Update: The Times-Picayune in New Orleans has just reported that Kidd Kradick died of cardiac disease -- information they collected from the preliminary autopsy results of the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office. The investigation into his death is ongoing, but the coroner's office reports no abnormalities. Original post follows... Kidd Kraddick,...
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Part of why I write is because I think words are important. They are similar to songs in that the right one in the right place at the right time can absolutely change your life. Words are not meaningless or forgettable, no matter what Depeche Mode might claim. By Jaime...
Prime Prep Academy, the charter school that Deion Sanders co-founded last year and was fired from last week, is known for its suspicious tendency to attract some of the top high school athletes in the country. Now, the parents of those athletes say they were misled by school officials and...
The feds were quite pleased in 2010 when Operation Greedy Grove, their months-long takedown of a Pleasant Grove-based crack ring, resulted in 28 arrests and the seizure of several kilograms of cocaine, more than a dozen guns, and $210,000 cash. But the guys they picked up -- "Rat," "Ron Don,"...
Every new restaurant faces obstacles to open, but The Rustic had an extra challenge that many don't. Owners Pat Green (country singer who likes Texas), Kyle Noonan and Josh Sepkowitz (Bowl and Barrel, Mutt's) started planning with empty lot. The restaurant had to be built from the ground up, before...
French mezzo Clémentine Margaine bolted on stage at the Winspear opera house this weekend and stole the audience's attention with effortless sensuality and a strong, smooth voice. Making her American debut in The Dallas Opera's season-opening production of Bizet's Carmen, Margaine also brought depth and complexity to the classic title...
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While some restaurateurs may feel held hostage by bad Yelp reviews, others are pulling out the big guns. Meri Dahlke, who owns and operates Ten Bells Tavern in Oak Cliff, noticed a nasty one-star review that seemed excessively spiteful. From Yelper Mark G.: I live in Oak Cliff and really...
Beats Antique sold out Trees in Deep Ellum on Friday night, while on tour promoting their new album, A Thousand Faces- Act 1. I have purposely held off on watching any live videos of the band, since I was told the magic lies in their live performances, and wanted to...
Elves snore, it turns out. Their maidens make teensy-peen jokes and pine for the hottest of dwarves. And Bilbo Baggins, so concerned about his doilies just three hours of screen time ago, now punches his sword right through the trachea of a goblin — and then looks rather proud of...
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 12, 2014: Dallas Jury Awards Woman Largest Amount So Far in Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit It felt like fishing line was scratching him: That's how he knew something was wrong. His wife had been complaining for a while that sex hurt, but he thought maybe she just didn't want...
At this point last year, Dallas County had already recorded a handful of West Nile deaths, a figure that would ramp up to 19 in the following weeks and months as the number of infections skyrocketed. But the West Nile outbreak of 2012, which resulted in a record 286 death...
On the bulletproof compound of the formidable College Sports Cartel, no one enjoys life quite like the football bowl executive, that shadowy Good Ol' Boy who plans one football game a year in exchange for a mid-six-figure salary and fringe benefits fit for a Florida congressman. And in recent years,...
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In 1997, 87-year-old Richard Lusk flew from California to Florida to claim an $11 million prize he believed he'd won in a sweepstakes. The day after he returned home empty-handed, he had a stroke. Four months later, he bought a second plane ticket to Florida and stubbornly knocked on their...
Update on October 2: William Gomez and his two children have been found safe in Wisconsin. Original post: William Gomez drove away in his family's white Jeep at about 2 p.m. Sunday with his two grandkids, 7-year-old Marcus and 8-year-old Dominique, ostensibly headed for Carrollton's Rhoton Park or Lewiville's Vista...
George Takei just wrapped up a very busy year. He released a cologne called Eau My just in time for the holiday shopping season, then in April he released a book recounting his meteoric rise to popularity on the Web titled, Oh Myyy! There Goes The Internet, he launched a...
Evidence has been mounting for years that Tasers are more dangerous than their manufacturer and law enforcement officials, who tout the weapon as a nonlethal alternative to firearms, have claimed.Over the past dozen years, 540 people, most of them unarmed, have died after being tased by police, according to a...
This afternoon in Fort Worth, a "parade of dignitaries" will mark the opening of the new West 7th Street, and good for them. It's a fully competent work of civil engineering and a pleasant enough way to get to downtown Fort Worth, if get to downtown Fort Worth you must...
The importance, cultural relevance, and influential impact of Dallas' Latin music scene can not be stressed enough. Though often written off as a niche in the local market, tejano, cumbia, rock en espanol, and other Latin-centric genres are alive and thriving in Dallas. Which isn't all that surprising, considering that...
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Editor's Note: Our nightlife columnist, Deb Doing Dallas, wrote about this year's State Fair Classic, a longstanding Fair tradition at least as much about the pageantry and the marching bands in particular as it is about the actual football game played between Louisana's Grambling State University and Texas' Prairie View...
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Asylum Insanity
The first time I encountered the phenomenon, I was sitting at the bar at Sheba's Ethiopian Kitchen, my fingers pinching a small portion of raw beef from the bread-lined plate in front of me. Two men were at the end of the bar, also eating with their hands but from...
Before Wes Anderson became the director of quirky, mannered films like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and last year's Moonrise Kingdom, he was a University of Texas graduate sharing an apartment with brothers Luke and Owen Wilson. Before Matt Zoller Seitz became TV critic for New York magazine and Vulture.com, plus...