Ronald Reagan

Our Nine Favorite National Food Days of the Year, Including Doughnuts, Pizza, Beer and Fluffernutters

1. National Doughnut Day With Hypnotic Doughnut's new advertising campaign, every day is doughnut day for the north side window seats at the Observer offices. Constantly gazing at this sign has proven... well, nothing really. Just that we pity the fools on low-carb diets. Back in June of this year, ... More >>

The 15 Best North Texas Releases of 2012

In a year when Kickstarter efforts have ballooned from humble requests to egocentric slaps in the face, the recording, funding and distribution of albums has taken on a different hue, as the chasm between what you can do "yourself" and what labels are offering gets wider and deeper. A few of the art ... More >>

Get To Know Your 2012 DOMA Nominees: The Atomic Tanlines

Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we'll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we've done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. Denton foursome the Atomic Tanlines stole the show ... More >>

So, What's On Mitt Romney's iPod?

Over the last two nights of the Republican National Convention, both Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney have taken the time to mention the music on Romney's iPod, with Ryan, a noted Rage Against the Machine fan, saying, "There are the songs on his iPod whic ... More >>

How Texas Came Within an Atom's Breadth of Discovering the God Particle

Sunday is National Ice Cream Day. Here are Some Places to Get Your Fill

See also: *Best Food Orgasm - 2006 President Ronald Reagan designated every third Sunday during the month of July as National Ice Cream Day. If you're a true 'Merican, you'll follow the orders of our beloved Dutch and have a scoop or three. We have a list of a few local faves. Make us proud now. ... More >>

America's Petro-Terrorists

How greedy speculators bought politicians and drove up the price of oil.

The Favorite Foods of All 44 Presidents

​After an exhaustive search of public records and historical documents at the Library of Congress (read: drunken Google search), we are ready to honor President's Day with a comprehensive list of the foods enjoyed by our fearless leaders of the past. Throughout this process one question continued ... More >>

The Boom Boom Box fights against the robots

Party Like It's 1979 as Robison, Pastors Help Their "Prayer Partner" Perry Run for President

The in-box is filled this morning with more news concerning Rick Perry's "day of prayer and fasting" in Houston next month -- you know, The Response. Let's begin with this: Several Friends of Unfair Park have forward a piece I first saw this morning on Startlegram great Bud Kennedy's Facebook feed: ... More >>

As Rick Perry "Secures the Integrity of the Ballot Box," He Says, Sure, He Might Run for Prez

​Just got a note from Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst after Perry signed into law the voter I.D. bill, which requires voters to present photo identification at a polling place. Said the gov, "The right to vote is simply too important for us to take the act of voting lightly. Today with ... More >>

Don't Forget to Celebrate Frozen Foods This Weekend

You might be girding yourselves for the Cajun cuisine that goes along with the upcoming Mardi Gras celebration, but a little-known and rarely celebrated holiday is right around the corner. ​ Declared by President Reagan in 1984, National Frozen Food Day -- which fallas on Sunday -- celebrates ... More >>

Postal Service Forks Over a New Stamp

​The U.S. Postal Service is giving letter writers a chance to express their inner culinarians. For occasions when a president or petunia won't do, the USPS is releasing a stamp depicting a fork, knife and spoon. It's one of a dozen stamps on a pane honoring "pioneers of American industrial de ... More >>

Inside Job: This Meltdown Memoir Will Make You Seethe.

Today, "amnesty" is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Ronnie's Kids

Deep Snapper

Pi on the Side (Edna Peppers)

Attn: Wall Street. Michael Moore is a Marxist (but he's still selling the same old shtick in his Capitalism: A Love Story).

Dennis The Menace

Gig Alert: Vice Squad, Lower Class Brats Tonight at The Prophet Bar

Lower Class Brats open for Vice Squad at the Prophet Bar tonight.Beki Bondage (born Rebecca Louise Bond) helped start UK punk stalwarts Vice Squad way back in 1978. She left the band for an ill-fated solo career in 1982, but resurrected the name in 1997. Since, she and an assorted crew of sidemen ha ... More >>

Food For Thought...

The Barack Obama Room...next to the Ronald Reagan Room."I am not an Obama supporter. Could never be, and as much as having an African-American in the White House could be a good thing, having one with Marxist ideals is certainly not a good thing! I will not be patronizing your restaurant,  much ... More >>

10 Questions: Former Presidents

OK, OK--a gimmick for Inauguration day. Give us a break. The President gets a personal chef, state dinners and could probably walk out of any restaurant in the country without paying. Of course, there have been some notorious culinary moments: The competent Bush puking all over his Japane ... More >>

A New Lowe for Bush Library

That headline's intended with all due respect -- because, see, the new director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library on the SMU campus will be Bourbon County, Kentucky, native Alan Lowe, currently exec director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy on the University of Tennessee ... More >>

Far As DISD Trustee Flores Is Concerned, Hinojosa's the Right Man

OK, you know the drill by now: Collect 'em all! Today, it's Edwin Flores's turn.First, a disclaimer: I've always liked Flores, who's pictured at right; he's affable and accessible. And you get the sense that he loves being a trustee and is able to shrug off the criticism that comes with the job. Th ... More >>

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Executive Notes: Top Ten Musical Moments In Presidential History

Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”

Capriccio Ristorante shoots for Italian elegance but serves up tedium

Drawing On The Past

The Women's Museum displays Allender

The Scots' Famous Brit

Scout's Honor (or Not)

Culture Connection

The Russian Winter Festival snows down on SMU

An Open Letter to Rod Dreher

Oh Rudy

NYC's golden boy woos Big D

RIght Cross

Is George W. Bush a conservative? Author Bruce Bartlett doesn't think so,

and saying that cost him his job.

Dead Heat

D�a De Los Muertos exhibit returns with the monarchs

Table Dance

Plus: The Benefactor...of pure comedy

Boogie for Bush!

Dubya and Franz Ferdinand have made it OK for white guys to dance

Party Bard-y

Shakespeare's greatest guffaws and ha-has

Messing With Texas

Rockers bash Bush, with varying results

Casts of Killers

Assassins at Quad C, convicts at SMU, plus murder in Tuna, Texas

Oh, the Horror

1975 Picture Show keeps its audience involved

Love sick

Director Bruno Barreto and his wife, Amy Irving, jam their fingers down our throats in Bossa Nova

Letters

The rise of Auntie Christ

Exene Cervenkova throws down the gauntlet

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Wide wing span

Angels in America author Tony Kushner talks politics

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Falling into The Gap

The chasm separating the haves and have-nots is getting wider

Unkindest cuts

The new voodoo

Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility--and, yes, there is a Santa Claus