It was revealed yesterday that Texas educators are just a wee trigger-happy when it comes to student discipline, removing almost 60 percent of the state’s students from the classroom at least once during middle and high school. Minority students are especially likely to get the boot, the Justice Center at…
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 has added a million jobs in the last decade, Case reports. The country lost a million…
If, by any chance, you spent the first few months of this year blowing lines in the bathroom of various clubs around town, there’s a decent chance the source of your cocaine was Christian “Cri Cri” Ocana, who the feds believe was running a Dallas off-shoot of a nationwide drug…
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The Emmy nominations came out yesterday. Since I don’t have HBO, and since the Emmys are pretty much an HBO cast party, I didn’t spend too much time with the nominations, but I did take a moment to control-find the names of my two favorite shows: Community, NBC’s ode to…
Late yesterday, our local feds got to brag up a good half-decade’s worth of sleuthing when they announced charges against more than a dozen people in connection with a multi-state cocaine- and heroin-trafficking syndicate based in Forth Worth. The accompanying documents, which Robert shared in yesterday’s post, are a fascinating…
And here’s Ramsay, in a later press conference, describing the mind blowage, which came courtesy of Starr’s carrot cake: “A phenomenal baker this year as well, which, yeah, my God, the guy’s name was Ben Starr, and what an appropriately named surname, Starr, because he cooked like a star. I’ve…
News broke a couple weeks back that Bravo’s Top Chef, the king of reality food TV’s very crowded hill, is busy shooting its next season in cities around Texas, including Dallas. And last week, things seemed to take a turn for the sinister, when Eater reported that a Dallas-based advertising…
Amy Curry joined East Dallas at a sneak peek of the coming-soon neighborhood spot, Goodfriends. Here’s her dispatch. It won’t open for at least a few weeks, but Goodfriends (near Peavy and Garland roads in East Dallas) finally opened its patio yesterday to invite its already devoted following, who have…
Here’s a day to throw on the calendar: October 27, when chef-turned-author-turned-TV-star Anthony Bourdain will sharpen that other knife in his block, speechifying, at the Majestic. Tickets go on sale Friday, so if you’re keen on hearing Bourdain filet half the talent on the Food Network and try to explain…
Last week, just outside of Houston, a little boy’s parents were scrambling. Doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital had told them there was nothing more they could do for the boy, 14-year-old Jordan Allen, whose brain is dotted with inoperable tumors. He was on a ventilator and in a coma, and…
Over the last several months, reporters here and at some of our sister papers have published stories about the mythical child-sex-trafficking pandemic allegedly sweeping our nation. Prodded by activist researchers and research-adverse activists, the media has obsessively repeated bogus claims that hundreds of thousands of children are being held in…
Last season was a strange one on Saturday Night Live: a lot of repeat sketches, some lackluster hosts, the usual misfires from the Lonely Island crew, some new cast members clumsily finding their way, and the continued strange existence of Abby Elliot, who, outside of her opening-credit sexy-hair tussling thing,…
Last week, readers of D Magazine’s food blog, SideDish, were introduced to a new contributor. She went by the name “foodbitch.” Moniker aside, she seemed like any other after-work food blogger: sassy, smart, obsessed with food trucks. She brought some readers with her, folks who knew her from her foodbitch…
Those state-lawmaker types are a shifty bunch, eh? During the state legislature’s regular session, lawmakers debated a bill that would have required proof of citizenship or legal status for anyone applying for a new or renewed driver’s license. That way, argues sponsor Tommy Williams, a Woodlands senator, illegal immigrants couldn’t…
In this week’s Paper Version of Unfair Park, you’ll find a story about underage sex trafficking from the Village Voice, our big sister in New York (she’s very sharing, that sister). The story details the recent fascination of the media and Hollywood with the plague of sex trafficking — and…
But, alas, like the other video on the rally’s Vimeo page, Perry’s invitation, which just went live this afternoon, shatters the already totally shattered pretense that his August 6 prayer rally is anything but a day-long fist-bump to the governor’s personal lord and savior…
Mike Shea, the founder and publisher of Alternative Press magazine, took to Twitter on Saturday to attempt some 140-character assassinating of this blog’s Warped Tour coverage. Specifically, he had a problem with Darryl Smyers’ “The Five Best and Five Worst Bands at The 2011 Vans Warped Tour” post.Which is fine…
The second season of Louis C.K.’s latest half-hour comedy, Louie, starts up at 9:30 Central tonight on FX. If it’s anything like his stand-up, his first show (Lucky Louis on HBO), or the first season of Louie, it will be a wonderfully and purposefully disjointed driving tour of C.K.’s head…
It wasn’t even two years ago that the Texas DMV enlisted a private contractor to design vanity license plates for the state’s drivers, one of the first such partnerships in the country. But after 18 months of the contractor throwing just about anything you could think of on Texas bumpers,…
About 20 minutes ago, on my way into Observer HQ, I swung past the new In-N-Out Burger, which opened at 9 a.m. today at Caruth Haven and Central. I was expecting to see tents, miles of idling cars, lines of people snaking around the building, weird ladies crying into their…
In-n-Out opens today, smack in the middle of this map. So here are some burger places that won’t have 764 weirdos waiting for nine hours to eat one of their creations…
