Durbin of Hurst was killed at a small patrol base south of Baghdad when he and another soldier, 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson of Florida, were gunned down by a fellow soldier. As The Dallas Morning News noted in September, Durbin ... More >>

On the Prowl

Cyndi Targosz talks older women, younger men

Fairy Princess

Cinderella has a ball in Hurst

Penelope Pan

See a legendary ladyboy in Hurst

Big Boat

Noah sings in Hurst

And Another Thing

Messing About

Granada Theater Fire

C'mon Get Happy

Even Buzz finds something to smile about in 2006

She's With the Band

Segway Into Dallas

Run to the Theater

Wheel Inventing

A new round of Grapevine restaurants

Think Big

Get Out

Be Frank

Paul's monkey business

Big Top

Summer's three-ring fling

Wing Nut

Tired of covering the action, our sportswriter shoots for gluttonous fame

Memory Problem

Plans for a 9-11 memorial for American Airlines workers hit snags

Autograph Hound

Buy some music memorabilia and help out a good cause

The Dead Zone

Thanks to TV, crime scene investigating is the new hot profession, but Max Courtney knows it's more science than art

Rusty's Pity Party

Plus: Havard...Again

The X marks the spot

Street Beat and local store owner make nice

Scene, heard

Conspiracy theories; Bella Union strikes; a Wreck of a Room; X marks the spot

Scene, heard

The Rev. is a Fun-Guy; Floor 13 is still downunder; Bedwetter has dried up; Pimpadelic are Southern Devils; Plus, much, much more

Free KittyBoo

Brandon Boyer's Denton label offers pure pop pleasure, seven inches at a time

Come on feel the Noyze

Local group gets a gospel sound that's contemporary yet sanctified

Soul searcher

Rick Metcalf helps cops who fell in the good fight get to the other side

Buzz