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Compton Royalty

A new documentary examines Venus and Serena’s rise from their upbringing in Southeast L.A.

It Seems that More and More Parents Are Using Drug Dogs to Sniff Out Teens' Weed Stash

There is, if news reports are to be believed, a new frontier in helicopter parenting. Suspicious moms and dads are hiring trained drug detection dogs to sniff out their kids' drug stash. The trend was first identified by the Today Show in December, which ran a story featuring a Houston mom who used ... More >>

Kenny Loggins Has Gone Country, Because That's All That's Left For People Like Kenny Loggins

Kenny Loggins is in a country band. If you don't believe me, watch the Today Show until they've cycled through all the other people who are promoting big 30th-anniversary tours and new country albums on the Today Show. It's called the Blue Sky Riders, and they're playing SXSW on March 13, and while ... More >>

The 10 Weirdest Members of Congress

CNN Money Says McKinney is Country's Second Best Place to Live. Go Figure.

Earlier this morning on the Today Show, CNN Money released its list of "America's Best Places to Live." Dallas doesn't make the list, even though there are 100 places, but neither does any other metropolis because this is a list of small cities that "offer strong job opportunities, great schools, l ... More >>

From Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber to the SMU Rowing Team, Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" Has Been Around

See also: The problem with Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" is one of those songs that tricks you. You only have to hear it once to know all the words. Not just the chorus, ALL OF THE WORDS. Who knows where you even heard it the first time? The problem is you ... More >>

You Feel Humerous, Very Humerous

Dick Valentine of Electric Six Calls Himself An Asshole, Asks Why Americans Love Maroon 5

Detroit's Electric Six is all about one Dick Valentine. Also known as Tyler Spencer, Valentine has led some form of his band since 1996. And he's been largely successful: The band has become renowned for its chaotic live shows and interesting mixture of punk, funk and alternative rock. Electric Si ... More >>

Americans United for Separation of Church and State Wants IRS to Investigate Jeffress, FBD

From First Baptist Dallas's home page​Robert Jeffress endorsed Rick Perry Friday, but it's the gift that keeps on giving. As in: The Americans United for Separation of Church and State has sent a letter today to the Internal Revenue Service insisting that the First Baptist Dallas pastor's endorsem ... More >>

Dallas' Southern Recipes Sends Truckloads of Pork Rinds to Alabama Tornado Victims

​Dallas-based Southern Recipe, the world's largest manufacturer of pork rinds, has donated $10,000 of their pork rinds to The Today Show's Lend a Hand Tour benefiting tornado victims in Birmingham, Alabama. We're not sure if the first thought on the Alabamans' minds was, "What I wouldn't give ... More >>

Better With Age

The Daily Fail: Kanye West

It seemed like the biggest hindrance to Kanye West -- or "Conway" as Dubya calls him -- earning a wide-ranging pop music acceptance was his ego. Turns out a persecution complex may have trumped the producer/rapper/auto-tune aficionado's legendary ego, though.

Miss Behavin': Central 214's Blythe Beck
Gets Down, Dirty and Delicious

Photo courtesy of Central 214Central 214's executive chef Blythe Beck​ Her first name ain't baby, it's Blythe, Miss Beck if you're naughty She dresses in pink. She loves diamonds. And she says that what food really wants is for you to "love on it." I'm speaking, of course, about Blythe Beck, ... More >>

Man v. Food Feels the Thrill of Grilled Cheese

The Monster​Could you eat a 5-pound grilled cheese sandwich? Should you? If there's anyone who can and will, it's Adam Richman, star of Travel Channel's cross-country chow challenge series Man v. Food. On Monday's episode (7 p.m., September 13, on the cable station), Richman attempts to conq ... More >>

Get Him to the Greek: A Loud, Sweet, Funny Mess

Moms Gone Wired: One Woman's Journey Through the Mommy Blogosphere to Gain Parental Prowess and Free Stuff

With Shifting Attitudes and a Burgeoning Medical Marijuana Movement, the Future Looks Rosy for Legalized Weed

One Week From Today, Today!

So, wait, none of these people are on the Today show anymore? Been a while, I guess.​Far as I knew, Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley were still hosting the Today show -- apparently not. Nope, says this NBC press release, a couple of gentlemen named Matt Lauer (who I thought hosted HBO's entertainment ne ... More >>

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

A sneak peek at the new-and-improved Dallas skyline, if you look close enoughI'll leave it to Sam to interpret the convention center hotel documents that went online Sunday in advance of the city council's Economic Development Committee's jam-packed meeting this morning. (Takeaway: Open by Jan ... More >>

Last Night: Alejandro Escovedo and The Strange Boys at Sons of Hermann Hall

Alejandro Escovedo, The Strange BoysSons of Hermann HallJune 4, 2009Better than: Putting up with the crowds at the House of Blues for the Animal Collective show. (A review of that show should be up shortly)The Strange Boys and Alejandro EscovedoIt wasn't exactly an energetic start to the evening at ... More >>

Theater With Storage!

Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

Dallas No Dallas? Y'Don't Say.

CNN's Rick Sanchez is in Irving -- But For How Long?

Dallas' Tap Water No Fave Today

All's Quiet on the Northwestern Front

May Oui?

Le Rendezvous dares to take its sweet time

Madame Ovary

No Kathy, no Mo no mo', but Parallel Lives still proves feminist humor's not an oxymoron

My Home, the Hospice

Plus: Green Seeks Greene

Paint by Numbers

Inside the life of Southlake's child prodigy artist, 15-year-old Olivia Gennett

Danger Zone

Tom Clancy plays spy games

Blood From a Stone

In tracking down a lost author, Mark Moskowitz brings his own literary passion to life on the screen

Science Friction

Plus: Q&A with Deborah Norville

Morning Glory

Channel 11's Rene Syler makes a big-market leap, and the press jumps her, of course

Tuned Out

A veteran prosecutor--and famed barbershop quartet member--bows out of office

You're getting sleepy

Bubbling up gold

Champagne and Gold Bar bring a touch of class to downtown

Kid cubist

Twelve-year-old Alexandra Nechita is fooling art patrons as the "Petite Picasso"

Night & Day

March 26-April 1, 1998

Love hate

Nicholas Broomfield's Courtney problem

Mr. Passion

Meet Dallas literary agent Evan Fogelman, the brains behind the bodice-rippers

The pretender

The Rev. Harvey Cutting had one last chance to come clean. He chose to lie.

Babes in Boyland

Her left hook is suspect, but Darla Johnson is a knockout. Ring rats at The Nuway Athletic Club think there should be more boxers just like her.

U.S. Reprehensible

Eddie Bernice Johnson has burned through more than 50 staffers during her four years in Congress. She says she's just demanding. They say she's a tyrant.

GROUND ZERO

Atomic Cafe filmmaker Jayne Loader has won raves for her CD-ROM Public Shelter, but calls the 'new medium' a dud

Bad news town

Whitewright keeps making headlines--for all the wrong reasons