Following up on the blockbuster success of the Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids and its masterful sequel, the Tea Party II: Why America Loves You “social-activist coloring book for kids” St. Louis-based Really Big Coloring Books, Inc. has come through with another sure-fire bestseller: Cruz to the Future, a…
Now that Dallas has been exposed for almost putting Uber out of business to make Yellow Cab happy, Dallas still plans to do something about Uber. What will be done is not clear. The City Council’s Transportation Committee is scheduled to review Dallas’ car-for-hire regulations next month. In the meantime,…
As evangelicals continue to revel in their victory over the Christmas-hating PTA moms in Frisco, the folks at the American Humanist Association are proving that they don’t need God on their side to force a North Texas school district to capitulate. AHA announced today that Isaiah Smith, the Birdville High…
Texas Rangers outfielder Leonys Martin followed a risky but well-trodden path to the Major Leagues. Like many Cuban ballplayers before him, he defected in 2010 while in Japan for the World University Baseball Championship. He made his way to the United States several months later and signed a lucrative, $15.5…
The kids in Head Start just can’t catch a break. If it’s not the federal government shutting down or arbitrarily cutting funding to the low-income preschool program, it’s petty thieves breaking into their classrooms. At 4 a.m. on Wednesday, one such criminal broke into Head Start of Greater Dallas’ preschool…
The Dallas Police Department has already admitted that the chase that killed Fred Bradford Jr. on the night of April 21 shouldn’t have happened. Bradford, 51, was riding his bicycle along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, allegedly stopping to peek suspiciously inside parked cars. Officer Bryan Burgess gave chase in…
There still are a few reminders left of Clint Peterson on Kelly Court, the quiet, leafy street in Duncanville where he was shot to death. A neighbor’s white pickup that Peterson once repaired is parked in a driveway. Across the street is the home of an elderly couple whose lawn…
They’ll tell you they weren’t scared. They were just sick of the stories, sick of the escalating pressure, sick of the dark cloud that hung over the school and seemed to be growing by the day. But calm and collected people don’t abruptly pack their belongings and hitch rides to…
Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans are comedians, but their new project, Sunday Assembly, isn’t a joke. It’s also not a joke when Evans describes it as “all the best bits of church, but with no religion and awesome pop songs,” or when Jones says its goal is to to “bring…
Two weeks ago, Dallas breathed out a triumphant chuckle when the massive winter storm that promised to encase the city in ice and smother all signs of life arrived instead as a chilly but gentle rain. No way would the weather gods have the chutzpah to mess with the Big…
A Texas state trooper was arrested in Cleburne Tuesday night after allegedly buying 6 grams of methamphetamine. According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, 47-year-old Jimmy Jay Gillman, an officer in the Texas Department of Public Safety’s commercial vehicle enforcement unit, was picked up just after 9 p.m. in front…
Across the U.S., commuters are trading in their cars for trains and buses. According to a study released Wednesday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, two-thirds of the country’s 100 largest cities saw jumps in the number of miles traveled each year on public transit between 2005 and 2010…
At the request of Governor Rick Perry, the Texas Department of Insurance rolled out an additional set of requirements Obamacare “navigators” will be subject to. On top of the training and certification the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandates, TDI will require an additional 40 hours of continuing…
Earlier this year, Kip’s Big Boy statue made his Abrams Road debut, replacing the extraordinarily creepy baby Buddha statue at the center of White Rock Landscaping owner Gary Isett’s Cowboy star-shaped flower bed. The iconic hamburger slinger’s cameo proved to be brief. Within days, city of Dallas code inspectors issued…
A team of researchers at SMU has reached a conclusion that may seem obvious to those who have felt the 20-plus earthquakes that rattled North Texas last month: The recent bursts of seismic activity could be linked to fracking. The researchers, led by recent SMU grad Ashley Justinic, took a…
For the past few months, the Texas National Guard and the Department of Defense have been in a public brawl over gay rights. And last week, it appeared that the Defense Department, along with gay couples, emerged as the clear victor. Texas, Oklahoma and West Virginia are now complying with…
Less than four months after taking over as executive director of the Rockwall Housing Development Corp. in June 2009, assuming full control of the nonprofit’s finances and The Meadows, its 36-unit public housing a couple of blocks off Interstate 30, Jennifer Tyson made out a check to “reimbursement,” took it…
I don’t even know where to begin, so let’s start at the beginning. Today the Texas Rangers traded Josh Lindblom and Craig Gentry to the Oakland A’s for outfielder/native Texan Michael Choice and infielder Chris Bostick. Objectively speaking, this looks like a solid trade for both teams. Why? I don’t…
Driving in Dallas sucks for a lot of reasons (traffic, terrible drivers, humongous potholes, et al), but overzealous traffic cops aren’t one of them. This isn’t just the anecdotal experience of a guy who, having been ticketed three times in five months as a teenager in Richardson, discovered similar infractions…
The conceit behind The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told is easy to grasp. Instead of Adam and Eve frolicking naked in the Garden of Eden, it’s Adam and Steve who are the primordial couple. When they meet up with an equally primordial lesbian couple and decide to start a civilization,…
Fort Worth police shot and killed two dogs that mauled a man and his daughter early Tuesday morning. According to police, the man heard a commotion outside his home, located in the 3300 block of N. Crump Street, just southeast of Meacham Airport, just after midnight. He stepped outside to…
The house on Allencrest Lane — a tidy four-bedroom, three-bath ranch-style in North Dallas — isn’t the first place one would look for a weed-growing mastermind named Bone. Nevertheless, that’s where DEA agents tracked down 37-year-old Brian Edward Deloney in June 2010, not to mention several gallon-sized bags of hydroponic…
