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The Problem with "Support Local"

"How does anyone even get to Dallas?" It wasn't a question my friend was asking over dinner. It came across more like a statement. It doesn't feel transient here to me, but as I start to mentally take inventory of my social circle, I realize how many are from California, or Florida, or Nevada or H ... More >>

A Woman Who Was Nearly Murdered by Her Online Date is Suing Dallas-based Match.com

When Mary Kay Beckman was ambushed in the garage of her Las Vegas home in January 2011, it made national headlines. That was partly because of the brutality of the attack. The attacker "knocked her to the ground, and began stabbing her repeatedly until he recognized that the knife broke," according ... More >>

Crazy for You at Theatre Three Takes Some Nutty Missteps

Zombies, Whorehouses, Strip Clubs and Killer Sasquatches: The Greatest Movie Pitch Ever Hits Dallas Court

Brian Jaynes has made something of a name for himself in the world of low-budget horror films. Over the past three years, the East Texas filmmaker has helmed a string of cult successes, starting with Boggy Creek, about a bloodthirsty Sasquatch. That was followed last year by Humans vs Zombies. Compl ... More >>

Wal-Mart Wins Texas Lawsuit Over Gender Discrimination

Nearly a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court tossed a class action lawsuit filed by some 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees who say they hit a corporate glass ceiling, the plaintiffs hit a brick wall in Texas. Because the court ruled the women of Wal-Mart could not sue as a class, a num ... More >>

Fear, Loathing and Tons of Strippers: What Happens When the GOP Comes to Town

Rio Grande or Rio Bravo? Why Can't Mexico and the U.S. Agree?

Meet the Race Car-Driving Conservative After Rep. Ralph Hall's Seat

America is in a pissy, irascible, throw-the-bums-out, anti-incumbent kinda mood. Even, apparently, if it means unseating a longtime congressman with some serious seniority and a choice committee chair. According to Charlie Cook over at the National Journal, there are some 22 House Republican primar ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Is Distancing Himself from Rick Perry? Shouldn't It Be the Other Way Around?

In Perry's defense, she does sort of look like a coyote.​This morning's News carries a paywall-less story about yesterday's meeting of the minds between Rick Perry and Phoenix-area sheriff Joe Arpaio. (No wall on an immigration story? Liberal media!) It was the move of a desperate candidate, a ... More >>

Landmark Wal-Mart Sex Discrimination Lawuit, Version "2.0," Comes to Dallas Federal Court

Via.​It's been more than a decade since the federal suit first surfaced: Betty Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the sexual discrimination lawsuit that would eventually lead to a class-action suit and the book Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker's Rights at Wal-Mart, whose author ofte ... More >>

Q&A: Rob Halford of Judas Priest Talks Coming Out and His Band Continuing On.

For over four decades, England's Judas Priest has been making one hell of a heavy metal racket. Formed in 1969, the band didn't find widespread success until the late '70s and early '80s. But classic metal songs such as "Living After Midnight" and "Breaking the Law" (both off the seminal album Bri ... More >>

In-N-Out Burger Dallas Location To Open Thursday, Reports Say; Cue the Meat-steria

Patrick MichelsScenes from In-N-Out's opening in Frisco.​Fill the basement with canned goods and line the windows with aluminum: reports are coming in regarding the In-N-Out Burger location in Dallas. Park Cities People has a memo from the tenants of 8080 N. Central that details the security In- ... More >>

The Trinity River's 'Standing Wave' Crashes into Reality

The city spent millions on a kayaking park that almost no one can use -- and the money's still flowing.

Again, Times Writes About Isenberg's Efforts to Help a Student Here Illegally Live the Dream

Photo by Mark GrahamRalph Isenberg​By now you're likely well aware of Ralph Isenberg's ongoing efforts to bring Saad Nabeel back to North Texas, after the the 20-year-old Frisco Liberty High grad was sent to Bangladesh last year by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials -- after Saad's pare ... More >>

Want to Jump at the Chance to Be Mexico's Prez?

Manny Pacquiao, oblivious to our losing football team, brings a winner to Cowboys Stadium.

Vinnie Paul and HELLYEAH! Find Their Rhythm

With Shifting Attitudes and a Burgeoning Medical Marijuana Movement, the Future Looks Rosy for Legalized Weed

Dallas County Commissioners to Discuss Privatizing Security Forces at County Buildings

There's a chance Dallas County could privatize security at buildings like the George Allen Courthouse downtown.​Flipping through the agenda for today's meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court, I came across an interesting item on page 193 concerning potential plans to privatize "all secur ... More >>

Time's Running Out for State Legislature to Allow "No-Refusal" DWI Blood Drawa

Dallas Police VideoA woman arrested for DWI during a so-called No-Refusal Weekend has her blood drawn inside Lew Sterrett. In her left hand? A search warrant that orders her to give up her blood.The Texas Senate yesterday refused to send to Governor Rick Perry a bill that included an amendment that ... More >>

Polygamy and Me

Seven months have passed since the polygamist raid in Eldorado, but for one mainstream Mormon, the effects linger

Un-Super Size Me: One Week of Eating Local

One man’s attempt at slow food living in the Dallas metroplex

Gustav Isn't Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas

Cuban Will Have to Wait For This Hot Man-on-Man Action

White Elephants

Mavs' draft gifts usually pale in comparison

Corn Mo Makes His Big-Screen Debut at AFI Dallas. Thanks to...Will & Grace?

Knockoff

A German new waver resorts to tired old tricks

No Shame

Keira Get Your Gun

Domino chronicles the life of a model turned bounty hunter

Oh, Canada

Big props to the big films of IMAX

Killing Time

The Killers move forward into the past

Porn Pawns

The kings of smut escape while the feds cook up small fry like former Dallas cop Garry Ragsdale

Chris Cross

Behind the Greenlight is a producer proud to be an ass

Dross in Space

The American Astronaut trashes the galaxy

Race Baiting

The prize is $2 million, but the reward isn't worth the effort

Petty Woman

Wayne shakes his Wang at The Center of the World

For Love of The Game

Bumper-car warriors take to the courts in WhirlyBall, a new sport blending hockey, polo, and lots of beer

High Spoons

Bare breasts, a bowl of red, and bad blood among the chili brethren in the Big Bend. Texas doesn't get any better.

Pumped Out

Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

Enter the drag

Shanghai Noon goes way out West, but not far enough

Paranoia with purpose

Like-minded "Patriots" find their own around the new Branch Davidian Church in Waco

Coal mining

Douglas' post-stroke performance adds some life to the formulaic Diamonds

A clockwork Buzz

1999, the year Bill Rojas brought panic and paranoia to DISD. But was there any other good news? Buzz takes a look back.

The Boy Scout, the hustler, and the porn queen

Former Dallas police officer and onetime X-rated movie star Jordan Lee finds herself hunted by two ex-cops who say she did them wrong

Letters

Rocket man

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

Hard travelin'

Ramblin' Jack Elliott has a few more stories to tell

Events for the week

Paradise lost

With Casino, Scorsese brilliantly leads us down the primrose path to heaven--and hell--on earth

Indie, outie

Hurst-based BottleCap Records declares a declaration of independents