The Bob’s Steak & Chophouse on Lemmon Avenue isn’t the type of establishment that plasters its dining room walls with pictures of famous athletes, which explains how a $3,000 photo of Babe Ruth came to be hanging in the men’s restroom. When dinner began on Wednesday evening, the Great Bambino…
Yesterday, the Dallas City Council green-lighted a long-delayed, million-dollar renovation of the dog park at White Rock Lake. Built for a song a dozen years ago, it is crowded, muddy and in bad need of an overhaul. City Councilman Dwaine Caraway agrees. He, like the rest of his colleagues, voted…
This weekend, upwards of 45,000 of the world’s most passionate big-game hunters will descend on Downtown Dallas for the Dallas Safari Club’s annual convention. Only one will walk away with permission from the Namibian government to kill an endangered black rhino. As DSC Executive Director Ben Carter told us last…
Driving on LBJ Freeway while it’s under construction is pure misery. Living next to it, as Laraine Schaffer and her neighbors have discovered over the past three years, is pure hell. Schaffer’s home is in the 12000 block of High Meadow Drive in far Northwest Dallas, a street that backs…
SeaWorld has taken a bit of a beating recently as the backlash from CNN’s Blackfish documentary, which lays bare the cruel folly of keeping killer whales in captivity and forcing them to entertain the masses. To a lesser extent, so has Southwest Airlines, which has a longstanding partnership with the…
On Thursday, the Texas Supreme Court will thrust itself into a debate as old as the Internet: Is the web a place where ideas and opinions, often vile, sometimes damaging, should be allowed to flow unencumbered? Or should there be some means of identifying defamatory speech and purging it from…
The advent of liquor stores in Plano has not transformed the suburb into a downtown Dallas-like pit of moral depravity, as some naysayers had predicted in the lead-up to last May’s local-option election. The level of debauchery is about the same as it’s always been. On the other hand, contrary…
When Denton City Councilman Kevin Roden first made his pitch to bring Sriracha to North Texas last October, it seemed like an impossible long shot. What chance did a lone municipal official, bearing no tax breaks or economic development incentives, have of convincing the manufacturer of the most delicious condiment…
HUD spent four years building its recently unveiled case against the city of Dallas, compiling statistics and gathering evidence to show that for years the city been illegally promoting residential housing segregation. Evidence that the city was steering affordable housing outside of downtown, the claim that formed the seed of…
It’s been a while since we had occasion to skewer Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles for a personnel move. Jennifer Sprague, the overpaid and underqualified strategy maven; Miles saboteur Rebecca Rodriguez; chief of staff and FBI target Jerome Oberlton — they are all long gone. But now that Oberlton is…
Maybe the street was deserted and you decided to open up the throttle. Maybe a tree branch was blocking the flashing school zone sign, or you didn’t notice the cop as you rolled through the stop sign. Whatever the particulars of the situation, practically every driver knows the flush of…
This fall, as the growing stack of policy cancellations was giving the lie to Obama’s ill-considered “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” promise, newspaper editors across the country were simultaneously barking at reporters to dig up Obamacare horror stories, and fast. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s…
Roy Alvin Adams Jr. didn’t win much sympathy from a Tarrant County jury when his case went to trial in 2005. He had killed a cop, drunkenly running over veteran Grapevine police officer Darren Medlin as he performed a routine traffic stop along the State Highway 121, leaving Medlin’s two…
Let’s get one thing clear: First Baptist’s Robert Jeffress doesn’t actually think President Barack Obama is Satan, which would be ridiculous. However, he says, “Although President Obama is certainly not the Antichrist, his policies are paving the way for the Antichrist.” This isn’t something Jeffress thoughtlessly let slip when he…
A polar vortex has a good chunk of the United States in its grasp, which, in layman’s terms, means that it’s cold — absurdly, bone-chillingly cold. It’s the kind of weather that socks you in the gut and takes your breath away, that overwhelms Texas’ feeble electric grid. Already, the…
There hasn’t been a satisfying explanation as to why Michael Schmidt, a successful Dallas trial lawyer described by friends as a “good, good person,” barricaded himself in an Uptown apartment complex and opened fire on police while his 11-year-old daughter sat in his apartment. Probably, there never will be. But…
Just in case your resolve was slipping, or else that scene in The Wolf of Wall Street convinced you that crack is the gateway to fun and untold riches, we bring you the cautionary tale of Joel Flores. Flores, 36, and another man had were “kickin’ it” on Saturday night…
Congratulations, Texas. You successfully averted a morning of rolling power blackouts. Less than an hour after ERCOT, the state’s power-grid manager, issued an emergency alert pleading with customers to conserve electricity, the declaration was rescinded after Texans rushed to lower their thermostats and turn off their gaudy LED lights…
Dallas Police Chief David Brown has started coming down hard on officers who are too quick to resort to deadly force. He fired senior corporal Amy Wilburn, who shot an unarmed carjacking suspect last month. Same with Carden Spencer, the cop who opened fire on a mentally ill man in…
On January 22, 2013, the day his case was set to go to trial, Dr. Glen Hurlston entered a plea of no contest to charges that he assaulted his wife at their Princeton, Texas, home on the previous New Year’s Day. It wasn’t an admission of guilt, just a suggestion…
Cedar Springs Road wasn’t always the heart of Dallas gayborhood. Until Richard Longstaff, a British expat, opened Union Jack in 1971, there probably wasn’t a gay-owned business on the block, according to a 2011 Dallas Voice article. It was, the paper reported, surrounded by pool halls, grocery stores, a bookstore…
Ruben Riguero’s friends and family have never gotten the justice they felt they deserve. Riguero, a 29-year-old Venezuelan father, bodybuilder, fitness instructor and stripper at LaBare, was gunned down in September 2012 after a fight at The Fare Room, Cabaret Royale’s after-hours club. His killer, identified by police as Branagan…
