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Titus Andronicus is Here to Spread the Good Word of Literature, Seinfeld and Weezer

Titus Andronicus takes its name from a Shakespeare play -- fitting, given the theatrics of leader Patrick Stickles and his band. From a practice space in New York, Stickles spoke with DC9 about how his band loves Dallas and how he doesn't consider himself a great musician before his show tomorrow ... More >>

Mayor Rawlings Says Real Men Don't Hit Women. They Don't Beat on Gays Either.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has scored points in disparate places with his man's man campaign against woman-beating, from New York Magazine to the metro page of today's Dallas Morning News -- all of it much deserved, if you ask me. A guy like Rawlings, Class of '76 at Boston College where he playe ... More >>

New York Magazine Fawns Over the Manliness of Dallas' "Man's-Man Mayor," Mike Rawlings

Mayor Mike Rawlings' recently launched crusade against domestic violence has been earning praise from local media since it was announced it a couple of months ago. Now, after traveling to the Big Apple to speak on the issue alongside Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Michael Bolton, he's gathering attenti ... More >>

George P. Bush's "Future in Texas is Unlimited." And George W.? He's Taken Up Painting.

The latest New York magazine goes all-in on the Bush family, assessing the political hopes of Jeb before finally deciding that it's actually George P., Jeb's half-Mexican son and a rising star in Texas politics, who has the highest political ceiling. "George P.'s future in Texas in unlimited," says ... More >>

A Plea to Republicans: Please Stop Wearing Those Ugly Texas Flag Shirts in Public

Texas' delegation at the Republican National Convention seems to have mostly behaved itself in Tampa this week. Soon-to-be Senator Ted Cruz lobbed overblown rhetoric at the Obama administration, and Rick Perry said he'd "absolutely" consider running again, but that's standard fare. At least no one t ... More >>

Ex-Komen VP Karen Handel is Writing a Memoir Called "Planned Bullyhood"

Karen Handel is back, and she's bringing 304 pages with her. Susan G. Komen For The Cure's ex-vice president of public policy, who resigned in February after an enormous flap over Komen's attempt to pull its funding from Planned Parenthood, is writing a tell-all, to be published in September by Howa ... More >>

The Morning News and John Cornyn: A Match Made in Fantasyland

An "op-ed" page in a newspaper -- the page opposite the editorials -- is supposed to be a kind of village square for diverse voices, but does that mean it should be a billboard for lies? The case in point today would be the op ed page of The Dallas Morning News, given over to an especially sleazy pi ... More >>

Spider Becomes a Man - and a Joy

Spider Becomes a Man — and a Joy

For Former Military Lawyer Colby Vokey, the Defense Never Rests

Once an outspoken judge advocate, Dallas' Colby Vokey was chased from the Marines, but he's still defending troops -- and still speaking his mind.

I'm About to Spend $50 on 24 Oz. of NYC's Finest Burger Meat. Does That Make Me Weird?

Want a devastatingly good burger? (Of course you do.) First read this, which teases out literary meat porn over five pages. The article focuses on a New York City meat supplier that provides many of Manhattan's greatest burgers. It's great stuff, and re-reading it this morning has solidified my dinn ... More >>

Drug Trafficking, the Missing Piece in The Dallas Morning News's Texas Jobs Puzzle

Piles of cash and nowhere to launder it? That's what Texas is for, hombre.​In Sunday's Dallas Morning News, reporter Brendan Case took a stab at explaining what, besides the state's generally business-friendly policies, has helped Texas produce such a relative bounty of jobs of late. The state ... More >>

Food Writers: Enough With the Fripperific Cliches

Just in case you don't know what frippery means...​As a writer, I always keep one Internet tab tuned to Merriam-Webster's website, which is the best source I've found for the precise meanings of words (and the correct spelling of "simultaneously," which I regularly butcher so badly that Micros ... More >>

Banfi Vinyards Targets Growing Hispanic Wine Market with DFW Billboards

​Banfi Vineyards has put up Spanish-language billboards for Riunite wine around the DFW area, porque hay muchos mas hispanios beber vino. As recently reported by Advertising Age, wine consumption among Hispanics has surged in the past five years, growing at three times the rate of the general mar ... More >>

Hear The Songs That Helped Erykah Badu Become A "Child of the Funk."

Erykah Badu​New York Magazine, for reasons we're not wholly aware of, went ahead and caught up with Erykah Badu this week, just to find out why she's so goddamn funk -- a fair question, always, I guess.In response, Badu created the magazine a playlist of her favorite funky jams -- 14 of them, to b ... More >>

Homebrewing A Saison, Wolfgang Puck And Texas Brewers Celebrate Harvest, And Flying Saucer Sets Luau

​A recent New York magazine article got me thinking about saison, the Belgian farmhouse ale style that was once considered an endangered species of beer but has in recent years become a rather hot craft-brew trend. I already knew that originally they were a relatively crisp and dry low-alcohol bee ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson's "Cleopatra" Leaks Onto Internet. UPDATE: So Did "Naked Eye."

One summer upon a time, this was the coolest woman in the world.​Kind of big news this week surrounding Burleson's own Kelly Clarkson. Seems the inaugural American Idol champ has been working on a new record, and, uh-oh, a song from the record has leaked. Late last week, the sultry--or, well, sult ... More >>

Erykah Badu Announces Summer Tour Plans, Schedules North Texas Performance For June 14

​ We'd been wondering when Erykah Badu would schedule a hometown performance in support of her new album, New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh. Earlier this week, when Badu announced her tour schedule, we got our answer: She'll be playing the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie on June 14. After the ... More >>

GQ Goes in the Trenches With the Writers and Editors at ESPN's Dallas Site

​For his new piece about how ESPN's locally focused Web sites are proof that the Worldwide Leader's "thinking bigger than ever," per GQ's headline, New York Magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman spent most of his time in Dallas with the likes of Calvin Watkins, Tim MacMahon and other ex-dai ... More >>

Watch: Erykah Badu's Matt & Kim- and JFK-Inspired Video For "Window Seat"

At 3:33 a.m. on Saturday morning (Eastern Time), Erykah Badu debuted the above Matt & Kim-inspired video for her new single, "Window Seat," on her Web site. The single is the first off her New Amerykah Pt. II: Return of the Ankh album, which will be released for purchase tomorrow.And, just two d ... More >>

While Honoring Larry Kramer, New York Mag Profile Flashes Back to Dallas Parade

​The new issue of New York magazine profiles Larry Kramer, whose actions on behalf of the gay community have spoken louder than his words, themselves a boisterous collection of plays, novels and journalism. In particular, the magazine is interested in the state of his decades-in-the-writing gay hi ... More >>

Coming to Downtown, a Most "Unsilent Night"

Flickr user: anjuli_ayerFrom last year's Unsilent Night event in New York City​A very giddy Friend of Unfair Park sends word that, for the first time, downtown Dallas will experience one of composer Phil Kline's famous "unsilent nights," a Manhattan ritual since 1992. After the jump is a video New ... More >>

St. Vincent And Neon Indian Named To New York Magazine Brooklyn Top 40

​I know, I know. You've had it with daily St. Vincent and Neon Indian updates. All that has to happen now is for St. Vincent to cover "Ice Cream Paint Job" and have Alan Palomo remix it, at which point DC9 would be thrown into a Boolean loop from which it would never emerge. But when I saw the two ... More >>

Circle in the Rawr

Nokia provides the setting for a Jungle Fantasy

Entering on a High Note

Dallas Opera sings a different tune with an innovative new leader and a home away from Fair Park

The Other Brother

Attend Stephen Baldwin's literary comunion

Other Sides of the Story

Military bloggers take aim at mainstream media

Branded Man

Merle Haggard is no Okie

Taste of Whimsy

Mignon chef puts a twist on the classic

From Lee Harvey Oswald to Ashley Estell, Dallas pathologist Linda Norton serves as Doctor to the Dead

Trolling the Mainstream

Dallas' newest seafood restaurant seeks to fill the fish niche

Tex-Mex chauvinist

Only arrogant New Yorkers would confuse calamari and quesadillas; and, yes, Rafa's has the real thing