Cover Story Archives

Giving Jazz a Hand

By Eric DiepNovember 19, 2025

Outdated Dallas codes threatened live jazz until the people spoke up. A task force aims to regain public trust and keep the tunes alive.

RoboCop Calls Dallas Out Over the Sorry State of City Hall

By Preston BartaNovember 11, 2025

Actor Peter Weller says Dallas should dig in its pockets to pay to repair the brutalist I.M. Pei icon.

The Mendoza family house was sold illegally by another family member forging a signature.

On the Verge of Eviction, a Dallas Family Gets Angry to Save Their Long-Time Home

By Alyssa FieldsNovember 3, 2025

Fears and questions remain while the Mendoza family will keep their house a little bit longer at a remarkably high cost.

Standing Her Ground at Cafe Madrid

By Lauren Drewes DanielsOctober 29, 2025

Real estate investors have been circling Cafe Madrid hoping to turn it into a luxury high-rise. But not even a tech-bro can afford it.

Laughing Through the Pain: Inside the New Dallas Play About Luka’s Trade

By Simon PruittSeptember 25, 2025

With The Trade, Dallas Mavericks fans might get the closure they need from the heartbreak of Luka Doncic’s trade. Or at least a few laughs.

Brianna Baucum Said CPS Unfairly Took Her Child. Her Former Supporters No Longer Believe Her.

By Jacob VaughnAugust 24, 2022

A community rallied around the UT-Arlington student after she lost custody of her daughter. Now, some think her entire story was built on lies.

UT-Arlington Student Brianna Baucum fights to bring her daughter home

By Jacob VaughnOctober 14, 2020

If the anonymous tipster were telling the truth, Brianna Baucum is a monster, possibly one with magical powers. Between July 13 and Aug. 28 last year, Baucum killed her 4-year-old daughter Journi at least five times, the tipster told authorities. That doesn’t count the claim that Baucum put her daughter…

Who are the Cossacks, and Why Did the Bandidos Biker Gang Want Them Dead?

By Julie LyonsJanuary 19, 2016

Take a look behind the scenes of the deadly gun battle between bikers in Waco.

The Rise and Fall of the Biggest Illegal Sports-Betting Ring in Dallas History

By Sean ChaffinNovember 6, 2014

How law enforcement threw the book and bookmakers.

The last ride of legendary storm chaser Tim Samaras

By Brantley HargroveAugust 29, 2013

He had an uncanny knack for finding tornadoes. Then one found him.

The killings in Kaufman

By Brantley HargroveMay 2, 2013

Two public officials dead and a third behind bars: Politics turn bloody in a small town.

The Ticket’s Sean Bass and his sobering stance on driving drunk

By Anna MerlanJanuary 31, 2013

Sometimes — more often than he’d like, and even though he knows it’s not healthy, that it won’t change anything — Sean Bass thinks of all the different routes he could’ve taken to the store. It was a warm Friday night in late September. Sean had just mowed the lawn…

The story of the Handsome Guy Bandit was made for Hollywood

By Anna MerlanJanuary 10, 2013

The Handsome Guy Bandit thinks so, anyway.

Gypsy blood

By Sarah HepolaJuly 28, 2005

David Cunniff Lives in Pain. Skinhead Jesse Chaddock lives in a Texas Prison. Who got the raw deal?

The living end

By Mark StuertzOctober 14, 2004

After two decades, the West End is a pale shadow of its former self. Will it rise again?

Kings of clubs

By Mark StuertzMay 1, 2003

The coke-drenched era of nightclubs is over, but now a new group of entrepreneurs is ready to reinvent the scene

Likely suspect

By Carlton StowersOctober 31, 2002

Three years after his conviction for rape, local DJ Gary “Babyfase” Faison speaks out to proclaim his innocence. What are the odds he’s right? One in 300 million.