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Doing Drugs at a Music Festival? Here's Some Legal Advice on Handling the Police

Hate to say it, but some of you at Austin Psych Fest (which starts Friday!) are going to be approached by police officers assuming you have drugs. Well, you just may, but guess what? You still have rights, man. Cameron Bowman is here to help! As a music festival lover and attorney at San Jose firm ... More >>

Dallas is Adding More Good Jobs than Anywhere Else

Five months ago, Dallas didn't even register on Forbes rundown of U.S. metro areas with the rosiest employment prospects, losing out to San Jose and Austin but also to Birmingham, Charleston, and Lakeland, Florida. That was a prediction based on a survey of employers' hiring predictions. Now that t ... More >>

Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster Talks About Ugly Stuff

A Brief Conversation With Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster

The first time I saw Screaming Females was 2009 at The Parlor in Austin, a small, narrow pizza place that sends gusts of warm pizza dough wind into the venue every time the oven is opened. Within five minutes of their set, guitarist and singer Marissa Paternoster ripped into her first solo. Her fi ... More >>

Clearly, Mary Suhm's In No Rush To Find a Library Chief, as She Names Another Interim

Kris Sweckard​Received a note earlier in the day that on Tuesday, Mayor Mike, Comerica CEO Ralph Babb, Serita Ann Jakes (Mrs. T.D. to you) and a host of city council members are meeting at the North Oak Cliff Library Branch for "a major announcement" that will involve the "unveiling of [an] e-book ... More >>

"Eater X" Dominates Again at the Lewisville's Tamale Eating Championship

​Behind the counter of every Taco Bell, there's a slew of people who fancy themselves champions of food, but once a year in Lewisville, the real champions arrive, ready to relieve suburban Dallas of its tamale population. Last Saturday was yet another such occasion, with a healthy roster of new T ... More >>

Ed-die's Bet-ter ... Clap-Clap-CLAPCLAPCLAP!

We've seen the Rangers in the World Series and the Mavs win the NBA Finals, and on Tuesday I was reminded just how great a Stanley Cup run can be when former Stars' goalie Ed Belfour and current GM Joe Nieuwendyk were elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. They'll officially be in ... More >>

Alejandro Escovedo's Music Hides His Age.

Transpo Report Says 34 Percent of Dallas, Fort Worth Roads Are "Poor." Could Be Worse?

​Many thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who forwarded along this just-released report from TRIP, a D.C.-based transportation research group: Hold the Wheel Steady: America's Roughest Rides and Strategies to Make our Roads Smoother. Says the study, which paints a grim picture of the bumpy road ah ... More >>

Dallas, a Top-Five Exportin' Town

​This morning Pilgrim's Pride announced it'll be exporting chicken to Russia (my favorite Ramones bootleg, incidentally) from its Dallas plant -- good timing too, given that the Brookings Institution just released a report stressing the need for export growth in order to "boost competitiveness." T ... More >>

At WinStar's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Qualifier This Weekend, Crazy Legs Conti is the Man To Beat

Patrick MichelsCrazy Legs Conti in 2007 at a blueberry pie eating contest in Brownsville, Ore. Competitive eating is a hard-hearted mistress, courted by many but gracing few with even a moment of her fickle affection. Most who enter a contest never do so again, and even those who do usually manage ... More >>

A Few Questions For the Out-of-Towners Wanting to Replace DPD Chief Kunkle

Daniel RodrigueThe six DPD chief finalists meeting with city officials last night​Last night, the city of Dallas held a reception and dinner at the Trinity River Audubon Center where the six candidates to replace outgoing Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle underwent what City Manager Mary Suhm refer ... More >>

Gig Alert: Tommy Castro Tonight at The Granada

​Tonight's already got a pretty full plate of musical offerings with Megadeath at The Palladium, Metric at Gilley's and The Whigs at the Loft. Hell, one could attend all of those without walking 100 yards. But for those who's tastes are more traditional, bluesman Tommy Castro makes a stop at the ... More >>

7-Eleven vs Barefoot: War Of The Wines

Alex Flores​Yesterday it came to our attention that 7-Eleven planned to introduce their own wine brand, priced at a Thunderbird-like $3.99 a bottle--that's right, $3.99 for .75 of Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon in glass with a real artificial cork. No screw-tops for wine this fancy.They call the ... More >>

American Baseball, the European Way

​Even if European soccer owner Tom Hicks convinced Major League Baseball to inject the same screwy tables that govern soccer into America's pasttime your Texas Rangers wouldn't be a playoff team. But, alas, they wouldn't be relegated, either. If baseball were run according to European soccer ... More >>

This Weekend, Twilight Superfans Make Downtown Dallas Their Playground

Patrick MichelsTwo Twilight fans and a cardboard Robert Pattinson get all PG-13 at the Sheraton.​Twicon 2009 is in full effect downtown at the Sheraton Hotel, where organizers say 3,000 fans have registered for the weekend's celebration of all things Twilight -- or even, "Twilight-inspired." Here' ... More >>

Yeah, But What If Baseball Went To The European Football Table?

I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we're all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August ... September ... maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top ... More >>

Asphalt Barriers

aaroads.comRecently there appeared on the pages of dallasfood.org a discussion of the city's confined culinary geography. Some people, as you all know, rarely deign to travel outside the loop because enough exists within the circular strip of asphalt to satisfy their needs. Quite a few, however, go ... More >>

Christmas Comes More Than Once a Year for Mexicans

Homework's for Suckers

'Member Those Stephenville UFOs? Friends of the President, Just Maybe.

The DFW is High on High-Tech

Stars Win ... Yawn ... Stars Win!

Plano Finishes Dead Last!!!

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Malas Noticias

Alley Fat

This grill requires a high-cholesterol billfold

They Am Smart

We Never Say "Told Ya So." Never.

The Beatdown

DJ Iz: The house jock who took the long way home

The Texas Tornadoes

NASCAR: A Yankee Pastime

Odds & Ends

Radiant goes Over There, Ward Richmond goes to jail and every band in Dallas gets put on hold

Ted's Last Adventure?

How long will Benavides hold on?

Talkin' Doo-doo

The DMN's special section was great. And weird. Of course.

Xiu Xiu and Devendra Banhart

July 17

Indo Hip

Chef opening Indian restaurant in Addison

Best Dallas Star

Marty Turco

Joystick Cinema

It's man vs. machinima when video games become, ahem, movies

Doom Patrol

High on Fire's Matt Pike talks about Earache and stoner rocket science

The Thing That Ate Downtown

Downtown’s real estate barons are terrified that Perot-Hicks’ slick Victory project could wreak havoc on their own tax-funded plans to fix the city’s core

Long Gone

Do more words make a story better? No. Unless they're my words, of course.

Crunch Time

Admit it. You were worried about the Stars. And now you're not.

The Color of Money

Does restaurant service differ because of race? Depends on whom you ask.

You Scratch My Back

Massage therapists feel their way around corporate America

Absolute Smash

Or: Sometimes, writing A Hit Single is as easy as it looks

South by South Austin

The Cornell Hurd Band is in it for the long haul

A mighty roar

Los Tigres del Norte have become legends by singing the immigrant's song

Senor baseball

Luis Mayoral's job with the Rangers isn't all brown and white

Grand hotel

The Adolphus' French Room offers courses in dining elegance