Texarkana

An Englishman Says Bad Things About Cracker Barrel. Is that Unamerican or What?

I did an article about various area chain restaurant options a few months back because I was intrigued, as a stranger to these shores, by all the fanciful and mysterious options available to me. I still go to Waffle House all the time, and I don't care what people think. I just love hash browns. Ba ... More >>

Texas' War on behalf of the Incandescent Light Bulb Dies a Quiet, Predictable Death

In 2011, state lawmakers took a break from slashing school funding, dreaming up new abortion restrictions and fighting against the encroachment of Islamic law to do battle with a new enemy: the compact fluorescent light bulb. More and more, those tightly coiled tubes were replacing Edison's good ol ... More >>

Imaginary Monsters Chased Jonny Holden All His Life, Then a Real One Caught Him

For Some Reason Grapevine Pastor and Sexpert Ed Young Won't Let Me Surf His Couch

Having a wife, an almost-3-year-old and another on the way (child, not wife), I've shackled myself to a life of uneventful domesticity, at least for the next 18 years. It's a comfortable setup, but one that can induce restlessness, so when fate put me in Dallas a full week before starting at Unfair ... More >>

FedEx is the Way to Go and Other Shipping Lessons From the Big North Texas Drug Bust

Don't trust him. He might be a drug mule.​Late yesterday, our local feds got to brag up a good half-decade's worth of sleuthing when they announced charges against more than a dozen people in connection with a multi-state cocaine- and heroin-trafficking syndicate based in Forth Worth. The acc ... More >>

Q&A: Christian Rocker David Crowder On Being Like Jimmy Buffet, Collaborating With Ted Nugent and Openly Crying On An Airplane

David Crowder​Even well into the new millennium, the term "Christian Rock" is still a practical oxymoron to some folks. But, for the fans of modern Christian music who don't see it that way, Texarkana native David Crowder's name is likely a familiar one.For 15 years, the wild-haired and goateed Cr ... More >>

Gloria's Brunch Lacks On The Lake

Photos by Andrea Grimes and Man O' The HourThe Gloria's Mexican Omelet​Waterfront dining is one of the great mysteries of the universe. For reasons unknown to us mortals, the Great and Powerful Spiritual Being of Oneness and Things of the Like has decreed that all restaurants within 20 feet of a b ... More >>

The City of Dallas Has Enough Water to Last Till 2035. After That, Well ...

​It's never too early to look at next Wednesday's city council briefing, especially when one of the subjects on deck is where and how Dallas will get its water beyond 2035. Because, see, we're all good for the next years, give or take, but according to the briefing, "Even with conservation and reu ... More >>

Good Records Recordings Returns In A Big Way

Introducing Kashioboy and his Chiptunes.

Last Night in Austin, a Sneak Peek at Bruno's Bad Behavior in Carrollton Last Summer

Sacha Baron Cohen as BrunoBack in June, Michael Granberry wrote in The Dallas Morning News that "at one of those big office parks on International Parkway" in Carrollton, "a whole bunch of people got really mad" and stormed out of the taping of a television show. His 23-year-old son related t ... More >>

Section 8 Improv Comedian Mark Orvik Fights Back From a Near-Fatal Illness With Sidesplitting Humor

In Case You Missed It: Two Killed At Garland's Zion Gate Recording Studio

Bill Clinton's Gonna Be Relatively Close to Dallas on Friday

Bodily Waste Not, Bodily Want Not

Go West

With Dallas Democrats' return from the dead, state Senator Royce West is poised for bigger things, like maybe paychecks

Wherein Mark Stuertz Asks Paula Lambert: "What's Your Stinkiest Cheese?"

Good Times

C.J. Davis celebrates his birthday with one band for every decade

Drift Away

Take in some Texarkana space-pop

Ghost Rock

From costumes to cover bands, your best bets for Halloween shows

Sisters of Rock

That's a Gas

Drift Away

Texarkana's biggest band finally gets up the nerve to say hi to Supergrass

Yee-haw, Y'all!

The Local List

Pot-bellied Cowboy

Finally catching up with the late, great Nate

Pilotdrift

Water Sphere (Good Records Recordings)

Cell Disease

Being sick in Dallas County's troubled jail can be a death sentence

Odds & Ends

Good Records affixes its label on the city of Dallas

Day of the Double Agent, The Octopus Project, Pilotdrift

Saturday, March 4, at Trees

Famous Last Words

Did the intern blow it? No.

Get on the Bus

For one fellow traveler, the road to an anti-war protest in Washington is paved with good intentions and bad politics

The Ex-Con Game

How do we deal with the staggering number of prisoners re-entering society? Ned Rollo thinks he knows. He should. He's been there.

Big-House Guru

Ron Cohen counsels new inmates on surviving life behind bars. He should know. He's been there.

Kiss 'em, Cowboys!

Pegasus Theatre serves up a gay romp on the range

Lee's Library

A senior citizen takes on City Hall the old-fashioned way-- she charms it

The Phantom Menace

In 1946, a serial killer haunted sleepy Texarkana, stalking his victims under the cover of night. Investigators wonder if he died decades later in a Dallas rest home--or simply disappeared.

Buzz

Pay up?

Dan Morales' pal faces questions over his demand for millions in tobacco-suit fees

Bucking Crazy

Want in on the dirt floor of rodeo's marquee event? A guy in Mansfield has your ride.

Smoke-filled room

When Dan Morales brokered Texas' $17.3 billion tobacco settlement, he blew away Governor Bush. He also made sure his friends got a few puffs.

Letters

Jukin' with the Reverend

The improbable rise of blues rulebreaker Robert Ealey

The good fight

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

Buzz

Square peg

Don McCalister Jr. ain't your typical Austin renegade

To be or not to bop

Texan Jazz unveils the Lone Star contribution to jazz

Rough road ahead

NAFTA road warriors fight it out for federal funding

Pickup Games

How a giant lawsuit against General Motors could leave lawyers with millions - and Texas truck owners breathing fumes

Down at the Ranchhouse

Tom Morrell keeps Western swing alive on the best set of records you've never heard