The much-anticipated Fort Worth Natural Gas Air Quality Study, a major million-dollar undertaking to determine the air quality effects of natural gas drilling, was released toward day's end yesterday and indicates there's no need to get your gas masks out just yet -- for the most part. The study, conducted...
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Three words: Dallas. Chocolate. Conference. Just the thought of all that chocolate got me ready to get busy eating. Then I got busy lying down. And I was sweaty. But it's not what you think. We've all heard of the meat sweats, but Saturday afternoon, at the Dallas Chocolate Conference...
In Jesse Peretz's Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd plays Ned, a kind of Upstate New York version of "The Dude" Lebowski — a man out of time, blinkered enough to be living the hippie dream. In the film's first scene, Ned is "entrapped" into selling pot at a farmers' market...
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Conan the Barbarian: Bloody Good
Marshall Barnes can make stuff go faster than it should, in warp drive, in fact. Sounds insane, I know. But apparently it's true, and he was Dallas to talk about his discovery and all of the current electromagnetic field research at the 14th International Mars Society Conference this past weekend...
As The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal note today, President Obama will give a speech some time after Labor Day in which he will unveil "a plan to create jobs, stimulate the economy and reduce the federal deficit." (Tom Leppert beat him to it!) But the president won't...
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As the trade deadline approached in July 2006, it seemed inevitable that Jon Daniels would make a bold move to bolster a mediocre offense in his first season as general manager. He targeted the best hitter on the market -- Carlos Lee, an established 30-HR, 100-RBI slugger. And Lee was...
Two weeks back we talked to Joey Zapata, the interim assistant city manager who deals with code compliance, about the city's plan to "reorganize" the Dallas Animal Services staff by pink-slipping 53 employees and replacing them with what they're calling "contract," or temporary, workers. Yesterday, in a packed, narrow room at...
Best known as the leader of the psychobilly outfit Tiger Army, Nick 13 took a bold step by releasing a solo album of traditional, old-school country back in June. No longer content to wallow in the retro-rock and punk stew of his own band, Nick apparently decided to go way back...
Natasha Helmick goes up for a header during a soccer match and gets speared in the left temple by an opponent. The 14-year-old, a talented center midfielder playing in the choice Lake Highlands Girls Classic League, crumples to the ground. She can't see anything out of her left eye. Her...
Elotes. My new friend. I loved the street food, but it left me thirsty. Thankfully, aguas frescas were available just inside the Oak Lawn grocery store. El Rio Grande Supermercado offered at least 10 versions while I was visiting, ranging from the simple and refreshing lime and cucumber, to a...
You remember Mark Zable from last year's State Fair of Texas Big Tex Choice Awards: He's the one who won last year's Most Creative title for inventing that little thing called fried beer.It wasn't my favorite thing at the fair, but Zable has serious fried talent. "I just love our...
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Nolan Ryan has been hospitalized for chest pains in the past: In 2000, he underwent emergency double-bypass surgery, then returned to the hospital in October of that year following another scare. This, say the Texas Rangers in a statement just sent to media, is what may have landed the team's...
Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Experimental/Avant Garde and Best Talent Buyer,...
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It's been a banner year for Texas' pro-life movement. In May, lawmakers approved state-issued "Choose Life" license plates, with proceeds earmarked for medically questionable, anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy" centers. A few days later they passed a bill requiring women to undergo a sonogram, listen to a fetal heartbeat and hear a...
In February 2010, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced that the downtown Dallas streetcar project, then expected to run around $58 million, would get a huge hunk of its funding from the feds -- $23 million, to be precise, courtesy Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery funds, otherwise known as TIGER...
Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Group, Best Blues and Best Hard...
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10. When could you tell it was preseason? Late in the first half Broncos' quarterback Tim Tebow scrambled across field, broke two tackles and eventually threw a pass down to Dallas' 5. However, there were three -- count 'em three -- penalties on Denver. On the play safety Danny McCray injured his...
A few tree-hugging Friends of Unfair Park sent word earlier today that someone from Park and Rec was out clearcutting trees in the Great Trinity Forest, which seemed a bit ... odd. Wrote one, the guy was using a chainsaw in Gateway Park to cut down Red Oaks, Possumhaw Hollies,...
"Life begins here." That's the current advertising slogan for a famous product many of us reach for every day. Can you guess which one? Take 10 seconds. Ready, go. Time's up. It's Coca Cola, the No. 1 soft drink in the world. Tens of millions were spent with competing ad...
Oh, wouldn't you know I'd wind up agreeing with my opponent? You know what's wrong with me? I am just too damn much of a sweetheart, that's my problem. Too nice, too smart, too good-lookin'. I've got to drop at least one just to make things fair. So this morning...