My Challenge on Cops and Media Distortion Is Met Halfway. Is it a Draw?

Last week, I wrote about Kevin F. Lawrence, executive director of the Texas Municipal Police Association, the state’s largest law enforcement association. I took him to task for blaming the NFL knee-taking protest on dishonest reporting about police brutality by the national media. Maybe we need to get back into…

Backpage.com Shuts Down Adult Pages, Citing Censorship

In a bombshell development on the eve of a January 10 U.S. Senate hearing, the Dallas-based online classified site Backpage.com has shuttered its controversial adult listings section. “The government has unconstitutionally censored this content,” every “Adult” page on the site now reads, followed by a hyperlink to Backpage’s “Media Resources”…

Downtown Dallas Inc. Survey Shows The State of Downtown As a Neighborhood

Judging from Downtown Dallas Inc. CEO John Crowford’s state of downtown speech Friday afternoon, one would think downtown Dallas is an urban residential utopia. Ninety-four new restaurants will open in downtown over the course of 2016 and 7,000 new residential units are under construction. That thing that downtown residents always…

Say RIP to Vine With the 10 Best Dallas-Centric Loops of All Time

Vine’s incessantly looping time on our gadgets is coming to and end. Twitter’s announced on Thursday that it would shut down its ancillary video attachment in the coming months. Among the  public relations speak his that the platform can’t generate enough revenue to stay afloat in the long-term, competing with…

We Rated the 10 Best Dallas-Related Crying Jordan Memes

Crying Jordan is one of the weirdest, best, memes on the internet. Born out of Michael Jordan’s tearful Basketball Hall of Fame induction speech, it plasters the greatest basketball player of all time’s crying mug on anyone or anything that’s had a particularly tough moment.  It’s a little cruel, but…