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Nonprofit that 'Empowers Neighborhoods' By Handing Out Free Guns is Coming to Dallas

Kyle Coplen can pinpoint the exact moment the idea came to him. He was visiting a 93-year-old World War II veteran on January 23 whose home had just been vandalized. Mementos were broken. The walls had been covered with spray paint. The man was distraught, and so was Coplen, who wondered whether the ... More >>

State Rep. Bill Zedler Wants to Shut Down Those Grody LGBT Centers at Texas Colleges

The LGBT Resource Center at Texas A&M University, like its cousins at the University of Texas and the University of Houston, is an innocuous arm of school bureaucracy that offers an array of resources to gay and transgendered students. There is a guest speaker program, a lending library, networking ... More >>

The NFL's Game Changer

Chris Kluwe is prying open America's last closet: major-league sports.

Why Do Mexicans Paint Murals on Lowriders?

Dallas County Does a Three-Fer in Exonerations

The number of convicts being freed after serving prison time for crimes they didn't commit keeps mounting in Dallas County, with Friday bringing a rare triple exoneration for three men wrongly accused of robbery. On November 17, 1994, five teenagers roamed the parking lot near the Eckerd drugstore ... More >>

Ride The Dragon, Five Art Openings In One Hood

Economides: Texas Lost $7.7 Billion By Not Using Natural Gas To Keep Lights On

Dr. Michael Economides, author, CNBC regular and University of Houston professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, says Texas lost out on some $7.7 billion between 2005 and 2011 primarily because we didn't use natural gas for electricity. Economides, it should be noted, is a vocal industry ... More >>

Purple Hazed

Pledge took beating, not oath, to become Omega Psi Phi.

Robert Wuhl Assumes the Position at WaterTower's Out of the Loop Fringe Festival

Robert Wuhl​Robert Wuhl is bringing his solo show Assume the Position to the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at WaterTower Theatre in Addison next week. The two-week festival opens tomorrow with a lineup of more than 20 different performances of drama, dance, music and comedy. It's an enjoyably fr ... More >>

For One Night Only, a Chance, Finally, to See the Rolling Stones Play Fort Worth in 1972

More than once I've directed your attention to the sound track to the long-lost Rolling Stones in-concert doc Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones, filmed during the '72 Exile on Main St. tour. All of the footage comes from Texas -- two shows at the Tarrant County Convention Center, two at the U ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: From 1972, the Rolling Stones In Exile In Fort Worth

​I mentioned this one in passing one Sunday morning in early March, but with this week's super-duper-deeeeeluxe reissue of Exile on Main St. I figured it was worth a revisit. Besides, you never know when it'll disappear again -- and by "it" I refer to the soundboard sorta-kinda soundtrack to a lit ... More >>

Too Much of a Bad Thing: Internet Lures Kids into Porn Addiction

Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison Are Locked In A Pitched Battle Over The Soul Of The GOP. They Are Also Running For Governor.

Kidnapped McKinney Man Gets an Up-Close Look Into Nigeria's Oily Heart of Darkness

Out House

Caraway Cares About The Kids

Almost Famous

Dallas' other quarterback content with triumphant anonymity

Go West

With Dallas Democrats' return from the dead, state Senator Royce West is poised for bigger things, like maybe paychecks

White Pupils Preferred

Get Over Deep Ellum | Field of Also-Rans

Dodgeball

North Texas' new football coach will be fast, furious and fruitful

Impenetrable

Bois and Grrls

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

Sour Grapes

At Tony's Wine Warehouse, there's a sucker born every minute

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

New Reviews

Counsel for the Defense

At 76, flamboyant criminal lawyer Racehorse Haynes keeps doing what he does best--winning

Urban Brawl

It's Houston vs. Dallas at Plush Gallery

They Got the Hooch

Kitchen Dog Theater parties on

Kitchen Prism

Food is art at Mirabelle

Free of Expression

Two phases of John Alexander's work show what happens when an expressionist loses the fire

Letters, Week of November 8

Trinity Water Torture, Sins of Omission

Bad Apples

Is a teacher's effort to free two convicted killers a rush to bad judgment?

The time of Nic

Using film, photography, and his American life, Nic Nicosia creates inescapable images

Reasonable doubt?

Dallas lawyer Catherine Shelton on her troubled pastand the Rowlett murder she says she didn't commit

Impossible dreamer

Fearless reformer or legal terrorist? Bobby Wightman-Cervantes makes a run for the Senate. The Texas Bar says he should have his head examined.

One crazy lawyer

Within days of a shotgun attack in Rowlett, tempestuous Dallas lawyer Catherine Shelton found herself in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. It isn't the first time.

Against the wall

Despite regional rivalries and hard times, the Fall Gallery Walk has picked up its pace

Thompson's twins

Three decades later and smarter, Red Krayola's Mayo Thompson holds a mirror up to his first freakout

Bully Pulpit

Pushy, driven, and fearless, Texas Secretary of State Elton Bomer is Bush's big man on the border. But is he tough enough to cut through the red tape snarling efforts to help the poor people living in the colonias?

The Race Not Run

Republican Bill Hill is running against Democrat Rick Reed for district attorney. Don't think you have a choice.

Toxic Justice

Lawyer Fred Baron says he's one of the good guys, fighting a war against evil asbestos manufacturers. But some former employees claim his firm is a factory that mass-produces lawsuits by implanting memories and inventing testimony.

Guys will be guys

There's art for the Everyman at two local galleries

Wrestling With Tragedy

As the sole survivor of his family's ring dynasty, Kevin Von Erich struggles to keep a painful past alive.

Events for the week

The eyes of Texas

An Aggie wonders whether we all should get to see the Longhorn playbook

Towering achievement

DTC's Three Tall Women measures up

Hugging the tree gently

How two urban Texans got back to nature--without giving up pizza

Attack of the Killer Gadflies (Part I)

You don't take Rick Finlan and Don Venable seriously? That could be a mistake you live to regret.

Fast Times at UTA

Ryan Amacher says he's leading the University of Texas at Arlington into a glorious future. But his critics fear his passion for pomp and party will run it into the ground.