Wall Street

Meet Texas' Six Newest Billionaires

Yesterday, Forbes released the billionaires list, its annual parade of the ridiculously, absurdly super-rich. This year, the list stretches to some 1,426 names worth a combined $5.4 trillion. Texas claims a small if significant portion of that, counting 50 billionaires among its 26 million resident ... More >>

Del Frisco's Grille Expanding Empire with Two New DFW Locations This Year

Del Frisco's is planning to open two new area restaurants this year. The restaurant group is based in Southlake and currently has more then 30 restaurants across the U.S., including the flagship Double Eagle Steak House in downtown Dallas and Fort Worth, and the more casual trendy and casual Del Fri ... More >>

Was Hostess' Death a Murder, Suicide or Natural Causes?

Or was it all three?

How to Survive a Plague Recounts a Stirring History of ACT UP

Let the Democrats Remember: The Wealth of the Nation Doesn't Come from Yachts

Pins and needles, waiting for the Democrats to open in Charlotte. I am so worried the Obama campaign might stumble on an editorial from The Dallas Morning News and actually read it. Well, not that worried. That would take a lot of stumbling. But what a shame if they did take the News' consistent ed ... More >>

Chuy's And Del Frisco's Restaurant Offer Shares On Wall Street

Chuy's is now a publicly traded enchilada maker. This morning they offered nearly 6 million shares on the NASDAQ exchange for $13 each. By noon the stock prices had risen16 percent to $15.20, indicating Wall Street is at least temporarily bullish on Chicka-Chicka Boom-Boom enchiladas. Chuy's plans ... More >>

Try Not To Breathe Too Much Today, DFW

Take a look outside your window. You've probably gotten used to that omnipresent, smoky haze that hangs over the Metroplex like a pall of economic viability -- upwind power plants a'chugging; cars snaking down tangles of toll roads and highways; shale gas production amid the cities and 'burbs slowed ... More >>

The Feds Attack Online Poker

On Black Friday, The Justice Department killed a $2.5 billion industry.

The Art of Prohibition

If Google Swallows Open Table Too, Yelp Could Yelp Its Last Yelp

​Back in September, when we wrote about Google taking a bite out of Zagat, we wondered if the Internet giant had plans to compete with Yelp. Google already allows users to give restaurants a star rating and to offer their thoughts on recent dining experiences. Zagat's database, containing prof ... More >>

Yesterday, Caraway Visited Pioneer Park. But Tomorrow, They Occupy a Federal Courtroom.

Photos by Chris Howell​One week ago today we walked alongside the Occupy Dallas-ites as they marched from Pike Park to the Dallas Federal Reserve airing their laundry list of grievances, echoing those who stormed Wall Street almost a month ago and never left as their ranks swelled. But in the week ... More >>

Sucking Up Water and Sand in the Quest for Natural Gas

For folks in the sandy hills northwest of Dallas, it's a devil's bargain for gas, water and jobs.

The Office Grill: Perfect Escape from Cubicle Hell

Staying late at this office is no problem.

How Dumb Do Governor Rick Perry and the Lege Think We Are? Well, We Elected Them.

​Oh, now it starts. Faced with a state budget deficit somewhere between $15 billion and $27 billion, Governor Rick Perry says the most important thing for the Legislature to do now is ban "sanctuary cities." Those are cities where the cops don't ask people about their immigration status, bec ... More >>

What Do Rick Perry and Nigerian E-Mail Scammers Have in Common? You.

​You know what the pigeon drop is, right? Some scam artist convinces an old lady she can get $10,000 for free by withdrawing a mere $1,000 from her bank account. All she has to do is allow the scam artist to hold her thousand dollars for half an hour. I don't have to tell you how it ends. So ... More >>

As Netflix Tries to Fry Blockbuster's Canadian Bacon, a Former Observer-er Pens An Adios

​Blockbuster continues to insist it ain't going nowhere -- even as 24/7 Wall Street puts the downtown-based company on its death-watch list (one of three locals to make the list, actually, and not the first time someone has predicted Blockbuster's inevitable demise). But just in case it goes, my l ... More >>

East Texas Town Seeks World Record For the Biggest Bowl of Salsa; Chips May Be In Short Supply

Jacksonvilletexas.comYou eat tomato, I ate tomahto​Jacksonsville, the tiny Cherokee County town that 1930s Wall Street traders used to ring up when they needed to know the price of tomatoes, is taking aim at the world record for the biggest bowl of salsa this weekend. "We're going to make 2000 p ... More >>

Is American "A Waning Star of Air Travel"? The New York Times, and Analysts, Think So.

​This morning's New York Times wonders: How much longer can Fort Worth-based American Airlines limp along without merging with another airline, a la Delta-Northwest and, more recently, the proposed United-Continental union? AA, which held a "sparsely attended" shareholders meeting in New York yest ... More >>

OK, So Maybe Luxury Is Dead

Flickr photo: Wednesday181Christmas was not kind to Neimans. Neither were the months before and after.In light of Neiman Marcus reporting a quarterly net loss of $509.2 million this morning, The Wall Street Journal takes a look at how the high-end Dallas-based retailer is attempting to survive what ... More >>

Last Night: Monotonix at the Lounge on Elm Street

Dallas Security Traders to Laugh It Up with "Wall Street Jerkblogger"

In Alaska, Another Irving-Based Oil Company Goes Shootin' at Some Crude

Protests Are a Gas, Gas, Gas

Psycho Killer, Christian Bale

See a fa-fa-fine film at the Inwood

Two Years Later, the Book (or Chapter, Really) on That ExxonMobil Protest

Mamet Drives Deep Into the Urban Jungle with Edmond

Also: Not much to like in As You Like it

No Longer Belo Market Value

Newspapers are Worthless. Wait, That's News?

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

Cuban: Newspapers Do "Dumb-Ass Shit"

Conflicts of Interest Are, Ya Know, Interesting

Oily Fingers?

Wize Guys

Here's your chance to get rich quick -- or lose your shirt, in which case, GlobalTec disavows all responsibility for, well, anything

D'Angelo

Is there a better symbol for City Hall?

Dog Show

Take the heat from the Kitchen

Boogie for Bush!

Dubya and Franz Ferdinand have made it OK for white guys to dance

Nervous

Budget woes leave DMN staffers uneasy

Riding Coattails

Plus: The Snub; A Dog’s Life

Punish This

The latest comic-book movie might just kill you

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Ground Zero Hour

A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike's meditation on September 11

The Claim Game

Why is everyone trying to decide which reporter "broke" the Enron story? Money.

Boom

Plus: She's a Keepie, The Fix Is In, Kill Us With Crap

What a Rush

From director and restaurateur Bob Giraldi comes a movie meal to savor

Rich Pageant

Crossroads Theatre's beauty-contest parody is no drag

Easy as Pi

The Inwood's midnight treats

Letters

Stogie's last gasp?

Lone Wolf sends it off with class and taste

Intolerance

The searing French film La Haine (Hate) tops this year's Festival offerings

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX