Gentlemen. Let’s get really real for a moment, shall we? It’s very unlikely that a woman on Craigslist wants to have sex with you. Or rather, it’s very unlikely that a woman on Craigslist wants to have sex with you for free. And when two women from Craigslist are proposing…
Vashana Eugene Mims was last heard from at about 9 p.m. on February 5, when he called a family member to check on his kids and announce that he was on his way home. But he never made it. His family filed a missing person report with the Dallas police,…
The $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts set to go into effect on Friday — assuming Congress doesn’t reach an alternative deficit reduction deal — was designed to be so stupid and indiscriminately painful that any rational human being would do whatever possible to avoid it. But rationality is not…
In the wake of Barack Obama’s reelection victory last Novembers, Republican lawmakers in several swing states — Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconson — introduced bills that would change the way the state’s electoral votes are awarded, from a winner-take-all system to a proportional one in which presidential candidates are…
For about four months in 2007, Lakeith Fowler had a good con going. That May, the 32-year-old had hooked up with a supplier who began shipping case after case of the latest Nike sneakers at dirt-cheap prices. Fowler marked them up and sold them from his retail store, The World…
By just about any measure, Congress is at its lowest point in history. Only 9 percent of the country has a favorable view of the 535 men and women who make up the bicameral body. One poll even revealed that they’re less popular than cockroaches, traffic jams and that ultimate…
Just when you thought Robert Jeffress was going to let his jilting at the hands of Tim Tebow slip away, forgotten, after just one news cycle, the First Baptist mega-pastor took to the pulpit on Sunday and questioned the quarterback’s manhood. “I am grateful for men of God like these…
The U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments today challenging the constitutionality of and need for Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, which requires Texas and other southern states with a history of suppressing the minority vote to get pre-clearance from the Feds before implementing changes to voting laws. Naturally,…
The city of Dallas is “maybe a year or two” away from considering a plastic bag ban, assistant city manager Jill Jordan told City Council members on Monday. First there will be a study to figure out its potential impact and exactly how many bags plastic bags there are in…
Yesterday morning, Highland Park High School was evacuated after school officials found a threatening note in a boys’ bathroom. It was the same boys’ bathroom where three similar notes had been found the month before. In all four cases, a search of the school revealed nothing. The danger became a…
On Friday, we told you about a memo Mary Suhm sent to the City Council, in which she insisted that she had “had the authority to sign a non-binding letter with Trinity East,” the company which has been trying so very hard to drill in city-owned park land and floodplains…
Melissa Kingston worked late on Tuesday night, finally leaving her office at Friedman and Feiger at 8 p.m. or so. On her way home, she decided to make a quick detour to the Spec’s liquor store at Central and Walnut Hill. She had just pulled up to a stop sign…
Today marks the arrival of our new and improved Dallas Observer app, your pocket guide to the city and direct line to our always fair-and-balanced take on things. It features: – Event listings and concert calendars searchable by date, artist, neighborhood, venue or genre – Restaurant listings searchable by cuisine…
When Mike Edwards opened a Condom Sense at Parker and Independence in Plano last month, he touted it as a way to pump new life into an aging strip center and help reinvigorate local retail. But as CBS 11’s J.D. Miles so, um, artfully put it, neighbors and religious leaders…
Before City Manager Mary Suhm struck a secret side deal with natural gas producer Trinity East to drill on parkland in the Trinity River floodplain, there were two lesser-known gas wells situated in Irving that Dallas stood to collect royalty checks on. According to Railroad Commission of Texas documents, Irving,…
On Tuesday afternoon, shortly after hearing journalist Laura Ling address the Dallas chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women in Far North Dallas, Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell was pulled over by Dallas police. We know this because he Tweeted about it: Just got stopped by a Dallas…
Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. Good news for those of you heartbroken when Big Tex, the 52-foot tall, 60-year-old icon of the State Fair of Texas, burned in a spectacular fire on the…
In 1985, the Dallas Museum of Art accepted one of the largest gifts in the institution’s history: more than 1,400 pieces by Van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas, and others from the personal collection of Wendy Reves, collectively valued at more than $400 million. A quarter century later and four years…
Yesterday morning, a man walked into the Victoria’s Secret at Mockingbird Station, grabbed $2,000 worth of shirts, sweatshirts and sweatpants, then ran from the store into a waiting Dodge Durango. It was, the Morning News noted, the fourth such theft from the location in about as many months. They are…
This is day one of the Battle of Texas, which is mostly marked by a website launch. Battleground Texas, the Democratic Party’s efforts to shake the GOP hold on the state, officially starts today. The site comes with a nifty graphic showing a red Texas filling up with blue (it’s…
Pro wrestling and Glenn Beck are in a fight. Apparently this has been news for a few weeks, but we’ve only just learned about it, courtesy of Mediaite, who bring us the delightful video clip you see above, of WWE commentator Michael Cole trying his hardest to storm Glenn Beck’s…
Adrelos Sanchez Waters drew suspicion as soon as the woman at the baggage check-in counter in McAllen, Texas, all of seven miles from the Mexican border, checked in his two pieces of luggage. They were heavy, much too heavy to just contain clothes and toiletries. She contacted McAllen police, who…
