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Two Dallas County Men Are Suing Blue Cross, Claim Its Market Share Lets It Screw Texans

If you live in Texas and have health insurance, chances are your coverage is through either Aetna or Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, and it's about twice as likely to be the latter. The insurance giant covers 7.7 million Texans, controlling roughly 40 percent of the market. Some might argue th ... More >>

Victims of Joseph Garbarini, the Teacher Caught Molesting Kindergartners, Are Suing Plano ISD, Principal

Parents of the victims of Joseph Garbarini, the pedophile who was sentenced to more than 60 years last October for the sexual abuse of kindergarten girls at Plano's Hunt Elementary school, are suing the school district and the principal for ignoring the predator in their midst. An investigation of ... More >>

Dwaine Caraway Speaks at Longest Redistricting Commission Meeting Ever & Other Highlights

The end is near ... sort of. The city's Redistricting Commission is inching towards putting together a city map it can forward on to the city council, and everyone -- the public and commissioners alike -- is trying to get in a parting shot before then. Last night's meeting was a marathon ... More >>

DART, East Texas Transit Officials Sign Letter They Hope Leads to Light-Rail Love Affair

DART chair Bill Velasco, left, and North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority's Jeff Austin III look at the line that could one day connect their parts of the great state.​Ever wished you could take Dallas Area Rapid Transit to ... oh ... let's say Tyler? Or Canton? Or Shreveport, even? Because ... More >>

When Investors Demanded Their Money, Eric Brauss Disappeared. Now: The Indictment!

How can authorities not find this guy?​We were first introduced to Eric Brauss in December 2009, when a good Friend of Unfair Park tipped us off that the money man behind, oh, the Dallas Design Center, Denton Towne Crossing, Lake Highlands Plaza and other local developments had done disappeared. A ... More >>

What It Was Like: Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp 2010

​Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp is a chance for musicians to get a crash course in playing in a rock band. Whether your drumming skills are on par with Meg White's or somebody who can play "Pride & Joy" note-for-note in a dark corner of a Guitar Center, the intent of the camp is to become a better ... More >>

Dotty Griffith's Top 10 Things I Miss About Dallas

Just about three years ago, the damn near legendary Dallas Morning News food critic Dotty Griffith decided to hang up the notepad and head down to Austin. Now, the UT grad and unrepentant Texan (who once said "barbecue is the most American of foods; to hell with apple pie") spent plenty of time in a ... More >>

The Caretaker

One mother's crusade to better the life of her mentally retarded son and the system that failed him

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.

What Felled Oakley?| The M Word| Rounding the Cape| Its a Crying Shame| Correction

Out of Exile, Scott Sams is Back

Corndoggle

Dallas Is Banking On Ethanol, But Is It The Fuel Of The Future Or A Barrel Of Pork?

Don't Touch That Dial

So we're supposed to maim WRR in order to protect it?

Selling Ron

A pro-business black Democrat who appeals to white voters, Ron Kirk is the sport utility vehicle of Senate candidates. But will voters buy him?

Mountain View

Photographer Shelby Lee Adams captures a vanishing way of life in Appalachia

Make 'em Pay

Spurred by a horrifying wave of teen violence in the '90s, Texas today spends more money than ever to lock up young criminals. Are we getting our money's worth?

From Russia, with Love

Just $25,000 gets you a bundle of hot Russian babes from one Dallas matchmaking firm. What more could a rich American geek ever ask for?

Buzz

Suckers

Two Soldiers

Look Back, Don't Look Back

Love's Labor Lost

The silence is deafening at City Hall over expanding Love Field, but Jim Schutze has some advice for airport neighbors: Buy earplugs.

Busy Signal

Want some service for that nice, cheap Sprint phone? Take a number.

The Untouchable

Complaints of racism, dirty politics, and other fishy business simply roll off Denton County's Teflon sheriff, Weldon Lucas

Playing Possum

After six years, The Toadies' new album is finally finished, and it's good. So why isn't it out yet?

E-publish or perish

Move over Mr. Gutenberg -- Dallas Internet entrepeneur Patrick Seaman is hunting for the "killer app" to create the next revolution in publishing

Slacking in style

How skateboarder and surfer dude Tracy Feith wheeled out of Dallas to become the latest, hottest thing in haute couture

Highway roulette

In Texas, more people die in truck crashes than any state in the country. It's not an accident.

Bleeding arts

When an alcoholic, a schizophrenic, and a homeless man get together and draw, the Stewpot calls it group therapy. Christina Rees calls it art.

The red and the black

Restored to 'glorious Technicolor,' GWTW comes to woo new legions of fans

The King's man

"Jr. Boy" Jones played with them all--now, he plays for himself

Black out

Jerry Jones didn't hire a black head coach. Does that make him a racist?

Losing it

When things go bad for the Cowboys, they go Barry bad

Publicity Paul

U.S. Attorney Paul Coggins loves feeding his name to the papers. But what's he done that's news?

O little town of Bethel-sham

On the plains north of Dallas, budding revolutionaries are trying to form the newest town in Texas. But tiny Bethel isn't being founded on civic pride. It's a ploy to stop farmers like Jack England from selling their land.

Hat's off

Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer left--and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

Observer honors

Three writers win awards, and a fourth remains hopeful

Buzz

'What is that, a muffler?'

Texas is home to an eccentric group of outsider artists celebrated as far away as New York. But if you want to see their work here, you'll have to travel to a renegade art gallery in Waxahachie.

Letters

Should Paul Fielding go to jail?

He's violated the public trust and betrayed his own ethical standards. But is Dallas' perpetually annoying councilman guilty of fraud, perjury, and extortion?

Power Houses

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

Dealing with the Devil

Deep Ellum eccentric Ed Zabel revels in gargoyles, brooms, and bondage.

T.C.B. or T.Y.A.

Bobby Patterson, Dallas' great unsung soul singer, gets his Second chance

Bad news town

Whitewright keeps making headlines--for all the wrong reasons

Virgin Academy

At Dallas' old Ambassador hotel, Mr. Gothard's good girls learn the virtues of remaining pure

Draft day menu

A sleepy Kidd--and unhappy fans--greet an underwhelming NBA pick

Shock rock

Hagfish tries to figure out if they're punk, pop, or just plain horny

Star maker

Can Interscope do for four local bands what it did for Nine Inch Nails and Snoop Dogg?

BeloWatch

Who ya gonna call?

City Hall's top brass use taxpayer-provided mobile phones to call sweethearts, power brokers, and Pizza Hut.

Burning down the house

The dance and language in DTC's Dancing at Lughnasa are small fires burning bright