A few weeks before the March 4 Republican primary, a group of candidates gathered at the Shady Valley Golf Club in Arlington for a meet-and-greet luncheon with voters. For the most part, the candidates were seasoned pros who all seemed to know each other, but one stood out from the…
Point, Counterpoint Here are some of the arguments that creationists make to counter the theory of evolution, along with their scientific counter arguments: Biological structures are too complex to have arisen by chance. “Chance plays a part in evolution (for example, in the random mutations that can give rise to…
By the time Kit Carson was 36 years old, he had hunted buffalo in the Great Plains, trapped beavers in the Rockies and gone deep into Mexico. He had been to the Grand Canyon, the Great Salt Lake, to the coast of Oregon—as author Hampton Sides noted, it seemed as…
By the time Kit Carson was 36 years old, he had hunted buffalo in the Great Plains, trapped beavers in the Rockies and gone deep into Mexico. He had been to the Grand Canyon, the Great Salt Lake, to the coast of Oregon—as author Hampton Sides noted, it seemed as…
Frank Campagna knows how to save Deep Ellum. Get busy. That’s how he keeps patrons walking through the doors of his Kettle Art Gallery, an incubator of North Texas talent. At least once a month, Campagna hosts some kind of event at Kettle, whether it’s an opening of an artist’s…
Pat Ahrens knew something was wrong. The night before, he had dropped his friend Chris Demopoulos off at a Plano motel, promising to return in the morning, but Ahrens wasn’t sure he had done the right thing. The two had met at the Dallas veterans’ hospital and had bonded over…
Dale Jameton sat at the wheel of the pickup, the radio console glowing in his face, a freezer bag full of meth between him and his girlfriend. He looked in the rearview mirror this hot, muggy August night in 2006, at the trail of cops who had been following them…
Brian Gibb is sitting in his Deep Ellum art gallery on a sunny winter day, talking about why he moved to Dallas from Denton and how much his art means to him, when he looks out the big window to the street behind him and makes a telling observation. “This…
A week before Christmas, and Luis Yanez is hardly in the mood for peace on earth. If anything, his resolution for 2008 is to wreak some havoc—on the Chinese, the Cubans—the entire world. On this chilly December night in Oak Cliff, in a drafty warehouse-like gym, the first boxer from…
On an October night a little more than a year ago, 38-year-old piano player Tray Boswell got off work at an Addison bar around 11 p.m. and headed home to his Plano condo. By that time, his estranged wife, Sarah Boswell, had already made several calls to the cell phone…
They had shot out his tires, and for miles he had driven his truck on its rims. Now stalled on Interstate 45, just outside of Dallas, with helicopters hovering above and what seemed like a hundred squad cars surrounding him, Dale Clayton Jameton realized there was no way out. He…
Dirk Nowitzki was lost. And he was starting to stink. He had come this far, deep into the Australian Outback, and now that it was dark, he didn’t know where he was. Not exactly, anyway. He’d ended up on a patch of wind-swept dirt, surrounded by sagebrush and stiff yellow…
Laura Sanchez glances at the gold watch on her wrist. She looks up and smiles stiffly. She only has an hour, she says, fidgeting with the pearl ring on her finger. And then she has to catch a flight to Monterrey, Mexico. She needs to escape; she needs to stop…
Michelle Winder, a railroad switch operator, has taken hundreds of photographs over the years of graffiti-covered boxcars that have passed through Fort Worth railyards. Inspired by her mentor, photographer and gallery owner Perry Caldwell, the graffiti Winder has chosen to capture on film is more than the sort of hastily-done…
Not long ago, Sequina Moore hated showing apartments at the Pleasant Village apartment complex. The place was in bad shape. Drugs were dealt in plain sight, right in front of the management office where she worked. And usually, when she showed a new apartment, she had to step over people…
On this much, everyone agrees: Steve Fleming was unlike anything the Special Olympics had ever seen. At 6 foot 3 and 240 pounds, the former Marine had an imposing presence. He was also black, and in the 23-year history of the Lewisville Special Olympics delegation, there had been few, if…
Recent studies suggest so-called educational videos for toddlers and babies (like Baby Einstein) don’t do your kids any good; in fact they may do them harm, possibly even causing autism. I welcome this news cheerily, because those sorts of videos have always seemed sort of pretentious, to say nothing of…
It began in early July, when a helicopter pilot conducting drug surveillance looked down into a heavily wooded area near the Trinity River and noticed something odd. Among the trees and brush, he saw a thicket of green, leafy plants that looked suspicious. He circled and photographed the area; authorities…
A few years ago, a Dallas businessman named Buckeye Epstein was invited to an underground fight in an abandoned discotheque in Southern California. He had no idea what he was in for. “There were these Charles Atlas-sized guys at the door, 50 bucks to get in, cash only and inside…
“His swollen member throbbing in his Levi’s, John rams Jeanette against the counter like the bull ram he is. Her warm loins tingling, she accepts his moist tongue in her mouth.” Now if that don’t sound like literature to you, why don’t you head back to New York where you…
Unicycles and juggling were once the domain of clowns. Now, nerds rule both disciplines. Juggling world records, for example, are tracked by something called the Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling (JISCON). Members include two nerds who call themselves the Bounce Dicks, so named because they hold the world…
To hear him tell it, Richard Chichakli would like nothing more than to return to his humdrum life as a Richardson accountant. But thanks to the U.S. government, that may never happen. In April 2005, federal agents with guns drawn stormed Chichakli’s modest brick home, informing him that they had…
