The Dallas County public defender's office plans to hire social workers to help keep its mentally ill clients out of jail. It's one more attempt to end the cycle of hospitalization, incarceration and homelessness caused by the criminalization — rather than treatment — of mental illness. Nonprofits and county administrators...
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No pass, no play. In 1984, that was the blunt nickname of sweeping educational reform led by Dallas businessman Ross Perot that mandated Texas high-school athletes make a grade of 70-plus in all classes or be sidelined in their sport. In 2020, it’s potentially life or death. Dictated by the...
For 16 years, Bill Price has successfully defended the city’s prostitutes, drug dealers, drunk drivers and the occasional client accused of murder. But against COVID-19 and a dormant criminal justice system, even the gold medal weightlifter-turned-litigator is powerless. “This virus has crippled the courts,” says the veteran defense attorney. “There...
In the new film Selfie Dad, lead character Ben Marcus speeds away from home in a fit of rage and is abruptly pulled over by a police officer. The scene in the original script called for Ben to get out of the car nonchalantly, but when considering the role, actor...
I had to go to the store last week to get more ground beef to make a second round of Garden Café's meatloaf. COVID may have stopped time for some of us, but I have a buddy who needs back surgery so badly that his surgeon won’t put it off,...
Dallas' Reverchon Park fight, already voted on twice by the Dallas City Council, isn't over. Thursday afternoon, a group of the park's neighbors announced a lawsuit intended to stop the city's deal to give the reins of the park to a private group led by Dallas Mavericks executive Donnie Nelson...
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The sound of trap music is not going anywhere soon, but do you remember what hip-hop used to sound like with the mix of drums and soul samples? Dallas recording artist Samsonyte is here to flip the script on the “Hip-Hop Is Dead” era. The underground hip-hop and rap scene...
When Donna Pryor walked into her new three-bedroom home on a tree-lined street in Plano, she was mesmerized. There was a clean yard, a huge kitchen and a swimming pool out back. Finally, her children would be safe. Pryor left home when she was 13 to escape her drug-addicted mother. Pregnant...
The first step to a successful picnic in the time of COVID-19 is to find your own corner of the park — or, better yet, to find your own park entirely. After Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted out a warning March 28 that the trails around White Rock Lake...
Ramon Mallow was a self-proclaimed hippie. People knew him as Mr. Troll in the Dallas-Fort Worth music scene, a moniker from his old biker days. His family called him Danny, after his middle name Daniel. His sister Faye Price said she always called her brother a bohemian. He prided himself...
M&O Station Grill in Fort Worth is attached to a museum about a department store and subway. It results in a trip down memory lane and a full meal of a towering burger.
As America burns and the revolution-within-a-pandemic rages on, many entertainers have spoke out about their support for social justice reform. Run the Jewels dropped its fourth album early, with critics heralding it as the “soundtrack of the George Floyd protests.” Doja Cat donated $100,000 to the Breonna Taylor fund to...
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Like the rest of the country, Texas, the second-largest state both in population and land area, is in the midst of a public health crisis. In the state's largest counties, the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus is rising drastically each day. Gov. Greg Abbott has shut down...
If there was any doubt which presidential candidate Dallas' elected Democrats prefer, it's gone. Former Vice President Joe Biden, fresh off clobbering Sen. Bernie Sanders in Saturday's South Carolina primary, rolled out waves of familiar faces for the crowd at Gilley's in the Cedars on Monday night, before making the...
Stephan Wolfert hadn’t planned to stumble drunk into a Montana theater in 1991 for a performance of a play by Shakespeare. The jaded Army veteran also didn’t expect to connect with the medieval character of a crazed, homeless woman up on the stage, or to eventually share the healing he...
A great deal has been said about the need to support small, locally owned restaurants during the coronavirus outbreak. Because the inability to serve customers on-site has slashed many kitchens’ sales by more than half, it’s literally true that if we don’t patronize them now, we may never be able...
For the last two years, Dallas' headlines have been dominated by cops on trial. In 2018, Dallas County juries convicted ex-cops Roy Oliver and Ken Johnson on murder charges. Last year, Dallas County juries acquitted former Mesquite officer Derick Wiley of aggravated assault after he shot a man in the...
While actual reality seems doomed to hell, we are all stuck at home binging on reality shows (like that trainwreck Love Is Blind) and true-crime documentaries like Tiger King. But what about shows that take you back specifically to Dallas? You know, that city we used to know and love...
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The storm had only begun to gather when South by Southwest made the painful but necessary decision to cancel the entirety of its 2020 conference, sending shockwaves through the creative community in Texas and around the world. As everyone processed the enormity of such an unprecedented step, Fort Worth singer-songwriter...
Bill spends most of his days in front of the TV. He has few family members, fewer friends, and is content to watch sitcoms and eat meals alone. Bill (not his real name) is gay and is part of a rising number of elderly LGBTQ North Texans. As a man...
Protesters lined the steps of the Hall of State in Fair Park on Tuesday, holding a banner in front of attendees of the morning's climate symposium: "This is not enough." It was in response to Dallas' climate plan, which was released in draft form last month and is to be adopted...
There’s no denying that spending extra time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic has led many folks to see things in a new, unexpected light. That’s certainly the case for Wade Bowen, one of the biggest stars of the Texas country circuit. The Waco native is deriving unexpected pleasure from...