Travis Strickland has been fighting the war on drugs for more than a decade. He's a sergeant in the Lufkin Police Department's special services division, which includes the street crime and narcotics units. The job used to involve taking apart methamphetamine labs that sprouted like prickly pears around rural Texas...
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When the Stomping Ground Comedy Theatre hosted its first official show in October, it did so without a theater it could call its own. A new fundraising campaign on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter could change that. Last week, nonprofit theater company Stomping Ground launched its first campaign to raise $30,000 to lease space in...
If you're an old-school football fan who's never touched a joystick, you probably look at professional gaming with a confused, scrunched-up face. But there's at least one football fan in Dallas who's in the know, and he owns the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones and John Goff, the founder of Goff...
It’s happening beneath your feet. You’re standing in line at The Commissary, eyeing the glossy candy apples painted like they were plucked out of a dark fairy tale. Underneath your feet, there’s a frosty basement. You won't get to see the basement, but one afternoon, we did. Clean, cold air...
Dead & Company American Airlines Center, Dallas Friday, Dec. 1, 2017 As John Mayer introduced his song "If I Ever Get Around to Living" at a show in San Antonio last August, he told the crowd that the album it's on, Born and Raised, hadn't sold very well. “I’ve played the...
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If you thought Nordstrom's customer service couldn't get any better, think again. From Dec. 16 until the store closes Christmas Eve, Nordstrom at NorthPark Center will offer 24/7 curbside pickup. Curbside pickup is already offered during regular Nordstrom business hours. If you buy something online with the option to pick...
Oak Cliff reality rapper C. Struggs has always rapped about his struggles. He now has a big new one: his health. Last week, a video of the 31-year-old rapper being rushed to the hospital went viral on social media after rap blog Say CheeseTV posted it. The video didn't indicate...
It seems local breweries are popping up all over town, but one couple wants to make discovering them a little easier. Chad and Nellie Montgomery are working on Civil Pour, an establishment that will offer 30 taps of craft beer and a rotating offering of five pour-over coffees. “We really...
From gritty bars to the courthouse steps, a great cry of the collective human heart went up in Dallas last week for a dog named Lamb of God, slated to be killed by the city because she bit a child badly. But this really is not open for debate. The...
One thing is certain: Dallas has got the blues. To determine their depth, we walked down a radio station hallway plastered with blues festival and chili cook-off posters to talk with David Pippin, a DJ who began subbing at KNON-FM 89.3 a decade ago. Pippin now hosts his own Wednesday...
Despite the school's massive size — enrollment approached 38,000 in 2016 — and location in the nation's biggest recruiting hotbed, the University of North Texas has never made a name for itself on the football field. The Mean Green have never won 10 games in a season and have frequently...
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It's been a while since film and TV actor Brad Leland has performed on a stage, but he decided to take a chance and return to it when Dallas Theater Center director Lee Trull asked him to play Ebenezer Scrooge in his latest production of A Christmas Carol. "He said,...
When Kim Noltemy becomes the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's first female CEO in January, she'll bring with her 21 years of experience vitalizing the Boston Symphony Orchestra — and a brain full of ideas for the one Dallas knows and loves. Noltemy says the city's growth, excitement and cultural organizations drew her...
Fri 12/1CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are close friends who first met onstage at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York. They had such great chemistry onstage that they decided to turn their witty banter and exchanges into a conversation tour filled with funny tales about their...
I more or less pay the rent by telling you what’s wrong with City Hall. So I’m a little worried. Not sure how this is going to work out. It looks as if I may have to tell you what’s right with City Hall. I ask only this: A couple of...
Justin Vaughan began deejaying in Dallas in the early aughts at Deep Ellum dance club Sandbar. These days, he's active with the party promotion group House of Champagne, which throws a popular rooftop party every weekend at Nora on Lower Greenville. Justin brings the House of Champagne vibe to this...
Hobbes VincentThe word on the street is that sculptor Hobbes Vincent tells one hell of a tall tale. “You never know whether you’re getting an accurate portrait of reality or one that’s been manipulated,” gallery owner Jen Mauldin says. Translated: He’s a bit of a bullshitter. That’s good news for...
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On Thursday morning, Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall finalized the leadership reorganization she promised in October. Multiple deputy and assistant chiefs in the Dallas Police Department, including two finalists for DPD's top job, will be demoted to majors, among other changes. Hall's plan goes into effect Dec. 13. When...
In Urnerboden, a Swiss village in a high valley, about 60 families craft cheese the old-fashioned way. When the snow melts, they lead cows up the mountain to dine on the chilly flowers and grass. The munched-on petals and grass enrich cows' milk with flavors of sunshine and Swiss earth...
The Dallas Bar Association hosted five Dallas-based faith leaders for its Faith Leaders Forum on Wednesday afternoon and addressed how to improve race relations in Dallas. The Rev. Richie Butler of St. Paul United Methodist Church, the Rev. Bryan Carter of Concord Church, Rabbi David Stern of Temple Emanu-El, Imam Omar...
III Forks is one of the wet establishments that will be celebrating Repeal Day with discounted traditional roaring 20s coupe cocktails—the South Side, Hemingway Daiquiri, and Sidecar—for half price.