As always, college is getting more expensive. Not only is tuition skyrocketing, but students need more and more costly necessities to get by, such as iPods and laptop computers. If your college of choice is in Dallas, you’ll also want to shell out for a decent fake ID or risk…
Its just after lunch on a warm Wednesday in March, and Helen Rodriguez-Farias is seeing her third patient of the day. The nurse beside her, whom Rodriguez-Farias is training, pulls on a pair of gloves and preps the needle. She says something in Spanish to the patient and pricks the…
Simple minds: Buzz must have read 20,000 words last week about controlling illegal immigration, and a common cry raised by many pundits was this: Prosecute employers for hiring illegal immigrants. Take away the jobs, and you take away the incentive for illegal immigration. It’s simple: Better to drain the swamp…
Cover Charge Sour note: I have to say that I agree with your editorial on Club Dada (“Is This On?,” by Sam Machkovech, March 30). I will be out at the club on Friday, mostly for nostalgic purposes, but I can’t help but feel a bit of dread and dismay…
Pleasant Grove (Dallas, Austin): Two months ago, the guys at dconstruction.org sat me down to chat about local music, and the resulting episode was mostly optimistic. I brought a lot of great, promising music to the show from WoSF performers such as Baboon and the Theater Fire, and there wasn’t…
Yesterday, we told you how Dallas county officials are beginning to expect (fear?) that the Department of Justice is going to propose a staggering series of costly recommendations on how to fix the long-beleaguered jail once and for all. Well, now we’re hearing reports that the feds are going to…
Lisa Loeb’s sister Ashlee…no, sorry, Debbie Were you aware Lisa Loeb had a sister? And that she’s got a…uh…hit single that’s apparently doing well on dance radio? Me, neither–which is odd, since I’ve known Lisa since we were kids and since her dad Pete is my mom’s gastroenterologist. (Hey, I…
No, actually, it’s your other favorite Quincy. As in Quincy Carter, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback who led the team to the playoffs in 2003 only to be surprisingly and mysteriously cut six days into 2004 training camp. As with most transactions not involving Terrell Owens, Cowboys management remained tight-lipped…
From Frankfurt, Germany, courtesy the Associated Press, comes this news: “The man who discovered Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki has been charged with tax evasion.” That’d be one Holger Geschwindner, Nowitzki’s one-time personal coach, who’s in trouble with German officials for allegedly biting off a piece of Dirk’s Dallas Mavericks…
In case you haven’t noticed–and if you haven’t, you either ride your bike to work, office out of the house and never leave or are a 2-year-old mooching rides off your folks–gas prices have risen dramatically in recent weeks; according to the most recent AAA gas price survey, released March…
Jessi Klein’s “Walk of Shame Shopping” article in Paper this month tells the women of New York City where to buy last-minute pre-work clothes after a night of shacking up. Why should the sexually satisfied ladies of Dallas not have a similar guide? First, for the unititiated: Shacking up: (n)…
When I was a kid, I attended basketball camp at St. Mark’s School of Texas; it was taught by some Dallas Maverick whose name my folks and I can’t remember, which means he musta been some kinda great. (Actually, I wanna say it was James Donaldson, but that would have…
Texas Gigs has pulled off one of the coolest local music contest ideas in some time with its Dallas Mavericks Playoff Song Contest. A little more than a month ago, the site posted an open call to any Dallas-area act to write, perform and record a theme for the Mavs’…
My folks just read this story about “designer babies” and informed me they would like a do-over. Thanks, UT-Southwestern. –Robert Wilonsky…
Last time I heard the name Quincy Carter, he was on KTCK-AM (1310) being asked by Greg “The Hammer” Williams if he liked salad. (Long story. E-mail Greggo.) Now he’s turned up in Canada: Just moments ago, the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League signed the former Dallas Cowboys…
Red Monroe (Dallas): After I first saw Red Monroe in concert more than a year ago, I begged then-music editor Sarah Hepola to lemme say something–anything–about the impressive show. Her section was already filled up for the week, she said, but she had room for a short blurb (scroll to…
Last night, I was watching my fave late-night newscast, MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, during which the former ESPN’er twice aired the clip of WFAA-Channel 8 reporter Bert Lozano’s close encounter with a streaker on Sunday night. The first time Olbermann aired the clip–unedited, yech and hee-hee–was during his nightly…
One sentence in this Dallas Morning News story about the redo of 20-year-old Plaza at Bachman Creek shopping center on Northwest Highway caught my eye: “‘We are going to try and create a European town square feeling,'” Archstone-Smith’s Tom Scaling said Monday.” It’s notable mostly to those of who grew…
Anyone who thought that the Department of Justice’s investigation of the Dallas County Jail would be a whitewash is sorely mistaken. This morning, at an otherwise uneventful Dallas County commissioner’s court subcommittee hearing, budget director Ryan Brown was talking about how the county is almost tapped out on various technology…
With the addition of Troy Aikman and Rayfield Wright to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in January, the Dallas Cowboys’ ridiculous roadblock to eternal honor finally crumbled. But just lookie what it has begat: a Dallas Mavericks bias. I know the Mavericks have generally sucked during their 26 years…
I always heart Poynter, particularly Jonathan Dube’s Web Tips newsletter in which he bestows wise words upon the Web-using, journalistically inclined masses. Yesterday he talked about the Beta version of Yahoo! Local, a news aggregator meant to compete with Google News. Instead of searching for “Dallas” with all kinds of…
The Southern Sea (Plano): Since I’m really not feeling very well after this damned time change, I’m going to push the burden of today’s WoSF band preview onto Gorilla Vs. Bear’s Chris Cantalini, who has an impressive song off the new Southern Sea EP, Simple Machines For Complex Problems, available…
