In March, the city of Dallas began $4.8 million in renovations to the L.B. Houston Golf Course, the 18-holer in the northwestern-most corner of the city. That required closing the course to the public and changing its name to Luna Vista, since Dallas is a world-class city, after all, and…
Friday afternoon, tragedy struck. America laughed while Big Tex smoldered, fairgoers having no free hands to wipe the tears as they double-fisted turkey legs and corn dogs. With the memory of the deep-fried deity lighting a fire in their collective boots, the Cowboys stormed out of the locker room and…
Tony Rand and his two boys, Greg and Bill, owe the government money, and a lot of it. Last year, they admitted that their humble family business, Aspen Exploration, was more of a Ponzi scheme that leveraged the company’s supposed oil and gas holdings to raise $100 million from investors…
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has raised nearly $300 million, and it’s largely been with the help of a coterie of extremely wealthy, and extremely prolific donors. The top donor, of course, is Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. But the second biggest donor is a local…
Pour one out for the Texas State Fair: it had a rough weekend. Hours after Big Tex turned into The Wicker Man, the Midway Stratosphere ride lost power. A couple dozen riders were dangling above the earth on a motionless, two-hundred foot tall ride for a couple of hours. Dallas-Fire…
The last time time Dallas Nostalgia took this big a hit was when the St. Patrick’s Day parade appeared in peril. Before Mark Cuban emptied his cup holders and saved it, the internet took up the cause, in the form of a CrowdTilt fundraiser. See also: – CrowdTilt Started a…
A few days after Arlington’s now-outed Reddit troll Michael Brutsch sat for an interview in a Fort Worth hotel room with CNN reporter Drew Griffin, the rest of us finally got to see it. It’s a bit of a trainwreck. CNN’s first shot of Brutsch shows him fidgeting nervously as…
This is worse than 9/11 big tex is gone :(— Hayden Lee® (@hcclee3) October 19, 2012…
Even the dispatchers couldn’t help but have a little fun at Big Tex’s expense this morning. (Via Texas Storm Chasers and Wilonsky’s Twitter feed.) See also: – “Big Tex is Gone. There’s a Hole in Our Hearts,” by Alice “Cheap Bastard” Laussade – “Big Tex Burned Down Today at the…
State Fair mascot Big Tex has gone up in flames. It’s still not clear what caused the fire, which is reported to be “under control.” Remembering Big Tex: “Big Tex Gets a Makeover,” by Allison V. Smith Alice Laussade’s exclusive interview with Big Tex “Big Tex Will Haunt Your Dreams,”…
The new Texas Women’s Health Program is really going to be special. And by “special,” we mean terrible. But as the Texas Tribune reports , state officials have made one tiny concession in response to complaints from women’s advocacy and medical groups: Doctors will now be allowed to discuss the…
Late last night, divers searching Possum Kingdom Lake found the body of missing teenager Jacob Logan, who disappeared Sunday after diving into the lake with friends, the AP reported. His was the second death this week at Coppell, where senior Jonah Blackwell committed suicide on Tuesday. Logan, a senior, played…
Tarrant County jailers are breathing a collective sigh of relief: Ladies and gentlemen, Steven Lawayne Nelson has left the building. Convicted and sentenced to death for suffocating a 28-year-old Arlington preacher and suspected in the killing of a fellow inmate, Nelson’s new home is the Polunsky Unit in Polk County,…
We touched yesterday on what has been a bit of a rough start to the school year for Dallas ISD, and today’s news won’t help: Alan King, who led the district in the aftermath of former Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s departure last year, has resigned from the district. King served as…
It’s the kind incident that makes you want to take everyone you love to the gun range for lessons: A woman — we don’t know her age — is watching television upstairs a little before noon on Wednesday at her home, which isn’t far from Camp Wisdom Road and Interstate…
Richard Malouf has had an exciting year or so, what with being investigated by the state, the feds and WFAA for what is alleged to be a massive amount of Medicaid fraud. Malouf and wife Leanne’s rather lavish personal lifestyle has also come under scrutiny: the mansion, the jets, the…
The Los Angeles Times has obtained more than two decades of deeply disturbing confidential case files kept by the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America, detailing suspected child molesters in their ranks. The files, which were kept by the Scouts for nearly 100 years, were meant to bar pedophiles from further…
Last night, a group of people were standing outside Sherlock’s, a bar and restaurant in North Dallas, when a man approached. He carried a pistol and, according to police, he demanded money from someone. It was a moment many of us script in our heads when we read these types…
Wind, sun and bullshit: Texas has plenty of all three, and we’ve done a good job converting wind to electricity. So, why hasn’t the sunny Lone Star State done more to create more power from the sun? Well, you could blame the bullshit. Today in Austin, The Clean Energy Works…
Irvin Baxter doesn’t dance. It’s a rainy fall night in Granbury, a small town about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth. On the stage inside the Calvary Church of Granbury, a young, clean-cut band is blasting a syrupy, guitar-driven ballad: “I’m gonna sing for You like nobody’s listening, gonna dance…
If your debate-watching drinking game included a shot for each use of the word “coal,” you either peed on your roommate’s couch or had your stomach pumped. Or both. The primitive fuel was invoked some 22 times, apparently, mostly by Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Our…
Around midnight today, Dallas police received a call about a man walking around West 10th Street in Oak Cliff, “wielding a large knife,” as the police report puts it. The caller said the man with the knife had, furthermore, phoned him up not long ago and said, “I’m going to…
