Trying hard to think how to bring proper perspective to the absolutely stunning pronouncement by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last week that the Trinity River in Dallas is not in danger of calamitous flooding after all. We have been told over the last three years that the only…
Dear Mexican: In anticipation of the upcoming Reconquista, I’ve decided that I need a Mexican girlfriend. I feel this will help me fit in better with our new Mexican overlords. However, Mexican ladies must be approached with particular regard to culture and customs, and that raises many questions. A well-known…
Oh, damn. Now white people are going to have to defend themselves on a second front. First it was the Mexicans swarming into the country and out-working us. Now the Asians are coming here in droves and out-smarting us. What’s left for whites? Bowling? The big news in immigration today…
In the DFW hip-hop scene, George Lopez has been doin’ it and doin’ it and doin’ it, well, for more than 25 years. He’s most famously known for running T-Town Music, his label and independent hip-hop outlet, since 1994, out of a bazaar in Pleasant Grove. He’s deejayed since ’83,…
See also: It’ll Do Club set to re-open See also: Video of opening night One of the best club signs in Dallas has always been It’ll Do’s, just off Elm and Carroll in East Dallas. I rode past it on bike rides and always stopped to take a picture of…
You’ll have to forgive us veterans of the newspaper business, but certain days — especially Mondays for some reason — are just self-referential days. Something in us wants to say to readers, “But enough about you.” We wake up way more concerned with ourselves than anybody else out there. And…
I just get a little tummy ache every time I see the Nasher Sculpture Center back in the news again treated like it’s holy Bethlehem. Please. The stuff in there is art, not the preserved teeth and hair of the saints. Renzo Piano, the architect, is on the front page…
So Burger King has a new bacon sundae on the menu. This means I have to eat it. And fast on the heels of a few hundred guisado verde tacos for lunch from La Nueva Fresh and Hot, I found myself in a Burger King drive-through. Nick was kind enough…
I love Central Market. I love the food maze they make you cart through. I love that they always have approximately one zillion apples in that place. I love that I always find some random shit I don’t need but is freaking amazing (See: wasabi arugula, pictured above). I love…
Just when I have been doing some reporting on the role of younger leaders in our own fair city, young people nationally have come in for a minor hailstorm of criticism sparked by a commencement speech at a public high school in Wellesley, Massachusetts. A teacher, David McCullough Jr., son…
Between the lines of a recently released FBI affidavit, we can spy the shape of a criminal complaint likely to come within the next two months in the Dallas County federal corruption case. The affidavit, made public May 29 when it was filed in a civil action against Dallas County…
Dear Mexican: I’m in this country illegally, but I have a current passport from the country I am from, and I have an international driver’s license. Occasionally, I fly commercially within the United States, and these docs are always sufficient. I wish to take a cruise to Alaska that leaves…
Jennifer. May I call you that? This is just between us. I like your picture. There’s a certain assertiveness there. I just like it. And this has all been so unfair so far. These news hacks — guys like Dallas Observer Editor Joe Tone, Unfair Park EditorEric Nicholson and that…
This weekend I was walking past a friend’s garden and noticed a beautiful row of dill plants. Atop each long, thin stem was a flurry of yellow trumpet flowers, and I thought, “I always say I hate dill, but really I’m probably being too harsh. How can something so beautiful…
OK, wait, wait, before we start the party, can I ask a couple questions? Could we maybe just try to put ourselves in a global context first? In July, 2011, the city of Copenhagen was ravaged by the worst flood in recorded history, rated by scientists as a “1,000-year” flood,…
Sometimes you really do want to go where everybody knows your name. If you’ve played your cards right, your favorite place will know your drink order, have a secret parking spot for you and let you stick around after hours. The art of the regular takes practice, so here are…
Ryan Henry’s played with the New Frontiers and is ramping up a new act, Low Dark Hills, but we figured we’d catch him while he’s still largely behind-the-scenes at the Granada Theater, where he’s crawled up the ladder from working on their “Serenity” crew (who handle security and maintenance) to…
The longer the Dallas-area light rail system is around, the less of a habit it becomes, according to a story in this morning’s Dallas Morning News. The trend over the years has been for ridership to diminish at many stations after people get over the novelty of a train station…
It speaks volumes that people at The Dallas Morning News, like some other people in Dallas who should know better, do not know what heavy industry is. Two pieces in the print edition of the paper this morning describe scrap-metal and architectural remnant recyclers near Lamar Avenue as “heavy industry”…
I was right on the verge of what I am sure would have been a very satisfying episode of outrage, when my damned libtard alarm went off. It’s a case of certain past experiences coming back to haunt me, getting in the way of what might otherwise have been some…
Dear Mexican: I work construction in Texas. The mojados at work call me “Chicano” (which really angers me) to make fun of me, and I reply to them by saying, “¡México, bien por su gente!” This usually leads to debates that the Hispanic population will be the majority of the…
Hey, it was great having Mitt Romney in town this week, was it not? He looks so different in Texas. Those national mediatoids were making him out to be a rich plutocrat who made his money killing companies and shipping jobs to Vietnam, but when we got to see him…
