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I'm on my way to see a Delhi-born meditation guru who once worked for Gandhi and who specializes in the virtues of discipline and peace. Naturally, I'm late.
I slept...
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"Ask a Mexican," by Gustavo Arellano, September 17
Repatriate with a vengeance
Our Mexican visitors come to Dallas to work, get free education for their kids and free medical...
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Don't blame the system: We've been hearing a lot of chatter from commenters on the Observer's Web site about how former city council member Don Hill's trial on charges of...
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Imagine the Byron Nelson Pavilion on steroids. And ecstasy. Then, about every 10 minutes, a fight breaks out.
Welcome to Ultimate Fighting Championship 103, better known as...
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Dear Mexican: In Garfield strips in the funny pages that appeared earlier this year, Garfield is wearing a sombrero and taking siestas. While cute and all, isn't that the sort...
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Given that this is a man who spends the bulk of his time singing about sunshine and the other glorious things in life, maybe it shouldn't be surprising to hear Tim DeLaughter...
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Los Angeles rapper Busdriver's rack and pinion elocution corners like an Indy car, reaching speeds that would induce whiplash in his hip-hop peers. He sub-references the pop...
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Two decades ago, Kurt Cobain dogged Pearl Jam as sellouts, dismissing his grunge rivals as "cock-rock fusion" and its gala debut, Ten, as insufficiently "alternative" because...
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When the metal titans in Metallica play Dallas this week, they will do so in triumph, on the heels of their late 2008 release, Death Magnetic, an album many are calling the...
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In recent months, The Uptown Bums went from churning out catchy, yet sloppy garage pop to producing a more confident, streamlined brand of, well, technically speaking, kitchen...
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There's a boundary, a set of criteria, something that delineates those who like appetizers from those who quiver at the mention of tapas. Wish I could put my finger on...
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I walked into Jen's Place, saw that the daily special was brisket and noted three things:
1) This is a cafeteria, not a BBQ joint.
2) Nobody named Jen makes a good brisket....
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"Everything I write ends up being about loneliness," said the late writer David Foster Wallace in a 1999 interview on the radio show Bookworm. In that conversation, Wallace was...
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Amreeka
The thriving subgenre of immigrant displacement dramedy gets a confident new spin from Cherien Dabis, a Palestinian-Jordanian raised in the United States. Divorced,...
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How many funny people can come from one family? Dane Cook's family is 0-for-1, but if you're a Sedaris, there's more than enough hilarity to go around. Only siblings Amy and...
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It was a far cry from her cousin Jacqueline's Oscar de la Renta outfits and pillbox hats, but Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale had a style all her own. If by "style" you mean...
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Mark Twain may be rolling over in his grave, but it's not the kind of rolling that most would assume is because of insult--he's busting out his dance moves for the opening of...
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You have two basic transportation options in Dallas: rails and roads. Take a bus or car and you get to experience road-rage-inducing traffic. Take a train and you get to stop...
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Brace yourself--there's been another British invasion. Norman Foster and his merry band of architects were imported from London to Texas to design the Winspear Opera House at...
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With the rising trend of community gardens and locavore food movements, DyAnne DiSalvo was really onto something when she wrote children's book City Green. In it, a little girl...
