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How Medicare Became a Thieves' Bazaar

In Dallas and across the country, hospitals, doctors and dealers have made Medicare the nation’s sweetest crime. The feds are now trying to shutter the door.

Thar She Blows: A Great Idea Rises at City Hall. Fetch the Harpoons.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. A huge idea turned up at City Hall yesterday. Huge. This is like a Blue whale beaching itself on the banks of the Trinity River. I'm afraid City Hall is going to send a crew out there and chop it into cat-food. We need to stop and take a big look at this ... More >>

And We're Off ... Cowboys Signing Rookie Free Agents

Lyle Leong, the newest Cowboy​With their first practice in San Antonio's Alamodome in about 48 hours, the Cowboys are scrambling to piece together a roster. The first step in that process is signing undrafted free agents, which can begin today per the post-lockout NFL rules. Who ... More >>

Pristine Sistine

Study Says Dallas Am Not Be Very Literate

Via Threadless​Don't get defensive. That's just what Dr. John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, says in the seventh-annual report America's Most Literate Cities 2010 released today. Yet again, when ranking the 75 top-population cities in the U.S., Miller looked at six " ... More >>

West Dallas Chamber Chair Is Not Pleased With Plan to Put Salvage Yard Near Trinity River

From Victor Toledo's PowerPoint​On May 20, the City Plan Commission gave Bruce Heydarian the okee-doke to plant an enormous scrap yard on Singleton Boulevard and Pluto Street, not terribly far from the Trinity River. Only two commissioners voted against the plan, among them Michael Davis; the rest ... More >>

Neighborhood Services Bar & Grill: Third Time is a Charm for Nick Badovinus.

Tonight, Tonight: GWAR at House of Blues, Of Montreal at the Granada Theater, Lifehouse at the Palladium Ballroom, Jacob Metcalf at City Tavern

Another Tuesday rolls around and it's another intriguing collection of musical options. A great night to drown those baseball sorrows.

Yeah, But What If Baseball Went To The European Football Table?

I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we're all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August ... September ... maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top ... More >>

At West Dallas Luncheon, Optimism, a Hotel Pitch ... and Talk of a Water Sports Park

Alexa SchirtzingerMayor Tom at the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce's annual "State of the West" luncheon yesterdayAt the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce's annual "State of the West" luncheon yesterday, nearly 200 people filled a sunny room at the Lake West YMCA to hear about the future of West Dalla ... More >>

In West Dallas, Finding MMDs

On Wednesday, as you're no doubt aware by now, the Dallas City Council voted to create three municipal management districts, or MMDs. They're the first in Dallas, though Houston is often invoked as proof that MMDs do wonders for development. Which is no surprise, as they're made for development -- o ... More >>

Tryst And Shout

Trysts in Toledo: Theatre Three's 17th-Century Nunsense Doesn't Wear Well

Written by a nun, Theatre Three's Trysts in Toledo dusts off an old, unconventional comedy

Sir, There's Only One Marco's Pizza

A Footnote in History, Duncanville's Bacsik Wants Back in the Bigs

Vampire Weekend Backlash at SXSW

The hype factory had everyone ready to hate on Vampire Weekend before the band arrived in Austin

Lyfe Sentence

After serving 10 years for arson, Lyfe Jennings finds a new flame in music

Greyhound Has Its Own Iraq Conflict

The Reverend Pimp

Cruising With the Whore Cop

Officer Terry Peters knows just about every hooker in town. And they love him--because he keeps them alive.

The American Band

Don Brewer keeps Grand Funk Railroad--and his ill will--going strong

Bois and Grrls

Genderqueer: Straight or gay, these kids refuse to play dress-up by the rules

Depress Tour

I coulda sworn I was there when they turned on the TV

O Brothers, Who Art Thou?

If you don't know who the Soledad Brothers are, you should

Camp Ernie

Do the time warp at Ernie's of Dallas

Lift Him Up

The gospel truth about Christian blues pioneer Washington Phillips

Last Rites

Ghouls and grief along the Columbia debris trail

Last Rites

Ghouls and grief along the Columbia debris trail

Road Warriors

Amores Perros sears its characters (dogs included) to a crisp as it leads them to a kind of redemption

Flanagan's wake

VH1 vice president's novel about the music business mourns an era just since passed

Belly up

Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So des the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.

Chain links

Earl's is thin...

Lost legends

Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

Alive and kicking

Baby, it's them

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach are not such unlikely partners

Out Here