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University of Texas Scientists Plead with Lawmakers to Please Kill Intelligent Design Bill

State Representative Bill Zedler's legislative career can be summed up as a quixotic attempt to foist his puritanical worldview onto the state's 26 million residents. Backdoor abortion bans, stripper licensing, Sharia law bans, making life unnecessarily difficult for gay college kids. Whatever your ... More >>

The Museum Tower-Nasher Debacle is Getting Uglier By the Minute [Updated]

The Morning News has obtained an email from Dallas attorney Tom Luce, in which he tenders his resignation as the facilitator in the endless dispute between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System. The email, sent to pension system administrator Richard Tettamant, ... More >>

Hey Dallas: We Thought You Should Know That There's Flame Retardant in Your Food

In case the threat of diabetes, heart disease, morbid obesity and an early (and very large) grave isn't enough to make you eat healthier, maybe this will help: Fatty foods are also high in flame retardants. A research team led by Dr. Arnold Schecter of the University of Texas School of Public Healt ... More >>

Complaint of BB Guns, Pills and Lack of Oversight at Botello Mostly "Unfounded" (Updated)

Elliot Monteverde-Torres, the third-grade math teacher at Felix G. Botello Elementary School in Oak Cliff, hasn't seen the district's report regarding his complaint against the school's principal, but he knows it isn't favorable for him. Like us, he heard that the district had finished the report, w ... More >>

For Sale: R.C. Hickman's Photo of a Late, Great South Dallas Gathering Place's Neon Welcome

Photo by R.C. Hickman​Way back in July I stumbled across a cache of R.C. Hickman photos being sold on eBay. Some are long gone; I wound up with one, which, according to the Fort Worth-based seller, came from the legendary Dallas Star Post photographer's personal collection. Four months on many rem ... More >>

Adverse Possession: Don't Try This At Home

A Video Round-Up Starring That "Good-Lookin' Rascal" From Texas A&M, Rick Perry

​The New York Times just posted one in a series of national-press pieces since Saturday questioning Rick Perry's role in the so-called Texas Miracle. Read it or don't; your call. But the photo with the story -- Perry watching himself play football for A&M courtesy Electronic Arts, which is exp ... More >>

The "Pallet Wars" Rage On with Butter the Battlefield

​The recent announcement that scientists found flame retardant in butter sold at Dallas groceries has fed a firestorm in the pallet industry. A plastic pallet manufacturer this week filed a lawsuit against the U.S. National Wooden Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA), accusing the trade g ... More >>

Pulling Up Few More Main Street Garden -- and Downtown Dallas Park -- Details

The Lily Pad cafe and the light-sculpture canopies, part of the Main Street Garden scheduled to open next month​More than a few Friends of Unfair Park have asked privately and in the comments of yesterday's Main Street Garden sneak peek how the city expects to deal with the homeless. So happens, t ... More >>

All My Excess Lives in Texas

Fingers crossed, WE will duplicate this joy tonight. Right?So I'm watching the Channel 8 news Monday night at 6:29 and after a sparkling fill-in sportscast by Ted Madden he alerts viewers that: " ... in the game, Texas already trails, 1-0." To which anchor Gloria Campos valiantly responds, "A ... More >>

Good Friday: B.B. King, Kate Voegele, Max Stalling, Robert Gomez, Bosque Brown, Slaid Cleaves, John Cowan Band, Mad Mexicans, Alpha Rev, The Campaign, Brandi Carlile

Not exactly a ton of big names swinging through our area this weekend, but it's a decent mix of local and out of town talent who will ply their craft this last weekend in May. First the shows we've already clued you to in print or via the blog: Tonight's one-man band meltdown with Bob Log III, W ... More >>

Stephen Rippy Sets Halo Wars High Score

Texas Fight: After "Freakiness" in Dallas, Recruit Chose OU Over UT

Lufkin High School's Jamarkus McFarland, a highly coveted defensive tackle, committed to the University of Oklahoma yesterday; Merry Christmas, Sooner Nation. And it's a double kick to the Longhorns' pants: The University of Texas had hoped to land the 6-foot-3, 280-pounder, but instead a post-Texas ... More >>

Former Mayoral Candidate Jennifer Gale, Dead at 44, Had Big Plans for '09

As you've no doubt heard, Jennifer Gale -- who ran for mayor of Dallas only last year -- was found dead today in Austin, where Gale was yet again planning on running for mayor of that city. The 44-year-old was discovered early this morning outside the First English Lutheran Church on Whitis Avenue, ... More >>

A New Web Exhibition Celebrates the Dallas Built by Herbert Miller Greene

Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, t ... More >>

Cowboys Trade For the Other Roy Williams

Dallas Attorney is Anti-Illegal Immigrant, But Very "ProAmerica"

Chairmen of the Board

Erik Wofford and John Congleton on the art of production

The Whole Truth and Everything But

At South by Southwest, there's a lot of light shown in the dark

Gary Griffith Opens the Books. Has To, Really.

John Slate is No Slacker

Rough Draft

A Taxing Sports Equation

Heaven Help Us

When watching sports, is God a passive observer or a meddler?

Bet on Black

Glory Road relives the season college hoops smashed the color barrier

Draft Dodger No More

High school basketball stud LaMarcus Aldridge shuns college to enterNBA draft

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

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This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

CSI: Cedar Hill

Two Dallas suburbanites put art and science to work unraveling the mysteries of the dead

Life of a Salesman

Jacob Kupersztoch struggles to get Mexican art the recognition it deserves

Count Down

In this Monte Cristo, revenge is a dish best served reheated

White Boys and Booze

Forget Hispanics and tequila. What we're really worried about are those darn homosocials.

Courtly Language

Dallas lawyer Bryan Garner cuts through the muck of legal prose

Black Hole Sons

Now a trio, Austin's Rhythm of Black Lines is the world's darkest jam band

Sandy Knox

Pushin' 40, Never Married, No Kids (American Originals)

Out & About

Gene Defcon, Bratmobile

The brat beat

Why so much coverage of kids in the newspapers? Because women--and advertisers-- like it that way.

Mud pie

Do yourself a favor and stay home during this Road Trip

Plain folk

Roger McGuinn, still a Byrd man, doesn't wanna be a rock 'n' roll star

Vanity of the Bonfire

When tradition and death collide in Aggieland, tradition triumphs

Slicing the pie

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison switches to the side of the angels in Texas' tobacco battle

Down-home Drudge

Harvey Kronberg, the Avis of Austin political reporters, tries harder with Web gossip

A fan's sour notes

Were yesterday's heroes better than today's?

Unlikely hybrid

The cocktail country of the Lucky Pierres proves to be the right mix

Time to kill

McConaughey and Zellweger take a Chainsaw to their careers

The Agnelli and Finch conspiracy

The temporary addition of former Washington Square makes for a Brave New Combo

Blue-collar blue bloods

Phil Gramm and the R's cozy up to the average working guy

Guess who's coming to dinner

An audit and an auction bring UTA president and critics to the table