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Aggie Jokes: A&M Student Senate Looks Ready to Pass a Bigoted Anti-Gay Bill

Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. Awwww, man. Why Texas? Why must you always be the turd in the punch bowl of progress? Buzz is talking -- this time -- about Tex ... More >>

Sylvespa "Paw" Adams: Once Accused of Beating a Kid Over Drug Money, Now Popped for Running a Large Dallas Weed Operation

Agents of nearly a dozen federal and local law enforcement agencies busted a large drug ring this week, arresting a dozen people and seizing 600 marijuana plants and 25 pounds of hydroponic weed. The sweep -- conducted by Dallas PD, the Dallas County Sheriff's Office, Homeland Security and the IRS, ... More >>

Feds Say Denton Doctor Disciplined For Sexually Harrassing Patients Now Running a Pill Mill

In 2008, Denton police began fielding reports from women who complained that their physician, Dr. Ramon Cruz, was overstepping professional boundaries. One claimed Cruz had put his hand down the front of her pajama pants. Another alleged he had grabbed her from behind and put his hand under her shir ... More >>

Feds Charge Colleyville Pharmacist and Wife In Mammoth Tax Fraud Scheme [Updated]

Larry Lake lives comfortably in a red brick McMansion in Colleyville with his wife Kathy, enjoying the fruits of a handful of successful businesses he owns. He's a licensed pharmacist and co-owner of the Grapevine Drug Mart. On the side, he established VIP Finance, an auto-title loan business with b ... More >>

Gary Johnson, the Presidential Candidate Who 'Agrees With You 100 Percent,' Will Be in Dallas This Week

Pop quiz: Which presidential candidate, whose name will appear on the ballot in all 50 states, paid his way through college as a door-to-door handyman? Which one earned the nickname "Governor Veto" by rejecting more than 750 bills passed by his state's legislature? Which one competed in a re-enactme ... More >>

John Ellis Price, Founding President of UNT-Dallas, Will Step Down Next Year

The University of North Texas at Dallas has come along way since it was founded in 2000 as a 55-student extension of UNT's Denton campus. In 2007, it moved onto its permanent campus and three years later became a standalone institution that now boasts a shade over 2,000 students. Not long ago, it re ... More >>

College Football's Fleecing of American Universities

How insiders use the bowl system to loot the colleges that support it.

Reason No. 1,397 You Don't Give Your Social Security Number to a Customer Service Rep

​For eight years Youlanda Rochelle Wright worked for Radio Shack as a customer service rep in its Fort Worth call center. Day after day she fielded complaint after complaint about a defective this and a busted that and how do I return an oversized item and what do you mean my 30-day money-back gua ... More >>

Obama's War on Weed

In a strange about-face, the President tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees

Stone Imperial Russian Stout Original Vs. BELGO Anise Version

​Back in March, I shared my thoughts on the two versions of Stone Brewing Co. Old Guardian barleywine, as you'll recall. Part of the brewery's Odd Beers For Odd Years campaign, this year's "Odd Beers" are dubbed "BELGO" versions, tweaks on two Stone standbys using Belgian yeast. Finally, Ston ... More >>

Today in John Wiley Price

It's the "other expenses" that caught Channel 5's attention last night.​It's land! No, no, it's Kwanzaa Fest! No, silly, it's an art gallery owner at the South Side of Lamar! On the other side, some video and an IRS return we're entering into evidence as we begin Day Three of Hunh, I Wonder Why Th ... More >>

Realtor Eleanor Mowery Sheets Sentenced to One Year In Federal Prison Home Confinement

Eleanor Mowery Sheets and husband Nicky​And so the long, sordid story of high-tone Realtors Eleanor and Nicky Sheets comes to an end. Four months after Eleanor pleaded guilty to four counts of tax evasion, she was sentenced this morning by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney to a year in prison ... More >>

After Pleading Guilty to Tax Evasion, Realtor Nicky Sheets Gets 40 Months in Federal Prison

Eleanor Mowery Sheets and husband Nicky​The headline -- and the freshly baked press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office that follows -- says it all. U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle sentenced high-tone realtor John Nicholas Sheets -- married to one Eleanor Mowery Sheets, who copped to four co ... More >>

Porsches, Drugs and Money: A Look Into ICE Investigation of Drug-Running Used Car Lot

​U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Dallas County constables had been watching Star Auto Sales, a North Dallas used car dealer, for nearly 10 months before they made their move on February 18; bearing a search warrant, officers from both agencies flipped through the dealership's ... More >>

How Can Immigrant Students Score Fake Residency Papers?

Whitt's End: 4.16.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Not only should Dirk Nowitzki be on the first-team All-NBA squad and a legit MVP candidate, he'll be unstoppable against the Spurs. San Antonio has its nucleus back - Tim Duncan, Manu Ginob ... More >>

Six Months After La Familia Bust, Dallas Boss Pleads Guilty to Meth Trafficking

Kimberly ThorpeSome of the drugs and money seized by law-enforcement officials in the fall of 2009​We were there in October of last year, when the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the I.R.S., the U.S. Secret Service and Texas Air National Guard -- and every other law-enforcing acronym -- ... More >>

And You're All Invited to Meet Mayor Tom and Sarah Palin at the Fairmont!!

​So says the Friend of Unfair Park who sent us the link to the most astonishingly named Web site in the history of ever: Palin4Life.com. What you see above is the only thing on the Web site, which was created on March 8. And, ooof, tickets ain't cheap -- unless $75,000 for four's in your ballpark, ... More >>

High-Tone Dallas Realtor Nicky Sheets Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion

Eleanor Mowery Sheets and husband Nicky​This is really a D Magazine story, but since the U.S. Attorney's Office just sent word, well, what the hell: Nicky Sheets -- aka John Nicholas Sheets, aka Mr. Eleanor Mowery Sheets -- pleaded guilty today to one count of tax evasion in U.S. District Judge J ... More >>

Whitt's End: 2.19.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I'm setting the over/under on Tiger Woods saying the word "sorry" in this morning's sanitized statement at 4.5, and I'm taking the under. I'll also be shocked if he cries. At some point he will, b ... More >>

Interested in Owning a Piece of the Video Bar's Archives? Like, a Really, Really Big Piece.

Just some of the Video Bar-chives being auctioned off on Craigslist​A good Friend of Unfair Park sends word: Over on Craigslist, someone's trying to offload hundreds of old Video Bar videotapes for the low, low price of $1,000. That's quite the flashback for those of us who (barely, because we wer ... More >>

David Allan Coe, The O's

Thursday, July 23, at House of Blues

The Best of Dallas Theater in 2008—and a New Rule for Getting More Butts in the Seats

At Last, Harold Simmons Gets His Money's Worth From Ayers Ads

Where’s Greggo, You Ask?

Dueling Chefs

Phony Car Accidents Will Land You Real Prison Time

God's Favorites

Anchor, Man?

Ferrell doesn't quite ground this artificially whimsical comedy

Entertainment Collaborative, Collapsed

Restoration Hard Way

A Taxing Situation

Get Hitched

Gifts not required for Tony n' Tina's Wedding

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

After the Gold Rush

For some one-time dot-com rich kids, it's easy come, easier go

Out

Virginia McGuire takes wing from her troubled nonprofit

Friend Indeed

Tony Villegas lends a hand and a voice to needy Latinos

Locked In

Trinity Works says it helps poor people find housing and jobs. But an Observer investigation reveals questionable policies that do little except ensure its clients never leave.

Love's Labor Lost

Cleared last year of criminal charges, the oilman's former pal now wants cash

Big Brother does Dallas

Jim Schutze unmasks the Orwellian Dallas Plan Inc.

The Case of the Headless, Handless Corpse

A reporter's tip helped detectives identify a mutilated body dumped along the Trinity, but finding the man's name led to a deeper mystery -- the disappearance of atheist gadfly Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Buzz

Custer's grand stand

Chef Danielle Custer pushes the culinary envelope with Laurels

Letters

Hot Dish

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Video downs

Grand Prairie's horseless Lone Star Park offers the seedy side of the sport of kings

Out Here

Events for the week

Moncrief Family Values

A wealthy Fort Worth oil clan's court battle isn't just about millions. It's about pride. Miriam Rozen tells a tale of favored sons