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Dallas Got an Early Start on Weekend Crime With Diaper Bag Robbery, a Sort-of Kidnapping, and a Craigslist Heist

Typically, Dallas saves its wilder side for the weekend. That's when, once the booze and drugs are flowing in earnest, the weird crimes tend to happen. But the weekend arrived early, with police reporting an armed diaper bag robbery, a Craigslist heist and a low-budget movie production scaring the b ... More >>

How to Survive a Rabid Squirrel Encounter

Sherri Johnson's condo butts up against a wooded creek a few blocks from Presbyterian Hospital. She likes to keep a few cats around, strays really, to keep the raccoons and possums and other creek denizens from making themselves too comfortable on her property. It works for the most part, but the ca ... More >>

Man Sues Dallas Doc, McKinney Hospital After Losing Testicle, Length of Colon Due to Allegedly Botched Hernia Surgery

Pedro Hermenegildo didn't have insurance, so he paid Dr. Ricardo Rocha in cash to repair a hernia, a fairly routine, outpatient procedure. But according to a lawsuit filed against Rocha in a Dallas County district court last week, Hermenegildo lost much more than his hernial bulge. The surgery was ... More >>

Crime Keeps Going Down in Dallas, Except for Rape. But There's an Explanation for That.

There was some good news in the crime statistics presented to the City Council's Public Safety Committee a few moments ago. Burglaries, the bane of the Dallas Police Department in recent years, are down by double-digits thanks to ongoing efforts to shut down fencing operations through which thieves ... More >>

Finally, Freddie King's in Rock Hall of Fame

98kzew.comKing at KZEW's Armadillo Festival at Fair Park on April 27, 1975​I hear jingle bells: Freddie King's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Per this morning's heads-up from Cleveland, the Gilmer-born guitarist, singer and songwriter is this year's entry in the Early Influence category; damn ... More >>

Don O.'s Gift to You on Freddie King's 77th

​Hope you read this week's piece on the indestructible KNON. Strange, though. Must be something in the air. I just got through re-re-re-re-reading David Sealey's May '85 piece about Nancy Moore -- Shaggy, that is, my old friend who threw one hell of a midnight Pajama Party every Saturday. And I ra ... More >>

John Wiley Price: "Y'all Wanted a Code of Conduct, You Got a Code of Conduct."

Photos by Sam MertenA protester across the street from the Dallas County Administration Building this morning.​The Dallas County Commissioners Court unanimously approved a new code of conduct for commissioners this morning in response to Commissioner John Wiley Price last week telling several ... More >>

Game Delay: With Fresh Snow, Fresh Problems For Dallas Area Rapid Transit's Light Rail

Dr. Chris DreilingThe DART light-rail station across the street from Presbyterian Hospital, where not much is moving at present​Morgan Lyons, director of media relations for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, says this morning that he too is "ready for some warmer weather." Certainly would take some of th ... More >>

iWatch So You Don't Have To: Liveblogging Today's Public Safety Committee Meeting

​Afternoon, Friends of Unfair Park. Here I am in bristly cold City Hall prepared to bring you the latest in how Dallas is going to keep you safe. Or, how you're going to keep your damn selves safe with iWatch. Between that and Dwaine Caraway's magic crime-reducing cameras, we should be set. See so ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Eric Clapton Was God at Dallas Convention Center in November '76, But Freddie Was Still King

​Of all the weekend-listening suggestions I've posted since whenever this started, that Freddie King KZEW revue ranks high on the list -- I've listened to it start-to-finish a dozen times since posting two weeks ago. Hard to see how it gets much better than that, but after sitting through back-to- ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Texas Cannonball Takes Over The Zoo in '75

​When we took a long, deep hit of Foghat at January Sound Studio back in April, a Friend of Unfair Park was kind to remind: Freddie King also recorded a set there in '75 for KZEW. March 31, 1975, to be exact -- about a year and a half before the Gilmer-born guitar-slinger died of heart failure at ... More >>

The Mavericks Give Thanks for the Kid Who Keeps Bouncing Back

Dallas Wants to be a Green City, So Why Not Save Some Trees?

Dallas Has a Real-Life Dr. Gregory House in Dr. Richard Buch

Some call Dr. Buch a troubled genius. His ex-patients and hospital bosses call him trouble.

Headache Hotel and Other Dallas City Council SUPs and WTFs

Marchel Ivery's Death Leaves Dallas' Jazz Scene Longing

Every Time We Say Goodbye: The Great Texas Tenor Marchel Ivery Has Died

Marchel Ivery's Death Marks "A Sad Day for Dallas"

Saying Goodbye to Dallas Jazzer Marchel Ivery

Dallas Can't Spin Latest Jail Lawsuit

The County can't get away from the latest bad news on its troubled jail

Suit Settled in the Case of a Former Mr. America's Death

Mitchell Says No

So what about the dogfight on the Trinity River Project?

The Legacy of Lamar

Narrow Escape

Plus: Havard Pleads Guilty

An Irritating Woman

Susan Diamond learned that it doesn't pay to annoy your kids' psychiatrists, even if you're a doctor

R.I.P.ped

Even former Mr. America Mike Scarcella wasn't strong enough to beat the horrors of GHB addiction

Man of Steel

Bump in the Road

You'll be drinking faster than you eat at Wahoo Grill & Cantina

We Never Close

Or so say the proponents of 24-hour child care. The facts say otherwise.

Rich Man, Poor Man

Dallas architect Tom Stanley crafted buildings that endure on city skylines across the country, but his fortune and family wouldn't survive their own shaky foundations

Good eggs

For some infertile Dallas couples, science, commerce, and a few genetically attractive women provide the next best thing to Mother Nature

Desperate Measures

Tim and Emilie Sherrod, parents of twin autistic boys, will do anything to find a cure -- even spend $14,000 to inject their sons with a hormone from pig entrails

Blues for Freddie

The family of a Dallas guitar legend fights to protect his legacy

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

Hey, Pachuco!

Retro rascality or cultural imperialism?

Compulsive childbirth

Why my third time still wasn't the charm

The forgotten man

Rush to eulogize RISD icon J.J. Pearce ignores 25-year-old victim

The Arena Papers

Inside the secret City Hall files: A tale of dupes and deception