Jerry Springer

Someone's Gonna Get Decked in Fight Over Paying for Upkeep of Klyde Warren Park

Um, Mr. Grant? Moment of your time? I ask only one thing. If at all possible, can you get the kid out of this? You are the justifiably proud leader of the effort that brought us our wonderful new deck park over Woodall Rodgers Freeway at the north end of downtown, named for a child whose identity ... More >>

Cop Fired For Posting About Her "Jerry Springer-Style" Brawl On Facebook Files An Ethics Complaint Against DPD

"That's right," Cat Lafitte wrote in an email to the Observer about a month ago. "I'm the idiot Facebook cop." If you don't remember Cat Lafitte's name, you may remember her actions: She was one of three police officers fired in June 2011 for violating department policy. Lafitte's offenses, accordi ... More >>

What Does It Take to Get Fired From the Dallas PD? Let's Go to the List of the Dismissed.

​Yet again, the Dallas Police Department sends an email saying there's a press release on Facebook -- so many hoops, but so worth it. The department says Chief David Brown's fired three officers, including Senior Corporal Cat Lafitte, otherwise known as the artist who took to Facebook in February ... More >>

High-Intensity Hide-Away

The Original King of Wrap

Local Music 'Mericans: Chad Lovell Helped Spur Course of Empire; Now He's Working Hard To Make Your Band Sound Better and Get Heard.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily musicians, but more the behind-the-scenes people who make the scene move.Chad Lovell​Chad Lovell played drums for Course of Empire. Along with fellow percussionist MIke ... More >>

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band's Bigger Damn Miracles

Finally, Springer On Tour

Survivor: Nicaragua. The Coach as Champion: Week 2

​I hate you, Jimmy Johnson. Not for winning two Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys and then up and leaving in a huff, but for luring me into watching reality TV. I really despise reality TV. And, I admit, I'm really hooked on Survivor: Nicaragua. On CBS' hit show they call Johnson "Coach" ... More >>

Stirred up by political opportunism, a progressive Oak Cliff neighborhood tries to keep out the homeless.

Cast Away

RTC Stirs Up A Catty Brew

Lease This Trailer Of Dreams

Weekend Roundup: SonsStock, Rob Hunt and a Fight (No, Really!)

Jenni and the Hi Lifers at Sons of Hermann Hall's SonsStock on Saturday, August 15. This video is 40 seconds of stage and two minutes of a tour of Sons. Kinda makes you feel like you were there in all that tie-dye majesty. And, uh, Jenni: Singing folk music does make you a folk singer. Just sayin'. ... More >>

Dude Food: Jimmy John's

Jimmy John'smultiple locationsDude Factor: 9, or Jerry Springer (paid for sex with a check), on a scale of 1 (Eliot Spitzer, resigned in shame after press conference) to 10 (Charles Barkley, returned triumphantly to TNT and T-Mobile endorsements)I'm gonna level with you bros. Unlike my Dude Food co ... More >>

Last Night in Austin, a Sneak Peek at Bruno's Bad Behavior in Carrollton Last Summer

Sacha Baron Cohen as BrunoBack in June, Michael Granberry wrote in The Dallas Morning News that "at one of those big office parks on International Parkway" in Carrollton, "a whole bunch of people got really mad" and stormed out of the taping of a television show. His 23-year-old son related t ... More >>

Songs of the Double-wide

See trailer trash in McKinney

She Dances On

Sara Evans ditches the tube and goes live

Move Over Myron Floren

Flagpole Runna

America's Got Desperation

Without a Hitch

Dyed, fried and double-wide, Trailer Park Musical rolls dirty; Jukebox rocks

In Cars

The Autorama has D-listers and dubs

Belly Up, Baby

SMU Basketball! Live! In Austin?

Lots of Baggage

Crapped in the Closet

Today's most popular radio serial drama is thanks to R. Kelly... and some guy named Rufus

Car Talk

Relive your childhood at the Metroplex Collectors' Show

Nasty Girl

In this Little Black Book you'll find a lot of mean people

He Talk Funny

David Sedaris is an American in Paris

Mind Games

George Clooney impressively toys with the twisted delusions of a game-show producer

Best Seafood Restaurant

9 Fish, Asian Fusion Sushi and Robata Bar

Crush and Burn

When a headmistress falls for an ex-student, it's loathing at first sight

Asking for It

Storytelling continues Solondz's bluster of sex, rage and insanity

Men From g.o.d.

Why are these Dallas high-tech hotshots chucking the action, gore and riches of the computer gaming world to hawk a genteel digital magazine?

From Russia, with Love

Just $25,000 gets you a bundle of hot Russian babes from one Dallas matchmaking firm. What more could a rich American geek ever ask for?

Father Fixation

John Hartley takes fostering new artists at Gallery 414 into the third dimension

Flash Fame

A supermodel flies high and falls fast in Arcand's witty, stylish Stardom

Eat at Joe's

Buca di Beppo

Green light

Human Traffic is the rave movie that Doug Liman's Go should have been

Analyze this

From his seat on Oprah, Dallas' Dr. Phil McGraw reigns as the king of quick fixes for troubled relationships. But what about his own?

Strange bedfellows

OK, Mr. Spaceman is a little Springer-esque

Your cheatin' heart...

...will land you on TV, if local attorney Bobby Goldstein and his partner can talk you into it

Short takes

Love for sale

The relentlessly earnest Playing by Heart talks itself to death

Big glossies and big platters

Maggiano's is more photo finish than finished food

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