Ever since 25-year-old Clinton Allen was shot and killed by Officer Clark Staller, Allen’s family has been calling for action against the officer and the Dallas Police Department. Collette Flanagan, Allen’s mother, filed an ethics complaint against police Chief David Brown claiming that DPD never informed the FBI about Allen’s…
A new report put out by the research advocacy group Children At Risk has compiled statistics to show that hundreds of thousands of North Texas children are living in poverty and facing food insecurity. The Future of North Texas’ Children examines 10 topics affecting North Texas children, including poverty, hunger,…
The advocacy group Equality Texas has put out its first legislative report card in several sessions, ranking Texas state legislators’ records on working for LGBT rights. The factors Equality Texas took into account include public votes, authorship (both pro- and anti-), resolutions and committee votes. They turned that into a…
We thought we’d take a break from writing about fried meats to mention that a new study just came out about the health benefits of a vegetarian diet. Spoiler: Vegetarian diets are good for you, which is probably not a surprise. What is surprising is that there are numbers to…
The Postal Service Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie June 3, 2013 There are a lot of plaid shirts, some seersucker shorts, some totally appropriate Arrested Development tees. There are waxed mustaches and boat shoes and tattoos and highlights. Trying to find some common markers in the crowd doesn’t work. All…
“There is an intimacy to just hearing someone’s voice,” Glass said while the entire stage was dark. No one could see him, but the iPad screen bouncing around the stage indicated that he was pacing. “I tried to convince the Winspear to let me do the whole show like this,”…
Anthony Duane Horne, 25, an HIV-positive man, was charged with aggravated assault for spitting on two Dallas police officers, The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Voice reported yesterday. According to police, when a Dallas County Hospital employee tried to put a spit mask on Horne, who was being booked for…
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the movie theater that brings together that rare and wonderful combination of good beer and good movies, has finally announced an opening date for their Dallas-Fort Worth theater. Alamo Drafthouse Richardson will open Friday, August 16, at 100 S. Central Expressway in the Richardson Heights Shopping Center…
This Saturday, Ira Glass, host of the radio show This American Life and creator of the “Ira Glass Abs Workout,” will present Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Glass started doing shows like this back in 1996, when This American Life went national…
Have you ever listened to This American Life and wondered how they decided which interview with the feuding restaurant owners should go first? Or how they strung together the audio clips about a bulletproof chicken? Have you ever wanted to know how the show takes the interviews, sound clips and…
U.S. Representative Peter King, a New York Republican, is not a subtle man. So when he announced that he would boycott a GOP fund-raising dinner because Senator Ted Cruz will be attending, it’s not surprising he talked to BuzzFeed about it. “I don’t think we should be acknowledging people who…
After a week of preliminary events, the Miss Gay USofA pageant descended on the Palladium on Friday, bringing hundreds of drag queens and fans thereof to Dallas. Thirty-six contestants from across the country all vied to be the next Miss Gay USofA (not to be confused with Miss Gay America…
In a key win for the district’s embattled administration, Dallas Independent School District trustees voted tonight to fire two principals and as many as 400 teachers, over the often heated objections of employees and activists. It was the culmination of months of debate and protests over Superintendent Mike Miles’ reform…
The Texas House and Senate have both passed the “Merry Christmas Bill,” which allows public schools to openly celebrate Christmas without fear of legal action. The bill specifically allows teachers to say “traditional greetings” for “traditional winter celebrations,” such as Christmas and Hanukkah and, theoretically, others that aren’t specifically mentioned…
This weekend marks the glorious return of Arrested Development, which means we’ve been drinking heavily and reflecting on the great cultural legacy the Bluth family has left, mostly in the form of chicken dance. We’ve collected them here for your pleasure. See also: An Arrested Development Drinking Game…
We recently spilled several pixels over the glut of food holidays vying for the month of May. You helped us sift through National Asparagus Month, National Gazpacho Month and National Chocolate Custard Month to determine that, from now on and for all time, May is National Barbecue Month. But the…
The suburbs stir up a lot of associations in the popular imagination. It covers territory as diverse as Leave It to Beaver and Blue Velvet. What the ‘burbs don’t usually evoke is poverty. For decades the war on poverty has been fought mostly in urban centers, but according to a…
A bill aimed to reform end-of-life care in Texas is likely to die in the state House. Although the bill made it through the Texas Senate, Representative Lois Kolkhorst, a Brenham Republican, told the Austin American-Statesman that it won’t get a vote due to splits among House Republicans. Currently if…
This weekend, North Texas Beer Pong is hosting its Battle of the South Weekend, a multi-day event of beer pong tournaments at McFadden’s in Addison. It kicks off with the King and Queen of the South, the men’s and women’s singles tournaments, and builds to an eight-round squad tournament with…
If he has his act together, Lyndon has already powered on in the copy room by the time the bell for first period rings, and has already begun the long, slow trek down the school’s single hallway, arriving at his first class, chemistry, before the tardy bell rings five minutes…
Dallas Area Interfaith held a news conference this morning at Temple Emanu-El, where more than a dozen faith leaders from the Dallas area gathered to support Medicaid expansion. Since Friday, 60 clergy members from Catholic, Protestant and Jewish congregations have signed a letter calling on state lawmakers to opt in…
Simple in premise but with endless variations in execution, behold the nacho. When done properly, a plate of nachos becomes an act of excavation, a work of edible archaeology. We set out to explore some of the more interesting nachos in and around Dallas, and so we present the Nachodyssey…
