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Oddfellows Chef Brady Williams Learned to Cook While Playing Hockey in Wichita Falls

Sara KerensMac and Cheese at Oddfellows.​In part one of this week's Three-Course Meal series we hear from chef Brady Williams of Oddfellows, who discusses his first job at a greasy-spoon diner, what his grandmother taught him about cooking and what lead him to Dallas after playing hockey. H ... More >>

Once Upon a Time, Dale Brock Was a Band Nerd. Now, He Reps Acts Like The Toadies.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.Dale mugging for the camera at Lollapalooza​Dale Brock got his start in the music business in Wichita ... More >>

A Year Later, Family Says a 22-Year-Old Died After 2010 Electric Daisy Carnival in Dallas

Jesse Morales was 22 years old.​Four days after 19-year-old Argyle native Andrew Graf died after attending Electric Daisy Festival at Fair Park, another family is stepping forward to share the story of 22-year-old Jesse Morales, who they say died due to similar circumstances in the wake of 2010's ... More >>

Five CSAs That Aren't Just For Earth Day

​Earth Day is this week's cause celebre. Everyone from food trucks and arts institutions to television networks and giants of industry has jumped on the green bandwagon. Come Monday, many will have forgotten the simple message of how each of us can do our part to protect our planet. One method ... More >>

Truck Thefts from Texas Soda Distributors Make Dallas a Hub for Hot Dr Pepper

Thieves drove off with two fully loaded trucks from this Wichita Falls Dr Pepper bottling plant last month, before abandoning the empty trucks near Dallas -- the third such theft recently.​A trio of truck thefts from Dr Pepper distributors around Texas in the last few months have all ended the sam ... More >>

In Tarrant County, Oswald's Brother Sues Auctioneer, Funeral Home Over Lee's Coffin

Inside the coffin of Lee Harvey Oswald​Remember when that L.A. auction house auctioned off the pine box in which Lee Harvey Oswald was buried on November 25, 1963, at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery in Fort Worth? Man, seems like only six weeks ago. Since then, of course, the c ... More >>

The Drive From Dallas to San Antonio: My Top 10 Observations

​Arrived safely in The Alamo City for some Dallas Cowboys training camp Sunday afternoon after a brisk 4:37:00 drive that included exactly zero stops. 10. There is no easy way to get onto I35 south from 75. On Woodall Rogers there is down-to-one-lane construction and falling walls. And I've b ... More >>

Where's Greggo? In Wichita Falls. Sorta.

​I found Greg Williams. On the radio. Again. Sounding coherent, opionated and refreshingly edgy. Sounding like, well, the Greggo you know and love. "I've had to hook my delay back up," says Williams' new radio partner John Clay Wolfe. "This guy makes me want to cuss." Wolfe, who happens t ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

​Not a bad week, comment-wise--especially considering how everyone is pretty much huddled up in their cubicles this time of year trying to clear things before the holidays...right?It helped that newswriter (and alcohol lightweight) Kimberly Thorpe decided to seek tolerance-building advice so she ... More >>

She Didn't Mind Paying the 60-Cent Toll. But the Extra Buck Made Her Call a Lawyer.

​Courthouse News brings us the interestingish case of Mary Kemp v. the Texas Department of Transportation over ... one dollar. Our story starts on November 4, 2007. The Wichita Falls resident was on State Highway 121 -- the Sam Rayburn -- and about to take the Denton Tap Road exit near Coppell whe ... More >>

Gig Alert: Rick Yost and the Sofa Kings Tonight at Pearl at Commerce

​If you've got the hump day blues, there are a bunch of options for you to check out tonight--and we'll give you the rundown on a few of them as the afternoon rolls along. First up, Rick Yost.Even though Yost owns the nightclub where he'll be performing this evening, that's no reason not to catch ... More >>

Does Amarillo Have Better Radio Than Dallas?

Making my way back to Big D after a week spent camping in Utah and Arizona, I stumbled upon KWTS 91.1 FM out of Amarillo. Broadcasting from the West Texas A&M University campus, this little oasis of deep indie rock kept me locked in until the signal finally diminished just outside of Wichita Fal ... More >>

What Summer Vacation?

School's out for summer, but the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees has one hellacious evening ahead of it, beginning with a 5 p.m. public hearing at 3700 Ross Avenue concerning the proposed 2009-'10 school year budget. After that's done, it's down to big business, some of which ... More >>

Please Forgive Me

School's out for summer, but the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees has one hellacious evening ahead of it, beginning with a 5 p.m. public hearing at 3700 Ross Avenue concerning the proposed 2009-'10 school year budget. After that's done, it's down to big business, some of which ... More >>

10 Questions: Megan Henderson

An era ends today as Megan Henderson waves goodbye to Fox 4's Good Day--and to Dallas.The California native joined the popular morning show in August of 2003, after stints in Wichita Falls (of all places) and Salt Lake City. As the perfect foil for stolid veteran Tim Ryan, she helped turn Good Day i ... More >>

Eight Lights

An era ends today as Megan Henderson waves goodbye to Fox 4's Good Day--and to Dallas.The California native joined the popular morning show in August of 2003, after stints in Wichita Falls (of all places) and Salt Lake City. As the perfect foil for stolid veteran Tim Ryan, she helped turn Good Day i ... More >>

Look, Pastor Robert Jeffress Doesn't Like Anybody Not Like Him, M'Kay?

An era ends today as Megan Henderson waves goodbye to Fox 4's Good Day--and to Dallas.The California native joined the popular morning show in August of 2003, after stints in Wichita Falls (of all places) and Salt Lake City. As the perfect foil for stolid veteran Tim Ryan, she helped turn Good Day i ... More >>

Proud of My Fellow T.J. Patriots

An era ends today as Megan Henderson waves goodbye to Fox 4's Good Day--and to Dallas.The California native joined the popular morning show in August of 2003, after stints in Wichita Falls (of all places) and Salt Lake City. As the perfect foil for stolid veteran Tim Ryan, she helped turn Good Day i ... More >>

Centro-matic, The Kadane Brothers and The Theater Fire

Saturday, June 28, at the Granada Theater

You're a Wiener, Day Three! Meat "Nasty" Nathan, No. 30 ... In the World!

Saturday, June 28, at the Granada Theater

Zale's, a Diamond in the Rough

Saturday, June 28, at the Granada Theater

Hands-Off Handiwork

Saturday, June 28, at the Granada Theater

Project X

Saturday, June 28, at the Granada Theater

Listen to Oh, Sleeper's Newest Song

Saturday, June 28, at the Granada Theater

Oddities

Still more sad stuff, plus the good news that the Longhorn will host a show

Gutter Ball

Still more sad stuff, plus the good news that the Longhorn will host a show

U2 Can Revisit Bono's 1983 Visit to the Rock and Roll Alternative

Still more sad stuff, plus the good news that the Longhorn will host a show

Channel 5 Minus Four

Still more sad stuff, plus the good news that the Longhorn will host a show

Who Hoak?

Still more sad stuff, plus the good news that the Longhorn will host a show

The New Year, Shellac

Thursday, June 8, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Perfect Match?

The Fantasticks find true love

Man Amongst 'Boys

The Fantasticks find true love

Tutto Tootles

The Fantasticks find true love

Just Peachy

The Fantasticks find true love

Spanish Fly

Dallas turns rape to romance with Calatrava bridges

Odds and Ends

The more things change, the more we try to keep up

Letters

Silence Is Golden, Re: Wet Dog and Urine, Buy Me Some Peanuts...

Falling Stars

Who let the air out of the Cowboys? Jerry, Dave, Tony, the heat--you name it. A preview of Dallas' dying days.

Was He High?

When Jerry Jones traded up to get Quincy Carter, he made everything difficult for his new "star"

Cloudy Issue

Bill proposes to ban smoking in Texas restaurants

Burden of proof

Serial killer Faryion Wardrip would have gotten away with murder if bricklayer-turned-investigator John Little hadn't stolen his coffee cup

Dots and loops

The Kadanes celebrate The New Year, One Ton Records sticks its head in the Buzz-Oven, and oh-so-much more

Analyze this

From his seat on Oprah, Dallas' Dr. Phil McGraw reigns as the king of quick fixes for troubled relationships. But what about his own?

Presumed guilty

Odell Barnes awaits execution on March 1 -- despite new evidence that he didn't commit the crime

Be like Mike

Amidst so much business talk, Michael Irvin remembers that it's all just a game

Desperate Measures

Tim and Emilie Sherrod, parents of twin autistic boys, will do anything to find a cure -- even spend $14,000 to inject their sons with a hormone from pig entrails

Macha men

More than a decade after fronting one of Dallas' first new-wave bands, Joshua and Mischo McKay go out of this world

Out Here

More than a decade after fronting one of Dallas' first new-wave bands, Joshua and Mischo McKay go out of this world

Archer County Justice

When a sheriff had sex with a criminal suspect, he called it an indiscretion. She called it rape. and a dallas federal judge called it a $2 million outrage