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Dallas PD Honors Its Fallen on Facebook with Reminders of the City's Dangerous Past

Yesterday, the Dallas Police Department has blanketed its Facebook page with a portrait and brief biography of every officer killed in the line of duty over the past 121 years. The procession of 80 mostly young faces is a somber reminder of how dangerous a job policing is. A handful of the names ar ... More >>

The Bizarre Life and Troubling Death of DarkSide, the Dallas Rave Church That Never Was

For over a year, a registered "spiritual organization" was the hottest after-hours spot in Dallas. Then it all came crashing down.

As Texas' 500th Execution Approaches, Death Penalty Opponents Ramp Up Calls For Reform

On an August night in 1998, Douglas Feldman pulled his Harley up next to an 18-wheeler that had just cut him off on a highway in Plano. Feldman shot and killed the driver, Robert Everett, then paused on his way home to murder an Exxon tanker driver named Nicholas Velasquez. A week or so later, he ki ... More >>

Kimberly McCarthy, Lancaster Woman Convicted of Murdering Neighbor For Crack Money, Set to Die Jan. 29

It was a grisly scene Lancaster police found on July 22, 1997: Dorothy Booth, a 71-year-old retired psychology professor, stabbed to death on the floor of her dining room stabbed, her left ring finger severed from her hand. The evidence quickly led police to Kimberly McCarthy, Booth's next-door nei ... More >>

Mike Rawlings Wants to Shoot Southern Dallas With Bullets. Of Economic Development.

When I wrote yesterday about Mayor Mike backtracking from his backtrack on the Trinity Toll Road, I glossed over the real purpose of his visit to the Oak Cliff Chamber, which was to pitch his GrowSouth initiative. For the uninitiated, GrowSouth is the plan to revitalize southern Dallas, which Rawli ... More >>

As Dallas Boarding Homes Struggle, City Hall Sits on its Hands

Texas lawmakers gave cities the power to regulate homes for the mentally ill -- but so far, Dallas hasn't used it.

Mayor Mike Rawlings: "South Dallas Is Not a Charity Case. It's A Business Opportunity."

Photos by Anna Merlan​For months, Mayor Mike Rawlings has made it clear that he's got his eye on Southern Dallas. This afternoon, as promised, was the first of three public presentations he'll give on his Southern Dallas Economic Growth Plan, which played to a packed house of bigwigs at the So ... More >>

Sore Losers and Mind Spiders Among First Round Of Bands Announced For SXSW 2012

​Considering that pre-South by Southwest bash 35 Denton announced its first round of performers last week, I guess it makes sense, then, that the Austin fest would announce its own first round of performers this week -- and that their list is indeed larger than 35 Denton's list of 17 names, clocki ... More >>

The Inland Port Is Still Screwed. Score One for the Perots.

​I guess if you took a pickax and a fire hose to it, you could have dug out a little bit of the truth from this morning's City Hall briefing on the inland port, but you needed to have your tall rubber boots on. Before we wade into the bullshit, please allow me to tell you what's really going ... More >>

The Black Police Association vs. The Dallas Morning News (And a Few Others Too)

"Cocksucker?" "Asshole?" You're working for the wrong paper, Tanya.​The Black Police Association of Greater Dallas, which represents the area's black police officers, is waging a serious PR campaign against The Dallas Morning News and journalist Tanya Eiserer, a longtime criminal justice reporter ... More >>

Carter High, Once a State Champ, Turns to An Old Friend to Help Win Back the Neighborhood

Patrick Williams, Class of '91, was a running back on Carter's state-title team.​Football coaches, even the high school kind, can be angry men. This is especially true early in the season, when their lives, from their standpoint anyway, are just one big shit salad of false starts and bad reads ... More >>

Key to the NBA Finals: Dallas' Own Chris Boshketball

Chris Bosh: A beloved hero deteriorates into part of a three-headed villain ​Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James are the two best active NBA players without a ring. Jason Terry has a tattoo of the Larry O'Brien trophy on his right arm. Dwyane Wade is trying to depress Dallas. Again. Jason K ... More >>

Mayor Dwaine Caraway still doesn't get how he abused the system.

They're From the Business Community and Here to Help You. Yeah, Right.

​The Reverend Gerald Britt Jr. of Central Dallas Ministries (now called "CitySquare" for some unfathomable reason) had an op-ed in The Dallas Morning News yesterday that made my heart ache. Britt, a good guy deeply dedicated to southern Dallas, recited all the recent population numbers that s ... More >>

Fired DISD Officer Sues District, Claims He Was Terminated Because He's An Iraq War Veteran

​Speaking of federal lawsuits ...Here's another one I found Tuesday morning, filed Monday in the U.S. Northern District of Texas Dallas Division: Rodney Bennett v. Dallas Independent School District.In the complaint, which you'll find in full on the other side, Bennett says that between 2001 and t ... More >>

This Christmas, All this Family Wants is for NFL Running Back Ricky Williams to Know He's Got A Home in Dallas

Photos by Patrick MichelsRoss Williams, right, has been running right along with Ricky Williams through his football career, trying to convince the 1998 Heisman Trophy winner that he's his real father. Ross's brother Ray Williams, his daughters Patricia and Vernice and the rest of his family have jo ... More >>

Dallas International Film Festival Serves Up a Tasty Helping of Flicks From the Lone Star State

Natinsky Shares Caraway's Enthusiasm for Memorial as Money-Maker

Ron Natinsky​So, then, back to Memorial Auditorium for a moment. But only because council member Ron Natinsky shares with Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway the hope that sooner than later, the city can and will give the venerable arena a makeover and begin marketing it as an alternative to the Nokia Th ... More >>

Owner of Lake Cliff District Home Can't Blame City, Bank For Calling In the Bulldozers

500 E. 6th Street in the Lake Cliff Historic District​Henry Spruiell does not disagree with the city of Dallas: The house he owns at 500 E. 6th Street in the Lake Cliff Historic District does indeed pose what's known as an "imminent threat to public health and safety" and probably should be torn d ... More >>

Civility is the Last Thing the DISD Board Needs

Dorrough’s Smash Hit “Ice Cream Paint Job” Is Pushing Dallas Hip-Hop Past Its Instructional Dance Song Phase

Yeah, But What If Baseball Went To The European Football Table?

I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we're all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August ... September ... maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top ... More >>

Rock With You

Richard Allen brings jobs to the black community.That makes him racist?

February 25, 1989: Where Were You?

We celebrated God's Coach with a Devil's Night. Was that wrong?I was at Valley Ranch, a 24-year-old piss-ant reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Only a couple years removed from punching holes in my college apartment walls when the Dallas Cowboys lost, I was totally unprepared and ... More >>

Psst, Dallas, You Lookin' For Fillies? Slots? Both?

This must have been what Ed Sullivan felt like when he introduced a guy named Elvis Presley. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the one, the only ... Jim ... Schuuuuuuutze! ... O.K., this is my first time over here on Sportatorium, and I'm feeling kind of insecure. I'm a City Hall ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Loco Gringos Vivir Para Siempre en Nuestros Corazones

For more photos, album art and show posters, check out our slideshow here.Dallas bands are usually judged within the context of their efforts and accomplishments. Some spend stupid money on hair care products and aspire to a label deal; other bands actually rehearse and wanna make an important art ... More >>

Port Whine: Delays on Inland Port Part of Familiar Pattern

On a clear day, you can see why development in southern Dallas has been screwed forever

What's Commish John Wiley Price's Real Beef With the Inland Port?

What a Drag

Not long ago a rising All-Star, Josh Howard is suddenly regressing professionally and personally

Mayor Tom: Man, What An Amazing Year! And It's Gonna Get Awesomer.

Old-Time Religion and New Americans

Hispanic evangelical leaders join to push for compassionate immigration reform

The Hunted

Minutemen train their sights on a new target: Hispanic day laborers

Boshketball

Dallas hoops legend comes home to spread good in the 'hood

Going Down in Downtown

The One That Got Away

In a Lancaster gym, Greg Hatley is raising boxing champions, but the best fighter he ever saw isn't among them

This Teardown Town

South Dallas' history is in danger of being demolished, so why are so few protecting it?

Rude Boy

The life and times of John Soldier

Ted's Excellent Adventure

City manager fires chief, finds self in hell

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Bad News, Good News

The Texas-bred Amber Plan for missing kids works and is spreading

He's Got the Hook

Carl Savering, actor and repo man

Dissed robes

On the prosecution-biased Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, justice isn't blind. It's dumb.

Aural Sex

Holly Mullen meets Dunham and Miller, the radio jocks whose sports talk show leaves Dallas women panting for more

Last in the Class

Why nobody will erase the board at Wilmer-Hutchins, the worst-run school district in Texas

Events for the week

Letters

In The Name Of The Father

Sheryl Lew Sterrett, daughter of a Dallas political icon, charts her own New Age course

Talking trash

Ferris' landfill stays in limbo--while state regulators fight among themselves