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  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    December 3, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Music

    July 23, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Dallas Cast Reunion Leaves Fans Southforked

    Thirty years after Dallas, fans worldwide came, saw and were conquered.

  • Music

    May 29, 2008

    Lil Wil Takes Dallas Hip-Hop National

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

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2007

    The Friday Night Lights Stay on for Dallas Actress Liz Mikel

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

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2007

    From the Penthouse to the 'Port

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

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2006

    A Search for a Missing Dallas Man Comes Up Empty

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

  • News

    November 16, 2006

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

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

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2006

    Romo, Built in a Day

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

  • News

    August 3, 2006

    Body Shots

    Cowboy's body and story are full of holes

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2006

    Reversing His Field

    Cowboy's body and story are full of holes

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2006

    Of Lost Legends and Found Heroes

    Cowboy's body and story are full of holes

  • Music

    May 11, 2006

    2006 Dallas Observer Music Awards

    Cowboy's body and story are full of holes

  • News

    February 9, 2006

    Don't Bet on It

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

  • News

    December 8, 2005

    Bus Gestapo

    DART cops put a guy in jail 11 days for jaywalking

  • News

    December 1, 2005

    Hotel Katrina

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

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    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

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Letters

    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

  • News

    December 16, 2004

    Life After Death

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

  • Calendar

    October 7, 2004

    This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

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

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    The Wrong Guy

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

  • News

    October 23, 2003

    Mr. Nice Guy

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

  • News

    August 7, 2003

    Letters

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

  • Calendar

    July 17, 2003

    This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

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

  • Music

    April 10, 2003

    Dixie Down

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

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Union Labeled

    Contract mail drivers win a long struggle to unionize

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    The other victim

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

  • News

    May 11, 2000

    Cyber bore

    The DotComGuy gets loads of publicity just like this for being a zero

  • News

    January 6, 2000

    Good rockin' last night

    A new CD resurrects the echoes of the long-gone Big "D" Jamboree, where Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and some forgotten heroes made Saturday nights swing

  • Culture

    August 26, 1999

    Girlfriend art

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

  • Music

    April 22, 1999

    I, somebody

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

  • Music

    March 11, 1999

    Soul brother No. 1

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

  • Music

    March 4, 1999

    Glory Hallelujah

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

  • Music

    February 11, 1999

    Hot Damnations

    Leave it to two Yankee sisters to kick it TX style

  • Music

    October 8, 1998

    Whiskey-bent and hell-bound

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

  • News

    May 21, 1998

    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

  • Music

    January 22, 1998

    Behind the lines

    From reds to feds to blues

  • News

    March 13, 1997

    '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.

  • News

    January 2, 1997

    Buzz

    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.

  • Music

    November 28, 1996

    Glory and injustice

    Is bass legend Chuck Rainey falling through the cracks?

  • Music

    September 19, 1996

    The good fight

    Keb' Mo' makes the fat ladies get up and dance

  • Film

    September 19, 1996

    Joe Bob Briggs

    Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

  • Film

    August 15, 1996

    Joe Bob Briggs

    Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

  • News

    May 23, 1996

    Ready For Battle

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

  • Film

    December 22, 1994

    Joe Bob Briggs

    Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

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