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  • News

    December 15, 2011

    College Football's Fleecing of American Universities

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

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    Obama's War on Weed

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

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Following Arrests, Feds Outline Vast Cocaine, Heroin Ring Operating Out of Dallas, Fort Worth

    ​The U.S. Attorney's Office sends word: Federal authorities have rounded up dozens suspected of trafficking heroin and cocaine from Dallas to Atlanta to Baltimore to Philadelphia to Nashville and all points in between. Those arrested yesterday come from all over, including Dallas and Fort Worth an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Greg Koch Preaches To The Choir To Kick Off Ale Week

    Jesse HugheyStone Brewing Co. founder Greg Koch, in a typically reflective and subdued moment.​Playing up his audience's Lone Star state of mind, Stone Brewing Co. founder Greg Koch conjured a fire-and-brimstone Baptist evangelizer while doing what can only be described as preaching to the choir a ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 11, 2010

    At WaterTower and Amphibian Stage, two plays about drama teachers deserve big fat A's.

    Jesse HugheyStone Brewing Co. founder Greg Koch, in a typically reflective and subdued moment.​Playing up his audience's Lone Star state of mind, Stone Brewing Co. founder Greg Koch conjured a fire-and-brimstone Baptist evangelizer while doing what can only be described as preaching to the choir a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    April 15, 2010

    The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    December 10, 2009

    Like Many Before and Most To Follow, Tiger Woods Dramatically Joins The Human Race

    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 >>

  • Music

    July 23, 2009

    David Allan Coe, The O's

    Thursday, July 23, at House of Blues

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    I Had a Fake I.D. Once. Bought Beer With It. These Folks? A Little Busier With Theirs.

    Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who's 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart -- five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake d ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 1, 2009

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

    Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who's 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart -- five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2008

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

    Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who's 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart -- five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2008

    Where’s Greggo, You Ask?

    Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who's 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart -- five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2008

    Fort Worth's Kenneth Copeland to Senator Grassley: Bring It.

    Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who's 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart -- five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2007

    Phony Car Accidents Will Land You Real Prison Time

    Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who's 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart -- five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2007

    God's Favorites

    Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who's 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart -- five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2006

    Entertainment Collaborative, Collapsed

    Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who's 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart -- five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2006

    Restoration Hard Way

    Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who's 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart -- five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake d ... More >>

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    A Taxing Situation

    Sixty-six-year-old Levander Carlton McLean and his wife Rita Murphy McLean, who's 21 years his junior, are gonna be spending a little time apart -- five years or so, give or take, thanks to U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, who yesterday sentenced the Garland couple to federal prison for using fake d ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 3, 2005

    Get Hitched

    Gifts not required for Tony n' Tina's Wedding

  • Calendar

    April 29, 2004

    This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

    Gifts not required for Tony n' Tina's Wedding

  • News

    February 26, 2004

    After the Gold Rush

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

  • News

    January 9, 2003

    Sisters in Crime

    Female authors find a lucrative trade in Texas lawlessness

  • News

    June 6, 2002

    Out

    Virginia McGuire takes wing from her troubled nonprofit

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Friend Indeed

    Tony Villegas lends a hand and a voice to needy Latinos

  • Music

    May 2, 2002

    Pick It Up

    [DARYL], Slowride supporting sorta new records

  • News

    May 3, 2001

    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.

  • News

    December 14, 2000

    Casual Day Casualties

    Do clothes make the lawyer? One Dallas judge thinks so.

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Love's Labor Lost

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

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    Big Brother does Dallas

    Jim Schutze unmasks the Orwellian Dallas Plan Inc.

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    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

  • News

    January 28, 1999

    Odd Man Out

    Dallas-raised Terry Southern wrote Easy Rider, hung with the Beatles, and influenced a generation. But he died penniless, and now his son must pay off Terry's debts--and restore his father's legacy.

  • News

    July 23, 1998

    Buzz

    Dallas-raised Terry Southern wrote Easy Rider, hung with the Beatles, and influenced a generation. But he died penniless, and now his son must pay off Terry's debts--and restore his father's legacy.

  • Dining

    April 9, 1998

    Custer's grand stand

    Chef Danielle Custer pushes the culinary envelope with Laurels

  • Dining

    April 10, 1997

    Hot Dish

    Chef Danielle Custer pushes the culinary envelope with Laurels

  • News

    April 3, 1997

    Feeling the Burn

    Unpaid Taxes, missing money, and a bitter business divorce threaten the empire of fitness guru Larry North

  • Film

    April 3, 1997

    Joe Bob Briggs

    Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

  • News

    October 10, 1996

    Video downs

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

  • Music

    March 28, 1996

    Out Here

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

  • Calendar

    February 22, 1996

    Events for the week

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

  • News

    February 1, 1996

    Blue-collar blue bloods

    Phil Gramm and the R's cozy up to the average working guy

  • News

    June 15, 1995

    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

  • Music

    May 4, 1995

    Roll over, Chuck Berry

    In rock and roll, 'legend' is another word for 'forgotten'

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