Montana

Michael Cimino Revisits His Notorious Flop Heaven’s Gate, Which Maybe Was a Masterpiece All Along

A North Texas Lawmaker Wants to Exempt "Made in Texas" Guns From Federal Law

According to statistics kept by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, there are several dozen licensed gun manufacturers in the state of Texas. Most of those are small-scale operations, individuals or mom-and-pop-style shops that produce one or two pistols or rifles in a year. A ... More >>

Warren Jackson Hearne Keeps on Dancing with Death

Warren Jackson Hearne Waits For God To Strike Him Down

Around one in the afternoon on a Thursday in July, young ladies and gentlemen walk into Dan's Silverleaf dressed elegantly in black suits and formal dresses. All of the windows and doors are covered by dark blankets and sheets. Avoiding the dancers, Warren Jackson Hearne walks into the bar fresh fr ... More >>

Thar She Blows: A Great Idea Rises at City Hall. Fetch the Harpoons.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. A huge idea turned up at City Hall yesterday. Huge. This is like a Blue whale beaching itself on the banks of the Trinity River. I'm afraid City Hall is going to send a crew out there and chop it into cat-food. We need to stop and take a big look at this ... More >>

Texas Rangers Set Opening Day Pitching Staff and Who the Heck is Mason Tobin?

Don't laugh, we'll actually see this jersey on the mound for the Rangers this season​A year ago today we were dissecting the depth of a Texas Rangers' pitching staff anchored by No. 1 and 2 starters named Scott Feldman and Rich Harden. Hopefully that perspective will soften the blow of ... More >>

How Do You Get Texas to OK Burying Other States' Radioactive Waste? If You're Harold Simmons, You Give Rick Perry Lots of Money.

Annette and Harold Simmons​A nuke-free Friend of Unfair Park forwards this morning this just-released add-em-up from Texans for Public Justice, which asks: Can anyone seriously believe Governor Rick Perry or his appointees on the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission are go ... More >>

Survivor: Nicaragua. The Coach as Champion. Week 1

​Once upon a time at a Valley Ranch far, far away, Jimmy Johnson drove his black Nissan 300Z into the parking lot and hurried into the building. He'd summoned a snotty-nosed, smart-ass reporter to his office, and I sat nervously in the foyer. After reading aloud my story in that da ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Double Cheese Potato Cakes At Red's Patio Grill

​As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can be eaten on the che ... More >>

Wired into New Orleans

David Simon’s new HBO series uses fiction to honor The Crescent City’s surreal, heart-breaking reality

Jeff Bridges, The Master Of Dudes, Shines As A Country Music Has-been In Crazy Heart. Will The Elusive Oscar Finally Be His?

Can an over-analytical control freak find inner peace— or at least get up in the morning—with help from an Indian life coach?

Bass Rig

The Gourds' Kevin Russell Doesn't Understand Why People Like His Music Or Why He Has To Share The Spotlight With The Rest Of His Band. (Only He's Not As Sensational About It.)

Tomorrow evening at The Granada Theater, The Gourds will perform its annual night-before-New Year's Eve concert in Dallas. Seems the band likes playing its hometown of Austin on December 31st, so we get the night before. Either way is fine with me because, even after fourteen years, The Gourds are s ... More >>

Polyphonic Spree's Holiday Extravaganza Haunted by Tripping Daisy

Even amidst the spectacle of the Polyphonic Spree's annual holiday extravaganza show, reminders of Tripping Daisy abound

Dallas Theater Center's Engrossing, Heretical Take on the Civil Rights Movement

The Good Negro bares roots of a movement; in Oak Cliff, a bumpy ride in Leonard's Car; Mummy dearest for tweens

Texas' Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop

Harvesting peyote is legal for only three people, and all of them live in Texas

The Flynn Flask Man

Paper Chase

A former INS agent goes into business to smoke out fake documents

FOUND Out

Parcells Guys

Can has-beens from a coach's glory years change the cowboys from mediocrites to monsters?

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

WakeUp Call

Denton springs back with a new all-day local music fest

Painful With Drawl

Just OK, Tulsa Lovechild sags under TV gimmicks; DTC's Glass Menagerie goes limp with Southern angst

Friday Night Lite

Far away from big cities, big stadiums and big offensive lines, six-man football keeps the game pure

Life in the Slow Lane

This Bush's summer home is a long way from Kennebunkport, but the folks in Crawford think that's fine

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The Year of Living Boringly

Here's to all the stuff that could have happened at Dallas City Hall

The Thin Line

Jurassic 5 knows the difference between hip-hop and rap

The Spirits Move Them

Followers of Cao Dai, a Vietnamese sect with frail tendrils in Dallas, say their time has come to spread the word. Just ask Victor Hugo.

Echoes of Hate

Bobby Frank Cherry is one of the most notorious racist killers in American history. To Tom Cherry, he was just "Dad."

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

Some things he did

Roxy Gordon was "one of the great outlaw artist misfits" and so much more

The eyes have it

Veteran cinematographer Conrad Hall will choose 'right' over 'special' any day

Groobees kind of love

The Groobees' Susan Gibson wrote the song that made the world sing. Well, at least fans of the Dixie Chicks.

Chill, brother

Or: Cuba Gooding Jr., you may now return your Academy Award

Blue movies

Exclusive: A never-before-published interview with Stanley Kubrick

Rubberneckin'

Leap-frogging through history with the Toadies

Dining in the rough

If Wilderness Grill's dismal food is the best nature has to offer, then thank God for civilization

Fatal Perfection

Don Crowder was obsessed with being the best--as a lawyer, family man, and friend. So why did he kill himself?

Lame horse

Redford's new film is like a horsey Bridges of Madison County--and it's way too long

The man who knew too much

Meet Arthur Griesacker--the mysterious fellow who allegedly masterminded the Republic of Texas' funny-money schemes but always seems to escape prosecution

Spirit of '96

Last year showed pop still has more than a ghost of a chance

Events for the week

Wish Woman

She hasn't got money or connections. But straight-shooting Linda Terrell is helping dying grownups live their dreams.

Quest for fire

The Dallas Museum of Natural History seeks a hot new concept to save itself from extinction

Letters

Fax Commandos

Why the press is chasing after the wrong right-wing cranks

Phallus idols

Nobody's Fool and Legends of the Fall peddle icons of masculinity

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