Has it really been a year? Have 12 months really passed since The Dallas Morning News trolled us all with its rich, lily-white and generally boring Best Neighborhoods list? No, it’s been 11. But the paper apparently couldn’t wait the extra 30 days, so eager it was to roll out…
Your browser does not support iframes.On Saturday night, the Rangers turned in yet another lackluster performance, dropping their second straight to the Toronto Blue Jays, 4-2. And yet the evening wasn’t entirely a waste thanks to 10-year-old Austin Chaney, a.k.a. the Foul Ball Kid. Watch the video above. You’ll see…
You can, provided you’re willing to break a handful of federal laws and international treaties and locate a willing buyer, sell a dead hummingbird. A well-preserved specimen of certain varieties will fetch upward of $350 on the U.S. black market, according to federal prosecutors. Who, you might wonder, would pay…
We step away from our usual prediction of the weather in Dallas to say hello to everyone in Fort Worth! Hello Fort Worth! We haven’t forgotten about you. In fact we have a very special NSFW FW post ready for you. NSFW, of course, stands for No Shit, Fort Worth!…
Most people have more or less forgotten the high-profile TCU drug bust of February 2012. Aside from the presence of four football players among the 18 arrested and the relatively rare chance for TV stations to run a mugshot gallery full of privileged college kids, the revelation that a bunch…
Shortly after Danny Cantu’s home was searched by Dallas police officers, he ended up in the hospital with trauma to his face. “Kicked in head,” read the notes in his medical records. He had been admitted with septal hematoma — bruising or bleeding in the nose — and lacerations on…
The Supreme Court’s landmark school-desegregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education, handed down 60 years ago this week, had little immediate impact on Dallas ISD. Schools remained officially segregated for years and de facto segregated for decades, as district officials slow-walked integration and white families fled to the suburbs…
For decades, doubtless dating back to the advent of home mail delivery, the dog-bites-mailman trope has provided cartoonists and joke writers (and now meme creators) — with an easy source of cheap humor. The U.S. Postal Service, whose employees were the victims of 5,581 dog attacks last year, is not…
The criminal case against Columbia Packing and the Ondruseks, aka the Trinity River pig blood guys, sure seems like it should have been a slam dunk. How could investigators possibly botch a case in which there is literally a trail of blood leading directly to the suspected culprits? By trespassing,…
Superficially, the Republican race for state Representative Dan Branch’s Park Cities/Preston Hollow seat started off positive. Here you had three intelligent, accomplished young professionals politely agreeing with each other on how best to shape Texas’ future. Their few apparent distinguishing features — I’ve been endorsed by LeVar Burton! Holy crap…
In September, Brice Johnson starting talking to Arron Keahey on MeetMe.com, a networking and dating app. Keahey’s profile said he was looking for other men. Johnson, a 19-year-old from Springtown (a half hour’s drive northwest of Fort Worth) indicated that he was straight in his own profile, but nonetheless started…
There may have been a record-breaking 300 plus earthquakes in North Texas since December, but don’t point so much blame at the suspicious deep injection wells used to dispose of fracking wastewater. “A knee-jerk reaction could have a negative impact on our economy because of the large role the oil…
A decade ago, the Duncanville Independent School District kicked off the 2003-04 school year by suspending 700 kids for dress code violations. The crackdown made headlines, but the first didn’t appear until late September, more than a month after the district began booting kids from class for infractions as minor…
It’s a shame, really, that D Magazine didn’t continue its morning show experiment. Not because we derived any pleasure from watching D: The Broadcast (we probably wouldn’t have, but never say never) but because it would have been mildly wonderful to watch Wick Allison dance away from yesterday morning’s Michael…
At first glance, the March 23 murder of Wilmer-Hutchins High School basketball standout Troy Causey Jr. was the result of the cruel stupidity of undersupervised teenagers. According to police, Causey and a crosstown rival, Madison High’s Johnathan Turner, started started arguing over a video game. Words turned to punches, and…
UT Dallas has always been a university, i.e. an institution of higher learning where one can take classes and learn things and get an accredited degree. But it’s never really been a college, in the sense of a vibrant campus-centered community. When I graduated five years ago, the ghetto of…
Ever tried driving around Dallas? We assume you have, as otherwise you’d have been stuck in the same quarter-mile or so for your whole life. We’re not a city that likes to build anything that would be easily accessible by non-cars. Sidewalks are an afterthought. Pedestrians are treated with suspicion…
Some day, in the very far distant future, Texas may take a cue from Colorado and legalize marijuana. For now, it’s taking some very hesitant first steps toward decriminalization, such as a proposal last legislative session reduce possession of an ounce or less of weed from a class B to…
At the beginning of every Dallas City Council meeting, long before most spectators (and many council members) are fully awake, a religious leader of some stripe stands at the podium and offers a brief prayer. A few months ago, we wondered whether the U.S. Supreme Court might declare such displays…
Update at 4:09 p.m.: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just stayed Campbell’s execution on the grounds that he may legally be mentally retarded/intellectually disabled. It is regrettable that we are now reviewing evidence of intellectual disability at the eleventh hour before Campbell’s scheduled execution. However, from the record before…
Dallas City Councilwoman Vonciel Hill: steadfast opponent of LGBT rights, veteran race baiter, lover of poorly designed inner-city freeways, and … passionate advocate for walkable urban spaces? So it seems. During a lengthy City Council discussion this afternoon on a pilot program aimed at revolutionizing how Dallas does downtown parking…
It’s official: the city of Dallas has agreed to let Virgin America move into Love Field. “After consideration of a number of factors, the City of Dallas has provided its consent to the sub-lease to Virgin America requested by American Airlines,” City Manager A.C. Gonzalez said in a statement released…
