Date Night in the City: Casual
Since Dallas is the food mecca of Texas, the dreaded question for so many is: “Where do you want to eat tonight?” Date night in [...]
Skateboarding is back: In its heyday, Texas skaters were feared, admired
With three legit skate movies in the 2018 motion-picture pipeline, it's fair to say skateboarding, if film is any reflection and/or prediction of reality, is [...]
A Dallas guy narrates crazy-popular podcast “American History Tellers,” is working on “American Scandal”
Lindsay "Not The Senator" Graham's career soared with America's acceptance of "nerd culture" ... "American History Teller" Lindsay Graham narrates his top-of-the-charts Wondery podcast [...]
What is going on with the Dallas Housing Authority?
Did the Dallas Housing Authority blow through its federally funded annual budget in the first half of 2018? No, but that was incorrectly reported last [...]
Dallas’ Cement City is gone, save an old, obscure cemetery
Did you know about Cemento Grande? Texas and Dallas History and Archives, Dallas Public Library, Cement City Collection, Coke & Coke A cemetery [...]
Roll ’em up, take a lick: Thai rolled ice cream is legal high
No, it isn't a mind-altering chemical, but, mood elevating? Yaaaasss. Wiki Commons Rolled Ice Cream I'm speaking the sort of high ones derives [...]
Video: Dark Rooms returns to Dallas, plays that song from “A Ghost Story”
You know how old-timers like Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash (RIP) have played shows where it's just, like, a musician and his acoustic guitar. [...]
Dallas police officer arrested for DWI on September 11
Officer Ashley Parmley is on administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation. Rowlett police arrested this Dallas officer for driving while intoxicated. After [...]
Former Dallasite Lawrence Wright wrote the seminal book on 9/11 history
How Dallas shaped the prolific, peerless reporter-author Lawrence Wright, and how his family shaped Dallas. Author Lawrence Wright. Courtesy Penguin Random House. If [...]
A reckoning looms for America—Ben Fountain’s new book expounds
Must America "burn"? If we are to transform and improve as a nation, Dallas author Ben Fountain's answer is, "yeah, probably ... it may turn [...]
What ever happened to Dallas-native actor Nick Stahl?
I attended the graduation ceremony of Nick Stahl, an actor who had been in a movie with Mel Gibson ... Dallas native Nick Stahl. [...]
Date Night in the City: Girls Night Out
Miley Cyrus has it right. The best kinds of nights are the ones spent with your girl gang. If you need some fun suggestions before [...]
Seven years after Mr. Peppermint’s death, his crazy redneck Butthole Surfer son seems to be turning toward children’s entertainment
Like father, like son? Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes today — albeit in creepier and more terrifying ways —also has a knack for entertaining children. [...]
Dallas drama queen Morgan Fairchild stars in LGBT-centric show ‘Mélange’
A battle over ownership of an elite New York City gay bar following the mysterious sudden death of its proprietor — that's the the basis [...]
The remarkable way Dallas peacefully desegregated public pools
Across the country, black men were being beaten for trying to swim with white people. And, while Dallas was by no stretch of the imagination [...]
60 stories we didn’t write last week (but wish we had)
Many things caught fire this week, literally; cops did good and bad things; Cowboys will be Cowboys; celebrities scored gigs and got personal; new restaurants [...]
Long lost brothers? Beto O’ Rourke and The Ticket’s Junior Miller
Politician Beto O' Rourke and beloved radio personality Craig Miller. I just can't help doing a double take as I scroll through Twitter [...]
Dear Lupe: Yeah, this is embarrassing, we had that gun all along. So sorry. Love, Sheriff’s Department
Remember how candidate for Texas Governor and ex-Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez purportedly misplaced her pistol? Well … she did not. Different gun, different [...]
White Rock Lake is too crowded, huh? It’s nothing compared to 1977, spring of the hippie riot
Runners can't stand those cyclists; those cyclists yell at the joggers, joggers complain when called "joggers," overly long dog leashes clothesline kids, Parkies are building [...]
Actor from Dallas is in a new Spike Lee joint (not that one)
Jon Michael Hill and Blake DeLong in "Pass Over," a Spike Lee joint. (Courtesy Amazon Studios) Spike Lee has been bombarded with buzz [...]