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April 27, 2012
Chrysler's Back. Government Works. Fairies Aren't Real.
Wonderful story for an old Detroit homeboy in today's New York Times chronicling the incredible comeback and stunning success of Chrysler. Since emerging from bankruptcy and repaying all of its government loans, Chrysler Group LLC has leaped ahead of global competitors, according to the Times: "On ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2012
A Modest Proposal for Clearing Dallas' Filthy Air
I try. I keep offering. Dallas doesn't have any problems it couldn't solve if it just looked to more advanced cities. I make suggestions. Dallas gets pissed off. I don't know what else I can do. Recently I pointed out that Dallas could resolve its seemingly intractable 15-year-old standoff on what ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2012
The Great Suburban Anschluss: Don't Worry Plano, You're Safe. For Now.
Oh, ouch. That was a liberal ouch, by the way. Even as a liberal, I can see this as the Next Bad Idea snouting its way up over the far horizon: telling the suburbs they have to bail out the cities. Ain't ... gonna ... happen. David Firestone, a young hotshot reporter in Dallas back in the day, now ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Freak Me Baby: Listen to A.Dd 's Valentine's Podcast
Following up their holiday podcast, local hip-hop duo A.Dd once again nails it with this Valentine's Day edition with DJ Sober. They really need to do one of these for every holiday: Arbor Day, Earth Day, Flag Day, etc. However, I realize they're sort of busy taking over the Texas rap game. Still ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
Why Does Karl Rove Hate America So Much?
Oh, boy. Another chance to say something good about Detroit. Nothing gets a bigger rise out of a certain element among you loyal Lawners than when I utter anything even faintly complimentary about my hometown. For reasons I may never fully understand, I would incite less mouth-foaming if I sang the ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
Mark Pirro on Finding a Place to Plug In, Other First Show Experiences
Mark Pirro has been around the Dallas music scene for more than two decades as a member of Tripping Daisy, The Polyphonic Spree and currently Menkena. As a preview of The Spree's New Year's Eve show this Saturday at the House of Blues, we wanted to ask him about his first times at shows, including t ... More >>
Music
December 15, 2011
Bob Seger
Saturday, December 17, at American Airlines Center
Blogs
November 21, 2011
The City Has Three Finalists for Library System Director, and Two Come with Some Baggage
Back in late August we mentioned that the city had hired a search firm to find a permanent (well, you know what I mean) director of the Dallas Public Library System. Corinne Hill's been serving as interim director since Laurie Evans retired in June 2010, and by all accounts she's done a bang-up j ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
Nachos and Baseball at the Stoneleigh P
The Stoneleigh P's red neon sign serves as a beacon for those driving by. It also casts half the ambient light inside the bar, echoed in the burgundy painted walls. The televisions show the baseball game but not many are watching; the jukebox is filling the space with a mix of '70s pop. Two cooks ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
Look Now, Morning News, Dallas's Problems Aren't Detroit's. Get It?
Colleen McCain Nelson debuts a new political column today on the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News in which she holds up my former hometown, Detroit, as the arch example of what Dallas needs not to be. She's writing about Mayor Dave Bing's initiative to withdraw scarce city services from ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2011
Seriously, Has Nobody Seen RoboCop? Dallas Has Been "New Detroit" For Years.
Apparently a whole lot of people around the country took a look at the very strange campaign advertisement for Debbie Georgatos that Wilonsky posted here Sunday morning -- a video to promote her unsuccessful campaign for chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party. Judging by the comments, ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Look Out, Motor City. Here Comes Big D.
Really interesting story in yesterday's New York Times about my hometown, Detroit, where the population is now half what it was when I bailed in the late 1970s. It seems Detroit is now on the cutting edge of the "shrinking cities" movement, and I wonder if Detroit may have valuable ideas for ... More >>
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June 22, 2010
Clearing Out The Mailroom: Tuesday, June 22, 2010.
We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Sugar and Gold (San Francisco)Get Wet! (Antenna Farm)The second full-length ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2010
Clearly, Snow Big Fan of Trinity River Project
Trying to get to my post at Unfair Park. Big weather issues here. See photo. Huge branch the size of the Sears Tower fell on wife's car. Worse: I had inadvertently left money bag containing $1 million-plus in rubles on top of car, part of inheritance I received recently from little-known uncle in ... More >>
News
December 24, 2009
Why Is Dallas City Hall Trying To Bury The Burgeoning Farmers Market Movement Under A Morass Of Municipal Regulation?
Trying to get to my post at Unfair Park. Big weather issues here. See photo. Huge branch the size of the Sears Tower fell on wife's car. Worse: I had inadvertently left money bag containing $1 million-plus in rubles on top of car, part of inheritance I received recently from little-known uncle in ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2009
North Carolina, Meet John Wiley Price
After we watched the county commissioner's temper tantrum yesterday (again and again and again), Patrick "Buzz" Willliams declared it awfully "bush league." We talked about how it was like one of those council meetings you see excerpted on newscasts across the country during which the anchor stares ... More >>
Blogs
November 25, 2009
Wednesday's Unverified Fact About Oakland
The 'Boys host the silver and black on Thanksgiving. A final "fact" about the city that keeps Detroit off the bottom of the 'best places to live' list before we turn our attention to New York...Raiders owner Al Davis stays alive by eating a bizarre diet of puppies, spotted owls and organs donated ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2009
Why Blame The Food?
I think it was last week when I came across an AP story detailing the efforts of the San Antonio Restaurant Association to encourage healthier cooking at the city's Tex-Mex and Mexican eateries. Seems the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed San Antonio behind only Detroit, Memphis a ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2009
Today In Music News: Eminem Loves Detroit, Kanye Loves Marty and Simon and Garfunkel Love Touring
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 7, 2009... Eminem stars in a video pick-me-up for his beloved Detroit. Kanye West has his own Nike shoe: Air Yeezy I shit you not, that is what they are called. It's the first time a major musical artist has a shoe that is completely their ... More >>
Music
March 12, 2009
Death
For the Whole World to See (Drag City)
Blogs
February 4, 2009
Really? Kwame Kilpatrick's Flying Private Planes to Love Field and Living in Southlake?
WXYZ-Channel 7/DetroitEx-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick talking to reporters at Love Field Tuesday eveningThe Detroit Free Press has footage of disgraced ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick boarding a LearJet Tuesday afternoon, which departed Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti for Dallas. WFAA-Channel 8 ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2009
First George W. Bush, Now Kwame Kilpatrick. Dallas, How Lucky Can One City Get?
The Friends of Unfair Park know what's happening. Just this morning, one of them hopped on a four-month old item about Detroit's disgraced ex-mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, to warn Dallas about his impending arrival -- just as soon as he gets out of the joint. Unfair Park had reported last September that ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2008
Man Punches Pole! Then Sues Pole! (Actually, He Sues Dave & Buster's.)
The Friends of Unfair Park know what's happening. Just this morning, one of them hopped on a four-month old item about Detroit's disgraced ex-mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, to warn Dallas about his impending arrival -- just as soon as he gets out of the joint. Unfair Park had reported last September that ... More >>
News
December 13, 2007
Ask a Mexican
Where�s the Mexican love for the Motor City?
Blogs
November 9, 2007
Plano Finishes Dead Last!!!
Where�s the Mexican love for the Motor City?
Music
November 8, 2007
Architecture in Helsinki, Glass Candy, Panther
Tuesday, November 13, at Hailey's, Denton
Music
August 9, 2007
Detroit Cobras
Friday, August 10, at the Palladium
Calendar
July 5, 2007
Crumbs in the Crowder
Friday, August 10, at the Palladium
Blogs
June 13, 2007
Greyhound Has Its Own Iraq Conflict
Friday, August 10, at the Palladium
Music
April 19, 2007
Adult, Parts & Labor
Saturday, April 21, at Hailey's, Denton
Blogs
March 22, 2007
Oh, Sweet Irony
Saturday, April 21, at Hailey's, Denton
Blogs
March 8, 2007
Mo' Comerica
Saturday, April 21, at Hailey's, Denton
Music
October 26, 2006
Detroit Cobras, Taylor Hollingsworth
Saturday, April 21, at Hailey's, Denton
Blogs
April 18, 2006
Pain in the ACL
Saturday, April 21, at Hailey's, Denton
Music
November 17, 2005
Saboteur, Dropsonic, The Hard Lessons
Friday, November 18, at the Cavern
Music
October 6, 2005
Wolf Eyes
Saturday, October 8, at Hailey's
Music
June 30, 2005
Sufjan Stevens
Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
Music
August 26, 2004
Secret Soul
Recent compilations unearth the hidden history of funk
Music
February 12, 2004
The Locust
February 18
Music
November 20, 2003
O Brothers, Who Art Thou?
If you don't know who the Soledad Brothers are, you should
News
June 19, 2003
Evil Eyes
Coral Eugene Watts is a serial killer. He says he'll murder again. Why can't Texas stop him?
Music
March 13, 2003
Rhythm and Bruise
Dirtbombs singer Mick Collins on why black people hear the rock and white people hear the soul
Music
September 12, 2002
Multiple Artists
Our writers clean out the CD bin
Music
October 18, 2001
Sing Sing Sing
Travis is happy to remain The Invisible Band. As long as people sing along.
Music
April 12, 2001
Jay Dee
Welcome 2 Detroit (BBE)
Music
November 23, 2000
A Legend in the Making
The Blond Bomber flies from Waxahachie to Alan Freed, with a Strat as his sole defense
Music
September 28, 2000
Wax On
The Waxwings are the best band you've never heard of, even if you've heard it all
Film
August 12, 1999
KISS-ed off
Don't lose your mind over Detroit Rock City
Music
July 29, 1999
Out There
KISS rock 'n' roll over again
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October 19, 1995
BeloWatch
KISS rock 'n' roll over again
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