It’s bad enough for a rookie politician to face the Texas Rangers’ corruption unit, but it hurts more when it’s a friend who set you up. It’s the kind of hurt that lingers long after the Rangers’ investigation is over. Flower Mound Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Itamar Gelbman found himself…
It didn’t sink at first with Darren Caperna that he was actually auditioning with AC/DC. As the singer of Dallas-based AC/DC tribute band Back in Black, he knew their songs inside and out. But what was happening did;t really sink in when he received a call from the band’s tour manager,…
The last mechanic standing on Ross Avenue is taking his final bow. Dallas City Council voted Wednesday to deny Hinga Mbogo’s request for another two-year extension, citing, with a heavy heart, that he had broken his promise given two years ago to close down his auto repair shop in the 3500…
All 83-year-old Roy Eklund wants is to find his friend’s body. The 65-year-old Michael Garrett died either in late February or early March. Eklund, a veteran who fought in both the Korean and Vietnam wars, didn’t find out about his friend’s death until a few weeks ago. He was listed…
Dams, dams, dams seem to be on everyone’s damn mind as reports about Lewisville Lake dam, a nearly 70-year-old earthen structure, and Grapevine Lake dam, 62-year-old, have appeared in newspapers and online website in recent months alerting readers to the deterioration affecting dams not just across the metro area but…
“I’m not going to blow sunshine up your ass,” says C.J. Ortiz. “I’m going to show you how you can maximize your resources. But I don’t know if you can, and I don’t think you should lie to yourself either. If you suck, you suck. Improve it. Don’t take it…
Jan Bynum sits at her dining-room table, wondering if today will be the day that her daughter Kelli Cox is found. It’s something she’s been wondering every day since her daughter went missing in the middle of an afternoon in July 1997 somewhere between the Denton Police Department and the…
Chad Lovell will never forget the night he partied with Layne Staley in Dallas. Every April, though, the memory comes back particularly strong: Last week marked the 14th anniversary of Staley, the former singer of Alice in Chains, dying of a heroin overdose. But for Lovell, he’ll always remember Staley,…
When Disturbed front man David Draiman decided to single a fan out for using her cellphone during the band’s March 23 appearance at House of Blues in Dallas, he probably didn’t expect it to trigger the backlash that followed from his own fan base. So last Friday Draiman spoke with…
With its monolithic columns at the entrance and pictorial windows of art glass, The First Presbyterian Church of Dallas in the 1800 block of Young Street is a cultural and visual landmark. One of its early homes was the first brick church in Dallas, and it grew from a single…
Attending a metal show usually allows many older fans to forget their daily worries and fall into the music from their past. But for one local metal fan, last Wednesday’s Disturbed show at the House of Blues turned into one of the worst nights of her life when the band’s…
In the middle of heavy metal Disturbed’s show at House of Blues last Wednesday, Shannon Pardue had other things on her mind. With a thunderstorm rolling through North Texas dropping golf ball-sized hail that damaged roofs, mangled blinds and shattered car windows, Pardue’s 14-year-old daughter was home alone “freaking out” at…
A bad wig, sometimes black and other times gray, and dark sunglasses seems like a weak disguise for a bank robber to wear. It’s not the most interesting disguise compared with the New York bank robber who dressed up as Darth Vader, the Illinois bank robber who wore a nun…
The fierce Chicago quintet the Orwells ended their set early on Saturday night at the Spillover Fest with a fight when Trees staff tried to boot them off the stage. It’s unclear at this point what led to the ass kicking or even who received it. The Orwells’ lead singer…
They’re the superheroes of the Democratic Party, swooping in to save the day with their super vote before a misguided populace burns the Democratic establishment to the ground by selecting a candidate who spews radical ideas as if it were 1972. Birthed in the flames of George McGovern’s ’72 presidential…
The threat of oil and gas extraction within 850 feet of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-controlled Joe Pool Lake dam in 2010 initiated a red alert for the federal agency that controls our nation’s dams. Corps officials pleaded with energy giants XTO and Chesapeake to stop exploration so close…
The earthquake struck in the middle of the morning, shaking houses on their foundations and rattling dishes in cabinets. Surprised residents from Valley View, a town about 60 miles north of Dallas, all the way west to Pilot Point poured into the streets in the fall of 1985. “It felt…
David Wiley and Rachel Roberts have a dream to enrich downtown Dallas with a new wave of street musicians. Buskers are already regular fixtures at night in Deep Ellum, playing music for tips from passersby, but Wiley and Roberts want to do more than just bring busking to downtown and…
Rebecca Graves, a detective with the Grapevine police, was driving back to the station one day in 2012 when she heard the call from dispatch: Possible overdose off Holly Street, officer assistance requested. Graves, an eight-year veteran of the force, usually worked violent crimes. But Holly was just a few…
Tracy Murphree stood in front of his campaign signs, speaking to a room full of supporters, some wearing red T-shirts with the words “Team Murphree” on the front and “Justice is coming 2016” on the back. The road to earning the Republican nomination for Denton County sheriff has been long…
They called him a “cry baby,” a “pussy,” “whiny” and a whole assortment of verbage using the word “fuck” as an adjective and a verb. Pantera fans’ response to LA Weekly’s recent article “It’s Time to Talk About How Terrible Pantera Are,” although not near the backlash the writer Nicholas…
Alexis Bortell stands behind the podium, atop a stepping stool, addressing a packed house at the Southwest Cannabis Conference & Expo in downtown Fort Worth. She doesn’t look like the face of decriminalization. She’s not even old enough to buy the glass pipes being sold just a few aisles over…
