Bad news, “extremists”: If you try to get tickets to the upcoming shindig at Dealey Plaza, the one memorializing the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, you will be denied. “What’s an extremist?” you may ask yourself, which is precisely the sort of question an extremist would ask. Minus 10…
Most area churches have been relatively cautious in reacting to the recent vote by the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America to lift its century-old ban on gay scouts. First Baptist’s Robert Jeffress rather predictably suggested that the move contradicts a scout’s promise to be “morally straight,” but the outcry here…
Dallas police showed up at a North Dallas home in April to check on the woman who lived there. She was alive, and so were the 46 dogs and cats with whom she shared the home. Dallas Animal Services manager Jody Jones says there were “huge amount of feces” in…
As the Texas Legislature’s special session drones on, the state’s lawmakers are grappling with what to do with teenagers — specifically with 17-year-olds convicted of murder. Last Thursday the Senate approved mandatory life sentencing with parole for 17-year-olds convicted of capital murder — with the option of parole coming 40…
The Glenn Beck media empire won’t be paying rent in Irving anymore. Mercury Radio Arts, Beck’s “news, opinion and entertainment network,” announced Wednesday afternoon its purchase of the Studios at Las Colinas, which has served as home base for The Blaze and his Glenn Beck show since 2012. Lest we…
Operation Flaming Dragon shut down nine massage parlors and a couple of homes in Dallas, Hurst, and Plano.
The day after her husband’s funeral, a week or so after she found him, Rebecca Morrison somehow managed to get dressed and get in the car. She was exhausted, wrung out of tears. She could barely move or speak. All that week her family and friends had to feed her,…
At about this time each year, Mattel rolls out a new collection of University Barbies®, who are invariably clad in pom poms and cheerleading outfits, the logo of their favorite educational institution emblazoned across their perky plastic chests. This year, the toy maker threw the Barbie-collecting community a curve ball…
You can’t always tell by watching Texas politics, but there are subtle distinctions to be made between being an arch conservative and being a colossal dick. Here’s how to tell if you’ve crossed the line: Look in a mirror. If you see Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s face, you’re safely in…
Out of the entire universe full of objects of potential interest to human beings, there’s only one thing Clayton Earthman enjoys enough to like on Facebook. It’s Doomsday Preppers, the National Geographic reality show about otherwise sane Americans steeling themselves for the post-apocalyptic nightmare they’re sure is just around the…
University Park’s old system of parking enforcement relied on humans and was, therefore, fallible. In un-metered, high-traffic areas like Snider Plaza and the Miracle Mile on Lovers Lane, an officer would mark car tires with chalk so it was easy to tell which ones had exceeded the two-hour parking limit…
And there it is: Late last night, the Senate approved SB 5, a massive set of abortion restrictions that combine all the worst parts of most every anti-abortion bill filed in the regular session of the legislature. Well, all the worst parts, with one notable exception: The bill’s author, Republican…
For almost two years now, like an angry minnow nibbling at a whale, a coalition of labor groups operating as OURWalmart has been organizing nationwide protests against the retail giant, complaining of low wages, terrible benefits and the company’s general hostility toward organized labor. It started in late 2011, when…
Two years ago, after their cameras were denied entry to a secretive government immigration camps on Christmas Island, the Australian version of 60 Minutes piloted a small, unmanned aircraft above the island detention center. A few months later, activists in Poland dispatched a drone to document the abuses of riot…
Arboretum officials were understandably cautious when they unveiled early plans for a Garland Road parking garage last night. The memory of the public uprising and PR debacle that greeted a proposal to park cars on Winfrey Point is no doubt fresh on their minds, so they made clear that the…
William Wylly Lamar is something of a rock star amongst readers of sites like HerpNation.com and WildHerps.com. His reptile-capturing skills — we’re talking herpetology here, folks — are unparalleled, as is his knowledge. He wrote the book on venomous snakes. Several books, actually, including his magnum opus, the two-volume The…
Richie Whitt and Greg “Greggo” Williams have now had two months to reflect on CBS’s unceremonious cancellation of The Rage, their drive-time sports talk show on 105.3 The Fan, and they’ve come to starkly different conclusions. Greggo chalked it all up to ratings, which he says had dropped. Whitt, a…
It’s been more than a year since a task force sent the Dallas City Council its recommendations for retooling the city’s gas drilling ordinance. But the first step toward updating city code will finally be taken at the Plan Commission. The city attorney’s office will brief commissioners at this Thursday’s…
It’s been more than three years since the City of Dallas first began moving CNG-powered cabs to the front of the line of taxis at Love Field. The protesters have long since vacated the City Hall plaza, and the city’s attention has inevitably drifted. But through it all, the cabbies…
It’s always reassuring to know that no matter how stupid things get in the state legislature, things are just as dumb, if not more so, in Congress. Perhaps “reassuring” is the wrong word. In either case, in order to fully grasp the import of this story, you should know that…
At first glance, the ads proclaiming last week’s grand opening of the JJ Health Center might have appeared to suggest something more than a massage. The massive amounts of cleavage, the pining eyes and lingerie uniforms of the “Friendly Charming Attentants,” the scantily clad masseuse doing what appears to be…
In his book American Sniper, under the heading “Punching Out Scruff Face,” slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle claimed that in a 2006 he got into a bar fight with “Scruff Face,” a “celebrity” veteran. Kyle claimed the fight started because Scruff Face was insulting then-President George Bush, and then said…
