Category

News

A desolate playground at Ernest Butler Park featuring a single lonely swing hanging from a metal arch over a field of woodchips.
News

Ernest Butler Park: Lubbock’s Premier Destination for Tetanus and Loneliness

If you’ve ever wanted your child to experience the existential dread of being the only…

April 24, 2026
Mugshot of Zachary Peterson, featuring a blonde mullet and a mustache, looking remarkably unbothered for someone who just fumbled the most generous probation deal in Lubbock history.
News

Manslaughter? More Like ‘Man-Slight-Inconvenience’ Until You Forget to Call Your PO

Lubbock: where the wind blows 40 mph, the water tastes like a swimming pool filter,…

April 24, 2026
Governor Greg Abbott holds up the signed voucher legislation with a triumphant grin while surrounded by a group of children being used as human shields for a bureaucratic nightmare.
News

Texas Discovers the Secret to Better Education: Giving Your Tax Dollars to Private Schools

The Texas Comptroller just started mailing out the educational equivalent of Willy Wonka’s Golden Tickets,…

April 24, 2026
Mugshots of Valerie Torres, Markquis Tates, and Joe Ramirez following their arrest at the Executive Inn in Lubbock.
News

The “Executive” Lifestyle: Avenue Q’s Finest Hospitality Ends in SWAT Semi-Finals

Lubbock’s Avenue Q remains the undisputed champion of “exactly what you expected to happen.” On…

April 24, 2026
Mugshot of Cysili Quintanilla following her arrest for aggravated assault and child endangerment in Lubbock.
News

Lubbock Love Language: Ramming, Shooting, and a Mid-Crime Power Nap

Welcome back to another episode of “Why We Can’t Have Nice Things in the 806.”…

April 24, 2026
A mugshot of 78-year-old Michael Vernie Owens positioned in front of a blurred blue and red police siren background.
News

Lubbock’s Latest Family Reunion Ends with a Self-Reported Murder Warrant

In a city where the most exciting thing to do on a Wednesday night is…

April 23, 2026
A political yard sign for "Virginians for Fair Elections" sits on a manicured lawn, ironically symbolizing the redistricting war Texas Republicans accidentally started and then lost.
News

Texas GOP Discovers “Actions Have Consequences,” Promptly Melts Down

In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has ever played a game of…

April 23, 2026
A silhouette of a rusty oil pumpjack operating in a dry, flat West Texas field under a dim sky.
News

Permian Basin ‘Entrepreneurs’ Discover That Stolen Oil Still Comes With Free Federal Room and Board

In a city where the most exciting news is usually a new car wash opening…

April 23, 2026
George Strait performing on stage in a cowboy hat and blue plaid shirt, waving to a crowd of 60,000 people who likely skipped their car payments to afford the $3,100 ticket price.
News

George Strait is Coming to Save Our Sinking Economy (And Drink Every Last Coors Light in the County)

Lubbock is currently in the middle of a collective nervous breakdown because King George is…

April 22, 2026