Dallas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has co-sponsored legislation that would establish a national historic park on the moon, to commemorate the United States’ initial moon landings and to protect those sites from future commercial moon explorers. In other words: Even on the moon, location, location, location…
Every time we broach the subject of improving Dallas ISD, the chorus starts in before we get too far: It starts with the parents. District officials appear to agree. In a recent vote, the district earmarked $2.75 million for parent-education programs, including the expansion of an Israeli-born program that helps…
It’s like listening to Bon Iver, but with slightly more uterus references…
Your browser does not support iframes. Because the way Andrus continually screws with Beltre like an annoying little brother — stealing his hat, touching his head, and constantly interfering with pop-ups clearly destined for Beltre’s glove — is the best thing going in baseball this side of the Canadian border…
A week has passed since two teenagers walking through Saginaw discovered the body of 6-year-old Alanna Gallagher, naked, bound and gagged and wrapped in heavy plastic. No arrests have been made. Tips continue to flood in, and the town remains baffled and on edge. Investigators have said repeatedly that the…
Rick Perry will not seek a fourth term as Texas governor, he announced this afternoon. He will spend the next 18 months “working to create more jobs” and will “pray and reflect and work to determine my own future path,” he said. He did not rule out another run for…
Our regular Unfair Park captain, Eric, is on vacation, so I had the pleasure of perusing the weekend’s police reports, to make sure Dirk wasn’t drunkenly wandering Victory Park all sad and sidekick-less. It was a nice reminder that dear Lord, humans are weird. Here’s what I learned: High Heels…
With last call looming, a 28-year-old mom named Diana Salinas drove to Sanchez Restaurant and Bar in Oak Cliff early Sunday morning and made a bee line for her estranged husband, police say. She left her ill-advised companion in the car: her two-year-old son. After an argument about child support,…
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Later today, Governor Rick Perry will take the stage in San Antonio and tell the world of his future plans, while cable-news producers “real” and “fake” wait with bated office-coffee breath. The Morning News on Sunday laid out the pros and cons of three…
The Koch Bros might be emptying their change purses in order to keep Texas from tinting blue, but the state is in no danger of becoming a real battleground, new polling suggests. Also: People continue to think in large numbers that other states should not mess with Texas. Also: That’s…
Since it went up in late June, the giant Playboy logo alongside U.S. Highway 90 has stopped passersby and sparked debate in Marfa, the West Texas tourist town known for its modernist flair. Now it has to come down, the state says. The Texas Department of Transportation has ordered Playboy…
No better way for a 21-year-old to spend America’s birthday than on a boat. So yesterday in Grapevine, 60 people shoved off onto Grapevine Lake for a day of floating and partying. They made their way back around 4 p.m., pulled into the dock and disembarked, but there was a…
If you’re a fan of the web site Deadspin, you’ve been mesmerized at least once this year by Manny Ramirez and Taiwanese baseball, which seemed to have a pretty fun marriage going. But that’s over now, because your Texas Rangers have signed Ramirez to a minor league deal and assigned…
We can argue and cheat and take all the money we want based on all the secret side deals we can surreptitiously sign, but that doesn’t mean anyone will want to frack us: That’s the lesson from the latest numbers produced by state regulators, which show natural-gas production continuing its…
Prime Prep Academy, the sports-focused charter school founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders, never quite found a home for its sports teams in its inaugural year, getting shut out of public-school play for having too many players living outside its boundaries and for poaching players from a local basketball power,…
Hoping to make a long-awaited splash in free agency, the Mavericks met for a few hours with free agent big person Dwight Howard on Tuesday, one of his last stops on his semi-annual You Know You Want Me Tour. If the experts are to believed, it will come down to…
A week after state Senator Wendy Davis power-talked her way into liberal America’s heart, reality continued to set in last night in Austin, where a panel of lawmakers approved the same set of abortion restrictions that Davis filibustered, while hundreds of people who registered to testify about the bill were…
Last June, we published our first-ever People Issue, photographing and profiling 30 of our most interesting fellow humans — everyone from well-known Olympians and All Stars to unrecognizable faces that nevertheless make the DFW landscape more colorful. It flew off the stands, was nominated for an industry award and we…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here . Two nights after Jerry Seinfeld, the biggest stand-up comic in the world, came to Dallas, Paul…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Gordon Keith is sitting in a restaurant he’d prefer you not know the name of. It’s not…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. “I’m going to play all 16.” It was just a quote, the kind of nothing platitude DeMarco…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here . The ocean, they can all agree, is big. That’s what they learned today, in the kindergarten…
