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February 2, 2012
Tim Love's Woodshed is Open in Fort Worth and Serving Straight Fat (Photos)
Woodshed Smokehouse (3201 Riverfront) held its soft opening last night on Fort Worth's Trinity Trails, playing to a large crowd of cowboy-booted TCU students and what was very likely the entire medical community of Tarrant County. Seriously, everyone was wearing scrubs. Or purple. Chef Tim Love's n ... More >>
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January 2, 2012
DPD Says It Arrested 31 Drunk Drivers Over the Long New Year's Holiday Weekend
Channel 11 had a piece last night about the breastfeeding mom and the party of 12 greeted by a New Year's Eve stray bullet coming through their bedroom ceiling. That footnote, as you'll no doubt recall, was part of DPD's crime-stats round-up yesterday. Today we get the DWI numbers, which are clos ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
Once More, With Feeling, Dallas PD Warns You to Put Away Fireworks, Firearms This Weekend
Forthcoming: Anna's account of a morning presser with Dallas PD Chief David Brown about a crime-ring bust-up and Leslie's chitchats with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and a Tarrant County ADA about drunk-driving initiatives over the holiday weekend. Happy New Year! But first, the ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
Tarrant County to Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers. Dallas Isn't Ready to Go That Far.
If your New Year's weekend plans include a destination in Tarrant County and you have a nasty and terribly irresponsible habit of driving drunk, your boozebaggery and bad decisions can make you famous -- which is to say, infamous. The Tarrant County District Attorey's Office will publish the names o ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
Reviewing the Redistricting, So Far
Dallas, Fort Worth and surrounding counties as divvied up in the Solomons-Seliger Congressional ProposalYesterday morning, the state House Committee on Redistricting and the Senate Select Committee on Redistricting released what's known as PlanC125 -- or the Solomons-Seliger Congressional Proposa ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
For Your Bob Dylan's 70th Listening Pleasure
His BobnessBack in August, Big Bucks Burnett sent word that he'd acquired a harmonica used by Bob Dylan during his November '78 appearance in Fort Worth, a stop along the Street-Legal tour. It would ultimately make a fine addition to Bucks's Eight Track Museum, along with Tiny Tim's dental mold. ... More >>
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March 11, 2011
Nigerian Soccer Star Buried in Africa, As Family Challenges Little Elm PD's Suicide Ruling
Uche Okafor, a soccer star in Nigeria, played for Major League Soccer's Kansas City Wizards in the late '90s.In the two months since Nigerian soccer star and Major League Soccer alum Uche Okafor was found dead in his Little Elm home, press from his home country has followed the blow-by-blow betwe ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
But It's for Charity
Uche Okafor, a soccer star in Nigeria, played for Major League Soccer's Kansas City Wizards in the late '90s.In the two months since Nigerian soccer star and Major League Soccer alum Uche Okafor was found dead in his Little Elm home, press from his home country has followed the blow-by-blow betwe ... More >>
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December 24, 2010
Tarrant County Judge Delays Release of Surfing Star's Autopsy Till "News Frenzy" Dissipates
On November 2, as you'll recall, pro surfer Andy Irons's body was found in a room at the Grand Hyatt DFW, a cache of prescription pill bottles by his bedside. His family insisted, no, those had nothing to do with the 32-year-old's death. Instead, they said, the world champion, who'd taken a room ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
Whatever Works: Eating to Feed the Hungry; Dominion Farms Going Au Naturel
Dominion FarmsInside Dominion's StoreThis year has been one of charity and fund-raising in the North Texas food world. So much so, it's surprising chefs haven't been hospitalized for Hollywood's favorite "medical" condition, fatigue. One of this year's most notable events (for its locavore emphas ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
For Your Long Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Stones Bring Some Girls to Will Rogers in '78
Figured we might as well get the usual week-ending rock-and-roll-and ender out of the way sooner than later, though we will return Friday (if not sooner). Besides, I've got cooking prep work to do tonight (this, highly recommended) and could use the company. And this offering, from July '78, also ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Fares on the Trinity Railway Express Now Fair
Morgan Lyons, spokesman for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, sends word this morning likely to be hailed as good news for riders of the Trinity Railway Express: Starting December 6, the fare zone boundary is moving two miles west -- from the West Irving Station in Dallas County to the CentrePort/DFW Ai ... More >>
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November 12, 2010
Fort Worth Taco Week Proves Tacos Are Good For Everyone Except Fuzzy's Taco Shop
Eating a taco helps fight your hunger. It also helps fight your neighbor's hunger. Well, at least that will be true next week. From November 14-18, The United Way of Tarrant County and a class of 23 seniors at Texas Christian University's Neeley School of Business in Fort Worth are partnering to ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Man, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Is Really Proud of Its New Registration Stickers
Truth told I wasn't aware the state's vehicle registration sticker was so hideous and hard-to-read. But it is. It is! Hence the new-and-improved version just debuted in Arlington at the Tarrant County tax office, where Texas Department of Motor Vehicles higher-ups gathered to birth with much prid ... More >>
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July 10, 2010
For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Rolling Stones' Long Day's Journey Into Night at Sumet-Burnet Studios in June 1972
Back in May I directed your attention to what remains my favorite Stones live comp, much of which comes from two Tarrant County Convention Center shows on June 24, 1972. Here's its exiled companion, which, till recently, I'd only heard in bits and pieces, and maybe with good reason -- it's six ho ... More >>
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June 21, 2010
In Arlington, Open Records Not So Open?
Speaking of criminals ...Courthouse News today has this lawsuit brought by an Austin law firm against the City of Arlington, in which Sullo & Bobbitt PLLC claims that the city, by moving its criminal records to municipal court, is attempting to restrict access to docs every other city in the ... More >>
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December 23, 2009
Before You Grab That To-Go Sandwich at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, Read This
If you're traveling this holiday season, take note: USA Today has reviewed the food-inspection records for 10 airports -- including, of course, Dallas-Fort Worth International -- and dug up some unappetizing demerits. The story in this morning's paper doesn't detail the findings at DFW, but does ... More >>
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December 22, 2009
Highway Patrol: NYTimes Examines the Clear and Present Danger Posed by Work Zones
The front page of this morning's New York Times takes a long, hard look at how unsafe highway work zones are, especially those involving pavement-edge drop-offs (which, according to one 2006 study, pose "a potential safety hazard because significant vertical differences between surfaces can affec ... More >>
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November 30, 2009
My Pet Goat Carcass, or: Yet Again, the State Goes After Local Grocer's Baaaaad Meat
Seems the State of Texas isn't terribly impressed with the way Halal Import Food Market handles its meat -- and hasn't been since, oh, 2001, when the Arlington grocer-warehouse first opened its doors. Which is why Attorney General Greg Abbott's latest lawsuit against the East Pioneer Parkway-base ... More >>
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November 13, 2009
Seen Any Protestors in Uptown? This is Why.
View Larger MapThe owners of 2525 McKinnon Street, home of The Retail Connection, and Gateway Tower on LBJ Freeway claim in court documents that they're being harassed by picketers -- and by picketers, they mean "homeless persons being paid to protest" by Alex Ornelas of Arlington, who's listed in c ... More >>
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March 17, 2009
BREAKING NEWS: Russ Martin's Fiancee Taken Into Custody
The plot thickens.The attorney for Russ Martin's fiancee - Mandy - says this afternoon that his client was arrested via warrant and handcuffed at work Monday by Dallas County authorities, transfered to Irving and eventually taken by Tarrant County officers to Judge Jamie Cummings' County ... More >>
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December 18, 2008
Go Home, GOP|Money For Nothing|Corrections
The plot thickens.The attorney for Russ Martin's fiancee - Mandy - says this afternoon that his client was arrested via warrant and handcuffed at work Monday by Dallas County authorities, transfered to Irving and eventually taken by Tarrant County officers to Judge Jamie Cummings' County ... More >>
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September 15, 2008
In Dallas This Week, a Grim Look at the Area's Sex Trafficking Trade
The plot thickens.The attorney for Russ Martin's fiancee - Mandy - says this afternoon that his client was arrested via warrant and handcuffed at work Monday by Dallas County authorities, transfered to Irving and eventually taken by Tarrant County officers to Judge Jamie Cummings' County ... More >>
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August 22, 2008
Russ Martin Update: No Update
The plot thickens.The attorney for Russ Martin's fiancee - Mandy - says this afternoon that his client was arrested via warrant and handcuffed at work Monday by Dallas County authorities, transfered to Irving and eventually taken by Tarrant County officers to Judge Jamie Cummings' County ... More >>
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November 23, 2007
Laughcast: Robert Hawkins, Steve Hirst, Backdoor Comedy Club
The plot thickens.The attorney for Russ Martin's fiancee - Mandy - says this afternoon that his client was arrested via warrant and handcuffed at work Monday by Dallas County authorities, transfered to Irving and eventually taken by Tarrant County officers to Judge Jamie Cummings' County ... More >>
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November 16, 2007
Laughcast: Tom Wilson, Aaron Aryanpur, Matt Sadler
The plot thickens.The attorney for Russ Martin's fiancee - Mandy - says this afternoon that his client was arrested via warrant and handcuffed at work Monday by Dallas County authorities, transfered to Irving and eventually taken by Tarrant County officers to Judge Jamie Cummings' County ... More >>
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November 9, 2007
Laughcast: J.B. Smoove, Gary Hood, Dave Little
The plot thickens.The attorney for Russ Martin's fiancee - Mandy - says this afternoon that his client was arrested via warrant and handcuffed at work Monday by Dallas County authorities, transfered to Irving and eventually taken by Tarrant County officers to Judge Jamie Cummings' County ... More >>
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November 1, 2007
Laughcast: Dean Lewis, Todd Yohn, Mark Agee
The plot thickens.The attorney for Russ Martin's fiancee - Mandy - says this afternoon that his client was arrested via warrant and handcuffed at work Monday by Dallas County authorities, transfered to Irving and eventually taken by Tarrant County officers to Judge Jamie Cummings' County ... More >>
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October 25, 2007
Enter the Weekly Laughcast
The plot thickens.The attorney for Russ Martin's fiancee - Mandy - says this afternoon that his client was arrested via warrant and handcuffed at work Monday by Dallas County authorities, transfered to Irving and eventually taken by Tarrant County officers to Judge Jamie Cummings' County ... More >>
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October 11, 2007
Nice Cans
Designers and Architects show their can-do spirit
Blogs
September 25, 2007
Rent Control
Designers and Architects show their can-do spirit
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December 21, 2006
DA Does Have an Open-File Policy....Not
Designers and Architects show their can-do spirit
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December 20, 2006
Does the DA's Office Have an Open-Door Policy? Pardon, Open-File Policy.
Designers and Architects show their can-do spirit
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December 19, 2006
The Moore the Merrier in DA's Office
Designers and Architects show their can-do spirit
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November 10, 2006
Good Hunter
Designers and Architects show their can-do spirit
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August 17, 2006
The Inside Track
Designers and Architects show their can-do spirit
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April 13, 2006
Eat This
Designers and Architects show their can-do spirit
Calendar
January 19, 2006
Reel Gay
Short attention spans gets a little lesbian action
Calendar
June 23, 2005
Runway Renaissance
No boarding pass required for Journeys: Public + Private
Best of Dallas
October 14, 2004
Best Kids Outing
Burger's Lake
Calendar
March 25, 2004
Have a Cow, Man
Beef is what's for dinner at the Ultimate Cowtown Cookout
News
December 20, 2001
The Garden of Angels
With statues, crosses and Christmas ornaments, parents mourn and celebrate the memory of children taken by violence
News
September 27, 2001
Thanks, But No Thanks
Turning down millions in state money to build juvenile boot camps, Tarrant County opted for a different approach--one that works
News
March 8, 2001
Retreat
The Morning News ends its battle in Arlington with a whimper
News
December 23, 1999
Beaten paths
A plan for hike-and-bike trails faces gridlock
News
May 21, 1998
Toy boy
Tarrant County Sheriff David Williams lusts for helicopters, Chevy Tahoes, and machine guns, but in the hands of used car parts baron Ed Max, Williams is the ultimate cop toy
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May 29, 1997
Events for the week
Tarrant County Sheriff David Williams lusts for helicopters, Chevy Tahoes, and machine guns, but in the hands of used car parts baron Ed Max, Williams is the ultimate cop toy
News
July 4, 1996
Handle With Care
Sex offender David Rivera was willing to do almost anything to stay out of jail. Except masturbate.
Music
December 28, 1995
Roadshows
Sex offender David Rivera was willing to do almost anything to stay out of jail. Except masturbate.
Culture
March 9, 1995
480 baseballs, 200 days
For Jeff Frye, North Loop Dodge is a long way from Port Charlotte
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