John Boehr, a 31-year-old opera singer from Carrollton, says he was violently mugged Thursday afternoon as he walked to choir practice in South Dallas. The attack happened at 3:10 p.m., as Boehr was en route to the Dallas Opera’s rehearsal facility at 4301 S. Fitzhugh, on the far eastern edge…
It’s easy enough to make a new development look lively and inviting in computer-generated renderings. Throw in a couple dozen people strolling along a broad, tree-lined sidewalk and dining on restaurant patios, all brightened by a warm evening glow, and voila: You have a thriving, modern commercial and residential hub…
Say what you will about the name, with its puzzlingly random capitalization and apparent allusion to mathematical theory. The GeO-Deck, as Reunion Tower’s observation deck is now called, is a rite of passage for anyone who spends any serious amount of time in Dallas — at least it was until…
The Church of Scientology’s local Celebrity Centre, in case you haven’t been, is in a spacious, three-decade-old office building in Las Colinas with lots of floor-to-ceiling windows. It moved there in 2009, having outgrown its previous digs, in a pink stucco mansion in East Dallas. How they settled on that…
It’s official. Wendy Davis, the Fort Worth Democrat who rose to national prominence during her summer filibuster of abortion legislation, is running for governor. She made the announcement just now in the Haltom City auditorium where she graduated from high school. Already, pro-life groups are readying ads that will portray…
There was a time not so long ago, back when the country wasn’t perpetually teetering on the brink of economic collapse, when bitching about the federal government was fun. Washington was that crazy unemployed uncle who was always hanging around, irritating as hell but otherwise harmless. But now that his…
The most memorable scene from April’s protest against the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Center came when two men wearing comically large Bush/Cheney masks were handcuffed and marched to the back of a squad car. An overreaction, perhaps, but not a huge miscarriage of justice. They had wandered…
Randy Neugebauer, a Republican congressman from West Texas, didn’t have work yesterday. So he went to the park. Unfortunately, the park was closed. Neugebauer was confused. “How do you deny them access?” Representative Neugebauer asked the park ranger. They were standing outside of the World War II Memorial in Washington,…
Four months ago, Ladar Levison was just another dude running a small business and really enjoying beach volleyball. Then, in May, the FBI left a business card on his doorstep. He, and eventually the rest of the world, would soon find out why. Levison, an SMU grad, runs Lavabit LLC,…
There was a time, back when manual transmissions were the only option and the slightest incline could potentially transform any car into an unstoppable projectile, when it made sense to have a law requiring drivers to use their parking brake. Those days have long since passed. Automatic transmissions are now…
There’s no shortage of bacon at TGI Fridays. The restaurant drapes it on just about everything — burgers, potato skins, salads, you name it. Nicole Queen, as a practicing Muslim, avoids the stuff religiously, as do the friends with whom she recently dined at the outlet in Garland’s Firewheel Town…
The letter arrived in C.J. Duffey’s mailbox late last year, and everything about it seemed wrong. “Dear Charles Duffy,” it began, misspelling his last name. “Following your default from apartment #1204, you have an outstanding balance of $1728.80.” The money was due immediately. “If the amount requested is not paid,…
Troy Aikman’s concussion in the third quarter of the 1994 NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers is now just a footnote on the team’s march to a second consecutive Super Bowl victory.
UPDATE: After this item ran, we sent a question to Texas Department of Criminal Justice public information director Jason Clark, asking him — not to put too fine a point on it — why Texas doesn’t just switch to an alternative method of execution altogether, like the electric chair. The…
In Cleburne, of all places, U.S. Rep. Roger Williams’ district office door was “vandalized,” he tweets, with signs that read “WE’VE HAD ENOUGH TEA. THANKS,” “IT’S TIME TO VOTE YOU OUT,” “ANTI AMERICAN RACIST” and, with a Donald Trump flourish, “YOU’RE FIRED.” Tea bags were also hung from the door…
For the past two-plus years, the Silk Road has been the go-to place for tech-savvy drug users — and entrepreneurial drug sellers — looking for a safe and anonymous way to get their fix. Weed, cocaine, LSD, heroin, you name it — it could be at your door in a…
It’s a rare thing to catch Senator Ted Cruz looking sheepish. There have been no documented cases since he swaggered onto the public stage during the 2012 Republican primary looking cocksure despite plenty of occasions (see: shutting down the government) where it might have been appropriate to show some regret…
Just as God led Moses to Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, so He led Faith Christian Center pastor Gene Lingerfelt to 6900 U.S. Highway 287 in Arlington, Texas, to become the bearer of His Word. As befits the digital age, He has swapped stone tablets for Twitter and…
Dr. Melba Ketchum, the East Texas veterinarian turned Bigfoot-hunting geneticist, is at a loss to explain why the scientific community refuses to take her research seriously. “It’s been rather painful,” she explained in an exclusive, one-on-one interview with WFAA. “I was naive when I went into this. I thought science…
In business-friendly Texas, people who want to teach the art of all-natural African hair-braiding have to jump through quite a few unnecessary loopholes, a new lawsuit claims. Isis Brantley, a Dallas-based hairbraider whose clients include Erykah Badu, got to know Texas hairbraiding rules the hard way in 1997, when seven…
In the heat of the moment, while the country is heaping much-deserved blame upon Senator Ted Cruz for forcing a government shutdown and mourning the resulting loss of the nation’s premiere panda cam, it can be easy to lose sight of the hundreds of thousands of rank-and-file federal employees whose…
American Meteorological Society details the horrifying events that led to the death of Tim Samaras and others.
