Thomas Edison

Dallas' Other Congressional Gold Medalist

Damned Rangers

The Texas Rangers better win the pennant this year, if only to atone for subjecting fans to two decades of baseball hell. Mike Shropshire chronicles the team's cursed early years in an exclusive Observer excerpt.

Events for the week

The Texas Rangers better win the pennant this year, if only to atone for subjecting fans to two decades of baseball hell. Mike Shropshire chronicles the team's cursed early years in an exclusive Observer excerpt.

Events for the week

The Texas Rangers better win the pennant this year, if only to atone for subjecting fans to two decades of baseball hell. Mike Shropshire chronicles the team's cursed early years in an exclusive Observer excerpt.

Letters

The Texas Rangers better win the pennant this year, if only to atone for subjecting fans to two decades of baseball hell. Mike Shropshire chronicles the team's cursed early years in an exclusive Observer excerpt.

Old-soul music

Budapest One is a brand-new band making some venerable -- and tremendous -- rock and roll

No place like home

Thousands of Texans say they can do a better job teaching their children at home. But some local truant officers claim parents are using a massive loophole in Texas law to skip school altogether.

Guided By Voices

Earthquake Glue (Matador)

Once and for All, Was Jimmy Hendrix Mexican?

Earthquake Glue (Matador)

Cheese Holes

Finally I get why nothing City Hall says to me makes sense

Wild Child

For Quinn Eaker, a son of the radical "unschooling" movement, school's out forever

Cops on Campus

Forget detention. DISD means business with its new beefed-up police force—bad business, say some employees.

How do we know whether Walt Disney was a Mexican? Maybe a little mouse told us.

Forget detention. DISD means business with its new beefed-up police force—bad business, say some employees.

Pandering During Hispanic Heritage Month is Nothing to be Proud of

Forget detention. DISD means business with its new beefed-up police force—bad business, say some employees.

Bucks Burnett's Eight-Track Museum To Hold Grand Opening on Valentine's Day With Some Help From The Tom Tom Club and The O's.

​Turns out the Christmas Day opening of Bucks Burnett's Eight-Track Museum at 2630 E. Commerce St. in Deep Ellum was just a soft one. The grand opening, we now know, will take place on another holiday -- Valentine's Day, which, in case you've somehow forgotten, takes place on Monday, February 14.A ... More >>

Who Needs Electricity On Such a Lovely Day?

​I don't trust that Oncor power-outage map -- mostly because it doesn't show operating-on-emergency-back-ups Unfair Park HQ on the in-the-dark list, or maybe we're just the unlucky 26 sans juice in Dallas. (Says 1,088 are sweating it out in Fort Worth.) Course, it could be worse: We could be livin ... More >>