In an interview published Sunday in Parade magazine, Rick Perry was asked whether he believes the president was born in the United States. His response, which you’ll find below, has caused some alarm, because it makes Perry appear to be aligning himself with the one-roll-of-Reynolds-Wrap-per-hat faction of the Tea Party…
Today’s lesson, boys and girls, courtesy of WFAA’s Craig Civale and the Lewisville police: When you appear to be running a racket that involves importing a high school basketball player from Mexico only to force him to sell gourmet popcorn at suburban big box stores, it’s probably a bad idea…
Let’s be honest: You really shouldn’t be able to eat a pulled pork sandwich for $1, and the fact that the Dickey’s barbecue chain is willing to sell theirs for that much, even for one day, even in honor of their anniversary, raises some questions about from where they pulled…
The Association of Food Journalists met in South Carolina over the weekend, presumably engaging in heated debates over critic anonymity and restaurant-review waiting periods and whether a large slab of bacon should be carved into Mount Rushmore. (Of course one should). The group also handed out some hardware. For fans…
Chris Christie, the seriously-non-president-running governor of New Jersey, recently pulled the plug on $420,000 in government subsidies for Jersey Shore, calling the tax incentives “wasteful spending” on a show that poorly represents his state. Texas Governor Rick Perry’s office? It sees no such waste in the upcoming season of the…
Just got off the phone with a lovely young lass from PETA, America’s favorite activist group turned performance troupe. They’re always really nice to talk to, those PETA folks, right until they start trying to reincarnate your lunch. Apparently they had applied for a booth at the State Fair of…
So your friendly neighborhood feds had a big day yesterday. In an “early-morning takedown” announced late Tuesday, they rounded up 28 people they say are affiliated with a variety of motorcycle gangs, namely the Texas-born Bandido Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (aka the BOMG or the Bandidos Motorcycle Club) and its affiliates,…
I could have sworn I watched the game last night. I had it on, anyway. But nowhere did I see Tony Romo running around with bloody rib bone sticking out of his jersey, making impossible touchdown throws, suffering through some unknowable agony to lead his team, his city, his fellow…
By now you’ve likely come across the line Republican strategist Mike Murphy dropped on the Twittersphere a while back, in which he likened listening to Rick Perry talk to “watching a chimp play with a locked suitcase.” Well, last night Perry got another chance to play with the suitcase, as…
Finally time to see how your tax dollars were put to work by Bravo and its Magical Elves. As you’ll recall, we reported back in July that Governor Rick Perry’s office, that bastion of small government, spent $400,000 to promote the state’s brand in the upcoming and Texas-themed season of…
Driving home last night, I saw a few lonely sign wavers on the north side of Northwest Highway. “Bring our troops home now,” the signs urged, and I thought: Hey. That’s nice. A totally depoliticized protest of our country’s ongoing wars, just some guys who, on a comfortable Tuesday evening,…
They’re approaching mythical status these days, featured recently on the Food Network’s Sugar High and in every third dessert-related conversation that takes place in the city. But if, like I was, you’re writing off Tillman’s Roadhouse’s Tableside S’mores as over-hyped gimmickry, you and your appetite are making a tactical error…
Earlier this week, The News reported that former Cowboy and smack-talking DirecTV fairy Deion Sanders was hoping to break into the education business. He was just awaiting state Board of Ed approval to open two charter schools in DFW — one in Oak Cliff, the second in Fort Worth –…
Bright Eyes with First Aid Kit Palladium Ballroom Thursday, September 15, 2011 Better than: what everyone around the office predicted, including the gent who penned our preview in this week’s paper. Not long into Bright Eyes’ opening salvo at the Palladium last night, a faithfully folksy version of “Four Winds,”…
Hey, maybe this will help Rick Perry shore up support with the Tea Party’s Ship-Em-Out Division and his new Arizona boyfriend: Those kooky activists at the ACLU and some of their libtard friends are pleading with the Devil HimselfUnited States Department of Justice to intervene on behalf of Texas’s minority…
A week or so back, Politico reported that Rick Perry had reached out to Phoenix-area Sheriff Joe Arpaio, one of America’s fiercest illegal-immigration foes and a constant innovator in the competitive field of Being a Total Dick. It seemed like a weird play at first, courting a guy under federal…
Sometime after 8 on Saturday, about two beers into the Observer’s first-ever Brew at the Zoo beer fest, I found food critic Scott Reitz standing in line for a sample of Longmont, Colorado’s Left Hand Brewery. It’d taken a few minutes to wade through the 3,000-plus people on hand and…
Chief Uterus Correspondent Anna Merlan is on assignment. I know Anna usually handles the lady stuff, but if it’s OK with you guys, I’m going to dispense some quick advice to the Female Friends of Unfair Park: If you gals have any plans to commit a felony that may cause…
OK, so we know now that whatever Rick Perry is readin’ this summer, it ain’t a science book. Because until 142 percent of all scientists agree on something, science is just theories, and people don’t need theories right now. They need jobs. Jobs and provocative rhetoric. Oh, and dead prisoners!…
UPDATE: You guys are some creative bastards, but you wouldn’t last five minutes in the wild. Oh well. Under the parameters of this endeavor, you’d also be hammered. No better way to go. Anyway, using a random number generator, we’ve selected two winners: Jeremy Ash, who slays foes with “I…
One year after showing up on the red carpet in a dress made of raw meat, pop singer Lady Gaga arrived at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards dressed as a man, and she remained in character throughout the duration of the show.Most critics agree that the performance was Gaga’s…
Eating words: Perhaps it’s been awhile since you read Governor Rick Perry’s book Fed Up!, in which he chronicles the improbable rise of a D-student. If it has, you may not recall Perry’s take on Social Security, which he called a “Ponzi Scheme” created “at the expense of respect for…
