Alabama

Learning to Speak Spanish with a Dixie Drawl

Three Years Later, Billy Reid Brings the Warehouse Sale Back to Deep Ellum. Like, Now.

​Three long years ago the frugally fashionable bid farewell to the Billy Reid corporate offices on Canton, which adiosed to Alabama with one last warehouse-purging sale offering Best-of-Dallas-winning bargains. After that the sale moved to its NorthPark Center shoppe, and things were never the sam ... More >>

Take an Early Drive Aboard DART's New Bus

Exactly one year ago Dallas Area Rapid Transit announced that it had signed a $210-million contract with Anniston, Alabama-based North American Bus Industries, Inc. for a new fleet of  compressed natural gas-fueled buses, which DART promised to start rolling out by October 2012. This morning I ... More >>

Shelby Lynne Reveals a Little More

Exactly one year ago Dallas Area Rapid Transit announced that it had signed a $210-million contract with Anniston, Alabama-based North American Bus Industries, Inc. for a new fleet of  compressed natural gas-fueled buses, which DART promised to start rolling out by October 2012. This morning I ... More >>

Tom May of The Menzingers Talks Joe Biden, Being Irish and Playing Pure Punk Rock

On the Impossible Past, Philadelphia quartet The Menzingers' new third effort, is a wail of an album. Angry, passionate and, best of all, literate, the songs resonate with the kind of pure punk spirit that made bands like Black Flag and The Misfits so important to the American indie scene. Speaking ... More >>

Is "Mexican" an Offensive Word?

And why can't Mexicans get over the Mexican-American War?

What Part of Illegal Don't Mexicans Understand?

And why can't Mexicans get over the Mexican-American War?

When Should You Use Usted Instead Of Tu?

And these letters are making gringos look bad.

Feds, Researchers Raise More Questions About Texas's New Voter ID Law

​The voter ID law passed by Texas lawmakers in May continues its circuit among activists, lawmakers, academics and social commentators as a discriminatory, unjustified and absolutely necessary measure, depending on who's yelling. Words like "voter fraud" on the right and "disenfranchisement" o ... More >>

College Football Uniforms Are Outta Control: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​ 10. We've sorta become desensitized to Oregon's smorgasboard of uniforms with different helmets featuring gray, green, yellow and white and neon-green outlined numbers. Blame Phil Knight and Nike for those. But what about the rest of ya? The opening weekend of college football delivered some gr ... More >>

Not-So-Sweet Home Alabama

​ 10. We've sorta become desensitized to Oregon's smorgasboard of uniforms with different helmets featuring gray, green, yellow and white and neon-green outlined numbers. Blame Phil Knight and Nike for those. But what about the rest of ya? The opening weekend of college football delivered some gr ... More >>

With $210-Million Purchase Order, DART Begins Transition to Compressed Natural Gas Fleet

DART provides this sneak peek at one of the 452 new CNG-powered buses due to hit Dallas streets in 2013.​In the fall of '09, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board inched toward spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buses that would be powered by compressed natural gas -- as opposed to the ... More >>

Whitt's End: 11.26.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *If you're a TCU fan, it goes down like this: Alabama beats Auburn today at 1:30 on CBS. Arizona beats Oregon tonight at 6 on ESPN. And Nevada beats Boise State tonight at 9:15 on ESPN. Oh yeah, an ... More >>

35 Songs Hollywood Needs To Stop Using

"Somebody Once Told Me The World..." SHUT UP​Dear Hollywood, We know it's hard to cut trailers, and you want to the maximum possible appeal. It's understandable, and we all know the game. Unfortunately, you've recently achieved critical mass on one subject: overused, hackneyed trailer songs. Some ... More >>

Whitt's End: 1.8.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Texas Stadium's last breath will be taken as nothing more than some tween's mac-'n-cheese, push-'n-pulverize, real-life video game? As a whole, we suck. *Alabama > Texas. Toldja. ... More >>

Days Gone Bite: RC Cola And MoonPies

deepfriedkudzu​Few people write songs about pizza and beer, chocolate and peanut butter, or gin and juice. Foie gras and Sauternes? Forget it.Yet dozens--just a rough estimate--of hits and near hits have referenced the combination of tooth-decay inducing sugar water and tooth decay-inducing chocol ... More >>

The Eyes of the BCS Critics Are Upon ... Texas

​Ironic, isn't it, that last year Texas was a great, sympathetic team that got rejected, and this year the Longhorns are a good, criticized team that's getting the royal treatment? Colt McCoy lost the Heisman Trophy last Saturday night in Arlington. Does Texas still deserve a chance to w ... More >>

Aim For the Halo

​Ironic, isn't it, that last year Texas was a great, sympathetic team that got rejected, and this year the Longhorns are a good, criticized team that's getting the royal treatment? Colt McCoy lost the Heisman Trophy last Saturday night in Arlington. Does Texas still deserve a chance to w ... More >>

KXT Announces New Hosts, In-Studio Performances For Debut Month

​Big news to report this early afternoon on the new KERA-owned all-music station coming to your 91.7 FM frequency, oh, two weeks from today--and, of course, Robert somehow beat me to posting it, the jerk.But while he focuses on the new hosts at the new station--KERA's own Gini Mascorro will handle ... More >>

How Do Dallas's Lobbyists Earn Their Dough?

Zazzle​On October 28, the Dallas City Council will vote to renew its contract with the lobbyists who do the city's bidding in Austin and D.C. Right about now, the city spends $502,000 with the likes of CapitalEdge (which also lobbies on behalf of Arlington; Denton, Reno, Nevada; and Huntsville, Al ... More >>

Scout It Out

Zazzle​On October 28, the Dallas City Council will vote to renew its contract with the lobbyists who do the city's bidding in Austin and D.C. Right about now, the city spends $502,000 with the likes of CapitalEdge (which also lobbies on behalf of Arlington; Denton, Reno, Nevada; and Huntsville, Al ... More >>

Veggie Girl: Crooked Tree Coffeehouse

My first introduction to a cucumber sandwich was sometime back in the mid-1990s, when I was a young teenager on some kind of church or tennis trip to the Deep South. Somewhere between Georgia and Louisiana, which might be Alabama, I remember stopping in a tiny town where the air hung thick around t ... More >>

Travelin' Ballers

The RoughRiders take on Arkansas' best

How I Loves Ya|Best Year of Their Lives

The RoughRiders take on Arkansas' best

On A Pony He Called Rudolph

Michael Martin Murphey does Xmas cowboy-style

Brightblack Morning Light's Nathan Shineywater Smokes Some Pot and Answers Some Questions

Michael Martin Murphey does Xmas cowboy-style

Gustav Isn't Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas

Michael Martin Murphey does Xmas cowboy-style

Hoops Du Jour, With a Side of Pigskin

Michael Martin Murphey does Xmas cowboy-style

Scattershooting … With All Due Respect

Michael Martin Murphey does Xmas cowboy-style

Rise Again

Michael Martin Murphey does Xmas cowboy-style

Aruba, Abduction

Beth Holloway-Twitty tells her story

Show Them the Money. Like, Now.

Beth Holloway-Twitty tells her story

Paula Abdul: Straight Up on Channel 4

Beth Holloway-Twitty tells her story

High on the Hog

In Texas, shoot as many feral pigs as you like. Just don't let your dog bite them.

Wright Argument, Wrong People

In Texas, shoot as many feral pigs as you like. Just don't let your dog bite them.

Pine Hill Haints

Friday, June 9, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

A Blue Christmas

The MAC's cool yule

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Poke in the Eye

Plus: Legal Warrior; Turncoats

The Lost Trailers

Welcome to the Woods (Universal Records)

Comparing Apples

What are the trendiest drinks in Dallas?

Day Trippers

Drive-By Truckers have sacrificed all in their quest to be the next Skynyrd

Puff Puff Poof

Smoking ban passed in the name of public health--right?

Best Thai Restaurant

Chow Thai

The good neighbor

Bombing suspect Bobby Frank Cherry's sordid past trailed him to the shores of Cedar Creek Lake

Twice the insanity

Crazy in Alabama is two movies in one, and both are knockoffs

How the Slumlord Beats the City Every Time

City inspectors have written Jack Topletz and his family thousands of tickets for miserable conditions in their rent-house empire. They say they've ended up paying, oh, once or twice.

Answer this door

DTC's Thunder is a sensual roof-raiser

BeloWatch

DTC's Thunder is a sensual roof-raiser

Crime Pays

How the Feds let S&L swindler Clifford Sinclair get away with millions