Mireya Villareal burst onto the local media scene this past spring with a CBS 11 I-team story revealing that people, some of whom live right here in North Texas, are doing naughty things on the Internet. It was a high bar for Villareal to set for herself, almost recklessly so,…
For the stars of viral animal videos, fame can be a cruel mistress. One day, you’re the darling of Buzzfeed. The next, you’re snorting lines of cat nip from a rolled-up eviction notice. Teddy Bear, the talking porcupine, has managed to avoid that fate. Two years after his star first…
At the outset of the most recent meeting of the Dallas City Council, Councilman Sheffie Kadane stepped to the dais and delivered the following prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the gorgeous day You’ve given us today. Guide us year-round to serve the Lord, let us glorify You in…
Thanks in large part to a series of freak snow-and-ice storms leading up to the game, North Texas made a shambles of its first ever Super Bowl-hosting opportunity in February 2011. Canceled flights, snarled traffic, an overbooked stadium, sheets of ice falling from the roof of Cowboys Stadium — it…
President Barack Obama was on the ground in Dallas for all of four hours on Wednesday. It would have been closer to five, but his departure from D.C. was delayed by an hour after bomb-sniffing dog reacted to what turned out to be anti-freeze in a vehicle parked near the…
In its first few weeks of existence, the Burleson chapter of Abolish Human Abortion focused its energies on the time-honored technique of standing outside abortion clinics holding disturbingly graphic signs. The results, as founder Jered Ragon recounts in a series of YouTube dispatches, were less than encouraging. Their first outing,…
Jennifer Gerson, a 2007 SMU graduate and rape survivor, passed along her response to the Daily Campus’ recent victim-blaming alcohol-and-rape op-ed, which she sent to SMU president Gerald Turner and other school officials. We’re running it here in full. President Turner: Today I am ashamed to call myself a graduate…
In Richardson, along the booming Central Expressway corridor, architecture firm Good Fulton and Farrell and developer JP Partners have teamed up on the Palisades project, a large mixed-use development they plan to put on 58 mostly vacant acres across the freeway from DART’s Galatyn Park light rail station. The folks…
The armed robbery yesterday afternoon of the the Oak Lawn headquarters Trivie wasn’t a random holdup. The app-maker’s office is on the third floor of a plain retail-and-office building between Hall Street and Rawlins, hardly an obvious target, and the robbers were methodical. According to police, three of them, all…
When federal prosecutors announced yesterday that Refugio “Cuco” Ramirez-Garcia will spend the next 20 years in federal prison for helping run a pair of heroin-distribution conspiracies, they gave a shout-out to the local law enforcement agencies who helped bring him down. That’s standard practice. What’s unusual about Ramirez-Garcia’s case is…
Even for the most financially and technologically challenged, receiving a personal email from Dallas Police Chief David Brown asking for cash sets off all sorts of alarm bells, alarm bells like He’s not the NSA — how did he get my email address? and Wouldn’t it be easier to shake…
Werner Eric Brauss is long gone. The real estate dealmaker fled the country in 2009 as the market collapsed, leaving behind a pile of unpaid debt to investors and Las Vegas casinos and the feds’ hopes of an easy prosecution. The chance that Brauss will leave the Brazilian coast, where…
The case of Jeffrey and Henry Buck, the gay Dallas couple who married in Massachusetts in 2006 before filing for divorce in Dallas two years later, proved a couple things. One was that gay married couples, just like straight married couples, can fall out of love and decide it’s best…
It’s a touchy subject, booze and rape on college campuses. Emily Yoffe, Slate’s advice columnist, caught hell last month for suggesting that parents and universities need to do a better job warning students of the connection between binge drinking and sexual assault. Yoffe offered a measured argument that is backed…
As a general rule, people know how they feel about Buc-ee’s. To some, the Wall Street Journal included, the big-box-convenience-store empire is a decadent piece of roadside kitsch, a symbol of American culture’s ongoing decline. To others, it’s an oasis, a snack-food and novelty-gift wonderland, its Beaver Nuggets offering a…
Last April, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued enforcement guidance No. 915.002, more commonly referred to as the “Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” Few people paid attention. One of those who did was Texas Attorney General…
At the end of September, researchers at Sam Houston State University’s Crime Victims’ Institute compiled a study of sexual assault resources offered by 74 Texas colleges and universities for the state legislature. The results were underwhelming. On the bright side, most of the schools had on-campus clinics offering pregnancy testing…
To the cops in Richardson, who arrested him in May for marijuana possession and misdemeanor theft, her name is Larry Tremell Bernard. To the rest of the world, it’s Armani Nicole Davenport, a transgender woman who has ridden the southern drag pageant circuit for more than a decade, recently notching…
The aftermath of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling last week reinstating the requirement that doctors performing abortions in Texas have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic was swift and sweeping. By the next morning, a third of the state’s abortion clinics had closed…
Give Barack Obama some credit. Rather than simply barricade himself inside the mansions of a pair of elite lawyers to gladhand with deep-pocketed Democratic donors, as was the initial plan for his trip to Dallas this week, and rather than holing himself in some White House bunker and pray that…
For the first time in three decades, Dallas is home to a downtown shuttle. And for the first time ever, the shuttle will not be marked by three-foot high bunny ears and painted-on whiskers, a la the ill-fated “Hop-a-Bus” program. The trademark pink will remain, however, as DART rolls out…
Isaiah Smith isn’t one to lay down in the face of injustice. When the Birdville High School student, who is gay, learned via a TV show that restaurants can legally refuse to serve gay people, he petitioned the Keller City Council to ban LGBT discrimination. When he decided that the…
