In its eternal search for peace with the neighbors, the Texas Dept. of Transportation is trying a new approach to noise abatement alongside Interstate 30, the Tom Landry Highway, just west of downtown Dallas. Large, acrylic panels have been installed on the south side of the freeway to contain at least some of the noise…… MORE
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Rick Hadley: Playboy Teacher
You’ve probably heard about Cristy Deweese by now. She’s the Dallas Townview High school Spanish teacher at the center of a controversy over her Playboy pictorial from February 2011. Modeling under the name Cristy Nicole, Deweese was 18 when she went before Playboy’s cameras. She’s now 21 now and has her teacher certification and is…… MORE
Mark Watkins: Open Book Sandwiches
It’s the little things. I was preparing to make sandwiches to bring to work when my wife came up and decided to help. We gathered the bread, the lunch meat and the cheese, and she decided to watch. She had done the grocery shopping recently, and I had asked for deli ham and a certain…… MORE
Freda Ross: Did that just happen?
I had a very surreal moment at a recent festival where I was a jewelry vendor. A lady attempted to steal a pair of earrings from my display. When I realized what was happening I heard myself ask "did you take those earrings?" She immediately denied it and then tried to blame her 7-9…… MORE
Rick Hadley: In a state of sports depression
I’m sports depressed these days. My Rangers have wrapped up their season after putting too much faith in the likes of the decrepit Lance Berkman and the suddenly season-long slumping David Murphy and the light-hitting for his position Mitch Moreland and the performance-enhanced and fifty game-banned Nelson Cruz. Texas had the pitching, but they…… MORE