North Texas

Researchers Find North Texas Kids Have Higher Risks of Poverty, Food Instability, Mental Health Problems

A new report put out by the research advocacy group Children At Risk has compiled statistics to show that hundreds of thousands of North Texas children are living in poverty and facing food insecurity. The Future of North Texas' Children examines 10 topics affecting North Texas children, including ... More >>

It’s Drag-Queen Hot Out

City of Dallas Looking for Someone to Turn its Feral Hog Problem Into Delicious Bacon

In recent years, as North Texas' feral hog population has exploded, Arlington, Irving and other suburbs have taken to rounding up the swine and selling them for bacon. Now, it's Dallas' turn. Robert Wilonsky brings news this morning that the city is looking for someone to harvest its feral hogs.

It Seems that More and More Parents Are Using Drug Dogs to Sniff Out Teens' Weed Stash

There is, if news reports are to be believed, a new frontier in helicopter parenting. Suspicious moms and dads are hiring trained drug detection dogs to sniff out their kids' drug stash. The trend was first identified by the Today Show in December, which ran a story featuring a Houston mom who used ... More >>

EPA: Dallas-based Luminant Produces a Hell of A Lot of Greenhouse Gas, And So Does Fracking

The Environmental Protection Agency -- that scourge of freedom-loving Texans -- just released a nifty little interactive greenhouse-gas database that will almost certainly threaten your liberty, the free market and the Second Amendment, somehow. For starters, the data it compiled indicates Dallas- ... More >>

Meet Rat Bastard, the Lovable South American Kinkajou that Briefly Terrorized Wise County

Over the weekend, the Wise County Sheriff's received a call unusual in the decidedly nontropical climes of North Texas: there was a monkey was the loose. Turns out, it wasn't a monkey. It was a kinkajou. And deputies discovered that kinkajous don't really like people, or anything else for that matt ... More >>

The 15 Best North Texas Releases of 2012

In a year when Kickstarter efforts have ballooned from humble requests to egocentric slaps in the face, the recording, funding and distribution of albums has taken on a different hue, as the chasm between what you can do "yourself" and what labels are offering gets wider and deeper. A few of the art ... More >>

Libertine's 13th Annual Toy Drive

Monday, December 17, at Libertine Bar

Getting Ready For Burger Week, Sloppy Joes And Beer: This Week In Dallas Dining

Cool weather is upon us, and the weekend is here. If you don't have weekend plans, check out LDD's weekly food guide. Or if you're feeling lazy you could just drink a ton of beer. We've got the guide to everything North Texas has to offer in the suds department. Don't crack that bottle yet, though. ... More >>

The O's, Eleven Hundred Springs, Quaker City Night Hawks and More Rep North Texas in a New Documentary Series

The North Texas Chevy Music Showcase - not to be confused with the Chevy Stage at the State Fair - is a documentary series featuring a dozen local acts, focusing on their place and time in the North Texas music community. Starting tomorrow night, the two-minute episodes will air on WFAA right before ... More >>

The Five Best DFW Honky-Tonks

To call a place a honky-tonk is almost as nebulous as labeling a place a dive bar. Ask five different people what one is, and you're more than likely to get six different answers. Of course, North Texas has dozens of places that complement any of them. The earliest published mentions of the term h ... More >>

It's all "Fa Shiggadow" to Hip-Hop Duo The Mohicans

Video: Control the Fate of John Wesley Coleman III in 'Wild Zoo'

When he's not playing with the North Texas-bred Golden Boys or paying tribute to country curio Gary Stewart, garage rock bon vivant John Wesley Coleman III is being rendered as a video game character. One that basically shoots a gun and jumps around in a scuzzy 8-bit gutter. Sounds about right. ... More >>

John David Kent

Roustabout

Ten Songs That Will Maybe, Hopefully, Possibly Help Us Get A Little Rain in North Texas, Please.

​According to the National Weather Service, Tropical Storm Don is headed for Texas. Although this forecast sounds like something to be happy about -- Dallas could use some much-needed rain from Don's periphery -- CBS is reporting that North Texas will most likely see no effects from the storm, ... More >>

The Conversation: The Effects of Blog Culture on Music in North Texas

Sachin TengThat's a Gorilla versus a Bear -- get it?​As you can see from the cover story this week, blog culture has undoubtedly changed the face of the North Texas music community. The sheer amount of blogs here in the metroplex is evidence that some feel their favorite artists are not being repr ... More >>

What Ales You?

How Many Record Stores Do You Think Exist in the Dallas-Fort Worth Region? Really. Guess.

​Tomorrow, as you now doubt are well aware by now, is the fourth annual official Record Store Day, in which we all get together and celebrate the brick-and-mortar shops that have managed to survive through the economy and the Internet stealing all of the action.But, really, just how bad are things ... More >>

Former NY State Comptroller Makes Case For Retiring Three of Luminant's Coal-Fired Plants

Big Brown​Former New York State First Deputy Comptroller-turned-investment banker Tom Sanzillo released a report this morning, via the Sierra Club, demanding that Dallas-based Energy Future Holding (and its Luminant subsidiary) shutter three of its coal-fired power plants: Big Brown (in Fairfield) ... More >>

Five Locals to Watch at SXSW 2011

Frames of the Day

Dirt Don't Hurt

Five Things About Local Music to be Thankful For

Hey, we're still excited about the Old 97's new record being great.​It's turkey time once again, but there are many other things to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. Here are five music-related items that North Texas residents should be thankful for having. ​ 1. The Old 97's finally ma ... More >>

Walk It Out

Local Musicians To Host Benefit For The Gulf Coast at Lola's in Fort Worth on Thursday

​July 1 marks another hot, run-of-the-mill day for us here in North Texas, but for the folks directly affected by the oil spill in the Gulf, it's another day without work. And some DFW musicians have decided to do something about it--namely, they'll be teaming up with venues all over the country t ... More >>

Ice, Ice Baby

Super Bowl XLV to Bring Quite the Collection of Gridiron Greats to Woodrow Next Week

​Tony Fay started working for the Dallas Mavericks in 1987 as the media relations intern; by the time he left in '99, he was director of communications -- which was no easy feat back then, given that was six months before Mark Cuban bought the then-struggling franchise just off a lockout season. T ... More >>

Highway Patrol: NYTimes Examines the Clear and Present Danger Posed by Work Zones

​The front page of this morning's New York Times takes a long, hard look at how unsafe highway work zones are, especially those involving pavement-edge drop-offs (which, according to one 2006 study, pose "a potential safety hazard because significant vertical differences between surfaces can affec ... More >>

Video: Q-Tip feat. Norah Jones -- "Life is Better"

Y'know what's adorable? This video, made for the second single for from Q-Tip's The Renaissance. Good timing, too, as we're just over a month away from the new release from North Texas' own Norah Jones.(Via.)

Rent Control Part Two

​Two years ago, GlobeSt.com took a look at the state of Dallas-Fort Worth's apartment market and said, in short, Lookin' good. Occupancy rates were on the rise, as were rents -- up to an average of $724 a month. But today, things are a little different: Rates are higher than they were in '07 (up t ... More >>

Stop, Look And Cycle

For a Second Year, the Sue Pope Fund Will Dole Out Grants to Folks Who Can Clear the Air

Katy HubenerIn a small, bright room at the Center for Community Cooperation this morning, Katy Hubener, the grant coordinator for the Sue Pope Fund, officially announced $1 million available in funding for new clean air projects in North Texas. The fund was established in 2005 in honor of Sue Pope, ... More >>

Oh, So I Didn't Imagine Lightning Last Night

Flickr user: RiddlerStudiosYesterday, the skies over North Texas were filled with circumhorizon arcs -- ooooh, pretty. Then, last night, downtown got a light show, as evidenced by the photo above (enormous version here). So, sure, it was either going to rain today -- or this was gonna happen. Who kn ... More >>

The Season For Magazines

Though the name might suggest otherwise, new magazine Edible Dallas & Fort Worth is not intended for Mothra. Rather, the publication--part of the Edible Communities chain--offers stories about North Texas chefs, farmers, retailers, vintners and brewers, all aimed squarely at "locavores," those w ... More >>

Food For Thought 2.19.09

"Once the first freeze arrives in the fall, the supply of local produce in North Texas drops precipitously. We are left to survive until spring on pecans, Texas citrus, the occasional greens--and sweet potatoes." (Kim Pierce in yesterday's Dallas Morning News, sorta bringing up in her lead paragraph ... More >>

Check Out The Trailer For This Upcoming Dallas Blues Documentary

Assemble for the Ensembles

Feds Indict 14 Texas Syndicate Members For Murder -- and Much, Much More -- in North Texas

Calla

Wednesday, March 21, at Hailey's, Denton

Home Away From Home

North Texas' booming Guatemalan population struggles without a consulate

North Texas New Music Festival

Friday, September 30, throughout Deep Ellum

Get Served

Letters

Deflowered Not So Radiant*

Best Newsletter

The North Texas Skeptic

Feelin’ Saxy

Addison hosts the best in local jazz

Totally Hits

A great year for local music gets better

Best Hamburger

Culver's

Scene, heard

Variety Nightmare pops into Melodic Overkill; The Topaz Awards go by the wayside; Little Jack Melody party with Noise and Smoke

Night & Day

November 12 - 18, 1998

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