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Country Divas Ashley Monroe and Kacey Musgraves Have a Need for Weed

This week the Golden, Texas native Kacey Musgraves finally releases her eagerly-awaited debut album, Same Trailer, Different Park. Indeed, it's fitting that she's from a town named Golden, as the new album is but the most recent example of some serious Solid Country Gold that's come from the younger ... More >>

Stacey Hargraves' Mary Kay Job Didn't Pay Well, So He Became a Terrible Bank Robber

Stacey Hargraves was pulling in $300 per week from his job in the sanitation department at Mary Kay, but it never seemed to stretch far enough to support his wife, children and his propensity to gamble and go to sporting events. And so, according to the FBI, he walked into the Comerica Bank on Illi ... More >>

The Strange Case of Jeff Baron, Domain-Squatting Web Pioneer Turned Legal Crusader

On November 9 at a downtown Dallas law office, some 153,000 Internet domain names hit the auction block. The winning bidder was an entity known as Trans, Ltd., which put down $5.2 million and scooped up the names over the objections of their previous owner, Ondova, LLC. That auction never should ha ... More >>

DPD Responded to a Colorful Palette of Crimes This Weekend, Including Lots of Stolen Meat

You might have noticed that there was a marathon this weekend, and that two Cowboys were caught up in a deadly car accident before an emotional win on Sunday. You may also have heard that it snowed. There's probably a reason you didn't hear about the stuff below, culled from the weekend's Dallas PD ... More >>

Yes, Mary Kay Does Have Its Own Private Police Force

A couple years back I spotted spotting a black SUV with tinted windows and, strangely, "Mary Kay Protective Services" emblazoned on the side. Mary Kay, I found out, does have its own private security company, with officers who carry guns and everything. What I never figured out was why Mary Kay ha ... More >>

New Culture Editor Seeking Dallas for Serious Relationship

Dearest Dallas, I've been watching you for quite some time. And if you don't mind me sayin', you look good. Real good. I like a city with an air of mystery; where every neighborhood mashes up its own definition of "culture." You've got it in spades. It's reflected in your curvacious architecture ... More >>

What's Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett Most Concerned About? Let's Find Out.

​Late yesterday I got a call back from Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett, for whom I'd left a message about Irving and the North Texas Municipal Water District's need to buy water from the city. We set up a time to chat this morning, and just got through visiting for a little while abou ... More >>

Leonys Martin's Long Ride to Center

The Rangers' newest prospect fled communism in Cuba for center field in Frisco. He won't be there for long.

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

And The Winner Is...

​OK, so I should have had this thing posted half an hour ago.But, you see, I just finished a long conversation with Jesse "Hophead" Hughey on the relative value of doing beer flights in a crowded pub. Before that I was involved in a discussion about rye whiskey. Then our receptionist--I wasn't ha ... More >>

Mary Kay Did Discover the Earth Was Pink

​Friend of Unfair Park The Big Guy just shot us an e-mail with the subject header "Mary Kay > Christopher Columbus." Also contained within his missive: a link to this Associated Press story about the brewing battle over State Board of Education's new social studies curriculum standards, for whi ... More >>

Prepare To Be Amazed As Mind Reader David Magee Freaks Out Dallas Cowboys and Other Local Sports Celebs With His Mental Skills

Buzz Reviews the News of 2008: Yes. It Was All Bad.

Sex clubs in the 'burbs, teacher layoffs in the district, black holes in the commissioners court—Buzz makes perfect sense of 2008

Happy Birthday! Sportatorium Turns 6 (Months, That Is)

Clearing the Air

Former County Judge Margaret Keliher keeps trying to blow away the smoke over pollution plans

Lily Tomlin Talks Jenny the Elephant, Dallas City Council and Ross Perot Jr.

Life Without Debt Leaves Jimmy Phipps Owing Society

Life After DNA Exoneration

After 27 years in prison, DNA exoneree Charles Chatman tries to pick up the pieces and catch up with a world that has left him behind

A Good Mary Kay Joke, If Nothing Else

Mary Kay's House for Sale. Must Like Pink. And the "Pink Truth."

Running on Fumes

You've got to have balls to sell BioPerformance's hot product--mothballs

Over the Rump

Why doesn't anyone go to the West End?

We Hate Your Guts

What a disturbing new lawsuit says about the county jail

Cosmetic Change

Women, children and chiefs of staff first

A New Texas Jam

Crossroads Guitar Festival celebrates six-strings and the men who make them famous

Jerry-rigged

Jones' stadium tax is in for one rough fight

Letters

Letters

Think Pink

How Mary Kay got its groove back

Facing the Music

Inventor, musician and self-professed man of God, Al Petty says he hit on the perfect moneymaking scheme. His bright idea could cost him 1,200 years behind bars.

On the Rocks

Geode's menu hits a few bumps

SNAFU

Buzz looks back on 2001 and proves once again that the boy just ain't normal

Bistral Cursed

McKinney Avenue is in the grips of a gustatory curse

Dubya, We Knew You When...

With a homeboy headed for the White House, a handful of his Dallas pals have hopes of making their mark on Washington

Prisoners of Love

The InnerChange Freedom Initiative says it can rehabilitate Texas prison inmates through God--a conservative evangelical Christian God, to be more precise

Buzz

Welcome to our world; Service with a smile; Working for a living

Holiday Howl

Last dance

In Dallas' cantinas, where the company of pretty young meseras is doled out by the drink, a killer lurks

It's the details, stupid

Candidate Bob Stimson claims his opponent's shoddy bookkeeping is a sneaky way to campaign at taxpayer expense

Bugged By the Millennium

A computer glitch has some Dallasites predicting an apocalyptic meltdown. They may not be that crazy.

Busting big shoes

Revamped Seventeen Seventeen may overfill its considerable footwear inheritance

Swiss Misses

A tempest in a teacup over azaleas erupts into a class war in Dallas' Swiss Avenue Historic District

Men and meat

Fogo de Chao's herd of beef-toting gauchos brings home the range

Buzz

Power Houses

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

Gut punches

Two entries in the short film anthology "Short Stuff" are harrowingly effective

Another view

What City Hall isn't willing to hear about the new arena

Rushes

Idol worship

In the 1950s and '60s, Tony Zoppi wrote about -- and rode with -- the stars