Long Beach (New York)

There's a Special Place in Dallas' Hip-Hop Heart for Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg's St. Patrick's Day Concert is Nearly Sold Out

Long Beach's finest will grace the stage at the Energy Square Parking Lot in two days, and he will not be alone. Fewer than 200 tickets remain for the show as of this writing. So if you'd like to see Snoop Dogg on St. Patrick's Day, hop to it. See also: -There's a Special Place in Dallas' Hip-Hop H ... More >>

How The Atomic Tanlines Went From Church Choir to Crawling Around in Broken Glass

The Atomic Tanlines received plenty of praise last year with their blend of punk, free jazz and soul. The Denton-based five-piece sat down with us at the Waffle House where they started to discuss their background in music. You can catch them this week at Le Bitch Manor on Thursday and at Dada on Sa ... More >>

The Inland Port Can Still Win the Race for Jobs If We Don't Let Fixers Screw Us

Delta Spirit's Matt Vasquez: "I Will Always Want God To Exist. I Want To Believe There's a Place of Infinite Mercy."

Brooklyn via Southern California band Delta Spirit have certainly spread their wings over the course of three studio albums. Managing to go from the lo-fi, alt-country stylings of their 2008 debut, Ode to Sunshine, to their new, shimmering, self-titled offering while still sounding very much like th ... More >>

Why can't Anglos Pronounce Spanish Words?

And why the love for UT?

In the Boy Scouts' Police-in-Training Program, a History of Abuse

Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually assaulted by the cops they hoped to emulate.

Top Chef: Texas Starts November 2 With Two Austin Chefs, None From Dallas and ... Pee-Wee!

"Mecca lecca high mecca tiny bit more salt, please."​Finally time to see how your tax dollars were put to work by Bravo and its Magical Elves. As you'll recall, we reported back in July that Governor Rick Perry's office, that bastion of small government, spent $400,000 to promote the state's ... More >>

Avi Buffalo

Friday, August 5, at Dada

If July 4th is Apple Day, What Do We Call September 16?

Searching for the Original King Ranch
Casserole Recipe

Campbell's version of King Ranch chicken​Do you remember eating King Ranch casserole in the 1950s? Can you prove it? The Food Timeline, the ambitious and exhaustive online reference tool maintained by reference librarian Lynne Olver, recently tackled the classic Texan dish and couldn't find a ... More >>

On L.A.'s Skid Row, a generational war over how to teach the American children of illegal immigrants

Holy Death!? Inside the Pleasant Grove Factory Pouring Mystical Candles for the World's Altars

Photos by Brandon Thibodeaux​Of all the didn't-quite-make-it-into-the-story facts I discovered while researching the botánica biz for this week's cover story on Chango Botánica in Oak Cliff, one of the most interesting discoveries was that many of the candles sold on the shelves of area botánic ... More >>

The Killer of His Daughter's Mother: A Cunning American Boy Becomes a Mexican Cartel Soldier and East L.A. Executioner

Angela Hunt Says She's Going to Ask Mary Suhm to "Investigate" 311 iPhone App

Engadget​Speaking of the city and technological advancements involving one's talking box ...This morning on her ever-active Web site, Angela Hunt wonders why in the heck Dallas doesn't have an iPhone app that lets residents "snap photos of nuisances and code violations and send them off to city ha ... More >>

Hunt and Ponch, All That and a Bag of CHiPs

Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt and California Highway Patrol Officer Francis Llewellyn "Ponch" Poncherello​Much thanks to Kevin in the comments down below for spotting this gem amongst Angela Hunt's photos from her trip to Long Beach. Michael who? Tom wha?

Cops Out: National Fraternal Order of Police Votes Not to Hold 2013 Convention in Dallas

Better luck next time, convention center hotel.​Angela Hunt just called with the bad news: The National Fraternal Order of Police voted not to hold their 2013 convention in Dallas after all. Says Hunt, who returned from Long Beach, California -- site of this year's confab -- at 1 this morning, the ... More >>

Tomorrow We'll Find Out if Dallas Will Host Mammoth Police Convention in 2013

​Speaking of the police and Twitter ...Back in January, Angela Hunt first acknowledged that she was working to lure the National Fraternal Order of Police to town for its national convention in Dallas in 2013. Then, she was giving FOP reps a tour of Dallas -- from DPD HQ to Gilley's, which, grante ... More >>

Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow are Funny People

Over The Weekend: Constantines and Crystal Antlers at Sons of Hermann Hall

Constantines, Crystal AntlersSons of Hermann HallJune 5, 2006Better than: Any show I've been to this year.In front of about 100 people, Canada's Constantines played as if its audience at Sons of Hermann Hall on Friday night numbered in the thousands. Full of fire and vigor, the unkempt quartet made ... More >>

Constantines, Crystal Antlers

Friday, June 5, at Sons of Hermann Hall 

The Verdict

Jesse Chaddock found guilty in Deep Ellum beating

Porn Pawns

The kings of smut escape while the feds cook up small fry like former Dallas cop Garry Ragsdale

Holy Roller

Arizona Juanita Dranes died in obscurity, but she is remembered now

Bobby Love

De Niro--no surprise--is the reason to like City by the Sea

Heart of Mold

Eastwood's got an infusion of new Blood, but is his ticker up to it?

Out & About

Snoop Dogg

Up Beats

Platinum records reward workaholic Cypress Hill producer Muggs

Drive Away

Living in Los Angeles, At the Drive-In does Texas proud

Good Vibrations

Disputed Reform Party candidate John Hagelin thinks he can change the world with the power of positive thinking. Does that make him nuts?

I, somebody

Three decades later, the Residents are still anonymous -- and still butchering sacred cows

Got a Woody

With Mermaid Avenue, Billy Bragg and Wilco turn a myth into a man

The Jones Boys

How a troupe of button-down Dallas lawyers breathed life into Jones vs. Clinton and found themselves the nation's most unlikely feminist heroes

The (W)right to Fly

How little Legend Airlines beat mammoth American at its own game

Hat's off

Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer left--and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

The Ice Man

Diamond broker Bryan Wilson Taylor is so smooth, people say he can charm the horns off a billy goat. If he tries to sell you anything, run.

Picture Imperfect

A struggling arts foundation gives kids a chance to see South Dallas through a camera lens

College rock

UFOFU brings 'alternative' to ETSU and wins the talent show