Shreveport

'Sadomasochistic' Couple Killed an Arlington Man, Then Stuffed His Body in a Refrigerator

It was Independence Day 2011 when the boy and his father went to the abandoned shell of a house in rural Ellis County. They hoped they might find the treasure that was rumored to be buried there, but came up empty handed. What they found instead was a refrigerator, which pretty clearly had not been ... More >>

John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats Talks Denton, Taco Bell and Breaking Bad

Over the course of 14 albums and countless cassette-only releases, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats has become one of the best (and busiest) singer/songwriters around. While his songs can be depressing and dark, Darnielle's sense of exploration is simply remarkable. Whether it's writing about me ... More >>

Cabbies Say There's a Taxi Monopoly in Dallas, and They're Fighting to Break it Up

Jack Bewley and Jeff Finkel have spent the last several years methodically strengthening their position in the Dallas taxi market. Their company, Irving Holdings, was established with the merger of five local cab companies. In 2007, they brought Freedom, Eagle, and Jet taxi companies. Earlier this y ... More >>

How Bleacher Report Rules the World

Step 1: Be terrible. Step 2: Count the money. Repeat both steps as necessary.

PETA to Stage Soft-Core Bed-In Downtown Tomorrow. Bring Your Cameras.

​I'm hesitant to tease a PETA protest scheduled to take place at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Akard and Main only because all the other ones have been so underwhelming. (So much so I forgot till using what passes for our search engine that PETA was just at the same spot in August.) Anyway. This is what tod ... More >>

Charlie Mars Remembers His Days in Dallas and Winning $26,000 in Shreveport

Singer/songwriter Charlie Mars has had an interesting life. Born and raised in Mississippi, Mars actually plied his craft in Dallas for a few years in the '90s. Some heavy duty partying landed him in rehab a few years after that and those internal demons forced Mars to retreat to an isolated islan ... 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 >>

An Overlooked SXSW Highlight: Black Joe Lewis and West Dallas's The Relatives

Pete and Nick did a bang-up job covering South by Southwest's music fest over on DC9 at Night. But Friend of Unfair Park Big Jon Daniel directs our attention to this holy-effing-ess moment: Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears' Friday-afternoon lunchtime treat at the Austin Convention Center featuring ... More >>

Ralph Janvey Wants Golfer David Toms to Pay Back the $905,087 He Got From Allen Stanford

Via.David Toms​Dallas attorney Ralph Janvey's still combing through Allen Stanford's financials to see who got some of that money made in the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that landed the Texas financier in prison, where, one day, he'll face a federal trial (maybe). Janvey, who was appointed re ... More >>

For Old-School Art Pickers, the Thrill is Fading, and So's the Payoff

Dorrough’s Smash Hit “Ice Cream Paint Job” Is Pushing Dallas Hip-Hop Past Its Instructional Dance Song Phase

Lil Wil Takes Dallas Hip-Hop National

With "My Dougie" in tow, he's looking to get paid

The Friday Night Lights Stay on for Dallas Actress Liz Mikel

From the Penthouse to the 'Port

A Search for a Missing Dallas Man Comes Up Empty

Fed Up in Farmers Branch | There She Goes Again | Borat on Rock and Roll

Romo, Built in a Day

Body Shots

Cowboy's body and story are full of holes

Reversing His Field

Of Lost Legends and Found Heroes

2006 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Don't Bet on It

Your money, plus city council, plus gambling--it's enough to make your skin crawl

Hotel Katrina

While the feds fumble, hurricane survivors find relief thanks to a Dallas hotel owner and friends

Where there's a Will

Will Clarke has a deal with a New York publisher and a Hollywood studio, and it only took him eight years to become an overnight success

Letters

Life After Death

Andre Lewis was eight hours from being executed, until the courts realized they had made a big mistake

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

The Wrong Guy

In a bungled hunt for a killer, police wreck the life of an innocent

Mr. Nice Guy

Is Antawn Jamison too big a sweetheart to make the Mavs tough enough?

Letters

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Dixie Down

When does a benign anti-war comment become the death of open discourse?

Lovin' in the Oven

Tanya Holland puts soul into her cooking at Central Market

Union Labeled

Contract mail drivers win a long struggle to unionize

The other victim

In the media frenzy spurred by a serial killer, one small-town victim was forgotten, but not by her neighbors

Girlfriend art

Defying convention, seven women have built their friendships and their lives around their art

Letters

I, somebody

Three decades later, the Residents are still anonymous -- and still butchering sacred cows

Soul brother No. 1

Quiet! Do not disturb while Bobby Patterson is making love to a microphone on KKDA-AM

Glory Hallelujah

After working the Picket Line, Kevin Russell and the Gourds finally make a record as good as they are

Hot Damnations

Leave it to two Yankee sisters to kick it TX style

Whiskey-bent and hell-bound

With a monumental new boxed set, Hank Williams gets out of this world alive

A bush league of their own

Long before the Texas Rangers, major-league baseball was played in Dallas by a minor-league team called the Dallas Eagles

Behind the lines

From reds to feds to blues

'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.

Buzz

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Ready For Battle

DISD hired Clarence Glover to defuse a racial crisis. But is he tough enough for the job?

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX