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Around the time the sun first peeks over the eastern horizon,
Jim Christian loads his three black dogs into his silver Honda and
drives a few miles to the Mockingbird Point Dog...
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Magnetic Retraction By Jim Schutze, May 14
Messing with Success
The magnets are not only "islands" of excellence, cut off from the
larger world around them. They provide a...
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South Side Story: Turns out the story isn't true. The southern Dallas vote did not deliver the No-vote victory for backers of
a city-owned convention hotel in the May 9...
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A concerted effort is under way to pit communities against each
other—especially Hispanic against black—over public school
resources in Dallas. It's sort of like...
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There's a man buried under your jokes.
In the wake of the Dallas Cowboys' Valley Ranch practice facility
collapsing during a thunderstorm on May 2, you've heard them....
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Dear Mexican: My wife and I have an argument going on about
pirates. And since you're the source for all things Mexican, I thought
I'd ask: While I know there were Spanish and...
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There was a packed house at the Prophet Bar last Wednesday night for
the coolest weekly gig that most of the city still remains clueless
about.
I mean, sure, it was a pseudo...
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The Thermals are a Portland-based trio (they've gone through
a troop of drummers) that retains the energy and anger of punk and
grunge that famously flowed out of the Northwest...
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Having fought a prescription pill addiction and mourned his murdered
friend Proof, Eminem has chosen new album Relapse as his
therapy.
Whereas he played his last work, Encore,...
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Making music out of pure love of the art form is one way to go about
building band notoriety. But according to Richard Edwards, lead singer
and guitarist for indie-poppers...
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J. Paul Slavens holds his stoic composure as he takes a seat
behind his Casio keyboard for his weekly residency at Dan's
Sliverleaf. After taking a nip from his whiskey and...
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There will be good Tex-Mex and rumors of good Tex-Mex. Mostly
rumors, though—at least in the Dallas area.
It's a sad fact: apart from some fabled taquerias and a few...
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On Cinco de Mayo, while you were taking tequila shots off of God
knows who's God knows where, Burguesa Burger was opening its
ventanas to the public for the first time. Just a...
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Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are
technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model
of killing machine: the classic V8 1984...
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Twenty-four hours is not a lot of time. Though Kiefer Sutherland can make it seem like an eternity, the rest of us often struggle to get through mundane tasks in the...
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Whenever I see the words dead and society in the same title or sentence, I usually assume it's along the lines of or referring to the movie Dead Poets Society. You know, the...
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You eat and drink. That is to say, you--at various times throughout the day--open up that mouth-hole and shovel some sort of sustenance into it, whether said kibble is prepared...
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The Wizard of Oz is one of those things that will never die, like baseball and Dick Clark. As someone who once played a bit part in a multi-thousand-dollar high school musical...
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Why not toast your brewski to the firefighters who always have your back? They put their lives on the line to combat everything from your common kitchen-related fires (What?...
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My first conscious memory of seeing hypnotism in action came courtesy of a Pee-Wee Herman HBO Special I watched as a little kid--and if you've ever seen said HBO special, then...
