Did Ford name its Mustang after SMU’s mascot?
The Ford name is on the SMU football stadium, so maybe the motor company named its sports car after the mascot.
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In Rockwall, Plans to Block the Cinemark Sign Wind Up in Federal Court
A piece of classic Rockwall architecture is in danger. The Cinemark movie theater, whose majestic faux-Mediterranean facade and tasteful neon signage are the apotheosis of the modern strip-center design movement, will no longer greet eastbound drivers on Interstate 30 unless a team of developers and their allies at Rockwall City…
A Hit-and-Run Driver Mowed Down a 7-Year-Old Dallas Boy on His Birthday
On Saturday afternoon, Lorenzo Cantu was playing with friends in the backyard of his home in the 3100 block of Conroe Street while his mother made preparations for his birthday party. At some point, he left the backyard and wandered across the street and greeted a dog who was sniffing…
Dez Bryant Is No Calvin Johnson
To be fair, Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant wasn’t trying to say he was better than Calvin “Megatron” Johnson. He was just rattling off some pro-athlete intensity-and-toughness boilerplate in a radio interview when he uttered the fateful line “I believe I can do whatever he can do.” Thus, a narrative…
East Texas Researcher Who “Proved” Bigfoot’s Existence Says Her Website Was Hacked
Melba Ketchum, the veterinarian-turned-fulltime Bigfoot crusader from Nacogdoches has been riding high this month. First, she and her team released “definitive video and DNA evidence” of the creature’s existence and its kinship with human beings. Then, online animal nomenclature database Zoobank accepted her proposal to give sasquatch the scientific name…
A Company Fixing a Trinity River Dam Discovers Where Dallas Dumps Its Stolen Cars
The California Crossing Dam doesn’t look like much, just a few hunks of concrete anchored in the Trinity River in far Northwest Dallas, but it’s important. The water that pools up behind it is processed at the Bachman Water Treatment Plant, which is a key component of the city’s water…
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Stephen Colbert Approves of the Dallas Safari Club’s Plan to Hunt the Endangered Black Rhino
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Video Archive On Tuesday, we brought you news that the Dallas Safari Club is going to help save the endangered black rhino by auctioning off the chance to shoot one.. Stephen Colbert for one thinks that’s a fantastic idea. He said so…
Baylor’s Student Senate Votes to Remove “Homosexual Acts” from Sexual Misconduct Rules
Ridicule Baylor University all you want. Mock the school for its 19th century social mores, for waiting until 1996 lift its dancing ban, for its campus-wide ban on alcohol, for being “guided by the understanding that basing “human sexuality is a gift from the creator God.” Go for it. Just…
Greg Abbott Crowdsourced Ideas for “Making Texas Even Better,” and They Are Wonderful
As his bid to become Texas’ next governor ramps up, Attorney General Greg Abbott is turning to constituents for ideas for “making Texas even better.” Since Abbott is a serious candidate, and since he wants serious suggestions, he turned to the premiere forum for nuanced political discourse and reasoned policy…
D Magazine Ends Its Oak Cliff Experiment, Kills Oak Cliff People
When I wrote D magazine’s mini-chain of community newspapers, for all of a year in 2009 and 2010, Oak Cliff People was the plum assignment. (Stuff was happening in North Oak Cliff — stuff that wasn’t the absurd residential zoning disputes of Preston Hollow or round 1,038 of the Snider…
Tom Corea Will Spend the Next 25 Years in Prison
Tom Corea, the disgraced, disbarred Dallas trial lawyer who pleaded guilty this week to stealing money from clients, has a new canvas for his renowned penis graffiti: the walls of a state penitentiary. State District Judge Mike Snipes sentenced Corea to 25 years in prison on Thursday. According to The…
Prisoner Wins Appeal in Suit Over Texas Prison Refusing Him Two Locks of Hair for a Native American Religious Ritual
When William Chance’s parents died, in 2008 and 2009, he wanted to honor them properly. As a practitioner of a pan-Native American faith derived from the tribes of the Great Plains — his grandmother was a Cheyenne from Montana — this required a lock of their hair about the thickness…
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Derek Holland’s Vow of Seriousness Was Remarkably Short-Lived
Let’s step back in time for a moment and revisit one of the key story lines going into the Texas Rangers’ ultimately disappointing 2013 season. Here’s how ESPN put it: And The Dallas Morning News:…
TCEQ Dismisses Dallas Docs’ “Knee-Jerk” Call for Stricter Limits on Coal-Fired Power Plants
Two months back, the Dallas County Medical Society petitioned the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to crack down on emissions coming from Luminant’s three coal-fired power plants in North and Northeast Texas, which are among the nation’s dirtiest. They based their plea on a white paper commissioned from a Rice…
Dallas Councilman Philip Kingston Wants to Kill Off “Wrongheaded” Lawn Whisperer Campaign
You know the Lawn Whisperer. He’s the vaguely irritating bearded gentleman, inexplicably decked out in safari garb, whose mug is plastered on buses, billboards and television sets by way of encouraging North Texans not to water their yards so much. Philip Kingston, the freshman member of the Dallas City Council,…
Mark Davis Solves the Bullying-Suicide Crisis: “Raise Tougher Kids”
Reports of young kids being bullied to the point of suicide are distressingly common. The most recent case to grab the nation’s attention happened last month in Lakeland, Florida, where 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick jumped to her death from a concrete silo after being mercilessly ridiculed by two classmates on Facebook…
Two Tarrant County Hockey Clubs are Battling for the Right to Be Called the Brahmas [Updated]
(This post has been updated to include responses from the Lone Star Brahmas.) The Texas Brahmas, Fort Worth’s 16-year-old minor league hockey team, no longer exists, at least not in any meaningful sense. Over the summer, the Central Hockey League announced that the club would not play in the 2013-14…
Officer Who Shot Mentally Ill Rylie Man Could Be First Dallas Cop Charged in a Police Shooting Since 1973
Here’s what’s happened since video surfaced of Dallas police officer Cardan Spence shooting a mentally ill 52-year-old in the stomach, apparently for standing up from the chair he was sitting in: activists have called for a civil rights investigation; The Dallas Morning News has written a hand-wringing paean to the…
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The Dallas Safari Club Will Save the Endangered Black Rhino by Auctioning Off the Chance to Shoot One
The black rhino is teetering on the edge of extinction, and it has been for some time. Their numbers have dropped precipitously over the past several decades, dwindling from several hundred thousand a century ago to a couple thousand a decade ago, partly from habitat loss but mostly from poachers…
Round-Trip Taxi Ride from South Dallas Motel 6 to Longview Ends Badly for Cab Driver
The Motel 6 Fair Park is the type of place certain southern Dallas pastors fear will be neglected by app-based vehicle-for-hire services like Uber. It’s south of Interstate 30, offers weekly rates and is right next to a Furr’s cafeteria, which suggests a paucity of the affluent smartphone addicts such…
The Art of the Drive-Thru Fast-Food Robbery
With the pace of modern life being what it is, it’s become all but impossible to find time for a leisurely sit-down meal or an old-fashioned holdup-style heist. Thank goodness then for the fast-food drive-thru, which offers fast, convenient service to on-the-go burger lovers and time-pressed armed robbers alike. Now,…
In Court, Texas Says New Abortion Restrictions Needed to “Protect Fetal Life”
The stakes in the two-day trial over Planned Parenthood’s challenge to Texas’ new abortion restrictions, which kicked off yesterday in Austin, are rather low. Whatever decision U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel hands down will be appealed to the 5th Circuit, then the Supreme Court, leaving the law in constitutional limbo…