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'Armed and Dangerous' Aryan Brotherhood Member Eludes Dallas Police Two Times in Three Days

Twice in the past 72 hours, Dallas police have tracked down a known member of the Aryan Brotherhood, believed to be armed and dangerous, at local motels. Twice, he has managed to get away. The first encounter came Monday morning at 11:15 a.m. when officers came upon a suspicious-looking black 2011 ... More >>

Chef Burning Questions: John Franke on Salads from Walgreens and a Bad Black Jambalaya

Each week (or thereabout) we ask a local chef three burning questions about their favorite culinary reads, food shames and best (or worst) meals. Front Burner's corporate chef, John Franke, is in charge of menu development for Whiskey Cake, Velvet Taco, The Ranch at Las Colinas, Red Dog Right and mo ... More >>

Judge Tells Avi Adelman He Can Depose City Council Candidate Philip Kingston

Back in September, attorney Melissa Kingston sued Lower Greenville blogger/rancorous shit-disturber Avi Adelman, memorably calling him "a self-proclaimed vigilante-style neighborhood activist who more accurately resembles a neighborhood terrorist." The whole fight began over the new Wal-Mart in th ... More >>

Grab Your Belts, Hide Your Drawers: Caraway's Saggin' Summit Coming September 22

A few weeks ago, City Council member Dwaine Caraway ventured down to the first floor of City Hall, where he saw a sight that made his blood boil. Among the people waiting in line at the Bureau of Vital Statistics window was a very young man with his pants hanging down towards his knees. Preventing ... More >>

Police Need Help Finding Asshole Who Forced Out Mother, 1-Year-Old During Carjacking

At about 2 p.m. Sunday, a Latino man in his early 30s, his head bald and both arms covered with tattoos, pocketed a $10 T-shirt, a pair of Starter tennis shoes and a DVD player from Walmart on Cockrell Hill Road. On his way out of the store, he was stopped by an off-duty police officer and placed un ... More >>

Record Store Day Comes Early This Year as Record Stores Celebrate Black Friday

​If you're reading this blog, it's likely you frequent a record store, and there are several good ones in the area to choose from.  But, if you didn't realize that purchasing music online is a mild sin, and if your record store of choice is the iTunes store or Amazon.com, you might be out of ... More >>

Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Coming to Fair Park As Part of Energy Dept.'s "EV Project"

​The U.S. Department of Energy has coughed up $115 million for something called The EV Project, rolled out in October 2009 with the intention of spending the next 36 months analyzing how and how much folks actually charge their electric cars. A report's due in 2015, and Dallas is among the 18 citi ... More >>

Dallas Fire-Rescue Workers Tell Council That Proposed Cuts Are "A Disaster in the Making"

Garret Lucero​Got a cryptic email yesterday that said someone from Dallas Fire-Rescue would speak to the council today ("if he is allowed") about changes to DFR mentioned in the city manager's budget. Those should ring a bell: A couple of months back we looked at concerns over plans to shuffle som ... More >>

Author's Charts Show Where Dallas Ranks Among Nation's Libraries. (Spoiler: Low.)

Courtesy Friends of the Dallas Public Library​Karen Blumenthal was once a Wall Street Journal bureau chief and continues to write about the money business for the newspaper; and that's her name on the books Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Walmart and Became America's Richest Man and Bootleg: Murder, ... More >>

Miracle Guile: Rick Perry Has an Odd Way of Measuring Success

Oak Cliff's Better Nature Takes Charge

​The Oak Cliff secession movement in 1990 was one of Oak Cliff's very few expressions of political will in the last 30 years, and even that weak attempt at assertiveness was based on the region's profound inferiority complex. Its ethos was sort of: If you're going to treat us like your red-hea ... More >>

And Now, a Nice Story About Two Dallas PD Officers, A Little Girl and a Stolen Bike

​Most releases the Dallas Police Department send to the media are the stuff of crime stats and nightmares -- it's usually bloody awful bad news. But then, a short while ago, this tale arrived in the in-box courtesy Sgt. Warren Mitchell, a DPD spokesman. The subject header? "Positive News Story." I ... More >>

Whitt's End (Fish's Tales?) 7.16.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End (Fish's Tales?): *A note from Rangers Ballpark: LeBron James fell out of the upper deck while reaching for more attention. *If police have this right, the mayor of Coppell leaves notes scattered a ... More >>

Nice rack. (Of spices, duh.)

Alice LaussadeMuch tastier than the "Dick Head" spice​Penzeys Spices 12835 Preston Rd. 972-392-7777Try: Vanilla Sugar Don't try: leaving without buying anything You ever get started making dinner only to realize the recipe calls for some weird ass spice that you know is neither a) in your spice ... More >>

Progress Dallas Says Let's Get Wet and Spend the 10 Million Bucks in Extra Tax Dough on Fixing Potholes

Daniel Rodrigue​Today, in the foyer of the Kroger at 5665 E. Mockingbird Lane, Progress Dallas officially launched its effort to collect the 68,846 signatures needed to call a local option election giving residents the chance to vote for the elimination the dry areas of Dallas, as well as endi ... More >>

The Grim Pragmatism Contained Within Blockbuster's Latest Annual Report

The NYSE is threatening to delist Blockbuster's stock come May 26's shareholders' meeting in Dallas.​Stayed up way too late last night reading all 148 pages of Blockbuster's latest annual report, which was submitted yesterday to the Securities and Exchange Commission and is full of dire warnings t ... More >>

Whitt's End: 10.23.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Last night I got a foot massage. By a guy. And thoroughly enjoyed it. Now, now. Settle down. It's not what you think. Friend of mine tells me of a place where at 11 p.m. you can get an hour-l ... More >>

My Top 10 Observations From Cowboys 30, Titans 10, Stadium 7.

... to this.   From this ...    ​                There are kinks to be worked out, yes. But in Friday's victory over the Tennessee Titans the Dallas Cowboys showed that their team and their stadium just might be great - if not ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Telegraph Canyon -- "Shake Your Fist"

For a while there last month, it seemed like Fort Worth-based Telegraph Canyon might start looking for property in Dallas -- or at least a Wal-Mart to park the band's trailer. After playing a late set in the DOMA showcase at Bandera, then appearing onstage at the Granada for our music awards ceremon ... More >>

Bowling for Morning Items

Some random notes with which to start your final day of winter vacay. Last night I briefly toyed with the idea of attending the final Cotton Bowl to be held at the actual Cotton Bowl, but an anticipated record crowd of 88,175 -- what you get when you combine a sell-out with expanded seating -- makes ... More >>

The Rap Up: Rayne In Your Space

Trolling Right-Wing Political Blogs Proves That November Can't Come Too Soon

Getting on Target

Pollo for Thanksgiving!

CueCat Inventor Returns. With What? Not Quite Sure. Something To Do With Interwebs.

Wild About Harry

We'll meet you at the Hallows

Summer School

The Tower Falleth

Knock Off the Knock-Offs

Tower Toppling? They Say No.

Blathersphere

The Morning News boldly goes where everyone's gone before

Better Than Nothing

Calla Lilies to Cowboy Hats

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Best Kids Bookstore

Borders Books & Music

Fish Play

McCormick & Schmick's has great shucks, no jive

Scary Stuff

More than prices are frightening now

Best Hardware Store

Elliott's Hardware

Meet Your Vegetables

VeggieTales have all the polka and morals kids need

We Never Close

Or so say the proponents of 24-hour child care. The facts say otherwise.

The A-Team

Love it when a plan comes together? Not so fast. Sure, they've got A-Rod and I-Rod, but what about Rusty Greer hitting leadoff, Tim Crabtree closing, and Johnny Oates acting human? John Gonzalez goes to Texas Rangers spring training to look for answers.

Strange bedfellows

OK, Mr. Spaceman is a little Springer-esque

Penney pinched

Falling sales and claims of sexist, insular management plague Plano-based J.C. Penney. Can a woman -- from Wal-Mart of all places -- turn the troubled chain around?

Questions of taste

Generic Harper's seems to have an answer to just about everything

Pop mart

South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Doesn't happen often

Malls and good food unite at Nicola's in the Galleria