U.S. Armed Forces

Texas' Memory Champ Knows the Name of Each U.S. Soldier Killed in Afghanistan

Ron White spent nights during his eight-month tour in Afghanistan in 2007 holed up in his bunk with his laptop, poring over lists of words and numbers until they were committed to memory. It struck his Navy comrades as unusual, but memory is what White does. He founded a memory training business aft ... More >>

Radio Host Mark Davis Thinks Allowing Women in Combat is an "Outrage Against Humanity"

Yesterday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the U.S. military will drop its ban on women serving in combat. For many, this was a long overdue, a commonsense step and an acknowledgment that women are fighting in combat in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and have been for more than a de ... More >>

Set Phasers To Freedom

Refugees Are Flooding to Texas

Texas has become the top destination for refugee resettlement, with Dallas the second largest hub, according to recent statistics. It became the main destination for resettlement as of last year, rising from number five in 2001. In an article earlier this week, the Houston Chronicle reported that T ... More >>

Act of Valor Wants You.

Ron Paul: Friend of Liberty, but not Mexicans.

Local Anti-Gas Drilling Activist Catches Execs Pushing PSYOP to Deal With "Insurgency"

​Last week, during an oil-and-gas drilling confab at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, execs turned their attention to a very touchy subject: how to get folks decidedly against gas drilling on their side. At which point, according to audio first obtained by CNBC earlier this week, gas-drilling spo ... More >>

Captain America Ignores its Roots for Easy Money

And what's with that 3-D?

Bin Laden's Death Leads to a Rush on Reservations at Dallas' Abacus and Other Restaurants

The Osama Bin Burger: coming to a restaurant near you?​What do Dallas restaurant-goers do when news spreads that U.S. military forces have killed Osama bin Laden, the man behind the most heinous attack on American soil? They don't embark on drinking binges. That's too pedestrian. No, they make pla ... More >>

NBC News: "Friendly Fire" to Blame in Arlington Marine's Death in Afghanistan

U.S. Air Force/Roland BalikA U.S. Marine Corps carry team transferring Marine Staff Sgt. Jeremy Smith at Dover Air Force Base on Friday​On Thursday, the Department of Defense issued a release stating, simply, that Marine Staff Sgt. Jeremy D. Smith -- a 26-year-old Arlington native -- died on Wedne ... More >>

An Unfair Park Exclusive Offering from the City of Dallas Store: A 1917 Folding Typewriter

​Earlier this afternoon, I noticed that the City of Dallas Store's selling a Stoelting Model #22608 lie detector, which was the go-to "Emotional Stress Monitor" for the U.S. Armed Forces upon its release in the mid-1960s. I also noticed that 14 people have thus far bid on the item, which shot up t ... More >>

Press Release o' the Day: Councilman Salazar to Present KISS's Gene Simmons With Key to Dallas

​No doubt you're aware that KISS's Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed (who I wouldn't Google Image search from the office too hard, if I were you) are among the myriad celebs hosting Super Bowl shindigs next week. Theirs is the Aces & Angels Salute to the Troops at Fair Park, which will lick it up ... More >>

The Tillman Story Sets the Record Straight.

Restrepo: Capturing Men at Work at War.

At the Fair Park Holiday Last Night, a Light Drizzle to Accompany the Light Show

Patrick MichelsThe view across the new Esplanade Fountain Sunday night. We've got more photos up in this slide show.​This year's Fair Park Holiday found a wet Sunday night for its free, family-friendly round of ornament decorating, photos with Santa and Christmas tattoos (they're temporary), plus ... More >>

Gimme Shelter | Addition by Subtraction

Bushwhacked

Let's just say Bush gets charged with war crimes. Will Dallas be guilty by association with his library?

Sunset on Sundance

At this year's fest, there were some curveballs and at least one knucklehead

Closing the Book on Richardson's Boring (and Notorious?) Richard Chichakli

Surge This

Breaking out of the pack of Iraq war docs, No End in Sight devastates

Auto-Chaotic

As giant robots transform all around us, it's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

Attention, Ladies

The Women's Museum honors Women in War

This Blog Item is U.S. Army-Approved

Green Screen

Catch deep videos at the DMA

¡Ask a Mexican!

To Hell and Back

Michael Winterbottom puts a face--and a hood--on the suffering at Guantanamo

Curl Up and Die

Steel Magnolias: To the salon with the sisterhood of graveling rants

All Gave Some

Sir! No Sir! recounts the GIs who refused to ride the killing machine

Book-gate

Paul Bremer tries to write himself out of a foxhole

Book-gate

Paul Bremer tries to write himself out of a foxhole

The Loggers

If Trees reopens in the future, what can we expect? Concerts? Coffee? Laser tag?

Virtual Quagmire

The Army's realistic first-person shooter bogs down under fire

Bombs & Bikinis

Stealth aims low but hits its mark

Jump the Gun

Rock Lottery 6

Saturday, November 13, at Dan’s Silverleaf

Manhattanism

The new season in New York's Chelsea galleries offers a mad mixture of artful objects, photo-optics and cinematic play

A Second Opinion

Our critics pick the flicks that the best-of list overlooked

Soler Power

Plus: Summer Reading List; Iraq and Roll

Down the Drain

Plus: Stars in His Eyes; No Military, No Peace; The Havard Legend

Fly Cook

Jeff Moschetti joins team ZaZa

Scene, Heard

Deep Ellum's club owners and retailers set aside egos in the name of charity

Scene, Heard

Music heals, now more than ever

New Model Army

Can the big-brain boys of the defense community change the way America fights?

Saving Private Mel

The Patriot is sentimental, overbearing, flag-waving--and a crowd-pleaser

Bitches' brew

Fort Worth Theatre's revival of Boys in the Band still offers a much-needed slap

Homefires burning

Jimmy, Jimmy is quite contrary to Fornes' latest

The war over Gulf War Syndrome

Dallas doctors believe they've solved the mystery of sick veterans, but find themselves in "a bloody scientific war" where they are branded charlatans

Events for the week

Letters

Bang for your buck

Crimson Tide and Die Hard With a Vengeance provide summer's action fix