Terrorism

Ex-Dallas Fire Chief Steve Abraira Is Out in Boston After Marathon Bombing Response

There are some differences between the crisis Steve Abraira has been facing in recent weeks as Boston's fire chief and the one he faced eight years ago in Dallas. Here, he was popular with the rank-and-file, a familiar presence at even minor blazes, but he was politically maladroit. There, his probl ... More >>

A Federal Prisoner is Suing Taco Bell for Stealing His Idea for the Doritos Locos Taco

You've no doubt spent the 14 months since Doritos Locos Tacos were introduced wondering how Taco Bell came up with the brilliant idea of turning the popular chips into popular taco shells. If you just assumed this was the work of a dedicated, and probably high, Yum Brands food scientist, Gary Cole i ... More >>

Anson Chi, Accused of Trying to Blow Up a Plano Gas Main, Faces Even More Charges

Last summer brought us the story of Anson Chi, a Plano man who's accused of trying to detonate a bomb next to a gas main on West Park Road. The bomb did go off, perhaps earlier than Chi was hoping; police believe it detonated while he was "tampering" with the gas main, severely injuring Chi but only ... More >>

The Really Slow Death of the Die Hard Franchise

Jury Convicts Saudi Man Who Plotted to Blow Up Home of George W. Bush

Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, a 22-year-old Saudi national and former Texas Tech student, was convicted in federal court today of plotting to acquire a weapon of mass destruction and blow up home of former President George W. Bush, among other targets. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney' ... More >>

For the Troops

In About an Hour, Mark Stroman Will More Than Likely Be Put to Death

​Rais Bhuiyan's attempts to spare the life of Mark Stroman, the white supremacist who shot him in the face and killed two other men he believed to be Muslim in the days following September 11, 2001, have failed: A federal judge down in Austin denied the Dallas man's petition for clemency that woul ... More >>

Two Days Before He's to Die, Stroman Talks to CBS News About Victim's Fight to Save Him

Courtesy CBS NewsMark Stroman, who is scheduled to die Wednesday, talks to Don Teague about his jailhouse conversion.​As you're no doubt well aware by now, Mark Stroman is scheduled to die down in Huntsville on Wednesday for killing Waqar Hasan, a Pakistani father of four who was gunned down on Se ... More >>

Happy Memorial Day -- 2011

​Osama Bin Laden is dead. But the fight -- and the hefty price -- to fend off terrorists around the globe lives on. Just yesterday, for example, eight more American soldiers were confirmed dead in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Sad, but let's face it, we've become numb to th ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Death: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. When I first heard President Obama was making an emergency announcement at 9:30 on a Sunday night, my first thought was ... asteroid. Then aliens. Then NFL lockout. Then Osama Bin Laden. And somewhere along the process I figured it was just a ploy to interrupt Donald Trump's Celebri ... More >>

Bin Laden's Death Leads to a Rush on Reservations at Dallas' Abacus and Other Restaurants

The Osama Bin Burger: coming to a restaurant near you?​What do Dallas restaurant-goers do when news spreads that U.S. military forces have killed Osama bin Laden, the man behind the most heinous attack on American soil? They don't embark on drinking binges. That's too pedestrian. No, they make pla ... More >>

Brave New World

Counter Attack

Freedom Isn't Free

Watch: Trey Johnson -- "Bombs"

Trey Johnson released this morning a new music video for his song "Bombs," the lead single off his new album, Where The East Ends, his second release in the wake of Sorta's breakup. The video, directed by Michael Carter, is the first of Johnson's solo career and, like the tone of the song (and, real ... More >>

Sour Power

Shopping Is Such Murder

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three falls off track

The 2009 Starting Pitcher for Your Texas Rangers: Dubya

  This is not the time to talk politics. It's the time to talk baseball. I'll put my liberal left leaning on hold today because the Texas Rangers have announced - no surprise - that former Prez and former co-owner George W. Bush will throw out the first pitch before next Monday's season ... More >>

Podesta's Peeps Suggest Ways to Fix Dallas's "Dangerous Chemical Facilities"

The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and c ... More >>

Body of Lies follows the fight against terror into cyberspace

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy thriller we deserve

Towering Cinema

Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies

More Wright Than Wrong, But ...

An Arlington Soldier Killed in Iraq Was Buried Yesterday in Arlington National Cemetery

Sunset on Sundance

At this year's fest, there were some curveballs and at least one knucklehead

Shooting Blanks

Peter Berg sends Jamie Foxx to fight the enemy over there in The Kingdom

Former Observer Managing Editor Has A New Book Out. Again.

A Terrorstorm's A-Comin'

Local Kids' Charity is Suing a Former Bush Administration Official for Libel

Wright Writes Himself to a Pulitzer

Junk Food

ATHFCMFFT is 87 minutes of pure art, with fries

What Would Jesus Watch Tonight?

Secret Justice

Authorities allege Richard Chichakli was accountant to an illegal arms deal. Prove it, he says.

Not Again

John Ashcroft visits Dallas

Shooting Blanks

Food Fantastico

The Face of Terror

The War Within delivers a stunning portrait of a suicide bomber among us

Gross Encounters

Spielberg's War hikes up the gore, and that ain't a bad thing

Terror Firmer

In The Dancer Upstairs, Bardem is the quiet amid the violence

Osama bin Bunny

House Bill 433 tackles terrorism?

Ground Zero Hour

A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike's meditation on September 11

Rough Skies

Larry Wansley--former Marine, cop and FBI agent--has his biggest task ahead of him: making American Airlines safe from terrorism

Art for Art's Sake

Arts and Letters Live presents a Maus tale

Moore to Love and Hate

Michael Moore introduces a few Stupid White Men

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

Letters

Don't Be a Wimp, Silly Boot Camps, Us and Them

Scene, Heard

Selected songs disappear from the playlists at Clear Channel stations

Scene, Heard

In the wake of September 11’s tragedy in Manhattan

Blood Sport

The Oscar-winning One Day in September tells the brutal story of an Olympics massacre

Going down

Air Force One nosedives into an ocean of ennui