Yesterday, still irrationally giddy from the beatdown their Seahawks delivered on Sunday ( I for one blame the replacement refs for Felix Jones’ fumble on the opening kickoff. And the subsequent blocked punt. And the Romo interception right after. And — oh screw it, the Cowboys blew.) , our colleagues…
On February 3, Clay Carpenter and two golfing buddies went to hit around at The Golf Club at the Resort in Fort Worth. They made it through the front nine okay, but ran into a group of four golfers on number 12. Carpenter’s group was fine with waiting behind the…
Judith Segura thought raising the $1 to $2 million in private donations needed to restore Dealey Plaza before the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination would be a cinch. It wasn’t. “It’s been a lot harder than I expected, frankly,” Segura said. “There was nobody who didn’t agree completely, 100…
Over the weekend, two pedestrians were struck and killed as they crossed Dallas streets. One was 71-year-old James Sadler, who apparently stepped into traffic on Illinois in Oak Cliff just before 8 p.m. on Saturday. Around the same time, Devora Lopez, 7, was walking across Northwest Highway near Bachman Lake…
At 70, Elaine Tettemer Marshall seems a bit old to be the daughter-in-law of someone who would have turned 46 this year. That that someone happened to be Anna Nicole Smith, the gold-digging Playboy playmate who married 86-year-old J. Howard Marshall in 1994, a year before he died, explains a…
Back in June, we told you about Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton, a couple in Hardin whose rural farmhouse was raided after law enforcement got a hot tip from a psychic named “Angel” about a mass grave on the property. The mass grave didn’t exist, Angel quickly made herself scarce,…
In June, Bill and Barbara Harris opened Silver Spoon Bakery and Cafe in Southlake. “I’m 81 years old, my wife’s 78,” Harris said. “We’re not dead yet, and we’re just trying to stay active.” Silver Spoon is a lunch spot whose every detail, from the cutesy, pink-striped walls to the…
In April 2005, the city of Dallas began an experiment. What if, rather than spraying millions of gallons of fully treated, tap-quality water on the Cedar Crest Golf Course, it used partially treated wastewater. The grass doesn’t mind water that’s a little bit dirty and, so long as it’s piped…
Tomorrow, Ann Romney will visit the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush to raise money for a “women’s lunch” to raise money for her hubby’s campaign, and it won’t be the first time she’s been invited to a house occupied by the Bushes. In a taping for…
The Cowboys’ 27-7 pasting at the hands of the Seahawks was about as brutal as the final score indicates. From the opening kickoff (literally!), Seattle simply played with a level of physicality that the Cowboys could not match. Every Dallas ball carrier was getting plowed, while Seahawks running back/prehistoric torture…
A 20-year-old junior at SMU has been indicted on charges that he raped a fellow student in a dorm room in February, Dallas County records show. The student, Donald Samuel Cuba, was booked into Dallas County Jail and is out on a $15,000 bond. The story — including details on…
The reaction of Anonymous members to the arrest in Dallas Wednesday night of Barrett Brown, the group’s self-proclaimed spokesman, was as swift as it was inevitable. Within hours, members had posted the names, home addresses and other identifying information of 13 federal employees, most of them involved with the military…
There are good things you can do with your 5-year-old kid, and there are bad. We were always unsure which category a shoplifting trip to 7-Eleven belonged in, but the video above clears that right up. DPD sent over the video. The incident happened on August 29 at the 7-Eleven…
Herschel Weisfeld is a property developer by trade, but he’s also the guy who started CorinthPark, the graffiti-covered artist’s collective that is something of a model for the Dallas Police Department. Yesterday, the Dallas Voice broke the news that he also hopes to replace Pauline Medrano as District 2’s city…
Women of Faith, a conference put on by the nation’s largest Christian book publisher, hits the American Airlines Center next week. The “Feminine Faces of Freethought” conference is not coincidentally being held tomorrow at Resource Center Dallas. It’s safe to say that there won’t be a lot of overlap between…
If you’ve driven south on I-35 — or if you’ve ever turned onto Lawther from Northwest Highway — you’ve seen the Bucee’s billboards. The ones with the buck-toothed beaver in a red cap hawking some mysterious concoction called beaver nuggets. It’s an obnoxious marketing campaign, but it gets your attention…
Uber-Republican billionaire Harold Simmons is Dallas’ biggest player in the presidential money game, having pledged to pump $36 million into the election by November. But Dallas has a well-heeled partisan on the other side of the aisle in Naomi Aberly, and she’s doing her part to make this the most…
In Texas, one thing’s for certain: If you’re a killer, you’re either going to face a really old guy who likes to stick people with needles or spend the rest of your life with a cellmate named Bubba who’s been deprived of a woman for far too long. Unless you…
David Sierra isn’t quite sure why the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department stopped allowing hunting in Dallas County. He’s not even sure when. He’s only been the agency’s director of Region 5, which includes Dallas, for 21 years, after all. He does know that, come September 29, you’ll be able…
The first season of the revamped Dallas may be over in the United States, but it’s just getting started on the other side of the pond. It’s scored solid ratings in Britain and is, apparently, garnering attention in countries not inhabited by Anglophones. Take Germany, for instance, where Hagman gave…
Credit: Wired You know Barrett Brown as one of the few public faces of Anonymous, the hacktivist collective. He spends much of his time in Dallas. He was arrested last night during an FBI raid that happened to occur while he was in an online chat. Wired gives the play-by-play:…
At the end of July, Sister Megan Rice, an 82-year-old nun of the Society of the Holy Jesus Child, pulled off what The New York Times called “the biggest security breach in the history of the nation’s atomic complex.” Rice and two others, armed with flashlights and bolt cutters, slipped…
