U.S. Secret Service

Your George W. Bush Presidential Center Live Stream and Open Thread

At 10 a.m. today, the tweets and media reports previewing the George W. Bush Presidential Center in increasingly granular detail will reach a crescendo as the center is dedicated. Every media outlet in the known universe is there, which explains your exploding Twitter feed. Unfair Park is the except ... More >>

Everything You Need to Know About the Bush Center/Library/Theater/Museum/Thing

Journalists across the globe have been busy churning out copy about the looming Thursday dedication of the Bush Presidential Center at SMU. Some of the pieces wrestle with the Bush legacy, some describe the center itself. Others explore the practical effect that a massive ceremony featuring five pre ... More >>

Ted Nugent is Going to the State of the Union, Thanks to Texas Congressman Steve Stockman

To say that rocker/maniac Ted Nugent is not a fan of Barack Obama would be something of an understatement. Take this quote, which he screamed to fans at a concert while brandishing a pair of machine guns: "Hey Obama, you might want to suck on one of these you punk," adding that the president is a " ... More >>

Someone Hacked Into Email Accounts of the Bush Family, Who Apparently Still Use AOL

A hacker using the handle "Guccifer" hacked the email accounts of several members of the Bush family, including the AOL account of Dorothy Bush Koch, Bush 43's sister. Among the leaked information are a lot of home numbers and addresses for Bush family members and their kids, and two pictures of Ge ... More >>

DTC's King Lear Strips the Mean Old Coot to the Skin

Dallas Man Accused of Running $400k Gold-Buying Ponzi Scheme. But You Can Still Send Him Your Rolex.

If you've ever thought that some of those fly-by-night cash-for-gold operations that sprout like weeds when the economy sucks are a scam, well, so does the U.S. Secret Service. Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins' office sent word yesterday that a two-year joint investigation with the Sec ... More >>

Ted Nugent For Vice President? We Made Him Some Promotional Materials...

Seeing how Waco's resident quote generator/firearms enthusiast Ted Nugent made some rather controversial statements about President Obama this week, which he's already "smoothed" over with Secret Service, and how current Republican candidate for President Mitt Romney is looking for a VP candidate, i ... More >>

Competence on Trial: The Strange Odyssey of Serial Dallas Lawsuit Filer Lester Ruston

Every decent-sized courthouse in the country has its own serial pain in the ass, the guy who thinks nothing of suing the kids who threw a ball over his fence or the cat who pooped in his yard. But there's a special subset of filing addicts: the inmates who while away their time in the pokey filing k ... More >>

Sorry America, But We Ain't Safe: A Review from the NBA Finals Road

​Please don't take this as a complaint. More of an -- as I do from time to time, and always -- observation. I love my job(s). Getting paid to attend sporting events is all I ever wanted to do since the day I realized I'd grow up to be too short and too unathletic to play for a living. An ... More >>

If Security at Super Bowl's Anything Like the Clampdown at the Downtown Sheraton ...

Photos by Patrick MichelsJanet Napolitano brought her Secret Service "safe zone" to Super Bowl XLV's press row in the Sheraton.All day Monday, Super Bowl XLV Press Row at the Sheraton downtown was filling up, as the best and the brightest out-of-town media checked in, grabbed their credentials and s ... More >>

Decisions, Decisions: Shoveling Dirt on the New George W. Bush Presidential Center with a Handful of Old Friends

Photos by Stephen Masker​Of course you've heard that George W. Bush has a new book out in stores, and this morning, you couldn't help but hear he was getting started building his new library, too. Onstage under a big tent on the Southern Methodist University campus, Bush was shifting excitedly fro ... More >>

Threaten the President's Life on Craigslist, And You're Going to Federal Prison for Two Years

​You remember Brian Dean Miller, right? Sure you do. He's the 43-year-old Northeast Dallas man who, back in March, posted to Craigslist's "Rants & Raves" section an item titled "Obama must die." Among its highlights, reminds the U.S. Attorney's Office today, he wrote: "People the time has come ... More >>

Big Dallas Players, On The Field And Off, Celebrate Super Bowl Community Service

Photos by Andrea GrimesLaura Bush poses with Girl Scout Troop 92, who painted the library in Bryan's House and organized the books.​Late yesterday afternoon, Laura Bush joined former Dallas Cowboy Daryl Johnston and members of the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee to celebrate a project comple ... More >>

DPD Would Like to Correct Channel 11's Story About Homeless Man and George W.'s House

​No doubt you've at least heard about KTVT-Channel 11's story that aired last night, in which the CBS owned-and-operated reported that a homeless man from Mexico made it past those security gates and all the way to George W. Bush's front door. Said Channel 11, which has since yanked the piece from ... More >>

Burger Battle Round Two: Farnatchi vs. Square Burger

Square Burger​Earlier this year Toque brought you the throw-down between up-and-coming chain Five Guys Burger and the Oak Cliff standard, Wingfield's Breakfast and Burger. It was a messy proposition that actually took us to many burger fronts all in one day. We visited Smashburger and Mooyah, as t ... More >>

Alan Todd May, Who Feds Say Ran Ponzi Scheme From Downtown, Caught in S.F.

Some of the very generic imagery featured on Alan Todd May's company's Web site​Alan Todd May spent the better part of 1983 to 2002 in and out of prison, having been arrested for such things as credit card abuse, check fraud, theft ... well, you name the hustle, he hustled it. There were 14 convic ... More >>

Six Months After La Familia Bust, Dallas Boss Pleads Guilty to Meth Trafficking

Kimberly ThorpeSome of the drugs and money seized by law-enforcement officials in the fall of 2009​We were there in October of last year, when the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the I.R.S., the U.S. Secret Service and Texas Air National Guard -- and every other law-enforcing acronym -- ... More >>

The Soufflé Scramble

​Nothing celebrates the coming of spring like the utilitarian, humble egg. For many civilizations, the egg symbolizes and celebrates power, life, fertility and renewal.At the Passover Seder, a hard-boiled egg dipped in salt water symbolizes both new life and sacrifice. The early Persians painted ... More >>

Airing New Research and Dusting Off Old Yarns, 46 Years After the Kennedy Assassination

Patrick MichelsErnest Brandt, who says he was an eyewitness to the Kennedy assassination, shows 11-year-old Mack Reed the window where Oswald fired from. More photos are up in this slide show.​Out at Dealey Plaza Sunday afternoon, there was something for everyone: fashion, literature, song and, fi ... More >>

When the DEA Busted Up La Familia, They Hauled In Plenty of Guns, Drugs and Dough

Photos by Kimberly Thorpe​You're looking at 220 pounds of methamphetamine, 4.5 kilos of cocaine and $660,000 in cash; there was also quite the assortment of machine guns hauled in. The whole stash was seized in North Texas yesterday from more than 80 members of a violent Mexican drug cartel known ... More >>

Havin' a Ball: At the Texas Pinball Festival in Grapevine, "This is A Way of Life."

Daniel DaugheryButch Peel repairs one pinball machine that didn't stand up to the experts' night of nonstop play.More than 100 pinball machines, all set to free play, and not a deaf, dumb, blind kid in sight. It might sound like some crazy pinballer's fantasy, but it came true this weekend at the Te ... More >>

Today In Music News: Beyonce v. The Secret Service, A J.J. Fad Reunion?

Your daily dose of music news for Thursday, January 22, 2009... Even the inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday couldn't keep Beyonce from goin' all diva on the Secret Service's ass. It seems the building her hubby Jay-Z was rehearsing in for his inauguration concert was part of a five block, no ... More >>

Bush's "After-Life" in Dallas

Guess we'd best get used to it -- probably gonna need to come up with a "The Bush is Back" category or somesuch. Till then, though, this sneak peek at the soon-to-be-ex-president's plans for his return to Dallas at the end of the month:President George W. Bush's "after-life," as Laura Bush calls the ... More >>

Laying Down the Unwelcome Mat for Bush

Hillary at Herrera's, Kind of Like An SNL Sketch (Also: ABC Anchor Talks Mavs!)

No Security, Not Just a Bad Rolling Stones Live Album

We'll Pass on the Multi-Perspective, Mega-Annoying Vantage Point

More From the Obama Rally: The Waiting is the Hardest Part

Film 2007: On Deck

Something to look forward to in 2008: Clint Eastwood'sChangeling

Two Words You Don't Wanna Hear Together: "Cheney" and "Beretta."

A Fate Worse Than Dubya, Live at Wild About Harry's!

The Fair Can Be So Unfair

"Just Like a Drift of Blossoms..."

Top Secret

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Lost in Translation

All talk and little action, The Interpreter doesn't even make sense

More Bushwhacking

Plus: Attack and Counterattack; Who Ya Callin’ Geek?

Electric Shtick

The Electric Six's shenanigans have them laughing all the way to the bank

Life in the Slow Lane

This Bush's summer home is a long way from Kennebunkport, but the folks in Crawford think that's fine

Bum Deal

Mandy Moore's going to be around for a while--but that doesn't mean you should see her movies

20 Years Young

Millennium celebrates "The Mod, the Odd and the Ugly"

Deadly Skies

Plus: The Original Crusaders; Out, Damned Potholes; Someone's Lying

The Color of Money

Does restaurant service differ because of race? Depends on whom you ask.

Death in the Desert

Gary Patterson flew to El Paso for a job interview--and never returned. It took nearly two years for the Texas Rangers and Waco police to unravel the bizarre web of lies and treachery that led to his disappearance.

Nuke 'em

Deterrence takes on -- and bungles -- the biggest question of all

Poop on the scoop

DMN editors spin the truth until it wobbles rather than come clean on how they blew their big story

Soul food & crackers

How two black Dallas men learned to love the lily-white Republic of Texas--especially the part about phony checks and payment-free plastic

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Power outage

After this absolute mess, Eastwood might consider a ride into the sunset

Gold diggers

The telecommunications bill brings out the greed in all of us