South Carolina

Texas Lawmakers Want to Stop People (and the Cops) from Using Drones to Take Your Picture

Last February, animal rights activists in South Carolina launched a small drone equipped with a camera to monitor a pigeon hunt on a private shooting plantation. The hunters promptly shot it down. The activists' use of the drone seems to have been perfectly legal, but it's relatively uncharted terr ... More >>

Reality Check: Mexican Immigrants Aren't Breeding Like Bunnies

Texas Leads the League in Bad Nursing Homes, Partly Because It Won't Regulate the Offenders

In March 2011, after federal inspectors visited Keeneland Nursing and Rehab, a Weathorford nursing home, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a report detailing a laundry list of concerns. The report concluded that staff were medicating patients unnecessarily so they'd be easier to d ... More >>

The New Fort Worth Flying Saucer Has Landed

If you're out and about in Fort Worth this weekend and need to get a beer fix, you should know that the Flying Saucer has landed in its new location. Back in June we told you the Fourth Street location would soon shutter as the new location at 111 East Third St. prepared to open. Yesterday the beer- ... More >>

Preview: Tennis, Dada

Wednesday, May 9, at Dada

Preview: Bowerbirds at The Loft

Thursday, April 12, at The Loft

This is Why The Voter ID Debate is Not Going Away

Is Texas still racist enough to warrant hand-holding by the federal government? That's the essence of where the voter ID debate stands now and where it's headed. Though it may seem like a straightforward question, and one that many politicos have reduced to a "yes" or "no" sound bite, the issue is a ... More >>

So, Rick Perry's Quitting After All

​So says CNN: "The Texas governor will make the announcement before the CNN debate in South Carolina." And Politico: "Texas Gov. Rick Perry is expected to end his presidential campaign Thursday and endorse Newt Gingrich." (Ooooh, speaking of.) A press conference has been scheduled for 10ish this m ... More >>

Perry Thinks Loving Tea Party Means You Can Go Home Again. Oh, He'll Go Home, All Right.

​If Rick Perry still considers himself a candidate for president, then I get to consider him one too. I think I'm justified in remarking on the 180-degree turnabout Gov. Perry has made in his basic worldview since beginning this quest. You remember the original Perry line when it started, right? I ... More >>

An Interview with Campo Chef and Stephan Pyles Vet Matt McCallister

Kevin Marple​Chef Matt McCallister worked his way up from line cook to executive chef at Stephan Pyles in Dallas, then took off around the country to stage at other top restaurants: Daniel in New York City, McCrady's in South Carolina and Alinea in Chicago. Now he's opening a new restaurant in ... More >>

More Tarnish for the "Texas Miracle"

New report finds the Lone Star swimming in deep debt.

Over The Weekend: Taylor Swift at Cowboys Stadium

Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, James Wesley and Charlie Worsham Cowboys Stadium October 8, 2011 Better than: Watching a Broadway Musical ​Surrounded by just under 50,000 adoring fans, Taylor Swift put on a performance Saturday night at Cowboys Stadium that was so big, it nearly dwarfed the sizeabl ... More >>

O'Death's David Rogers-Berry Drove Hours To See The Violent Femmes For His First Concert

O'Death​Back in March, our own Kelly Dearmore was among the many who caught New York band O'Death's stunning set at the 35 Conferette (now 35 Denton). He loved it, as you can see form what he wrote:As Josh T. Pearson and his beard watched on, New York's O' Death began their set and immediately im ... More >>

Another Heat-Related Fatality. Another Preventable Death?

R.I.P., Korey Stringer​It was 10 years ago that Minnesota Vikings' offensive lineman Korey Stringer dropped dead on the team's training camp field, a victim of a heat stroke. I covered the Vikings' first game in the wake of their teammate's death, a pre-season game played right here in ... More >>

Your Light Bulbs Are Suddenly a Symbol of Freedom in Texas and Beyond

This bulb, currently on the extinction list, has become an ideological symbol in Texas and across the nation.​Earlier this year, state Rep. Marva Beck looked up at the elegant light fixtures above the House floor in Austin and decided they would be ruined by "squiggly" energy-efficient bulbs. ... More >>

Baseball Goes Bonkers: The Top 5 Championship Celebrations in Sports

​Watched South Carolina win their second consecutive College World Series last night. Their celebration -- gloves and hats flying in a giant infield dog pile -- got me to thinking: Does baseball over-celebrate? Or, perhaps, do they do it just right? Think about the Mavs' reaction after a ... More >>

If You've Ever Wanted to Own a Complete Dinosaur Skeleton, or Four, Now's Your Chance

Heritage expects the Allosaurus and Stegosaurus skeletons will go for upwards of $3 million. But that's for the pair. A bargain.​I've taken the almost-8-year-old who lives in my house to several of 'cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries' dinosaur auction previews, because, right, ki ... More >>

Band of Horses, Midlake

Thursday, April 7, at Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie

Whitt's End: 12.3.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I'm going to be extremely disappointed gutted if the Rangers don't sign Cliff Lee, hopefully during next week's Winter Meetings in Florida. Sorry, but a consolation prize of Zack Greinke - or ... More >>

Mystery Stew: Czech Concotion Kicks Off Picnic Stew Season (Apparently, There is Such
A Season)

​More than 5,000 people gathered yesterday in Praha, a ghost town near Flatonia, for the 155th edition of an annual celebration that marks the traditional start of picnic stew season. Like polka bands and cake walks, beef-heavy picnic stew is a fixture of the Czech festivals that unfold acros ... More >>

Five forgotten health foods

​Before the food industry figured out how to leech fat from snacks and pump up beverages with added caffeine, eaters who wanted to lose weight or gain energy had to craft their diets from what they found in their pantries. Here, a guide to forgotten health foods from a century ago.

Black Tusk, Zoroaster, Dark Castle, Maleveller, Four Days To Burn

Thursday, June 18, at Trees

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Names Gov. Perry "Worst"

Rachel Parker​Moments ago, D.C.-based Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington released its report Worst Governors, which claims to serve up "in-depth analyses of 11 elected officials who have pushed their states' best interests aside in favor of their supporters, families, political p ... More >>

Home Cooking Gets a Classic Upgrade at Hattie's

​Some Southerners -- and we're talking South Carolina's Lowcountry here -- feel right at home with a plate of shrimp and grits in front of them, but may find the white table cloth it's sitting on a bit off-putting. This isn't a jab at Southern sophistication; it just isn't a dish that's usually pl ... More >>

Bess Yet

Cookin' With The Lees

Days Gone Bite: C-Rations, K-Rations and SOS

C Rations​To the men of the 504th regiment, 82nd Airborne--"the Devils in Baggy Pants"--who crossed the Waal in Holland and battled Panzers in the Ardennes. My uncle 'Highlee' fought with them. And to Marines of the American Legation Guard, Peking, colloquially known as "the North China Marines" w ... More >>

Islands in the Stream

Travelin' Ballers

The RoughRiders take on Arkansas' best

Chewing the Fat: Spilling The Bills

You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

Dylan Sneed Is Leaving Town This Weekend--But Not Before One Last Show

Dylan Sneed Is Set To Leave Dallas At The End Of The Summer

Racists Wear the Darnedest Tees

The Lemurs, The Winter Sounds, The Sky Above

Thursday, July 19, at the Cavern

No, Tony, No!

High on the Hog

In Texas, shoot as many feral pigs as you like. Just don't let your dog bite them.

Sick, or Sick in the Head?

Stolen Moments

A steak and a rodent drive statewide

Human Nature

Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge proves itself as a photographer's ideal subject

Julie Roberts, Miranda Lambert

Friday, May 20, at the Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival

Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion

Tuesday, March 22, at Poor David's Pub

In the Black

Frank Black on two-track recording, getting older and being hot. Or not.

Letters

One for the Cat Box; Money, Money, Money

Pyramid Songs

Nile is the sole practitioner of "Ithyphallic Metal." Grab a dictionary.

Rich Pageant

Crossroads Theatre's beauty-contest parody is no drag

Hog Wild

What are chitlins, and why would anyone eat them?

Death in the Desert

Gary Patterson flew to El Paso for a job interview--and never returned. It took nearly two years for the Texas Rangers and Waco police to unravel the bizarre web of lies and treachery that led to his disappearance.

Buzz

Mission improbable; Whistling Dixie

Getting dumped

Despite shoddy science, bad economics, and catastrophic health risks, a West Texas border community may become the nation's nuclear dumping ground

Stop the sanctimony

It's time to question the popular wisdom about families