As Tim Tebow’s decision to cancel his Easter Sunday appearance at First Baptist continues to reverberate, the church and its pastor, Robert Jeffress, have gone on the offensive. In a radio interview with the American Family Association, Jeffress says he and Tebow “had a very pleasant conversation. He explained to…
Last month, Gary Lacara was “100 percent” sure that Bike the City, his 30-mile, Dallas-to-McKinney charity bicycle tour scheduled for a Sunday morning in April, was a go. “I wouldn’t attempt this if I wasn’t,” he told Unfair Park at the time. And there was no reason to think he…
Just about a year ago, Dallas’s atheist community announced a new billboard in South Dallas, celebrating “black atheists and freethinkers.” This year, just in time for the tail end of black history month, the Fellowship of Freethought, Dallas’ largest atheist group, is announcing a spinoff organization for its black members…
It’s no secret that First Baptist Church of Dallas’ pastor, Robert Jeffress is a lightning rod for controversy because of his less-than-PC remarks on homosexuality. And Mormonism. And Islam. But it seems that Tim Tebow, who was scheduled to appear at the local megachurch as part of the grand opening…
Howard Hendricks has never been one of the marquee names of conservative Christianity. He was too naturally reserved for that, more comfortable in the classroom than behind the pulpit, though he delivered his fair share of high-profile sermons. But over more than five decades as a professor at Dallas Theological…
A week before Christmas, Cedric Dewayne Caddell, Jr. and a friend went to the Denny’s at Stemmons Freeway and Walnut Hill. Their goal: to score some weed. To that end, Caddell had gotten in touch with a dealer, later identified by police as 20-year-old Dangelo Dewayne Wilhite, who showed up…
It wasn’t a run on baked souffle that kept the phones ringing off the hook at two Panera Bread locations in Dallas yesterday morning. It was one guy — an especially creepy one — who apparently enjoys harassing female crew members at fast-casual bakery/cafe chains. According to two police reports,…
On a cool Thursday evening in January, several women gather around folding tables in a Central Phoenix warehouse to sort thousands of books, pausing only to pull out a greeting card used as a bookmark or to show off a rare find. This ritual takes all year — and every…
The fount of red ink spilling onto the pages of beleaguered power generator Energy Future Holdings’ quarterly reports continues unabated. The Dallas company logged $3.36 billion in net losses for 2012. In its last quarter alone, the company reported a $1.95 billion net loss, due largely to a write-down on…
The House State Affairs Committee was scheduled today to consider Rep. Dan Flynn’s proposal to ban “religious or cultural law” from Texas courts. Rep. Flynn apparently withdrew his proposal, HJR 43, from committee consideration at the last second, but it’s still worth a look. As the Texas Freedom Network reports,…
As it stands, anyone caught watering their lawns more than twice a week and/or during daytime hours and/or outside the official watering days ordained by City Hall faces a fine of between $250 and $2,000. As of last summer, the city had handed down slightly more than a handful. But…
On November 14, the New York Post broke news that FC Dallas CEO Doug Quinn had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a luxury hotel room in New York City, where he was celebrating his 50th birthday with his wife, Elizabeth. As the Post described it, a “hulking” 6’5″,…
There was an interesting, widely under-reported battle going on in the state legislature this morning, and it hinged around consistently badass Fort Worth state Senator Wendy Davis. Back in January, Davis filed SB 248, a bill that would bring the Lilly Ledbetter Act to Texas. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay…
In the early morning hours of March 17, 2011, 23-year-old Kasey McKenzie was walking through the parking lot of Spearmint Rhino when she was struck and killed by a Ford F-250 with enormous wheels and a monster lift kit as it left a parking space. The driver, 27-year-old Eric Crutchfield,…
On January 16, President Obama, flanked by family members of some of the first graders killed at Sandy Hook Elementary the month before, laid out his plans to curb gun violence. These included 23 executive orders that tweak the system for background checks, lift a ban on federal funding for…
It was June, a few weeks after his long-shot run for Congress and his marriage both came to an end, and Jason Roberts couldn’t shake the nagging weariness that had dogged him through the campaign. He felt constantly as if he’d just racked himself on his bike frame. It was…
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. Let’s kick this off with a couple of truisms: It’s hard to keep a good man down, and be careful what you wish for. We’re looking at you,…
It’s been nearly four years since developer Yigal Lelah unveiled his vision for Veterans Place, a sprawling mixed-use development he hopes to build on Lancaster Road, directly across from the VA Medical Center. The development, as the name implies, is focused on returned military personnel and their families, with a…
At the end of January, state Senator Carlos Uresti, a San Antonio Democrat, quietly filed a bill that would lift the legal age to smoke or possess cigarettes, or any other tobacco product, from 18 to 21. “If we are serious about stemming the epidemic of tobacco-related diseases and the…
For 17 years, Tina Milton worked as a clerk at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Wynne Unit. Her job was to pore over inmate mail in search of coded gang messages, and she did it just fine until late 2006. That’s when she returned from a sinus surgery and…
Update at 4:02 p.m.:Heritage has issued a statement: “Yesterday the Augusta National Golf Club filed suit against Heritage Auctions over the Art Wall’s 1959 Green Master’s jacket being offered in an upcoming sale in New York City. Prior to their filling the lawsuit, Augusta National did not contact Heritage Auctions,…
Texas Freedom Network has a lot to be irritated about lately. TFN is a left-leaning advocacy group focusing on things like civil liberties, church-state separation and not wasting classroom hours teaching Texas schoolchildren that the Rapture is a rock-solid scientific inevitability. As you might imagine, TFN comes down on the…
