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T his is a good time to reflect on the difficulty of finding truth in the battle over school reform in Dallas, because at this moment I don't seem to be able to get through the front door.

The Promise of Peace Community Garden is in an awful location, shoehorned into a formerly vacant lot in a row of apartments and liquor stores just south of White Rock Lake, reachable only by a narrow sidewalk running along busy Grand Avenue.

The Storm Prediction Center has placed the Dallas area within an enhanced tornado risk zone today .

If you are feeling sad about this , or this , as I am, I don't think you can go wrong with a little extra dose of the arts.

Some of the founding members of longtime local rap stalwart Poor Vida Productions, have teamed up with Media 13 for a major project: This Summer, they'll screen the feature length documentary, We From Dallas .

The Texas Department of Public Safety has expanded its efforts to solve cold case slayings by offering an online update on a dozen investigations.

At 6PM on Wednesday, May 22, the pre-release date editions of the June issue of D Magazine will be delivered to Sharon Van Meter's 3015 at Trinity Groves .

Summer was in full swing Friday at the 2nd Annual Grand Hall Grill Out benefit for Support Our Troops and Patriot PAWS .

We've lost a couple of food trucks in Dallas. As Nancy wrote , Chef Adam west is parking his Unforsacon Bacon food truck to become Executive Chef at The Porch.

Apple's Knox Street store in Dallas, Texas, was targeted by a thief over the weekend that made off with about US$2,000 in iPhones.

First, the good news: Crazy ants don't sting. They do sometimes bite, but the pain is mild, and it fades quickly.

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.