The sweat is running through Cal Ripken Jr.'s eyebrows, into his eyes, and it's making him squint. It is just so surrealistically hot, like someone is burning the edges of this scene for a commemorative plaque. And there is Cal, eyes stinging like any man, body temp rising like any...
thursday october 12 Sacred Circles of the People: There is an amazing range of subjects being covered in the two-day "Sacred Circles of the People" conference, from substance abuse workshops to Pow Wow etiquette. The fourth annual event is hosted by the American Indian Center, Inc., a non-profit, charitable and...
At Dallas City Hall, it can take a long time to find the truth. That's because this city manager and city council don't like the public to know what they're doing. So they play games. They have a lot of closed-door meetings. They discuss things they're not supposed to discuss...
The Hon. Thomas G. Jones was angry, though nicely dressed. It was 9:45 a.m. last Friday morning, and I was standing at the service counter of his court in a nondescript strip shopping center in South Oak Cliff, wanting to see some court files; it is the sort of mundane...
The man at the pulpit with the mass of neatly coiffed silver hair is speaking of sin and redemption, pleading with his flock to forgive him his very human frailties. "No one is free from sin," he says. His eyes have filled with tears. The camera lens zooms in, and...
On a windy and colder-than-usual Sunday night in April, more than 3,000 people showed up in Deep Ellum to do nothing more than hear local bands. There were no street fairs, no free food, no mimes, no apartment open houses. No, these people piled into Blue Cat Blues when Josh...
Danny Wettreich, a 44-year-old native of London, England, personifies precisely what many find repugnant about American capitalism. In the 13 years since he moved to Dallas, Wettreich has bought and shut down businesses, shuffled millions of dollars in securities, drawn suspicion from two federal agencies, and thrown people out of...
