Mansfield

Kenny Mills Expands His Smoky Empire with Chop House Steak and Seafood in Pantego

Chef Kenny Mills knows a thing or two about running a steakhouse. His resume includes The Capitol Grille, Sullivan's and Dallas Chop House. But a few years ago, Mills grew tired of the Dallas scene and took a chance on a burger joint in a pretty nondescript strip mall in central Arlington. He didn't ... More >>

Judge: No More Delays in Trial of University Park Woman Accused of Distributing Child Porn

Almost a year ago, Erika Perdue, a 41-year-old "socialite" from a tony University Park neighborhood, was arrested and indicted on charges of distributing lots and lots of child pornography. As we reported that July, she was released to a rehab center in Argyle two days after her arrest, but was boot ... More >>

The Dallas Morning News Keeps Promising More and Keeps Delivering More Boredom

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. This week, Buzz has a familiar villain in his sights. Oh, man, Buzz is so depissed©. No, that's not a typo. It's our own neologi ... More >>

Johnson County Sheriff's Deputy Says He Was Fired for Job-Induced PTSD

On a Sunday night in January 2010, Johnson County deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call on a rural road a couple of miles south of Mansfield. The husband, 33-year-old Joshua Adam Lewis, had gotten drunk and begun arguing with his wife and insulting her dead father. The argument escalate ... More >>

Anonymous' Barrett Brown is Mentally Fit to Stand Trial, a Prison Psychologist Has Decided

A lot has happened to Barrett Brown since heavily armed federal agents raided his girlfriend's Dallas apartment and threw him in jail: The Anonymous-affiliated hacktivist was indicted on charges of threatening an FBI agent via loopy YouTube rant, then doxing said agent by publishing his personal inf ... More >>

Ascension Coffee Opens, Monica Greene Says Goodbye to Monica's Nueva Cocina and More from December

Another busy month has come and gone and with it a handful of restaurants have opened. Read on for the full list and be sure to share tips about new and/or dead restaurants in the comments section below or at dish@dallasobserver.com. Openings: Ascension Coffee (1621 Oak Lawn Ave.): The new coffee ... More >>

Rigor Mortis and Ministry Guitarist Mike Scaccia Dead at 47

On December 23, thrash metal lost another legendary pioneer when Mike Scaccia, lead guitarist for Ministry and Rigor Mortis, died shortly after collapsing during a performance at the Rail Club for Rigor Mortis/Warbeast frontman Bruce Corbitt's 50th birthday celebration. Scaccia, who suffered from ... More >>

Chop House Burgers Announces Second Location, Plus Check the 12/12/12 Burger

Chef Kenny Mills of Chop House Burgers in Arlington (1700 W. Park Row Drive) is busy busy BIZ-EE! Last week we reported that he's expanding with a steak and seafood restaurant in Arlington. And today Mills signed a lease for a second Chop House Burgers, this one in Mansfield. See also: Don't Confu ... More >>

Faking Car Accidents Not A Great Business Model, Will Get You Sent To Prison, Fort Worth Family Learns

There must be easier ways to make a living than faking car accidents and submitting false insurance claims for those fake car accidents. It also sounds like a ton of work to set up fake chiropractic clinics to generate fraudulent medical records and bills to submit with those fake insurance claims. ... More >>

Anonymous' Barrett Brown Writes Letter from Prison, Claims the FBI Broke His Ribs

It's been almost two weeks since law enforcement swept into a Dallas apartment and arrested Barrett Brown, frontman for that merry band of hackers at Anonymous, for threatening an FBI agent on YouTube. Brown was taken briefly to Dallas County Jail before being released to the FBI and reportedly sent ... More >>

CNN Money Says McKinney is Country's Second Best Place to Live. Go Figure.

Earlier this morning on the Today Show, CNN Money released its list of "America's Best Places to Live." Dallas doesn't make the list, even though there are 100 places, but neither does any other metropolis because this is a list of small cities that "offer strong job opportunities, great schools, l ... More >>

Modern Mexican, Drunken Olympics and Dining In The Bubble: This Week in Dallas Dining

Wrapping up that work day and getting ready to head home watch the Olympics and do some drinking? Easy now. The gymnastics events are in full swing and Alice's instruction to drink every time you see a wedgie promises to intoxicate an entire planet. Before you pick up your shot glass, we have a week ... More >>

If You Illegally Downloaded the Girl-on-Girl Porn Flick 'Mommy and Me 2,' (You Know Who You Are), the Production Company is Coming For You

You know Combat Zone Corp. as the illustrious production company that brought you such unforgettable cinematic experiences as Bareback Mount Him, These Feet Were Made For Fucking and Chow My Puntang" All of them are motion pictures of the first order, I assure you, but all is not well in the company ... More >>

GAO: Shale-Gas States Have No Idea Where Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines Are

Speaking of urban drilling and gas releases in populated areas like Mansfield, the Government Accountability Office says the gathering pipelines used to collect natural gas from drill sites are unregulated, and their locations are often unknown. The GAO conducted site visits in, among other places, ... More >>

Further Proof That the Only Thing Standing Between Civilization and Chaos is a "Deal"

In the end, that free-for-all at the Mesquite Walmart may turn out to be The Video That Defined Black Friday 2011 'round these parts. There are, though, other contenders, as revealed in home movies dispatched from Big Boxes from Hurst to McKinney to Arlington to the intersection of Skillman and Abra ... More >>

Steven's Garden and Grill: It Will Grow On You

How does your garden grow? With a cheeseburger at this place.​Sundey McClendon occasionally goes searching for some of DFW's farthest-flung gems. Have a suggestion? Leave a comment and she may check it out. A while back I heard a tale of a restaurant run by a landscaper and a local celebrity ... More >>

Gas Drilling Task Force Begins Deliberations, Opts to Stick with Current Approval Process

Photo by Taryn WalkerThe task force toured a drill site this summer, getting an education before entering the deliberation process.​The city council-appointed gas drilling task force stopped listening to The Experts yesterday and got down to the business of discussing just what it'll suggest t ... More >>

Whitt's End: 7.22.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Dear NFL owners, you're a slimy lot. Signed, Everyone. Basically on Thursday the owners ratified a proposal, not an agreement. They made a deal with themselves. Then -- with darting eyes th ... More >>

Gardens Grow as Local Shoppers Turn to Co-Ops Instead of Corporations

​Driving through rural Mansfield, we pass by miles of green pastureland speckled with an array of trailers, big houses, small houses, pools, tanks, goats, horses and dogs. We're headed to the home of Elizabeth Preibe, who hosts a local food co-op called Life Through the Garden. Every two weeks ... More >>

Whitt's End: 7.15.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Derek Holland looked unusually sharp from the first pitch last night. Seattle's woeful offensively. I had a feeling, so I Tweetcalled for a no-hitter in the bottom of the 1st. Holland took ... More >>

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 >>

Good Friday: Eisley Returns To Dallas, Plus The Rest of This Weekend's Shows

Eisley plays Granada Theater on Saturday​It's not the strongest weekend we've seen here lately, but there are still some worthwhile shows to get out and see. Namely, Eisley, who'll perform at the Granada Theater along with their kid sister, Christie DuPree, and The Narrative. This will be their fi ... More >>

This Morning, Council Members Took First Look at Gas Drilling Task Force Hopefuls

Linda Koop​Last Friday, Robert offered a first look at some of the big names that had applied to sit on the city's gas drilling task force: Margaret Keliher, Royce West II, Betty Culbreath, the train-bedeviled Chico Grimes and more. This morning, Linda Koop and the handful of other members on the ... More >>

Local Law Enforcement To Talk Human Trafficking Tonight. And If You Can't Make It ...

Traffick911.com​Not up for driving out to Mansfield (Hi, Mom and Dad!) tonight in Friday-evening traffic to talk about children who are bought and sold into sexual slavery and will probably live an average of seven years before dying as a result of the danger and trauma of the industry? No? Not yo ... More >>

Dallas ISD Trustees Take A Look At Ways to Bring More Charter Schools Into the District

​A handful of Dallas Independent School District gatheredn the old board room at 3700 Ross this morning to poke at a question with big implications: How can the district get the most of its new partnerships charter schools, possibly even next school year? Born out of April's West Dallas "School Zo ... More >>

A View From The Judges Table: Night One of the Shiner Rising Star Semi-Finals

​Shiner Rising Star Competition: Semi-Finals, Night One.Hat Tricks, LewisvilleSeptember 23, 2010After eight weeks worth of first-round performances, and then last week's wild-card round, the semi-finals of the annual Shiner Rising Star contest, hosted by KHYI-95.3 FM The Range and Shiner Bock Beer ... More >>

A View From the Judges Table: Week Six of The Shiner Rising Star contest.

​Shiner Rising Star Competition: Week SixLa GrangeAugust 26, 2010For night six of the still ongoing first round of this year's Shiner Rising Star competition, hosted by KHYI-95.3 FM The Range, things reverted back to the local flavor that had been largely missing over the previous couple of weeks. ... More >>

95 Million Reasons Why Unfair Park Needs More Dallas Dinosaur News

Courtesy Karen CarrKaren Carr, a New Mexico artists who used to live in Dallas, offers this peek at what Aetodactylus halli might have looked like back in, ya know, the day.​Big breaking news in the world of paleontology today: Back in '06, Lance Hall, a member of the Dallas Paleontological Societ ... More >>

Recession Blues Got You Down? The Folks at Get Motivated! Have a Solution: Think Happy Thoughts.

First Look: Zaxby's

Somewhere in the back of a darkened warehouse, surrounded by half-eaten buckets of chicken, a cartoon sailor and a country colonel are quaking in their boots...and no, that's not one of those "don't ask, don't tell" scenarios. "Damn that Zaxby's," they're hissing between bites. "Damn them and thei ... More >>

Support The Draft...And The Arts

New Century Brewing president and CEO Rhonda Kallman, a Beer Wars subject and discussion panelist.A dozen theaters in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will be part of tonight's nationwide screening of Anat Baron's documentary Beer Wars, a David vs. Goliath tale about the struggles of independent craft bre ... More >>

More Photos from This Week's Cover Story, on a New Generation of U.S. Military Deserters in Canada

Ian WillmsArmy deserter Kim Rivera -- waiting for news on her stay of deportation -- rests while her husband Mario tends to their baby, Katie, in their Toronto apartment. This week's cover story in the paper version of Unfair Park profiles Mesquite's Kim Rivera and her fellow Iraq war deserters figh ... More >>

The Ghost and Miss Chicken

Are the spooks in the house or bats in the belfry?

Queen Maybe

Ever in search of a life, this girl finds an old one

All That Glitters

A WASP in bling mines comedy gold

Roll Out the Barrel

This cowgirl has a need... a need for speed (but not too fast)

"Dallas Rag" and Other Stomps

Papa 'Rita

Jimmy Buffett transcends the father-daughter gap

Forest City to Own Entire Metroplex

Dead Wrong

Rich Kids Behaving Badly

Nerdy, bitter and shod in fake Uggs, Andrea Grimes investigates the legend of the Park Cities Party

Death for a Killer

Plus: Off the List, Maybe

Family Plot

Rick and Suzanna Wamsley were strict with their children. Police say their son paid them back with murder.

The Dead Zone

Thanks to TV, crime scene investigating is the new hot profession, but Max Courtney knows it's more science than art

Run, Domingo, Run

Looks like Domingo Garcia will coming to a ballot near you.

Red, white, and slew

Snap, crackle, pop! It's the 4th.

Bucking Crazy

Want in on the dirt floor of rodeo's marquee event? A guy in Mansfield has your ride.

Night & Day

November 26 - December 2, 1998

Invisible Mansfield

When black and white histories collided in their small town, Phyllis Allen and fellow church members made sure Mansfield didn't white-wash the truth.

Love is a Killer

The brutal murder of Adrianne Jones has left Mansfield teens feeling dazed and betrayed