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…
Lamar Advantage Outdoor Company and Ralston Outdoor Advertising each own a handful of billboards along I-35 between the Loop 12 split on the south and the intersection with LBJ on the north. Last year, the companies began to worry about the impact to their property of the LBJ Express Project,…
A Grapevine ad agency is accusing WFAA of throwing its weight around and scuttling a relationship with its biggest client. Ann Page-Cahill of AP Commnications filed suit against WFAA’s parent company, Belo Corp. and her former client, Baylor Health Care system in district court Tuesday, claiming Baylor cut her firm…
Erica Edmonds fears that her son’s trip to Europe could have ended much worse, maybe with something like what happened in New York City last summer to Leiby Kletzky, who was kidnapped and murdered on his way home from a summer day camp. But what 13-year-old Julius Hill allegedly went…
It nearly broke the internet last week when, during the Cowboys-Giants game, cameras caught what appeared to be Jerry Jones’ manservant dutifully cleaning his boss’ glasses. The manservant turned out to be Jones’ son-in-law, Shy Anderson, who immediately saw a way to parlay his brief moment in the spotlight into…
Neighborhood blogger and professional shit-disturber Avi Adelman is not happy with the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market being built at the former site of Whole Foods on Greenville Avenue, right across the street from his house. He was even less happy when the retailer put up ridiculously bright lights in its parking…
In this week’s print edition, staff writer Anna Merlan provides a handy guide to natural-gas drilling debate in Dallas. Read on for a primer, a glossary of terms, a look at the opponents and supporters and a special fracking board game! Important civic issues have a way of sneaking up…
It was a grisly scene Lancaster police found on July 22, 1997: Dorothy Booth, a 71-year-old retired psychology professor, stabbed to death on the floor of her dining room stabbed, her left ring finger severed from her hand. The evidence quickly led police to Kimberly McCarthy, Booth’s next-door neighbor. McCarthy,…
Sure, you could build elaborate shade structures and host impromptu lunch parties to enliven the City Hall plaza, or you could just invite a giant, dancing kidney bean. Shawn Williams, Mayor Mike Rawlings’ social media guru, was kind enough to pass along a couple of pics of said kidney bean,…
It’s been all of 24 hours since Christopher Stephens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, was killed along with three others in an attack by an mob angered by a film ridiculing the prophet Mohammed. Stephens was, by all accounts, a dedicated public servant, and he had borne witness to the…
Earlier this week we told you about John Jay Myers, the Libertarian Senate candidate who believes he’ll be unfairly excluded from WFAA’s planned October 2 debate. He promised to bring protesters to the station’s headquarters on Young Street, which he did today around 11. When we got there, there were…
Safer Dallas Better Dallas is a local foundation that raises money to buy new equipment for the Dallas Police Department and, as they put it, “fund the priorities” of DPD, something they’ve done to the tune of $17 million since their founding in 2005. 7-Eleven is the place where you…
When the Denton County Transportation Authority was shopping for rail cars for its A-train commuter line in 2009, it settled on 11 diesel-electric vehicles manufactured in Europe by Stadler, a company based in Switzerland. The cars are quieter, more fuel efficient and more spacious than the light rail cars on…
