Former Dallas mayor Laura Miller has a great piece today on the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News about the absolute insanity of hiring yet another city manager for Dallas from within the inbred, cultic, code-talking clan of apparatchiks usually described politely as “city staff.” She cites the example…
Dear Mexican: A friend says she read that only 20 percent of Mexican men go down on their ladies. Can you “spread” some light on the subject? El Gabacho Guapo Dear Handsome Gabacho: Let me refer her to The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality, a set of studies on the world’s…
So the Dallas ISD Board of Education, which decided at its last meeting to keep but humiliate its superintendent of schools, will meet again tomorrow, locked inside another closed-door “executive session,” to decide whether to keep, fire or further humiliate the superintendent. A person looking on as those doors swing…
Don O. has been playing blues records on 89.3 KNON for thirty years now. He was there when KNON broadcast out of an old house with no air conditioning and he’s never been late for a single airshift (despite 20 miles of traffic each way). He’s since been informally knighted…
Two interesting and ironically paired stories in the daily paper this morning — one about an expensive planned do-over for the failed Victory Park development, a monument to the perils of great-man leadership, the other about a planned museum exhibit honoring J. Erik Jonsson, one of the city’s most notable…
“Let me pour you the good stuff. I like to reward the creative drinkers,” he said as he pulled out a fresh glass. The audience had just poured out of the McDermott Concert Hall in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on the vibrations of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s dynamic…
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…
I am a little ill at ease for the moment. I am looking ahead to my manslaughter charges and trying to plan, not that I intend to manslaughter anybody. In the extremely unlikely event I should be charged with causing someone else to slip on a banana peel at the…
Hey, look, all you fellow libtard lifelong Democrats out there, and I am talking to both of you, I want to believe in Wendy Davis as much as you do. Wouldn’t it be wonderful? I’m singin’ it now. But there’s one big wave on this ocean that can still toss…
This is a conservative town, generally speaking, would you not agree? Dallas may even be a bastion of belief in the private sector and the rights of the individual, not to mention skepticism of government. So I wonder how Dallas will react to the story of its own citizen, Ladar…
It has been long said in these nightlife playgrounds that Thursday is the new Friday; which never made sense to me since Fridays are such an exhausting pain in the ass. Personally, I think Thursday may be the new Saturday? The point is, guys, there sure is a lot to…
On November 5 in the Dallas school board’s District 8 — sort of a big wobbly east, west and northwest Dallas gerrymander — voters will choose between two candidates, both of whom are exactly the kind of people everybody always says we need more of on the school board. Kristi…
Dear Mexican: I’m a Mexican-American Catholic who is really upset about something I saw after Mass last night. As I waited for my son to come out of confirmation class (yes, I had already attended Mass myself), I noticed something really odd. I saw a grocery cart parked by a…
Dallas Morning News City hall reporter Rudy Bush had a good piece in last Sunday’s opinion section about the qualities we need to look for in a new city manager. The only pause I found in reading it was a question I run into whenever I try to talk to…
Dave Little feels your pain, musicians. Getting your music heard and exposed can seem like the most unlikely and uphill of battles in all of the entertainment world. Almost. You think getting your music creations exposed is a bitch? Try comedy on for size. It’s really a mystery that more…
Welcome to Alice Column, in which Alice Laussade writes stories about things on (roughly) the same day of (roughly) every week, making it (roughly) a column. Got an idea for a column? Start your own blog and write it up, you lazy shit. Say what you will about New Big…
In the wee hours of today, maybe a dozen of us media people, half a dozen teachers union officials and another half dozen bitter-enders sat waiting in a semi-darkened auditorium at school headquarters while the school board was in “executive session” — a closed-door meeting in another part of the…
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…
If you spend a lot of years as a reporter, you get to know a lot of people, none of them well. It’s all about popping in and out of lives quickly when something makes them newsworthy. Maybe later you wish you knew more. I had that regret this morning…
I can’t believe people are saying the new Big Tex is Mexican. I would be fine with that. But it’s so obviously not the case. The new Big Tex is a Muslim Pakistani. How can people not see that? The face of the new giant Big Tex statue, erected this…
What a difference a Williams makes. This morning — on the day Dallas school trustees are supposed to decide whether to pull the rug from under reform Superintendent Mike Miles — I looked at two sets of reports on the school district, one from Don Williams, the retired real estate…
The air is thick with the sweet smell of fried Pepcid. The Texas Star Ferris wheel beckons your sweaty butt to its benches. As you read this, a kid is puking up a Fletcher’s corny dog on the Midway, just as a yellow-naped parrot bird-diarrheas onto audience heads at the…
