Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Man Learns that, Even at Walmart, Shining a Laser Pointer at a Cop is a Crime

When a pantsless young man runs into his backyard in the wee hours of the morning and shines a laser pointer at a police helicopter overhead, criminal charges are sure to follow. But what if you're in a Walmart checkout line fully clothed and decide to test that new light-emitting gadget you litera ... More >>

Sandy Greyson: Walmart Taking Another Look at Plans For Coit/Arapaho Supercenter

Since news of Walmart's plan to build a scaled-down supercenter at the corner of Arapaho and Coit Road in Far North Dallas, neighborhood opposition has been building. The outcry was covered this weekend by Morning News and NBC 5, and the Change.org petition promising a boycott is at 2,300 and counti ... More >>

A Big Fake Fish Is Swimming Our Way. Whole Foods, Aldi and Trader Joe's Say "No Thanks."

The biotechnology firm AquaBounty has spent years working on a genetically enhanced salmon that grows faster and bigger. USA Today reported the company has spent more than $67 million since 1991 trying to get this Chinook salmon spliced with DNA from a fast growing eel-like fish to market. Eating ... More >>

Does Anyone Have a Notion of What JC Penney Even Is Now?

I'm trying to think if there is a way the latest news about Plano-based JC Penney could be any more depressing. I was already pretty depressed when I read about the billion dollars in 2012 losses on a four billion dollar drop in sales this morning, and that was before I got to the story about the Ma ... More >>

New Green Grocer to Quietly Open on Lower Greenville This Week; Big Grand Opening Party This Saturday

The new Greenville Avenue specialty grocer, Green Grocer (3614 Greenville Ave.), will host grand opening festivities from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. this coming Saturday with lots of vendor samples and merriment. They also announced via their Facebook page the store is open all week, although not at full cap ... More >>

Walmart Reportedly Wants to Buy Hostess, Get Stranglehold on World's Twinkie Supply

The idea that the Twinkie, so long a staple of America's culinary landscape and fat kids' lunch boxes, would disappear forever once Hostess went bankrupt was always laughable. And now that the company is officially in the process of shutting down, a clearer picture is emerging of who might inherit H ... More >>

Is It Me* Or Did the Foo Fighters Disrespect Cobain by Playing "My Hero" for Obama?

Editor's note: Today we discovered that Christian the News Intern, a graduate journalism student at UNT, once played in a grunge band and hasn't really updated his tastes, making him, we figure, one of about nine people alive to take offense to the politicization of a Foo Fighters song. Here's his t ... More >>

Man Accidentally Shoots Himself in Leg While Buying Milk at Lake Highlands Walmart

Update at 8:42 a.m.:The guy with the gun has been identified as 23-year-old Todd Canady. Original post: It's Monday night and you're out of milk. Mornings just aren't the same without the chocolate milky dregs of your Cocoa Puffs, so a trip to Walmart is in order. Keys? Check. Wallet? Check. Spring ... More >>

DFW's First Trader Joe's Location Opens in Fort Worth Tomorrow. No Crying, OK?

The very first Texas outpost of Trader Joe's opens tomorrow morning at 2701 S. Hulen in Fort Worth. The Monrovia, California-based specialty market has a cult following, with loyal devotees sometimes traveling hundreds of miles to stock up on Two-Buck Chuck ($2 wine that beats the pants off of Walm ... More >>

My Morning Jacket's Tom Blankenship on Record Stores: "We Need That Sense of Community"

​ Few bands have risen from the stale, beer-stained stages of America's dingiest dives only to entertain majestic crowds at some of the world's largest festivals more naturally than My Morning Jacket. Formed in Louisville in 1998, the Jim James-fronted group has undergone a series of personnel ... More >>

New Lay's Vending Machine Makes Real Potato Chips Right Before Your Fat-Ass Eyes (Update: Actually, That's Not True At All)

PSFK​(UPDATE: This is actually just a really cool vending machine. A really cool machine with a fancy screen that shows a VIDEO of a potato being made. But hey, you have to admit, it looks cool. I am an idiot, and I hate the internet). (Editor's note: I also am an idiot.) File this under Ho ... More >>

Cannibal Corpse: Why They Tore Down the Whirly Ball And Put in a Sam's (And a Walmart)

In my day, this was also the site of the best Sound Warehouse in town. In my day.​Over the weekend I espied the deconstruction site you see here, across from Bachman Lake at Northwest Highway and Marsh. The new Sam's right there took me by surprise -- so too did the disappearance of the landmark W ... More >>

Rasansky Says You'll Know Sooner Than Later What's Replacing Greenville Ave. Whole Foods

​I see Avi's posted a piece to Barking Dogs wondering whether a Walmart will take over the old Whole Foods on Lowest Greenville. Writes Adelman, yesterday "teams of inspectors -- electrical, structure, property, roofing -- swarmed all over the building, taking photos, comparing architectural drawi ... More >>

Hot or Not: Are You on Feds' JWP List?

Photo by Sam MertenWillis Johnson​Looks like at 11:18 this morning, John Wiley Price attorney Billy Ravkind, or someone in his office, faxed to Channel 5 the search warrant issued on June 24 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Stickney. It's a seven-page catalog of everyone and everything with whom the ... More >>

The Worst Kitchen Gifts for Mom on Mother's Day

​It's a little bit sexist to assume that your mother is yearning for a kitchen gadget this Mother's Day. It's also a bit forward of us to assume that's what you're planning on getting her. Not that a gadget gift doesn't have hit potential -- kitchen goodies last longer than flowers, are less f ... More >>

It's Em-Effing Chocolate-Eating Time: Peppermint Bark

​It's a Christmas miracle! No-bake treats that taste beyond delicious. All you need is a 11-by-17-inch cookie sheet, a hammer (sweet!), a freezer and a little patience at the stove. If you're no good at baking and you're really good at eating chocolate, this is the holiday treat for you. Stra ... More >>

Meat Loaf Dicks Around On His Latest

Dicking Around

Our Food Critic Didn't Cover the National Scrabble Championship. She Went to Compete.

Photos by Evan Clinton​Here's an admission that should humiliate me as a food writer and a Scrabble player: I can't spell "strudel." I had the seven-letter word on my rack during the first day of play at the National Scrabble Championships in Addison this weekend, but -- unsure whether the word ... More >>

Basket Case: Kazy's has giant balls. Of tapioca.

Alice LaussadeHey There, Sugar Balls​Kazy's Gourmet 9256 Markville Drive 972-235-4831 Try: Meiji fruit drop candy Don't try: Konpeito sugar balls I was out of rice wine vinegar, so instead of going to Tom Thumb to pay a zillion dollars for it and wait in the self-checkout line for eight hours w ... More >>

Liveblogging the Council Briefing During Which They're Discussing Hiking Your Water Bill

If you've never met the director of Dallas Water Utilities, here she is: Jody Puckett​Walked into today's city council briefing a couple minutes late to catch Tennell Atkins talking about how Dallas needs "classy," and then they gave a long and lengthily introduced award to Wal-Mart wherein everyb ... More >>

Charitable Tea Baggers

Shoulda Gone Into the Grocery Store Business

Yesterday at Nick & Sam's on Maple Avenue, Weitzman Group held its annual Shopping Center Survey & Forecast luncheon, which GlobeSt.com reports was attended by a "standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 people" straining to hear how 2009 was shaping up for the Dallas-Fort Worth retail real ... More >>

Knives Out: Lawsuit Claims Stores Illegally Selling "Switchblades"

If you're a "tactical knife enthusiast," then you'll take particular interest in a federal class-action lawsuit filed yesterday against Wal-Mart, Cabela's, Academy Sports & Outdoors, Dicks Sporting Goods and others retailers. Four folks, including one from Mesquite, are represented by Dallas att ... More >>

7-Eleven and Blockbuster to Duke It Out Over DVD Rental-Box Business

In June 2007, Jim Keyes took over as chairman and CEO of Dallas-based Blockbuster Inc. -- after having been president and CEO of 7-Eleven Inc., for which he'd worked for years. And now, the circle is complete. Because last summer, Blockbuster announced that it would be installing in its stores DVD-r ... More >>

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Forward Dallas? You Sure About That?

Ain't That America?

Iced Out and About

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Holy Holly! Actually Good Christmas CDs

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The Man Who Helped T.I. Save Energy, Water...and A Lot of Money

Short-changed

Nickel and Dimed works up minimum rage; Zero does a number on manhood

Spare Some Change?

Tig Ol' Bitties

Mo'Nique introduces a whole new underworld

Year of the Concept

After Green Day, expect more American idiots

Drunk Tellers

Run down to the City Council Bank. They're giving money away!

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 15

Birth to Burial, Record Hop, The Skin Trade

Thursday, August 25, at Double Wide

Get Out

Killer Deal

Local guys do good with A Killer Within

Drive-By Truckers

The Dirty South

Velvet Revolver

Contraband (RCA)

On His Way

Ben Kweller grew up. Ben Kweller got better.

We're Watching You

Want some privacy? Don't leave your house.

Blow It

Put the money where your mouth is

Too Old-Fashioned

Does anybody drink classic cocktails anymore?

Out & About

Aaron Carter

Wrapped Up In Chains

Fast-food restaurants are quietly taking over the world

Tale of the Tapes

With headliners like Mike Judge and an impressive list of films, the Dallas Video Festival once again wins by knockout