As the electorate’s disgust with its leadership deepens and the general election approaches, Republicans, even in Texas, are suiting up to defend their posts. Face-offs are unfolding in numerous local and statewide contests, but the showdown between Senator John Cornyn and state Representative Lieutenant Colonel Rick Noriega—and the recent seesawing…
If you’re one of those poor, misguided souls who have inexplicably failed to read J.K. Rowling’s brilliant and bewitching tales about wizards — and you know you’ll never pick them up — you should immediately clear your schedule for Tuesday evening. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the film based…
There’s nowhere like New York, especially if you’re looking for a club full of hot Navy dudes in whites or a threesome with a nerdy couple. But hey, what the hell. If you’re going to see Sex and the City: The Movie, you may as well work a few cosmopolitans…
On Saturday, May 31, the final day of DFW International Alliance’s African Unity Cup soccer tournament, dozens of players will gather at a field thousands of miles and worlds away from where they began. There’s Alie Patrick Koroma, a defender from Sierra Leone, the West African nation still shadowed by…
“Stacey, what do you see?” Sergeant Jonathan Markham asked his wife. He stopped the white Volvo. It was a sunny December day in 2006, and they’d been driving through Burleson as he prepared to finish his second Iraq tour after two weeks of leave. Stacey looked out the window at…
Farmers Branch’s May 10 election poses a pivotal question: Will the suburb known nationwide for its efforts to expel illegal immigrants push forward on the same path, or will its some 26,000 residents chart a new course? Mayor Pro Tem Tim O’Hare was the driving force behind Ordinance 2903, which…
An over-wide net: It’s sure a good thing Congress failed to pass any sort of immigration reform. Why bother, when you can just arrest and deport any Jesus, Jose or Maria? Local immigration lawyer Fernando Dubove says his caseload has surged during the recent nationwide crackdown on plants, employers and…
When the Bush administration and much of the rest of the world was still ignoring the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, Nicholas Kristof was avidly reporting about the horrors of the Janjaweed, the Arab, government-sponsored death squads that have killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions. Even when the…
A mounting struggle over the collection of child support recently came to a head between Dallas County family court judges and the Texas Attorney General’s Office. In mid-February, the office’s Child Support Division ordered some 2,300 child support cases diverted from Guardian Ad Litem, a private, court-appointed child support collection…
I’ve always wanted to travel in Africa, but so far the closest I’ve come was last weekend, when I viewed friends’ slides from South Africa, Zambia and Tanzania. There were photos of elephants, giraffes and impalas, even a close-up of a leopard in mid-stride. The tensest moment of the trip…
The problem began the night his wife didn’t come home. He had left his construction job, then fed their kids. He put them to bed, watched TV and tried to sleep. Often his wife worked past midnight at an Arlington restaurant, but it was 4 a.m. and she was still…
One of my best friends, a 37-year-old mother of two, just had a double mastectomy because of breast cancer—a disturbing reminder that the disease doesn’t discriminate. Wanna fight it? Arcade Bar, 1825 Abrams Parkway, is hosting a benefit at 8 p.m. Thursday for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s…
With the plethora of newfangled toys and characters for kids these days, the timeless appeal of Winnie-the-Pooh—first created by A.A. Milne in 1926—is pretty impressive. My nephews have admittedly watched their fair share of SpongeBob Squarepants and Dora the Explorer, but the characters that populate the Hundred-Acre Wood are undoubtedly…
Two burly men face off in the ring, fists up and feet moving fast. Sweating under the lights, they duck and dodge blows and throw punches while the speakers blare and the beer-swilling crowd cheers them on. “It’s not how big you are—it’s how bad you are!” yells the announcer…
As it turns out, the Asian Lunar New Year entails more than just exchanging those tasty little Chinese rice candies they used to give out when I was a kid. According to one Web site, in Vietnam, people commemorate the Buddhist occasion this way: “For three days, one takes painstaking…
Before Charles Chatman walked out of prison last month, before he was reunited with his family, before his story graced the pages of The New York Times and he was invited onto Dr. Phil as a heroic symbol of broken justice, he was just another convicted sex offender who swore…
Jorge Diaz spent years working the fields of South Texas, an earnest immigrant kid picking onions or melons alongside his family. Every month or so, the Border Patrol would descend on the fields. The workers without green cards would drop what they were doing and run. But Diaz didn’t have…
Because a year ago the courts shut down the last two slaughterhouses in Texas that turned horses into meat for human diners, most people think American equines are no longer being killed to satiate appetites in Europe and Asia. Yet thousands of horses are being exported to Mexico and killed…
Remember back in elementary school, when in art class they used to have you scatter crayon shavings onto a piece of wax paper, then cover it all with a second sheet of paper and iron it into a masterpiece of blended color? As I recall, it was damn fun. That’s…
If ever there was a perfect time to remedy your inability to throw a kickass dinner party, it’s now. From holiday parties to visiting in-laws, it’s not a bad idea to have at least a few meals you can serve without a microwave. Central Market, 5750 Lovers Lane, presents an…
More better badness: Activist Carlos Quintanilla was recently arrested on a host of warrants, but that little stint in the Irving jail doesn’t seem to have dented his role as human bullhorn for the brown and oppressed. Just this week, Quintanilla appeared on CNN’s “Out in the Open” with Rick…
Nothing like dumping some extra cash and adding to your art collection whilst helping a do-gooding community organization. At least, that’s what I hear. This year’s annual Art + Advocacy auction features an array of paintings, photographs and sculptures from local galleries and retailers to benefit the Dallas Children’s Advocacy…
