Tim Rogers

Medical City is Dallas' Most Expensive Hospital

It's always been nearly impossible to compare prices between hospitals. For one, most people who find themselves in an emergency room don't have the leisure to shop around. Even if they do, where are they going to turn? Healthcare providers don't typically put their prices on billboards. The opacity ... More >>

The New "Family Friendly" St. Patrick's Day Parade Doesn't Mean You Can't Get Hammered

Yesterday's announcement that the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade is now the Dallas St. Patrick's Day Parade seems to have been greeted with a collective, "Call it whatever the hell you want so long as there's booze." Look a bit more carefully, and the announcement included some ominous ... More >>

Mike Miles is a Dead Boss Walking

OK, business-community school reformers. I believe you mean well. But your guy is toast. You recruited a school superintendent who cannot and will not make it in the big city. You can get all stubborn about it and defend him to the last ditch. If I had to bet, I'd bet that's what you will do, mainl ... More >>

THIS JUST IN: Tim Rogers Probably Not a Cannibal. Nasher vs. Tower Fight Drags On.

Two things to start. 1) Don't know much about architecture. 2) Tim Rogers and his wife probably are not cannibals. Or anything like that. You know what I mean. Rogers, the editor of D Magazine, and his wife, Christine, part owner of a public relations company that has done work for the Nasher Scul ... More >>

Is Barrett Brown the Threatening One, or Is It the Guys Who Locked Him Up?

After the "Anonymous Spokesman's"arrest, toeing the line between speech and threats.

The Dallas Police and Fire Pension's Big Real Estate Gamble

Museum Tower isn't the only troubled real-estate deal that the pension fund has gone all in on. But so far, only its investment advisers are winning big.

In Tower Fight, D Magazine Editor Tim Rogers Fails to Disclose His Wife's Employer Did Work for Nasher Center

Once again, D Magazine Editor Tim Rogers demonstrates that he struggles with severe intellectual and ethical challenges. Or something. In mid-April D Magazine published a cover story called "Towering Inferno," written by Rogers, about claims by the Nasher Sculpture Center downtown that it is being ... More >>

The Light ... It's, It's Coming!

I don't know how to tell my wife. We've got to put this sucker on the market and move the hell out of here. It's coming! It's headed right for us! The light! The light is coming! WFAA Channel 8 news had a story last night about a rich lady who lives in a building on Routh Street three blocks from M ... More >>

Too Hot to Eat is Too Hot to Think Much About Eating, Apparently

Hungry burger fans mob the opening of Dallas proper's first In-N-Out. No, wait. They don't.​Even though a new In-N-Out opened, the only things hot this week were Trinidad Scorpion "Butch T" peppers and the puzzling chains on Michael Costa's The Office Grill. Read on. City of Ate Welcome to ou ... More >>

When It Comes to the Trinity Toll Road, For Some, "Sorry" Seems to Be the Hardest Word

​It's just beginning to dawn on me. I should be in heaven right now. I don't know why I'm not. The sheer dumbness of the Trinity River toll road is now at long last apparent for all to see. It's blown sky high and is comin' down! And none of the people who foisted it off on the city can get o ... More >>

It's Been Truly Inspiring to Watch D Apologize for Rah-Rah'ing Trinity Toll Road. Oh, Wait.

​I'm sure at some moment in history, all of the people who had insisted the earth was flat went very quiet. After some centuries of debate, burnings at the stake and loud dinner-table arguments, the jury was in. Everybody knew it was round. The exponents of flat were suddenly extremely reticent o ... More >>

A Look at the Layout For Dallas Arboretum's Children's Adventure Garden Opening in 2012

Click to embiggen, but of course.​A couple of months ago, Tim Rogers provided a generous peek at the miniature version of the Rory Meyers Children's Adventure Garden scheduled to take root at the Dallas Arboretum some time next year. Says the Arboretum of the $50-million, seven-acre site, it'll be ... More >>

Week of the Iguana -- And Other Stuff

​Here are two things you haven't tried: taco-flavored chips and iguana tamales. For that, we have you covered. For all the things you might have tried (ie. Crossroads Diner, The Speedway Club, the wonder of vegan baking), Dallas blogs are happy to expand. Read on. City of Ate For Decanter in ... More >>

Puttin' a DART in Tim Rogers' Comeback

​Three weeks ago I did a smack-down on Tim Rogers, the editor of D, after he was the subject of a bad front-page story in The Dallas Morning News. The story was about phone calls Rogers made to the media relations department of the school district to get his kid into a special pre-K program. Yest ... More >>

More On the Rogers Situation: Because, Really, Is Anything More Important?

​Great. Tell me you're sick of journalists talking about journalists. I was too. I was perfectly ready to drop L'Affaire Tim Rogers -- whether or not he used his clout as the editor of D Magazine to get his kid bucked into a preschool program ahead of qualified poor kids. But Mr. Rogers feels ... More >>

D Magazine Editor Tim Rogers Should Have Taken The Schutze Short Course On How Not to Humiliate Yourself as a Journalist.

With Schutze Away, Buzz Looks on the Bright Side of the Trinity.

So, About That "Significant" Cold Front Scheduled to Arrive Here Early Next Week

​I still get the morning paper, even though I'm now paying $4 more for the privilege than I previously thought, which sucks. Anyway. Saw on the weather page that it's supposed to be colder than normal beginning next week. Didn't say how cold, but yesterday Tim Rogers linked to a weathering website ... More >>

Bad Burgers, Hookahs, Vegans
and Other Things You Love on the Web

This week: Alice Laussade explains why candy corn sucks.​As the city descends into crisper temperatures and adopts an orangey hue, seasonal ingredients are rolling into grocery stores while local chefs and food fans are reacting accordingly. So what else is new? Dallas Morning News Leslie Bre ... More >>

Go Oak Cliff Shares Details on Sunday's "Ethical Meat" Barbecue Contest and Festival

​Teams have been practicing and judges (including two City of Ate contributors) are advised to begin fasting as Oak Cliff is about to get smoked out this weekend for the Blues, Bandits & Barbeque street party.The festival takes place outside and inside the Kessler Theater and surrounding neigh ... More >>

As Everyone Shouts "Sexy Spy," Anna Fermanova's Attorney Insists, Nyet So Much

​Between The Smoking Gun and Gawker, Anna Fermanova's bound to have the most-peeked-at profile pictures page on the Facebooks in the last several hours. And after Tim Rogers made mention of the '05 Ogle School of Hair Skin and Nails grad, several Friends of Unfair Park have wondered: Why haven't w ... More >>

City Responds to "Relaxation Studios" Lawsuit; Judge Denies "Spas" Their Restraining Order

333 Body Works on Walnut Hill Lane in Northwest Dallas​On Monday, Tim Rogers posted a lawsuit that several, um, massage parlors -- among them, The Passion, Cleopatra Day Spa and 333 Body Works -- brought against the city of Dallas in which they claim they had their certificates of occupancy yanked ... More >>

Why, Oh, Why Does WFAA-Channel 8 Hate A Charlie Brown Christmas So Much?

Much obliged to Tim Rogers and Uncle Barky for the reminder: Earlier this week WFAA-Channel 8 yanked A Charlie Brown Christmas to run Good Morning Texas After Dark, which, as Ed describes it, is "basically is a collection of mini-infomercials sharing space with actual non-paid program content." Whic ... More >>

Will CBS Be Shooting Big D in Dallas? Start Holding Your Breath ...

Word of a would-be CBS-TV series titled Big D has been circulating since last October, when creators Jeff and Jackie Filgo got the high sign from the network. At the time, no further details were available -- but as Tim Rogers pointed out over the weekend, The Hollywood Reporter has come up with thi ... More >>

A Profile of a CBS Sportscaster for Whom We're Thankful, David Feherty

A couple of months back, D ran David Feherty's riveting account of his collision with a pickup on Park Lane; figured his being able to live and write about his smash-up was what the Sporting News was referring to today when it ran the piece headlined "A week when David Feherty is thankful for Americ ... More >>

D? Well, Maybe D-.

Look, let me take one specific portion of the D special issue about the Dallas Independent School District that came out this week and use it to explain why I don’t think much of this stuff is worth reading. This was a sidebar under the byline of our former colleague, Mark Stuertz, who was fam ... More >>

Billy Jack Ludwig Will Not Be Running for Dallas Mayor Ever Again

How Tim Rogers Ruined My Day

D Magazine, Dallas Morning News Squabble Comes Down to Lazy Reporting at DMN

Caucus? They Hardly Even Knew Us.

Where's Wicko?

Jim Fact Checks FrontBurner So FrontBurner Doesn't Have To

Taking the Bait

Jim's Laughing His Widdle Head Off

Someone Needs to Tell Our Music Editor We Also Have a Blog

Looks Like Someone's Itching for a Signature-Countin' Fight

When Jim Schutze Has No Problem With Convicted Murderers

At This Point, Feel Free to Write In "Unfair Park" on Your Ballot Tomorrow

Mr. Funny Guy Has All the Answers

Bidding a Doo

That Trinity Thing You Doo-Doo

Pardon, But What Trinity Lakes Vote?

Wherein Jim Schutze Tells D to Stick It. Nicely, Though.

Bible Girl? Why, Whatever Do You Mean?

Burning Bridges

Best Site To Catch Journalists Jerking Off--Mentally, That Is

FrontBurner

Best Tirade

Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks

He's Baaack

That lovable jackass from Philly returns. Oh, joy.

Slice of Life

Things get a little nutty between Mark Cuban and D magazine

Met Memories

Sure, this column is full of cuss words and self-indulgence. So was my old paper.