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Sometimes a chair is just a chair. Sometimes, when it comes in a suspiciously heavy package from Mexico, it's not.

You've probably heard Micheal Martensen's name around town, most likely preceded by the word "mixologist." As a bartender at The Cedars Social , he's been credited with helping establish Dallas' old school cocktail movement.

The suburbs stir up a lot of associations in the popular imagination. It covers territory as diverse as Leave It to Beaver and Blue Velvet .

Rigor Mortis, Gammacide, Devilfist and Demonseed are all the musical ingredients the supergroup Texas Metal Alliance needed to create Warbeast, a legendary Texas thrash metal super supergroup.

DALLAS A six-alarm fire sent flames shooting through the roof of a three-story condominium complex on Monday morning, sending residents scurrying from their homes and forcing firefighters to rescue people from the burning building.

Dallas Comic-Con is a magical place where Wookiees high-five Cylons while William Shatner lurks behind potted plants.

A good chunk of the Heartwood Condominiums is a total loss at this point. The Northeast Dallas complex has been consumed in a massive, six-alarm fire that broke out there early this morning, bringing dozens of firetrucks to the intersection of Abrams and -- in a case of unfortunate irony -- Emberglow Lane .

When Dallas Fire rescue responded to an apartment fire on Sunday afternoon they found a man's body inside one of the units.

Some patients and staff were evacuated from Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas Sunday afternoon after a fire broke out on the 11th floor.

There are big changes ahead at Dallas City Hall. Not just new Council members, but also a new city manager.

Police spokeswoman Senior Cpl. Sherri Jeffrey said 24-year-old Yunvel Aguilar of Dallas had just left a nightclub with her cousin, and the two women began arguing over gas money in the parking lot of an Exxon station at the corner of Interstate 35E and Royal Lane at 2:35 a.m. When Aguilar attempted to get something from the trunk, Jeffrey said the ... (more)

Police said a 20-year-old man was shot and killed early Sunday morning, the victim of an attempted carjacking in South Dallas.

Click HERE to read a PDF of the May 19 Tyler Courier-Times--Telegraph Drilling Report The drilling report was produced with data from the Texas Railroad Commission, from May 5 to May 11.

Even as the community continues to bask in the glow of Skinner Bakery's move into the former Sara Lee plant, PEDC executive director Steve Gilbert told the Paris City Council that two more major companies are looking to move into Paris.

The North Dallas Bulldog Support League will host a good old-fashioned sock hop from 4 to 6 p.m. May 18 in the girls gym at North Dallas High School, 3120 N. Haskell Ave.

This is a "repost" of an older post that I did a couple of years ago, where I compared Costa vs Gurode.

In 1884, Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques , a collection of 50 poems by symbolist Belgian poet Albert Giraud was published.

Randy Hu, one of the guys behind this new boba truck business, emailed me an hour ago to tell me about Bobaddiction .

Clockwise from left, Boy Scouts Eric Kusterer, Jacob Sorah, James Sorah, Micah Brownlee and Cub Scout John Sorah hold signs at the "Save Our Scouts" Prayer Vigil and Rally in front of the Boy Scouts of America National Headquarters in Irving, Texas on Wednesday, Feb.

The Argyle school board voted five to one to have their superintendent start drafting a police to have select staff members carry guns.