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Lyndon Baty and the Robot That Saved Him

In tiny Knox City, a sick boy and his robot sidekick keep beating the odds.

The Ten Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: March 21 to 27

We're changing it up here a bit, guys. For the past several months you've seen two blog posts outta me each week, breaking up the area's best concerts into two separate blog posts: Freakin' Weekday and Freakin' Weekend. Starting today, you'll get just one: Freakin' Week; which is a go-to guide for w ... More >>

More Texas Republicans Are Urging the Boy Scouts to Dig In Their Heels on Gay Ban

Texas Values, an organization whose goal is to "preserve and advance a culture of family values," has issued an open letter to the Boy Scouts of America with their thoughts on lifting the ban on gay scouts. They're against it. "While adopting this ill-considered and wrongly devised policy might ear ... More >>

Bowling for Soup's Jaret Reddick: "I'm a 40-Year-Old Man and I'm Chuck E. Cheese"

Over on Unfair Park earlier this week, we told you about Duncan Brannan, the God-fearing voice actor behind the Chuck E. Cheese mascot, who was let go after close to 20 years of service to the Irving-based chain. How did he find out? He heard "Chuck's Hot New Single," which featured the voice of som ... More >>

Brian Fuller, Accused of Beating and Robbing a Woman of a $90,000 Wedding Ring, Arrested After America's Most Wanted Appearance

On the night of January 25, 2010, Jil Katz was walking to her car in the parking lot of Whole Foods at Preston and Forest when she was approached by a man who threw her to the ground and repeatedly slammed her face into the pavement, breaking her nose and chipping her teeth, before yanking her $90,0 ... More >>

Ten of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Flo Rida, Black Lips, Fiona Apple, Morrissey and More

Flo Rida, Cee Lo, B.o.B. Saturday, July 21, at American Airlines Center, $99-$129This show is all part of the "R You on the List" tour. To get "on the list," you're going to need at least $99, but it will be worth it to see Flo Rida, right? I'd probably be most interested in seeing Cee Lo, mostly ... More >>

The Dirty River Boys All-Time Top Five Texas Music Venues

Dirty River Boys - "Carnival Lights" from Compound Productions, LLC on Vimeo.Texas Music is a term so broad it barely means anything outside of basic geographical terms. And Texas Country is almost as uselessly generic, given the wide swath of acts and sounds that fit under the million-gallon hat th ... More >>

Mike Rawlings' Official Proclamation: Today is Chicken Fried Steak Day

Flickr​Yesterday, I called Paula Blackmon, Chief of Staff for the city of Dallas, to verify Ed Murph's claim that the city had proclaimed today Chicken Fried Steak Day. It took her a few minutes to find the proclamation, which gave us some time to talk CFS. "My favorite is my mother's," she ... More >>

Americans United for Separation of Church and State Wants IRS to Investigate Jeffress, FBD

From First Baptist Dallas's home page​Robert Jeffress endorsed Rick Perry Friday, but it's the gift that keeps on giving. As in: The Americans United for Separation of Church and State has sent a letter today to the Internal Revenue Service insisting that the First Baptist Dallas pastor's endorsem ... More >>

The Long, Dry Fall of the Texas Rancher

Ranchers are struggling to hold on to their herds during the driest year in Texas history.

"Eater X" Dominates Again at the Lewisville's Tamale Eating Championship

​Behind the counter of every Taco Bell, there's a slew of people who fancy themselves champions of food, but once a year in Lewisville, the real champions arrive, ready to relieve suburban Dallas of its tamale population. Last Saturday was yet another such occasion, with a healthy roster of new T ... More >>

Winstar Hosts Another Nathan's Qualifying Contest This Weekend, Now With a Prize for Top Women's Finisher

Patrick MichelsThis weekend, Adrian "the Rabbit" Morgan looks to improve on his 20.5 hot dog performance at Winstar last year. With less than a month left before this year's Nathan's Famous hot dog eating championships at Coney Island, just a handful of qualifying contests remain for big eaters hop ... More >>

My First Show: Wanz Dover Saw Fugazi -- But Not From Inside The Venue.

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Wanz Dover, performing as Blixaboy.​Mwanza "Wanz" Dover has been a fixture around the Dallas area for what feels like forever at th ... More >>

Competitive eater “Nasty” Nate Biller chases the dream of athletic glory, one distended stomach at a time.

The State Fair Eighty-Sixes Its Corny Dog Contest, But the Pros Are Coming for a Sandwich Race on Sunday

Patrick MichelsThird-ranked Pat Bertoletti claimed the world waffle eating title at the State Fair of Texas back in 2007. He's back eating sandwiches this Sunday afternoon.​It's tough to know just how to feel about this year's competitive eating lineup at the State Fair of Texas. On one hand, on t ... More >>

This Saturday, Competitive Eating's Top Ranks Tackle Lewsville's Hot Tamales

Patrick Michels"Nasty" Nate Biller, Texas' top-ranked eater, will try and keep the tamale title in-state this weekend.​If you're planning on packing on a few extra pounds of fat and grease this weekend, odds are you're headed to the state fair. But up in Lewisville Saturday afternoon, a chosen few ... More >>

Second Floor's J. Chastain Whips Up a Blend of Simple, Local, Classic and Modern Techniques

Photo by Robert Bostick​Time was, the only chefs most of us knew by name were Julia Child and that Boyardee guy. Not anymore. With the crush of talented wizards working magic in Dallas kitchens, it pays to know just who is behind the saute pan at your favorite eatery. To help you keep track, t ... More >>

Parrotheads Descend Upon Frisco With Golf Carts For This Weekend's Biggest Bash

Photos by Sam MertenSo close, yet so far away: Folks were at a standstill this morning waiting to park in the fields right next to where they were trapped.​It may seem premature for thousands of Jimmy Buffett fans to flood the gates of Frisco's Pizza Hut Park on the Friday morning before a Saturd ... 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 >>

The Top 10 Reasons Austin is Better Than Dallas

Different vibe in Austin, sayeth this T-shirt for sale on South Congress. Born in Oak Cliff. Raised in Duncanville. Citizen of Dallas.​ But every time I go to Austin - like this past weekend when I skeedaddled from Cowboys' Camp in San Antonio for a quick getaway - I feel like I belong ther ... More >>

Dallas DPS Officer Arrested by Feds in Complex Phony ID Scam for Illegal Immigrants

The U.S. Attorney's Office has just sent word that Alvaro Ivan Adame -- a 40-year-old lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety who's worked in the Drivers License Division as a supervisor at offices on Northwest Highway in Dallas and in Wichita Falls -- was arrested this morning at DPS ... 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 >>

Hands-Off Handiwork

Tutto Tootles

Hotsy Totsy Nazis

The Producers verks up a shvits at Fair Park; gradually moves backward, Betrayal does

Pat Metheny

The Way Up (Nonesuch)

Life After Death

Andre Lewis was eight hours from being executed, until the courts realized they had made a big mistake

Odds & Ends

MC battles, a benefit at Lee Harvey's and mad love for Bowling forSoup's new single

Get Out

Kids show off their extracurricular activities

Spanish Fly

Dallas turns rape to romance with Calatrava bridges

Feel Coppers

The city council weighs a serious new sex law

Sisters in Crime

Female authors find a lucrative trade in Texas lawlessness

Bad News, Good News

The Texas-bred Amber Plan for missing kids works and is spreading

Pick It Up

[DARYL], Slowride supporting sorta new records

Sweet Endings

A guide to entertaining the only company that can't lay you off

Electric Company

The Melodica Festival returns with music to quicken the pulse and blow your mind

Re-boot

For Cowboys placekicker Tim Seder, a bad team means another page in his storybook career

Trick Town

Boys will be boys, especially in Nuevo Laredo, Where legal prostitution draws generations of Texas men across the border for cheap, sleazy and anonymous sex

Scrambling for cover

Randall Cunningham wants to be a backup. Really. But the one thing he's never outrun is quarterback controversy.

More Soup for you

Now on the same label as Britney and the Backstreets, is Bowling For Soup the next teen-pop sensation? Uh, no.

Do you believe?

Matt and Bubba Kadane team up with Macha... to cover Cher?

Anywhere but here

1998 was a great year for sports...just not in Dallas

Swing this

Putting it to bed

They rocked quietly, and now Bedhead ends the same way

Lord, help him

In Chan Gailey, Jerry Jones has God, the shotgun, and, maybe, a little Tom Landry

Keeping it down

Bedhead's so good, it doesn't need to turn it up to turn it out

Events for the week

Ed Hagan, 1919-1996

Another true original leaves us

Deep roots

James McMurtry gives life to the near-dead out in the flat lands

Roy's return

Tarpley battles demons, boards--and Barney the dinosaur