Ralph Nader

Well, Wouldya Lookit Who Wants a Vote on the Trinity River Toll Road

Shawn Williams Is, As Always, Good For Listening on National Public Radio

Airline Execs Now Have Common Enemy: Goddamned Oil Speculators!

Not easy being Green

Ralph Nader's running for real this time

Scene, Heard

A flood of inaugural party invites hits our mailbox

Obama's Leading in Early Voting

A flood of inaugural party invites hits our mailbox

Election Night Parties...At A Price

A flood of inaugural party invites hits our mailbox

Pickup Games

How a giant lawsuit against General Motors could leave lawyers with millions - and Texas truck owners breathing fumes

Dumb and dumber

The Nation of Nitwits rolls along with the Republican Revolution

The mouse that roared

How telecommunications deregulation will help Disney--and other media giants--rule the world

Events for the week

How telecommunications deregulation will help Disney--and other media giants--rule the world

Events for the week

How telecommunications deregulation will help Disney--and other media giants--rule the world

Events for the week

How telecommunications deregulation will help Disney--and other media giants--rule the world

Holiday shopper's guide to hell

Undermain Theatre's A Por Quinley Christmas is a hilarious rant against commercialism

Toxic Justice

Lawyer Fred Baron says he's one of the good guys, fighting a war against evil asbestos manufacturers. But some former employees claim his firm is a factory that mass-produces lawsuits by implanting memories and inventing testimony.

Chemical Warrior

When Phyllis Glazer learned a chemical plant was making her East Texas neighbors sick, the wealthy Dallas homemaker could have cut and run. Instead, she chose to stay, fight, and win.

Down-home Drudge

Harvey Kronberg, the Avis of Austin political reporters, tries harder with Web gossip

Ignorance is bliss

Two supposed champions of open government are pushing hard to keep campaign finance records off the Internet. What don't they want you to know?

Bully Pulpit

Pushy, driven, and fearless, Texas Secretary of State Elton Bomer is Bush's big man on the border. But is he tough enough to cut through the red tape snarling efforts to help the poor people living in the colonias?

Letters

Eyes wide shut; Vigilante justice; Long live the queen; And more

God Bless Dubya

Plus: Laura-blanca, Color Coded

Kiss Me, Katie

Fairy tales can come true. Why, they can even win you an award from Dallas' less-than-vigilant press club.

On Top of Her Game | Tickin' T.O. | Stomp | True Morality | Oily Ole | God's Big Tent

Fairy tales can come true. Why, they can even win you an award from Dallas' less-than-vigilant press club.

The Other Farmers Market

Local marijuana growers cash inon well-heeled tokers' love of fine weed

Rodent Tales

It's man vs. squirrel

More Bushwhacking

Plus: Attack and Counterattack; Who Ya Callin’ Geek?

Rock On, Denton

A report from the first-ever WakeUp '04 festival

Amateur Hour

Congressional candidate Mike Murphy feels the strong arm of the GOP

In the Drink

My Martini drips wine on the parched prairie

Just Get Married!

Bells will be ringing as a new pro-marriage, anti-poverty plan takes root in Texas

It Doesn't Suck.com

Not for a cyber-griper who won a legal victory against his corporate nemesis

Get on the Bus

For one fellow traveler, the road to an anti-war protest in Washington is paved with good intentions and bad politics

Dog Bites Belo

How many lawyers does it take to make a media company a punch line?

Blonde Ambition

Princess Superstar could be the first white-girl rapper to break through to the mainstream

The Next Breast Thing

Build a better fake boob, and women will beat a path to your door, along with the occasional lawsuit

Did It Themselves

To Daniel Sinker and those who live on Punk Planet, punk is more than a musical genre

The Party Party

Why young, degenerate, cocksure Republicans love drugs, guns, and Bush

Rainer Maria

Waiting to hear punk rock get good again

A Clean, Close Shave

Here's a debate worth watching

Scene, Heard

A good idea...in theory

Good Vibrations

Disputed Reform Party candidate John Hagelin thinks he can change the world with the power of positive thinking. Does that make him nuts?

This Sand is Your Sand

On the Texas coast, the only thing eroding faster than the sand is the state’s Open Beaches Act

Air Joyner

Onetime fly jock Tom Joyner has landed a radio deal with Corporate America that is making him the conscience of the black community

How Dumb Do Governor Rick Perry and the Lege Think We Are? Well, We Elected Them.

​Oh, now it starts. Faced with a state budget deficit somewhere between $15 billion and $27 billion, Governor Rick Perry says the most important thing for the Legislature to do now is ban "sanctuary cities." Those are cities where the cops don't ask people about their immigration status, bec ... More >>

Gutterth Announces Plans To Release Third Free Compilation Double-Disc in Conjunction With 35 Conferette Showcase on March 10

​There are a few reasons why the folks behind Gutterth Productions are perennial nominees in the Best Music Advocate(s) category of our annual Dallas Observer Music Awards -- the shows they put on, the records they put out, their general fandom of all things local music.But, surely, this too comes ... More >>