Flickr/Javier Lopez ZavalaEditor’s Note: Shea Serrano is an award-winning music writer and goofball whose recent exploits include Bun B’s Rapper Coloring and Activity Book. In his new column, he writes about his life and times. Earlier this week, I went to the funeral of a person that I cared about…
Dear Mexican: I know an 18-year-old getting deported from the USA. He has been here since he was 5 years old. His entire family is here and undocumented. He grew up in juvenile halls and did a felony as soon as he turned 18. Will he be deported for sure?…
Last Tuesday evening The Dallas Morning News sponsored a conference in the Arts District called “Come Together,” which was so much more than just a great name for a gentleman’s club. Billed as a celebrity panel to talk about “economic development, education and opportunity,” it was really about culluh. Yeah,…
He’s known as “DJ Deluxe” at weddings and parties, and “DJ Mr. Rid” at local music gigs and at his rather cool all-vinyl Monday residency at the Double Wide. He’s known as Mark Ridlen when he co-hosts a radio show with Reid Robinson on FM 89.3 KNON called Sonic Assembly…
Press PhotoBuckcherry, who really should be on this list six times. Especially that second guy from the left, with the sociopatch on his face.In the most head-shaking article unleashed on the Internet in recent memory, it was revealed that rapper/necrophiliac/federal agent impersonator DMX has been in talks to fight George…
OK, I guess I need to come out on this. I have kind of a crush on WFAA Channel 8 sports-casting dean Dale Hansen. No, not that kind. I don’t really do those anymore anyway. No, I’m stuck on Hansen because I think he’s a role model for us old…
White Rock Lake, just for grins, is 1,015 acres. Based on what I heard yesterday, the Trinity River lakes we voted for in downtown in 1998, when finally built, will be one lake, 20 acres, 10 feet deep. Shit. Oh, and the money for it is mostly gone. Even to…
Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist and is the author of The Girls’ Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to…
Legions of angry parents were already up in arms when gangster rap arrived on the scene. After the 1985 PMRC Senate hearings helped institute “Parental Advisory” stickers, albums by Ice-T and N.W.A. were among the first to be branded. Since then, rap as a musical form has continued to take…
Most of the City Council’s housing committee ho-hummed or twiddled their fingers at a February 3 briefing on a big city-bankrolled development deal called “Patriots Crossing,” but a few expressed dismay. They said the city had paid way too much money for land on Lancaster Road across from the Veterans…
Last Tuesday evening The Dallas Morning News sponsored a conference in the arts district called “Come Together,” supposedly to talk about “economic development, education and opportunity” but really to talk about culluh. Yeah, skin color, that topic that pretty much the whole rest of the world is bored to death…
Ian Anderson: Hero to flute-rock enthusiasts everywhere.I remember in the sixth grade when we were all arbitrarily assigned instruments to learn. It was hell for broke parents who were now forced to buy or rent instruments they knew were just going to collect dust in a broom closet. And it…
Jaime LeesMy R. Kelly necklaceI can’t stop thinking about Rihanna. Her single, “Stay,” came out a year ago this month and it’s still omnipresent. I’ll hear it on the radio, in the grocery store and played on the jukebox at a bar by some sad bastard with no concept of…
Well this sucks. It hasn’t even been a year since I wrote about the temporary closure of Samar and its potential impact on the sandwich scene here in Dallas. Samar earned four stars in the Dallas Morning News, and it was arguably one of owner Stephan Pyles’ most exciting restaurants…
Got a story in the newspaper newspaper this week I’d like you to see if you have a minute. It’s about the Nasher Sculpture Center and Museum Tower, the condo building accused by the Nasher of reflecting too much light on it. I spoke with officers of the city’s police…
We have come to a point of crisis in the matter of the sunburned sculpture garden and the pension fund. The clear appearance is that the mayor is injecting politics into the management of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund. It’s not exactly how the mayor of Detroit and…
Dear Mexican: Why is it that many first-generation Latino students are so quick to judge and alienate second-generation students just because their parents went to college and are able to afford a little more? Pocha Pero No Pendeja Dear Wabette: I turn the columna over to Jody Agius Vallejo, sociology…
You’ve been there: You’re walking through Nordstrom in NorthPark because it’s on the way to the rest of the mall, and some cute plastic watch in the jewelry case catches your eye and so you ask the nice saleslady if you can “Check that sucker out,” and the nice saleslady…
Editor’s Note: Shea Serrano is an award-winning music writer and goofball whose recent exploits include Bun B’s Rapper Coloring and Activity Book. In his new column, he writes about his life and times. Among many other things, my twin 6-year-olds sons think I am Manu Ginobili when the Spurs play…
Being a box office attendant may have been Joy Hom’s foot in the door of the music business, but that doesn’t mean it was an easy stepping stone. It takes a music fan dedicated enough to still be sober at the end of the night to do things like…totaling dollar…
In many ways Oak Cliff is the soul of Dallas — home to several of its best restaurants and most vital residents. Its finest music venue, The Kessler, is the great counter-argument to all those who would accuse Dallas of worshipping only the new and shiny. The theater is an…
Last Friday we talked here about the new voter ID law and the difficulty everybody seems to be having with the lack of difficulty. I told you that, after the first election under the new law, I, as a lifelong libtard, was extremely distressed by the lack of distress. I…
