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The Wake N' Bacon Alarm Clock Lets You Wake Up to the Smell of Bacon

You may have caught this via the tele on an episode of ABC's Shark Tank, but it absolutely deserves repeating. Because its bacon. And we can never have enough bacon coverage. Wake N' Bacon is a giant pig-head alarm clock that cooks bacon. With this bedside contraption, you can wake-up to the sult ... More >>

Texas Lawmakers Bravely Stand For Astronauts' Rights ... To Hawk Space Souvenirs

NASA was perturbed when Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell auctioned his checklist from the ill-fated mission through Dallas-based Heritage Auctions back in December. So perturbed, in fact, that NASA general counsel asked the auctioneer to halt the nearly $400,000 sale so that proof of ownership could b ... More >>

Here's One Way to Get People to Victory Park: Bring NASA's New Orion Spacecraft to Town

NASA​The space shuttle's dead; long live the Orion Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle. That's the future of space travel -- the capsule that'll take astronauts deep, deep into the final frontier ... at some point in the near to very distant future. First orbital test flight's in 2014, depending on how far ... More >>

The Right Stuff, But Whose Stuff? NASA, Astronauts Tussle Over Items Sold by Heritage.

​Back on November 30, our cross-the-street neighbors at Heritage Auctions dispatched a celebratory missive headlined: "Apollo 13 checklist brings $388,375 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas." (Note to self: Time to clean out in-box.) But if you check Heritage's website, the listing for the historic ar ... More >>

Top 100 Reasons Texas Is Twice as Awesome as Any Other State

Merritt MartinOh, you can damn well bet this is on the list.​By now most of you dear readers are well aware of the Gawker-produced list of the 50 Worst States In America. Gawker placed their home base at 50, and the Lone Star State at 13. Sure sure, our placement could be worse, but instead of ... More >>

There's Oddness at Oddfellows, But It's the Execution That Makes It Shine

The culinary diversions at this Bishop Arts restaurant are interesting -- as is the crowd -- but it's simplicity that makes it stand out.

See It And Sleep On It

Hunker Down for Hubble

Comptroller's Office Looks at NewSpace Industry in Texas at the End of the Shuttle Era

Via.Space entrepreneur Richard Garriott When the space shuttle Endeavour touches down in a little more than a week, NASA's shuttle program will come down to just one more mission: Atlantis's launch set for July. It's the moment private space industry's been gearing up for, when America's space prog ... More >>

Local Album Release News: Kirtland Re-Issues Jaffe EP, Bowling For Soup Preps Eleventh LP, Here Holy Spain Announces Sophomore Disc.

Jason JanikThese guys are naked for a reason: They have a new record coming soon.​ Some quick hits on the album release front to pass along this afternoon...

NASA Enlists Caddo Mills-Based Armadillo Aerospace For A Boost to Suborbital Space

Mark Graham​Local private spaceflight player Armadillo Aerospace has always had a complex relationship with NASA. Like other NewSpace teams, they pretty much define themselves against the glacial pace and dense bureaucracy of government spaceflight -- but at least until there's a real market for s ... More >>

Chef Tell: Cooking for Buzz and Beyond

​First of all, TV fans, let me just throw you a cyber fist bump and wish you all a happy 9.02.10. Donna Martin graduates!But seriously, last night was the last set of "normal" challenges before the Final Four set off to cook their way through the finale. It was tense and yet surprisingly lackluste ... More >>

Moon Day, On A Sunday: Local Spaceniks Meet Up for Apollo Anniversary at Frontiers of Flight

Mark GrahamArmadillo Aerospace co-founder Neil Milburn, left, will be one of the speakers at Moon Day, Sunday's big gathering of Dallas space nuts.Last year, the anniversary was a big one: 40 years since Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and for Dallas's sizable network space industry alums, Moon ... More >>

NASA Turns to Caddo Mills-Based Armadillo Aerospace to Put "Robonauts" on Moon by 2013

NASA/GMNASA's hired the local crew of Armadillo Aerospace to send these "humanoid robots" to the moon.In our cover story on the local private spaceflight pioneers at Armadillo Aerospace, we mentioned that the team's contract work with NASA included testing a set of legs for a lunar lander based on a ... More >>

With NASA's Future Uncertain, Dallas Rocketeers at Armadillo Aerospace Compete In The Race To Privatize The Final Frontier

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 4: Killtron

​Joel Trujillo, Jr. is better known around town as Killtron, and he's been playing party-jams in the Metroplex since 2005. He got his start by listening to "Energy," a segment on nonprofit listener-supported station KNON, catching the show at every opportunity he had, eagerly listening in, and eve ... More >>

DISD's Getting a Grant to Help Kids With Science and Math. And It's from Outer Space!

​Speaking of the Dallas Independent School District and grant money ...I was poking around the briefing agenda for this week's meeting of the board of trustees and noticed this intriguing item: NASA -- yes, that NASA, not this NASA -- is giving the DISD, via the Foundation for Community Empowermen ... More >>

In Space, No Chimps Can Hear Neon Indian Scream...

Speaking of CMJ '09 (kinda), Neon Indian's up at the music marathon this weekend, set for a performance tomorrow night. And a hotly anticipated one at that--or so say the folks over at Spin, who've named Palomo and Pals among its 25 must-hear artists at the weekend-long festivities.And, sure, that's ... More >>

Space...The Final Art Scene

Star Power

Blast Off

Astronaut Jones

FWMSH offers a look at life in the stars

Video: MC Lars And Bowling For Soup's Jaret Reddick At The Double Wide

I missed a ton of good shows around town last week--Thanksgiving with the folks in Boston, y'know--but the one I'm probably most disappointed about missing, which probably says a lot about me, is the nerdcore show at the Double Wide on Saturday. MC Lars? MC Frontalot? ytcracker? These guys are t ... More >>

Look Sharp

The EOS has its Eyes on you

Chafing Dishes

Moon Shot

Apollo vets hit the big screen

Space, Still the Final Frontier

Drawing the Line

Holy Buzz

Shinsei froths with sincere creativity

So Not the Real Terrell Owens

Space: So Not the Final Frontier

Moon Tunes

Diet Riot

Rocketman

To boldly go where many have ralphed before

The Bleeding Edge

A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

Coming Down

A "routine" shuttle descent winds up stunning Space City

'N Space

Lance Bass attempts to boldly go where no man has gone before. Well, no pop star, anyway.

The Right Stuff

Producers say Space Station 3D is "over the moon"

Lights Out

The food at Bistro Latino rises above the darkness

Wizards of Oz

Eccentric scientists work wonders in The Dish, a distinctively Australian time capsule

Love & Rockets

Andrew Beal spent $200 million trying to launch rockets without Uncle Sam's help. His dream went down in flames

Theme puke

At Jekyll & Hyde Club, the actors act, the puppets howl, and the food...well, never mind

Spaced out

Rocket man

Former NASA engineer Tom Moser dreams about launching the next generation of spacecraft from Texas soil

The long trailer

The mega-hyped disaster flick Armageddon signals the death of storytelling

Events for the week

Events for the week

Global warning

Republicans are aiding and abetting denial of the worldwide shift in climate

Supine science

Research subjects push back the frontiers of space by hitting the sack