In an apparent rebuke of California Attorney General and U.S. Senator-elect Kamala Harris, a Sacramento judge has decided in favor of the current CEO and two former owners of online classified site Backpage.com, granting a tentative ruling dismissing criminal charges against the three men on Wednesday, hours before oral arguments…
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…
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…
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, for better or worse, is inextricably linked to North Texas. Last Tuesday, following one of the toughest weeks of his campaign, Trump hit Dallas for a private fundraiser, his second cash grab in the city in 2016. Trump’s held three of his mega-rallies in DFW, including…
Construction on Texas Live!, the multi-faceted development slated to go up around the Rangers’ ballparks, both old and new, will begin this fall, the team announced Tuesday afternoon. New details of just what will occupy the baseball-themed village were also made public for the first time. Texas Live! is slated…
As far as protest bits go, the one thought up by the University of Texas at Austin’s anti-campus carry contingent was a pretty good one. Wednesday, in order to combat what many students and staff viewed as the unnecessary hyper-masculinity of carrying a gun around a college campus like Yosemite…
When one reports on the 150th anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan, as the Longview News-Journal did on Sunday, one must be cognizant that people reading the paper might give the cover special scrutiny. In a region with as fraught a history with the Klan as East Texas has, the burden…
If there was ever a time to show just a bit of caution when it came to stoking the fears of a shocked and wounded city, it might’ve been this weekend. Dallas was finally coming down from a week of uncertainty inspired by the murders of five of the city’s…
Over the past six years, Lower Greenville has undergone a transformation. Thanks to a few million in city bond funds, the street itself has gone from a potholed obstacle course (like the typical Dallas street) to a pedestrian-friendly avenue with space to sit and stroll. Dive bars have given way…
Dallas, as anyone with eyeballs has no doubt noticed, is in the middle of an apartment boom. Currently, the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area has 50,000 apartment units under construction, which, to put things in historical perspective, is a crapload. “It’s been a long time since we’ve had 50,000 apartments under…
The Observer has an opening for a part-time social media editor. This twenty-hour/week position combines journalism with social-media skills to increase the Dallas Observer’s audience and serve as its online public face. The social media editor manages the Observer’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, among others, with the expectation of continued…
Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant is being sued by his former attorney and landlord, Royce West, for allegedly causing more than $60,000 worth of damage to a DeSoto rental mansion. The court action is the latest falling out between the two, who used to be close. West, the property’s owner,…
Which hurts more, being brained with a rock or being pestered by national media about it? This morning, Danny Fulgencio is choosing the press. “I got nailed in the head by a rock, bled like a motherfucker, became national news, went to bed, am now even bigger national news,” he says. …
The Merriman Park/University Manor neighborhood, which sits at the northern tip of White Rock Lake in the liminal space between Lakewood and Lake Highlands, is on alert. In recent days, a handful of residents, most of them with homes that back up to DART’s White Rock Station, have had their…
Starting Tuesday, content on The Dallas Morning News’ two major websites, DallasNews.com and SportsDayDFW.com exists behind a metered paywall. Any reader hoping to view more than 10 articles a month on the sites can expect to be asked to pay for a digital subscription — or adopt one of the many easy…
For a long time, each of the Observer’s online sections has had its own Facebook page except for the news section, or what was once called Unfair Park, may it rest in peace. News restricted itself to the Observer’s main page, drawing weird looks from those who came for the…
Sorry, but maybe the dumbest line to come out of a very dumb season is the suggestion that the media is to blame for Donald Trump. First of all, if we in the media were even remotely capable of thinking Trump up, don’t you think we would have thought him…
Andy Beal, amateur mathematician, noted high-stakes poker player, failed space entrepreneur and Dallas richest human, made a big splash in January when he bought Tom Hicks’ former estate — listed for $100 million, the highest price in Texas history — in Preston Hollow. He wasn’t done shopping. Last week, as…
So, Wrestlemania, the WWE’s Super Bowl, is coming to Jerryworld this weekend. That means that Dallas will have a few visitors, who will spend a little money and probably have a pretty good time. As is customary with these sort of events at Arlington’s crown jewel, it also means that…
Dear Republicans: Let me get this straight. You want to take back Donald Trump. You want to take Trump off the table. But you want to give us Ted Cruz instead. I know you’re not totally insane. Your problem is that many of you are not from Texas. You don’t…
Over the past two decades or so, Lower Greenville residents have waged a heroic and largely successful battle to reclaim their neighborhood from the drunk 20-somethings who treated it like a never-ending frat party. With help from the city, they strong-armed problematic bars into closing at midnight. They got the street…
Thanks to a last minute injunction stemming from a lawsuit filed by the Texas Greyhound Association, the Texas Racing Commission did not have to make the decision Tuesday that will decide the future of horse racing in Texas. The commission tabled a discussion that would’ve decided whether or not to keep…
