The biggest tip-off that the above picture is a rendering of Victory Park and not a photo isn’t the color saturation or its overall sketchbook quality. It’s the presence of human beings, who have tended to steer clear of the rather forbidding development when there’s not a Mavs game or…
Mireya Villareal is the junior member of CBS 11’s crack squad of investigative reporters, the I-Team for short. She’s a tough, no-bullshit type, as is clear by the Serious Face she dons in her photo, and she’s dedicated her career to sniffing out government corruption and waste and protecting consumers…
The Dallas Morning News, you may have noticed but probably didn’t, is in the middle of a mammoth, months-long effort to pick the best neighborhoods. First came the safest neighborhoods, then the best schools, then those best suited for empty nesters. It’s all leading up to the June 16 reveal,…
You didn’t seriously expect Ron Paul to disappear into a quiet, uneventful retirement, did you? If you did, you probably weren’t watching as over a couple of decades in Congress and a pair of long-shot presidential runs, Paul became the outspoken face of unapologetic libertarianism, and you probably didn’t listen…
Hang on to your hats, everybody, because I’m about to give you a super-duper exciting glimpse into the inner workings of the Dallas Observer. We get a lot of email from our readers. Some of it comes directly to our various email addresses, but a lot of it goes to…
We somehow missed this in the chaotic aftermath of last week’s Boston Marathon bombing, partly because we don’t watch the news with closed captioning on, partly because we don’t follow Zooey Deschanel on Twitter. But local Fox affiliate KDFW seems to have labeled the 33-year-old actress/indie songstress/Apple pitchwoman as an…
Are you excited about the George W. Bush Presidential Center? We’re so excited. Not quite excited enough to fight our way through the throng of ex-presidents and “Bush-Cheney Alumni” attending the dedication tomorrow, but pretty goddamn enthused nonetheless. So, it appears, are a few SMU students and some random non-affiliated…
In the wake of Margaret Thatcher’s death last week, the Morning News took the opportunity to plumb its archives to remind us of the British prime minister’s surprisingly strong ties to Dallas. She was something of a regular here, making frequent trips to Highland Park to visit her son Mark…
This afternoon, Josh Hamilton and his luxuriant, flake-free hair will take the field in Arlington for the first time since dashing the Rangers’ playoff hopes by badly muffing routine fly ball then bolting for Anaheim. And no one really needs to be reminded of last season’s summer-long slump, his absurd…
When I read a story in The Dallas Morning News this morning about a contest for ideas to link the Trinity River to downtown and saw that the contestants were required to include the city’s stupid underwater proposed toll road on top of the river in their submissions, my first…
Locals and outsiders alike have been heaping praise upon the Perot Museum of Nature & Science since it opened in December, not just on the dizzying array of interactive exhibit halls but on the building itself. It was designed by architect Thom Mayne to be both a natural outgrowth of…
It was way back in December 2011, in the wake of a seemingly endless series of public hearings and community meetings, that the Dallas City Council gave its blessing to the Sylvan Thirty development in West Dallas and Mayor Mike Rawlings gave the command: “Let’s let the dirt fly.” Finally,…
Brad Watson’s 34-year run at WFAA is coming to a close.
There is, if news reports are to be believed, a new frontier in helicopter parenting. Suspicious moms and dads are hiring trained drug detection dogs to sniff out their kids’ drug stash. The trend was first identified by the Today Show in December, which ran a story featuring a Houston…
Talk of Dallas serving as a potential host city for the Olympics has ramped up in recent weeks, in part because Dallas attorney Matt Wood has begun work to woo the 2024 Summer Games, and partly because Dallas, along with Tulsa, Oklahoma and Rochester, New York, was one of an…
Yesterday, Forbes released the billionaires list, its annual parade of the ridiculously, absurdly super-rich. This year, the list stretches to some 1,426 names worth a combined $5.4 trillion. Texas claims a small if significant portion of that, counting 50 billionaires among its 26 million residents. Many of these — Alice…
Today marks the arrival of our new and improved Dallas Observer app, your pocket guide to the city and direct line to our always fair-and-balanced take on things. It features: – Event listings and concert calendars searchable by date, artist, neighborhood, venue or genre – Restaurant listings searchable by cuisine…
Pro wrestling and Glenn Beck are in a fight. Apparently this has been news for a few weeks, but we’ve only just learned about it, courtesy of Mediaite, who bring us the delightful video clip you see above, of WWE commentator Michael Cole trying his hardest to storm Glenn Beck’s…
Listeners tuning into ESPN Radio 103.3 this morning and expecting Ben Rogers and Jeff Wade’s irreverent local sports commentary were instead greeted with the nationally syndicated blather of Colin Cowherd. Hosts of the morning-drive Ben and Skin Show, Rogers and Wade Tweeted over the weekend that they didn’t re-sign with…
The Economist isn’t conservative in the American sense of the word, which has come to be defined as much as by views on abortion and Jesus as by a desire for limited government, but it’s consistent in its support of free market capitalism relatively unfettered by government. The magazine did…
It’s been nearly four years since developer Yigal Lelah unveiled his vision for Veterans Place, a sprawling mixed-use development he hopes to build on Lancaster Road, directly across from the VA Medical Center. The development, as the name implies, is focused on returned military personnel and their families, with a…
Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. This week, Buzz has a familiar villain in his sights. Oh, man, Buzz is so depissed©. No, that’s not a typo. It’s our own neologism, a combination of…
