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Beef Products, Inc. Sues ABC News Over Pink Slime Coverage

ABC News was slapped with a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit this morning from Beef Products Inc. as a result of the networks' coverage of the great 2012 Pink Slime Shitstorm earlier this year. Oops, I'm sorry, it was the 2012 Lean Finely Textured Beef Shitstorm. The coverage, a result of a massive ... More >>

How to Speak Republican: Decoding the GOP

Stupid Starbucks Raises Its Stupid Prices: 10 Better Uses of Your 10 Cents

Starbucks is raising their prices, y'all. I had no idea brown water could cost as much as it already does, and now they're raising the price? This is a bunch of bologna sandwich. The Wall Street Journal says that the change "raises the cost of a 'tall,' or 12-ounce, coffee in some New York City st ... More >>

No Pony for Christmas? Then How 'Bout a Fort Worth Cattle-Drivin' Quarter Horse?

​Saw a story in The Wall Street Journal this morning concerning something we've written about a couple of times in recent months -- how the drought's causing donkey owners 'round these parts to cut 'em loose, creating what Dallas County Sheriff's Department Senior Sergeant Patrick Bonner refers to ... More >>

Author's Charts Show Where Dallas Ranks Among Nation's Libraries. (Spoiler: Low.)

Courtesy Friends of the Dallas Public Library​Karen Blumenthal was once a Wall Street Journal bureau chief and continues to write about the money business for the newspaper; and that's her name on the books Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Walmart and Became America's Richest Man and Bootleg: Murder, ... More >>

WSJ on The New-Look Paul Quinn College

Photo by Kimberly ThorpeMichael Sorrell​Not so very long ago it looked as though Paul Quinn College on Simpson Stuart Road might not be long for this world, following the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' decision to yank its accreditation. Appeals were made; lawsuits, filed. And the e ... More >>

Eight Foodie Events for Your July 4th Weekend

Justin Terveen​Fourth of July weekend, a time to grab a lawn chair, stock the cooler and sport American flag swag. We have a list of local spots that will be celebrating the long weekend by offering up fun, holiday-themed events. On Friday, Nana, the upscale restaurant in the Hilton Anatole (220 ... More >>

Half Price Books, Second Chapter: Borders's Future May Include Selling Used Books

Photos by Harry Wilonsky​Sooner than later, of course, there will be but one Borders left in Dallas -- the Lovers and Greenville location, spared, so far, from closure following the company's Chapter 11 filing a few weeks ago. The other two locations, in Preston Royal and the West Village, are wel ... More >>

Throw Another Steak on the Fireplace:
Open Flame Cooking Catches On

​Chestnuts aren't the only food worth roasting over an open fire: An increasing number of home owners are starting to treat their fireplaces as cooking implements. The trend, chronicled in the Wall Street Journal this week, wouldn't stun anyone who ate cooked food sometime before the rise of ... More >>

Wake N' Bacon: Round Up a Mess of Feral Hogs and Collect a Pile of Cash from the State

​A couple of months back, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples was in Arlington introducing Texas Department of Agriculture's "Get the Hog Outta Texas" campaign, intended to rid the state of our feral hog population. Said Staples, "Wild, feral hogs are causing tremendous damage across the l ... More >>

A Visit With Jon Voight About Lone Star

Photos by Hal SamplesAdrianne Palicki, left, and Jon Voight on the set of Lone Star​As you're no doubt aware by now, Lone Star premieres tonight on FOX at 8 p.m. It's shot here but set in Houston and Midland, between which James Wolk's Bob/Robert bounces while leading the con man's double life. An ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Eating: Tex-Mex, Burlesque and Star Wars All in One Place

​Like burlesque, this pedigreed Tex-Mex establishment has a storied history. They each serve seductive layers of flavor. The former has smoky performances. The latter has smoky dishes. Both are hot!

SMU's Paying Would-Be Employers To Take Their Law School Grads On a "Test Drive"

John Attanasio, SMU Dedman School of Law's dean​A Friend of Unfair Park asks that we take a long look at this item posted a few days ago to the legal-eagle blog Above the Law: "SMU Will Pay You To Hire Their Graduates." You read that right: The SMU Dedman School of Law has started a program called ... More >>

Dallas Among Top 10 Cities When It Comes to Putting Off Filing Tax Returns

​So says Intuit, maker of Turbo Tax, which this morning released a list of "this year's biggest tax procrastinators." For the second year in a row, Dallas comes in at No. 9 on the wait list -- which, incidentally, is topped by Houston, so there. And Austin comes in at No. 4, after placing 11th las ... More >>

If Opening Bell Keeps Giving Away the Free Stuff, Might as Well Sell Your Coffee Futures

Daniel Rodrigue​There's nothing like a dreary Monday to get the week off to a drowsy, snail's pace start. And, with weather like this, Roasted knows it's gonna take a cup of coffee, or four, just to make it through 'til the whistle blows. So, it's always nice when the first steaming-hot cup of th ... More >>

Let's Be Business Brief

Don't mince words, Richard Fisher, what do you really think?​Some Tuesday morning odds and sods:First, from The Wall Street Journal, this op-ed from Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, who tells the Senate to lay off his boy Ben Bernanke as he tries to re-up his positi ... More >>

Pickin' on Pickens: FedEx Thinks T. Boone Is Full of Natural Gas

T. Boone Pickens, out peddling his plan to ween the U.S. off the foreign-oil teat since July, has long maintained that natural gas is the future. FedEx CEO Fred Smith says: Nope, sorry hybrids are the future. Notes this morning's Wall Street Journal, the disagreement's getting awful big and gro ... More >>

Where's the Action, Jackson?

The "Jackson" in question is Gary Jackson, concierge at Barney New York's NorthPark outpost, who was profiled a year ago by our former colleague Ann Zimmerman in The Wall Street Journal. His name pops up today in the Houston Chronicle, where he offers "An ultimate insider's guide to Dallas." Bec ... More >>

Mad Men

DISD's New Grading Policies Go National, And Not in a Good Way

Dear "Delusional" in Dallas ...

Attention, All Shoppers, It's Cancellation Day at The Last Mall

In the Hunt: Fort Worth-Based XTO Buys History For $4 Billion

Get Smart: New Meters A-Comin'.

What Ross Perot's Thousand-Dollar Investment Has Yielded

Trying To Make a Warehouse Story Sexy

Down on Downtown

Yeah, But Would Charles Darwin Sell The Dallas Morning News?

Christopher Bancroft Sounds Like a Rather Decent Human Being

Pickens is Blowin' in the Wind

Don't Tell Glenna Whitley You're a Vet if You Ain't. Because She Knows. We're Lookin' at You, Brian Dennehy.

TXU Says "F.U." To You and You and You

Jerry's Dirt Pay

Fed Feeding Mexico's Addiction?

The Fixe is In

Med Head

Urban Bistro’s menu is studded with imaginative vignettes

Yeah, But To What Purpose?

The ABCs of ACS Lawsuits

So That's How Journalism Works

EU Brew

Old Coppertank space in Deep Ellum to get new life

Bulworth

Democrat-snatchers invade Dallas

Born to Run

Ferré could add a little kick to the Dallas restaurant scene

We Never Close

Or so say the proponents of 24-hour child care. The facts say otherwise.

Make 'em pay

Dallas activists fight
for a living wage from city contractors

Hash Over

Tuna surprise

A melding of menus breathes new life into PoPoLos

Events for the week

So close, yet so far away

Americans don't understand why Quebec wants to secede

Stop the sanctimony

It's time to question the popular wisdom about families

Rushes