Corpus Christi

Listen: North Texas Collective Chapter 11 has a Beautiful Hit with "Whiskey and You"

When speaking of North Texas country music collective Chapter 11, we're not using the term "collective" lightly. The project, dreamed-up by Sherman-based producer and engineer Dustin Hendricks, who's worked with such greats as Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and even metal giants Hellyeah, isn't a ... More >>

Arlington Police Bought Two Drones, Which They Hope to Start Using Very Soon

Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration released a list of all the city and state entities who have applied for a license to fly unmanned aerial drones. That list was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), an organization tha ... More >>

Dallas County's Only Halfway House Could Lose its Home, So John Wiley Price Wants the County to Build a New One

The only halfway house in Dallas County occupies the cabana area of the luxury hotel-turned-county lockup on Stemmons Freeway. At any given time, the Bill Decker Detention Center houses 225 former Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates, all sex offenders, trying to make the transition back to ... More >>

Robert Gomez Talks Poetic Beheadings (Just Don't Ask Him to Make You a Vegas Bomb)

It's impossible to discuss the magnitude of the Denton music scene without including Robert Gomez as one of its pivotal players. Since 1993, Gomez has been everywhere from Denton to Istanbul, and the list of musicians he's played with include Norah Jones, Philip Glass and Tico da Costa. He'll perfor ... More >>

The Overserved: Back To School Edition

The first week of college is here, so the Observer staff is providing you with some tips to get your through the first week/month/year. Dear Class of 2016, College. The best years of your life, they say. Four years to cram in enough experience so you come out on the other side an adult. I read ... More >>

Mexicans Pay in Blood for America's War on Drugs

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #59-40

Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #79-60 The Spotify playlist for songs #59-40 59. Tum Tum, "Caprice Music" For years, the Dallas hip-hop community's had a love affair with the Chevy Caprice Classic. Tum Tum's "Caprice Music" was an ode to that car culture, illustrating the unique trend ... More >>

Chuck Taylor Looks Back on 10 Years of Texas Countdown

Company Cafe's Growing Pains

A rapidly expanding restaurant learns good hands are hard to find.

Dallas PD Loses Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson to Corpus Christi, Where He'll Be Top Cop

​A couple of years back Scott Goldstein wrote quite the flattering profile of Dallas Police Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson -- as in, "In a profession that demands toughness, Simpson embodies compassion." Simpson was former Chief David Kunkle's right-hand man -- the man Kunkle put in charge of the P ... More >>

A.Dd Plans a Texas Takeover With the Red Bull Skooled Tour

​Local rap duo A.Dd continue their ascent, this time enlisting corporate support from Red Bull, who's sponsoring an early February tour that will see them hit six Texas cities in the span of seven days. This will be a coming-out party of sorts, with A.Dd playing shows with some of Texas' mo ... More >>

Before Dallas ISD Sends TEA Its Plan to Save Unacceptable Schools, Your Input's Needed

North Dallas High School is now in its fifth year of academic unacceptability per the TEA's ratings.​For the past six days, the Dallas Independent School District has been hosting "community meetings" on campuses deemed academically unacceptable by the Texas Education Agency -- 33 in all, based, o ... More >>

Top 100 Reasons Texas Is Twice as Awesome as Any Other State

Merritt MartinOh, you can damn well bet this is on the list.​By now most of you dear readers are well aware of the Gawker-produced list of the 50 Worst States In America. Gawker placed their home base at 50, and the Lone Star State at 13. Sure sure, our placement could be worse, but instead of ... More >>

Viva la Evolution: The Creationists Return to Austin

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the classroom, SBOE returns.

Half-Shell Fans Beware, the Future
For Gulf Oysters is Murky

​A waiter at City Diner and Oyster Bar in Corpus Christi broke the appalling news to my wife, in-laws and me last weekend as we made a trip to the coast: No fresh Texas oysters on the half-shell. Not one. Sorry, he said. Dealer prices a week into the start of Texas' oyster harvest from public leas ... More >>

Jessica Simpson Has a .50 Caliber Machine Gun ... And Knows How to Use It (?)

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Tyler CaswellChief Gunner's Mate Keith McGinley now has the best Christmas card ever.​Been a long time since we've posted a word about Jessica Simpson, but first thing this morning, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sent me the link to ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Robert Gomez at Dan's, Sarah Jaffe DJ Set at the Double Wide, Crystal Castles at House of Blues, Coliseum and Burning Love at Rubber Gloves

We're about to see a sudden void in daily show lists, so, from here on out, each and every Monday through Thursday, I'll do my best to point the readers of DC9 in the right musical direction for each particular evening.Oh, sweet Tuesday, the second step towards another blissful weekend. And actua ... More >>

Catch a Wave at the Dallas Museum of Art With Free Screening, History of Lone Star Surfers

Courtesy of Margaret White EllisonFormer Corpus Christi resident Tony Mierzwa, foreground, and an unidentified surfer ride a wave at Horace Caldwell Pier in Port Aransas on a mid-1960s day.​Landlocked we are, but at 7 tonight at the Dallas Museum of Art, there'll be a whole lotta surfin' going on. ... More >>

Dallas Is Fat City. And It's Only Getting Fatter.

​When last we took a peek at Men's Health's list of America's fattest cities, Dallas came in at No. 6. But that was two years and, apparently, 13,923 trips to Whataburger ago. Because now: We're No. 4! We're No. 4! We're No. 4! And that ain't all: Corpus Christi comes in at No. 1; El Paso at No. 3 ... More >>

News & Notes: Immigration Reform, César Chávez, Garland Road & Gay Jesus

​Some news and notes on this light-commenting Thursday:Domingo Garcia's got himself a whole new immigration-reform MegaMarch to promote -- this one, a May 1 parade that'll start at the Santuario de Guadalupe on Ross Ave. and end at Dallas City Hall. Says Garcia on the Web site, "Our immigrant comm ... More >>

Today In Music News: Lil Wayne Gets Busted In Texas, Adam Clayton Gets Bilked By Assistant And You Can Look Up To Snoop Dogg

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, December 21, 2009...Two of Lil Wayne's tour busses were found to have marijuana on them when they were searched outside Corpus Christi. What does this mean for his show in Allen?U2's Adam Clayton claims his former assistant bilked him out of million ... More >>

American Baseball, the European Way

​Even if European soccer owner Tom Hicks convinced Major League Baseball to inject the same screwy tables that govern soccer into America's pasttime your Texas Rangers wouldn't be a playoff team. But, alas, they wouldn't be relegated, either. If baseball were run according to European soccer ... More >>

Where Do Stephan Pyles, Tim Love and Dean Fearing Get Their Fast Food Fix?

The first Whataburger in Corpus Christi​Right -- this should probably be over on City of Ate, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to make this inexplicable (on my part) Esquire subscription count for something, so here goes. For the September issue, which just landed in the mailbox, editors asked ... More >>

Go On, Have Sex. Do It for Big D.

Farewell, Farrah Fawcett

Corpus Christi native Farrah Fawcett, who died today at the age of 62 following a lengthy and very public battle with cancer, will be remembered for many things: Charlie's Angels, her hair, that pin-up poster, The Burning Bed (she could act!), her David Letterman appearance. But locals who actually ... More >>

From Love Field, an Unhappy Father's Day

Gloria Levario'Round 3 yesterday, one of my oldest friends called from Dallas Love Field with the breaking news: The airport was shut down, no one allowed in our out -- including my friend, who'd put his son on a Southwest flight bound for Corpus Christi mere moments before Dallas police descended a ... More >>

Mayor Tom and Texas's Other Big-City Mayors Ask Governor for Help Handling Homeless

Gabriel Metsu's Man Writing a LetterNever had time to make it to the Texas Big Cities Mayors shindig at City Hall today. But no matter: Meranda Cohn at Dallas City Hall this evening forwards along a copy of the mayors' letter to Governor Rick Perry, in which Tom Leppert, Bill White (Houston), Mike M ... More >>

"West Texas Puro Tango Blast" -- Not As Much Fun As It Sounds

Only a few days ago, The Dallas Morning News ran a piece about Texas' Tango Blast gang, which was formed within the confines of the state's penitentiaries and "could change the Dallas landscape because it rejects old notions of prison gang exclusivity and lifelong commitments," wrote Tanya Eiserer. ... More >>

The Caretaker

One mother's crusade to better the life of her mentally retarded son and the system that failed him

Clinton's Coming to Texas, While Obama Takes His Campaign to Spanish-Language Radio

Dallas, You Stink!

Are You Ready For Some (More) Football?

Luke Wilson Talks Ass

The King of Kings?

Royal Flush

The King serves up a clumsy portrait of James Marsh's America

Kumbia Kings

Sunday, May 28, at Smirnoff Music Centre

An Old Flame

Four decades later, a forgotten Dallas jazz label descends from the 90th Floor

Heir Unapparent

The descendants of a former housemaid lay claim to one of Texas' grandest ranch fortunes

Separate and Unequal

In a school district that still sees the city in terms of black and white, Hispanics say their children are robbed of a fair share

Pumped Out

Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

Resurrection redux

Didymus makes you a true believer in the talent of its playwright

Barefoot in the manger

Stage West's The Christmas Mysteries is an ultra-casual romp through the Bible

How to site a Nuclear- waste dump--for just $50 million

Hispanic enough

Dallas' new city manager steps from Mr. Inside to role model

Peeping Toms...I mean, painters

Boonies kitsch

Theme-soaked La Hacienda Ranch is worth the drive to Frisco

Bad Judgement

State District Judge John Marshall is snared in allegations of misconduct

Two for the Road

When Houston's 1st Amendment rights were threatened, a bus full of female porn stars came bouncing to the rescue

Roadshows

Uncle Whopelo?

Slobberbone is the dumbest name for the best new band in town