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Thirteen Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: May 9-15

We've got some pretty awesome shows happening in your city this week, and you wanna know what else? Of the twelve concerts listed below, some of the musicians in these bands have be involved in some crazy antics, including the following: 1. Got his/her eye pissed into by a bat, and had to be tested ... More >>

Jason Molina, RIP: We Have Lost One of the Great Songwriters

Jason Molina of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Company died after years of alcohol addiction at the age of 39 on Saturday, March 16, 2013. He was born in a factory town in Ohio. Industry was in his blood; it was in his songs. When some of us were in grade school, he was staring down the white li ... More >>

Citing Gay Ban, Train and Carly Rae Jepsen Pull Out of Boy Scout Jamboree

It was only a week ago that Scouting Magazine shared the exciting announcement that Train and Carly Rae Jepsen were "ready to rock" this year's National Scout Jamboree, an annual gathering of unnervingly upstanding young men. Alas, neither Train nor Jepsen will be making the trip to Summit Bechtel ... More >>

OpenTable Lists 100 Most Romantic U.S. Restaurants, Including The French Room and a Spot in Arlington (Obviously)

Lists are fun. The categorize our lives, serve as reminders of things to do, stack favorites and remind us of people we're mad at. The fun part of listing is that they often serve as a launch pad for conversation and debate. Because half the fun of a list is arguing about what's not on it, right? Ri ... More >>

Reuters Drops Another Chesapeake Energy Bombshell: Sayonara, Property Rights

Chesapeake Energy, one of the shale boom's biggest players, has amassed the rights to drill on acreage roughly equal to the size of West Virginia. It's a shrewd strategy -- tie up all the land you can using outrageous sums of borrowed cash (more than $30 billion), freeze out your competitors, then d ... More >>

Texas Has Worst Health Care in Nation, Report Says. But What Does the Government Know?

Texas Republicans have been complaining loudly since the Supreme Court decided that the Affordable Care Act passed constitutional muster. The law is a huge overreach by the federal government, it's a "stomach-punch" to the economy, Obama is a socialist, etc. etc. There's even quite serious talk abou ... More >>

Just Because George Zimmerman is Hispanic, that Doesn't Mean Mexicans Must Defend Him

EPA Report Ties Fracking To Groundwater Contamination in Wyoming. But What Does That Mean For Texas?

Photo by Taryn Walker A gas well in Arlington​For folks in Dallas, where the council-appointed gas drilling task force is running to stand still, or in Southlake, the subject of a recent cover story on towns grappling with urban drilling, this EPA report released today tying fracking to ground ... More >>

Feds, Researchers Raise More Questions About Texas's New Voter ID Law

​The voter ID law passed by Texas lawmakers in May continues its circuit among activists, lawmakers, academics and social commentators as a discriminatory, unjustified and absolutely necessary measure, depending on who's yelling. Words like "voter fraud" on the right and "disenfranchisement" o ... More >>

Winspear Opera House's Petite Sandwich Redefines "Petite." And "Sandwich."

​Last night the Winspear Opera House played host to Kathleen Edwards, a Canadian folk and country singer, and Bon Iver. The opera house, a marvel of modern architectural and sound design, makes for a life-shifting experience when the music is good. I wish I could say the same for the food a ... More >>

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

Tony Romo's Bachelor Party Was Where? Doing What?!

  I'm sure the theme of the backlash toward Tony Romo in the wake of this interview will be a continuation of the ridiculous "real men don't wear their hats backward" bullshit. But even as a staunch backward-cap guy myself, I must admit that hide-'n-seek at a bachelor party ... More >>

How You're Drinking Tequila is Probably Wrong

Jenny Block​Sunday was National Tequila Day, a time to celebrate a drink that has often gotten a bad rap -- at least among high-minded drinkers who disdain slushy, sugary, kiddie cocktails or knocking back a shot off a stranger's torso. And don't get us started about the hangovers. Please. (M ... More >>

More to Read With This Week's Cover, "Barely Legal," About Porn Pirate Hunter Evan Stone

Click to embiggen this illustration by Kyle Confehr​This week, the Paper Version of Unfair Park features a longer look at a guy who's already turned up here a few times over the past few months: Denton lawyer and Internet porn pirate hunter Evan Stone. (Not that Evan Stone, though he is a Dallas n ... More >>

Evan Stone's Battle Against Porn Pirates

A Denton lawyer devotes his life to fighting America's porn thiefs.

Land of Disenchantment: Why the Old Mexico hating, New Mexican?

You Don't Know Jack?

Four Rare, Retro Culinary Price is Right Clips

​Now in its seventh season, Top Chef is still breaking enough ground to have scored an Emmy this weekend in the "Outstanding Reality-Competition Program" category. (Then again, the award may not be a fair gauge of innovation: The Amazing Race has won it seven years in a row.) But a few elements o ... More >>

Labor Day: Fanfare for the Common Foods

​Labor Day used to be a really big deal. Back when a minimum wage was considered radical and child labor was the norm, workers turned out in fearsome numbers to march for their rights. More than 10 thousand workers joined the first-ever Labor Day parade in New York in 1882, many of them weari ... More >>

HBO's Boardwalk Empire Gets A Lift From Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights' "Devil's Basement." Also? MTV Still Likes The O's.

Lest there still remained any doubt about the cool factor backing up Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights and, specifically, it's icy-cool, blues jam freak-out "Devil's Basement," some pretty solid arbiters of cool--among them HBO, Martin Scorsese and, uh, Al Capone--have given the band and song ... More >>

Preach It Patch

Why Blame The Food?

​I think it was last week when I came across an AP story detailing the efforts of the San Antonio Restaurant Association to encourage healthier cooking at the city's Tex-Mex and Mexican eateries. Seems the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed San Antonio behind only Detroit, Memphis a ... More >>

Duck For Cover

Life's an Eskimo Pie

Pacman Jones Advised by T.O. and Deion. God Help Us All.

SMU and June Jones: They're Both Back From the Dead

Past Action Hero

Even with the Mac kid at his side, John McClane is just...old

Kings of Leon

Because of the Times (RCA)

Booger and Borat. Nice.

Junk Food City

R.I.P.ped

Even former Mr. America Mike Scarcella wasn't strong enough to beat the horrors of GHB addiction

Legally Bland

Win a date with beautiful people in predictable romance

Bats Amore

With Bat Boy: The Musical, Theatre Three finds a star who deserves rabid fans

Trock 'N Roll

Ballet that's tutu funny

Moth-Eaten

In this tricked-up ghost story, the truth is way out there

Visions of Grandeur

Inside the Beautiful Mind of John Nash lies madness and magic

Missing Manners

What are the rudest things Dallas diners do?

Ride 'Em, Surferboy

As coastal Texans head inland to escape heavy weather, landlocked beach boys are catching waves and sitting on top of the world

Anywhere but there

Mother and daughter search for themselves among the Tumbleweeds

Hash Over

Limbo crock

Sayles goes to Alaska and brings with him a lot of hot air

Coal miner's son

How reverent can you get?

Letters

Wild man blues

Hasil Adkins drinks too much, screws too much, and rocks too much

Cheap vittles

Vitto doesn't hit the high notes, but it still hums

Dallas Confidential

The Texas Troubadour's Fatal Rendezvous and other amazing stories from the police department's cold case squad

Too cool for us

According to Spin, Columbus, Ohio, is more of a music town than Dallas-Fort Worth

Bewitched, bothered, bewildered

What to make of Erykah Badu's latest album

Bishop Jakes is ready. Are you?

The nation's hottest preacher brings his message to Dallas

Crazy day in Nootsville

Job Creation Act threatens sanity of our environmental and health laws