Granada Talent Buyer Ryan Henry Has His Ear to the Ground

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…

DART Still Badly Aimed

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…

What Does La Bajada Neighborhood Want? Why Not Ask Them?

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…

A Night at Devil’s Bowl Speedway Gets Loud

A grandfather and his granddaughter were fighting over the headphones. She couldn’t have been more than five years old, but she was stubborn, and insisted she ” … would cover her ears with her hands the whole time.” In an effort to prove the headphones were cool, the elder removed…

It’s Time to Kick Our Addiction to John Wiley Price

Pretty soon, any day now, maybe tomorrow, well, possibly in a week or so, I may join a 12-steps program in which I stand up at the beginning of every meeting and say, “Hi everybody, my name is Jim, and I can’t stop talking about John Wiley Price.” Not today…

How John Wiley Price (Allegedly!) Sold Dallas

OK, I’ve got my idiot coloring book out again. Sorry. Just have to do this. I just want to help people not get totally lost in the delicious detritus of the FBI affidavit released yesterday in the Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price corruption probe. The details are delectable –…

Joshua Jones Keeps It Live and Local on KHYI

Aside from being a spitting image of actor Dermot Mulroney, KHYI-95.3 FMGeneral Manager Joshua Jones is quite the rising celeb. On a local level, anyway. He’s taken advantage of the fact that he manages a station owned by true supporters of good, old-fashioned local and live radio, and the Jones…

Why are Mexicans in Chicago so mean?

Dear Mexican: I was wondering why Mexicans in Chicago are meaner than Mexicans in California. —Pinche Caliente Gabacha Dear Fucking Hot-Ass Gabacha: Mexicans in Chicago, mean? In my many visits to the Windy Ciudad, I’ve found them to be a wonderful, hospitable raza, with their only real vice being they’re…