Democratic National Convention

Today, Democrats Are Officially Gunning for Texas' Electoral College Votes

This is day one of the Battle of Texas, which is mostly marked by a website launch. Battleground Texas, the Democratic Party's efforts to shake the GOP hold on the state, officially starts today. The site comes with a nifty graphic showing a red Texas filling up with blue (it's pretty low right now) ... More >>

Everclear's Art Alexakis: "I Can't Believe I Am Going to Be in a Red State on Election Day"

At 50, Everclear's Art Alexakis has just about seen it all. The guy has beat a drug addiction, formed a band, and was even elected a delegate at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Oh, he's also toured Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. Maybe he really has seen it all. Speaking from a tour stop in New Je ... More >>

Two Conventions: One for Old White People, One for Everyone Else

Look, I'm not even the world's biggest fan of political conventions, because they make me feel like I'm trapped in a cubicle with a car salesman. What's to believe about an event where they hire a consultant to do the balloon drop? But with these two conventions freshly behind us, I don't think it ... More >>

Is It Me* Or Did the Foo Fighters Disrespect Cobain by Playing "My Hero" for Obama?

Editor's note: Today we discovered that Christian the News Intern, a graduate journalism student at UNT, once played in a grunge band and hasn't really updated his tastes, making him, we figure, one of about nine people alive to take offense to the politicization of a Foo Fighters song. Here's his t ... More >>

News & Notes: Atlanta vs. Dallas, Tilton's Comeback, Recalling Taylors Books and More

​For those who found this morning's paper particularly dissatisfying, here are some other Sunday stories with that taste particularly local:The Atlanta Journal-Constitution begins its "Atlanta Forward" series this morning by comparing and contrasting that city with ours, a not-uncommon occurrence, ... More >>

Last Night: Alejandro Escovedo and The Strange Boys at Sons of Hermann Hall

Alejandro Escovedo, The Strange BoysSons of Hermann HallJune 4, 2009Better than: Putting up with the crowds at the House of Blues for the Animal Collective show. (A review of that show should be up shortly)The Strange Boys and Alejandro EscovedoIt wasn't exactly an energetic start to the evening at ... More >>

Asphalt Barriers

aaroads.comRecently there appeared on the pages of dallasfood.org a discussion of the city's confined culinary geography. Some people, as you all know, rarely deign to travel outside the loop because enough exists within the circular strip of asphalt to satisfy their needs. Quite a few, however, go ... More >>

Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada

Looks like this time they picked the wrong country.

Admit It: Death Cab Made You Vote

Washington Post Pays Tribute to "Junkyard Dog of Texas Politics"

Former Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox, who died in his sleep Thursday at his home in Dripping Springs, will lie in state today in the Texas House of Representatives chamber of the Texas Capitol; hours are from 3 to 7 p.m. As the Star-Telegram noted over the weekend, "The last dignitary whose body ... More >>

Can President-Elect Obama Remember The Titans? Yes (Oddly Enough), He Can...

Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”

To the Streets, Huh?

McDonald gets soulful at the Meyerson

That ’70s Show

Using Cal Jillson, Like Everyone Else, to Get to Sarah Palin's Sportscast

Alex Jones Sics His Followers on The News, Demands Retraction

Did Local Rockers Greater Good Play The Democratic Convention? Like Just Now?

What Texas Delegation?

Obama's Counsel Wants DOJ to See if Harold Simmons Broke Election Law

Tonight on The Daily Show, Jesuit Grad Wyatt Cenac Becomes Part of "The Best F*&#ing News Team Ever"

Bush, a Giant Among Comedians

The Big Caucus, Or: The Smell of Nachos and a Daytime Emmy-Winner

More Than You'll Ever Need to Know About the 23rd Senatorial District's Convention This Saturday

Why is Hillary Neglecting Delegate-Rich Dallas County?

While Obama has events going on throughout the city, Clinton is nowhere to be found

Ozomatli

Sunday, October 8, at the Granada Theater

On-Screen Stumping

Letters

Summer Camp

Demme goes for the knowing giggle in his Candidate overhaul

Riding Coattails

Plus: The Snub; A Dog�s Life

Detroit Champs

DKT/MC5 returns to remind us how jams are supposed to be kicked out

Rage Against the Machine

Live at the Grand Olympic Ballroom (Epic)

Clone Ranger

The old roundup may never be the same, thanks to Zech Dameron�s herd of genetically duplicate longhorns

A Grand Guy

How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

Cannes Do

At the French film fest, art and commerce do a nasty mating dance

Shearer Delight

The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

The Resurrection of Sandy Kress

Or, how a Democrat and reviled former DISD board president found a happy home pushing "educational acoountability" for the GOP

Prying open the past

Adopted children in Texas fight to open records about their births

Odd Man Out

Dallas-raised Terry Southern wrote Easy Rider, hung with the Beatles, and influenced a generation. But he died penniless, and now his son must pay off Terry's debts--and restore his father's legacy.

Wayward son

The Irving stepmother of a man linked to the shootings of abortion doctors wrestles with questions about his involvement

The bull market

Peter Lowe explains how to succeed in business without really trying: First, find 20,000 suckers Photographs by Mark Graham

Perotnoia

The great mystery of Perot's 1992 presidential bid was his sudden decision to quit the race. Biographer Gerald Posner found that Perot was a victim of a shadowy soldier of fortune-- and his own delusions.

The education of Michelle Shocked

Once portrayed as a bumpkin, she's finally wised up

Roadshows

Final step

Ginger Rogers, 1911-1995