The kids in Head Start just can’t catch a break. If it’s not the federal government shutting down or arbitrarily cutting funding to the low-income preschool program, it’s petty thieves breaking into their classrooms. At 4 a.m. on Wednesday, one such criminal broke into Head Start of Greater Dallas’ preschool…
The Dallas Police Department has already admitted that the chase that killed Fred Bradford Jr. on the night of April 21 shouldn’t have happened. Bradford, 51, was riding his bicycle along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, allegedly stopping to peek suspiciously inside parked cars. Officer Bryan Burgess gave chase in…
Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans are comedians, but their new project, Sunday Assembly, isn’t a joke. It’s also not a joke when Evans describes it as “all the best bits of church, but with no religion and awesome pop songs,” or when Jones says its goal is to to “bring…
Two weeks ago, Dallas breathed out a triumphant chuckle when the massive winter storm that promised to encase the city in ice and smother all signs of life arrived instead as a chilly but gentle rain. No way would the weather gods have the chutzpah to mess with the Big…
A Texas state trooper was arrested in Cleburne Tuesday night after allegedly buying 6 grams of methamphetamine. According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, 47-year-old Jimmy Jay Gillman, an officer in the Texas Department of Public Safety’s commercial vehicle enforcement unit, was picked up just after 9 p.m. in front…
Across the U.S., commuters are trading in their cars for trains and buses. According to a study released Wednesday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, two-thirds of the country’s 100 largest cities saw jumps in the number of miles traveled each year on public transit between 2005 and 2010…
Earlier this year, Kip’s Big Boy statue made his Abrams Road debut, replacing the extraordinarily creepy baby Buddha statue at the center of White Rock Landscaping owner Gary Isett’s Cowboy star-shaped flower bed. The iconic hamburger slinger’s cameo proved to be brief. Within days, city of Dallas code inspectors issued…
A team of researchers at SMU has reached a conclusion that may seem obvious to those who have felt the 20-plus earthquakes that rattled North Texas last month: The recent bursts of seismic activity could be linked to fracking. The researchers, led by recent SMU grad Ashley Justinic, took a…
Less than four months after taking over as executive director of the Rockwall Housing Development Corp. in June 2009, assuming full control of the nonprofit’s finances and The Meadows, its 36-unit public housing a couple of blocks off Interstate 30, Jennifer Tyson made out a check to “reimbursement,” took it…
Driving in Dallas sucks for a lot of reasons (traffic, terrible drivers, humongous potholes, et al), but overzealous traffic cops aren’t one of them. This isn’t just the anecdotal experience of a guy who, having been ticketed three times in five months as a teenager in Richardson, discovered similar infractions…
The conceit behind The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told is easy to grasp. Instead of Adam and Eve frolicking naked in the Garden of Eden, it’s Adam and Steve who are the primordial couple. When they meet up with an equally primordial lesbian couple and decide to start a civilization,…
Fort Worth police shot and killed two dogs that mauled a man and his daughter early Tuesday morning. According to police, the man heard a commotion outside his home, located in the 3300 block of N. Crump Street, just southeast of Meacham Airport, just after midnight. He stepped outside to…
The house on Allencrest Lane — a tidy four-bedroom, three-bath ranch-style in North Dallas — isn’t the first place one would look for a weed-growing mastermind named Bone. Nevertheless, that’s where DEA agents tracked down 37-year-old Brian Edward Deloney in June 2010, not to mention several gallon-sized bags of hydroponic…
Funding-wise, the Dallas Public Library is starting to recover from the financial crisis. After four straight years of cuts, the system has gotten more money in each of the past two years. The $22.4 million allotted for next year is far from the $32.4 million peak six years ago, but…
Many athletes, amateur and professional alike, swear by cryotherapy. The three-minute sessions, which take place in a chamber cooled to a chilly -220 degrees Fahrenheit, do wonders for muscle recovery, never mind the ambiguity of the scientific literature. It’s like an ice bath, only better. So, what’s the downside? At…
Teresa Mendez no doubt looked like an easy mark as she stepped to the front door of her Jefferson Boulevard apartment Sunday night. Shouldn’t be any trouble to sneak up behind her, flash a knife and make off with her purse. But Mendez’s would-be robber never quite made it to…
Pecan Lodge’s recent defection for Deep Ellum seemed to bode ill for the planned renaissance of the Dallas Farmer’s Market. Despite that, developer Brian Bergersen says things are actually looking up for the $64 million-plus redo. Bergesen, who purchased the long-struggling market from the city six months back, told the…
For those folks who still refer to Brown Thursday as “Thanksgiving” and for whom Black Friday is all the more reason to stay indoors, here’s some of what you missed, according to blackfridaydeathcount.com: -In Connecticut, an 11-year-old was hospitalized after being trampled by a crowd at Walmart and a shopper…
Last August, a couple of years removed from a two-year stint in the Texas prison system, John David Waguepack sat down for a thoroughly fascinating Reddit “Ask Me Anything,” or AMA, in which he offered a highly detailed, unvarnished glimpse of life behind bars. Among the subjects he touches on…
John Brown gets asked the question a lot. What happens if he doesn’t find oil in Israel? If his biblically inspired quest to restore the Holy Land to Israel comes to naught? Always, he gives the same response. “Well, I can’t really deal with that,” Brown explains in a promotional…
An Arlington head shop clerk is facing murder charges after allegedly gunning down a suspected shoplifter on Tuesday. Police arrived at Smoking Dragon Gifts in the 5900 block of South Cooper Street just before 11 a.m. Tuesday to find Jonathan Brian Lambert, 28, and another employee holding two other men…
Former Editor John Wright didn’t make the most gracious exit from the Dallas Voice, what with the charges that the LGBT weekly had become a spineless rag that was “fucking its employees” and that his former boss had a thing for Thai boys. Wright’s dander has since settled. Plus, he…
