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Arlington Police Bought Two Drones, Which They Hope to Start Using Very Soon

Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration released a list of all the city and state entities who have applied for a license to fly unmanned aerial drones. That list was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), an organization tha ... More >>

Protesters Are in the East Texas Trees Again to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline

As of around 2:30 yesterday afternoon, two Keystone XL pipeline protesters were perched atop platforms strung through the trees in East Texas, aiming to block construction of what may soon become the longest pipeline in the Western Hemisphere. The controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which could be ... More >>

Article About How Much Better Houston is Than Dallas Neglects to Mention Houston is the Asshole of the Universe

The Houston Chronicle tried yesterday afternoon to prove that Houston is better, or at least sucks less, than Dallas. Tried and failed. Sorry to piss on your parade, Alyson Ward, but that debate has been settled: Houston blows way harder than we do. Ward says that Houston has a better skyline, an a ... More >>

Rejected Miller Lite Delivery Systems

Recently, Miller Lite announced a new innovation: the Punch Top Can. This NASA-astute device is designed to minimize "glug" and make for a "improved, smoother pour." Which made Scott Gairdner, a writer / director over at Funny or Die, and I wonder: what the hell didn't make the cut? We found a numb ... More >>

Superegos Collide in the All-Star Avengers. Things Go Boom.

Did Climate Change Create Texas' Hellacious 2011 Summer, Or Just Make It Worse?

​Texas's pasture-desiccating, road-warping devil heat last summer has earned a spot alongside hot spells in Moscow (2010) and France (2003) as one of the wild outliers of a climate pushed to extremes. A study from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Columbia Earth Institute say g ... More >>

Todd Park Mohr of Big Head Todd and the Monsters Talks Going into Space, Loving Robert Johnson

Back in the mid-'80s, Big Head Todd and the Monsters was the band even your college sweetheart could like. Todd Park Mohr and crew blended a touch of jazz into their blues-based pop and became a sizable concert draw. Over the years, Park Mohr has gathered the guys together sporadically for live sh ... More >>

David Liebe Hart Talks About His Role In Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie and Other Bizarre Stuff

David Liebe Hart​Through his work on Los Angeles-based public access television program Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Show, actor/musician David Liebe Hart began working with cohort Adam Papagan as well as catching the eye of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creators of the Adult Swim pro ... More >>

For Decades, DJ Merritt and DJ Jeff K Have Snuck Local Electronic Music Onto The Edge

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.DJ Jeff K and the Old 97's at a Dallas Stars game.​In 2011, both DJ Merritt and DJ Jeff K remain s ... More >>

Whitt's End: 12.3.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I'm going to be extremely disappointed gutted if the Rangers don't sign Cliff Lee, hopefully during next week's Winter Meetings in Florida. Sorry, but a consolation prize of Zack Greinke - or ... More >>

Rockets, Hookahs and Flamin' Hot Cheetos: Lighting A Fire At QuakeCon 2010

Photos by Patrick MichelsYears from now, they'll all be talking about that epic QuakeCon back when hookahs were still legal in Dallas.As Master o' Doom John Carmack wrapped his keynote sermon yesterday evening, the old familiar QuakeCon rhythm began drumming back to life, tap-tap-slurp, in the dim a ... More >>

The Tweet Life Inspires People to Make Friends and Adopt Causes in Person. It Can Also Cause a lot of Trouble, 140 Characters at a Time.

Dallas ISD's Long and Winding Road to Broad Prize Just Hit a Dead End

​Perhaps you've seen the promotional materials -- they've been everywhere during the past five years, as the Dallas Independent School District (and superintendent Michael Hinojosa, especially) eased on down that Road to Broad, so named for the $2 million award given to urban school districts who ... More >>

Days Gone Bite: Space Food Sticks

​There was a 15 or so year blip in history when space--and massive government programs to explore space--was very cool. All a food company had to do was take, say, a powdered orange drink, slap a phrase such as "like the astronauts drink" on the label, and wait for the riches to roll in.Think abou ... More >>

Whitt's End: 10.23.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Last night I got a foot massage. By a guy. And thoroughly enjoyed it. Now, now. Settle down. It's not what you think. Friend of mine tells me of a place where at 11 p.m. you can get an hour-l ... More >>

Whitt's End: 10.09.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Ho hum, The Ticket's dynasty rolls on as one of the most dominant entities in sports. In September's Arbitron PPM ratings - I hear, by the way, that only 1,400 meters are used to garner these numb ... More >>

Re: FYI, Read This ASAP. OMG!

The following is a prime example of my curse here on Earth. A fleeting thought sprouts into a mild observation, only to bloom into a thesis that eventually flourishes into a blog item with sports branches. My apologies ... Got a text the other day, the salutation of which was LOL ... More >>

Welcome to the National Armball League

Jason Segel Uses His Balls to Great Effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Sambuca is Dallas' epicenter for Mediterranean jazz and—who knew?—Geritol jump-shooters

Silent Treatment

A comedy knockout from The Boxer at FIT; a sucker punch from Sugar Bean Sisters

The Silent Treatment: Or, Notes from the Festival of Independent Theatres

Spaced Out in North Dallas

Fly Me to the Moon

Astronaut Farmer dares to dream

Know Dick?

Dale's much more than just that "Miserlou" guy

Black and White

The Long Winters

Ultimatum EP (Barsuk)

Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth

Anselm Kiefer probes the minefield of German identity after WWII

Live to Ride

A motorcycle accident cost Bill Rucker his leg, but that won't stop him from building-and riding-bikes

Architectures of Truth

Pierre Huyghe's videos finger the fault line between fact and media spectacle

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Letters

Rusty's Pity Party

Plus: Havard...Again

Bearing Witness

Dallas civil servant Dale Long was there the day a bomb changed the civil rights landscape forever

Hefner

Dead Media (Too Pure)

Down by the Old Mill

A band of East Texas environmentalists takes on a polluting paper plant and proves that might doesn't always make right, even in a company town

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

The Iceman Cometh

Brian Fridge creates space to make images to create space with

Star trek

Clint Eastwood directs a crew of veterans in his most engaging film in years

Positive reinforcement

The Rangers and their fans continue to see the team's glass as half full

Teed off

Golf With Alan Shepard delivers the fairway

Naked eye

Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

Meteor man

Brian Fridge and his graphite spheres epitomize the rash of rising stars in Dallas' art constellation

Munch on this

Bring out your dead

A Yankee photographer moves south and brings the bodies with him

Pop mart

South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no

Footprints of Fantasy

Creation scientist Dr. Carl Baugh claims he's found evidence that will explode the 'myth' of evolution. But the biggest myth is Baugh himself.

Video downs

Grand Prairie's horseless Lone Star Park offers the seedy side of the sport of kings

Letters

Moonstruck

Alternately corny and inspiring, Apollo 13 is about more than just a space mission