Yesterday I’m standing out in front of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s house by Lake Cliff, and I get a phone call from a radio producer who wonders if I can come on air and talk about “John Wiley Price’s lavish lifestyle and his history of having people roughed…
Welcome to Local Music ‘Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene — those who aren’t necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. Behind the mixer, he’s warmed up for Tripping Daisy, Bowling For Soup, Satellite Party,…
This was Dwaine Caraway’s last day as temporary unelected mayor of Dallas. He is now the former temporary mayor or FTM. But he thinks he’s prime material for full-time elected mayor at some point in the future. That’s not true. The reason why it is not true may not be…
Sometimes it takes me a couple days to get my mind around Rick Perry. For the last several days I have been pondering the governor’s veto of the Texas no-text bill. As passed by both houses of the Legislature, the measure would have made it illegal to carry out text…
Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Love the Mavs’ draft. Turning the 26th pick into Rudy Fernandez is a big win. Think of Fernandez, 26 and a three-year veteran with the Blazers, as a younger, better Peja Stojakovic. Dallas…
It’s just beginning to dawn on me. I should be in heaven right now. I don’t know why I’m not. The sheer dumbness of the Trinity River toll road is now at long last apparent for all to see. It’s blown sky high and is comin’ down! And none of…
Dear Mexican: I’m wondering how Mexicans feel about the communities of American expats springing up all over Mexico (especially those who live near or in these communities). Also, are there places in Mexico where it doesn’t get so hot that Americans are generally pretty comfortable year round? Could you name…
It’s so strange. This city is a pane of glass in which we see only our own reflections dancing on the surface, but behind and beyond that mirror, a magical realm eludes us. I think I just stepped through the pane. It’s a little after 7 a.m. I just drove…
Maybe I just had the wrong impression of Rick Perry. I guess I was remembering that time he shot a coyote with his .380 laser-sighted Ruger loaded with hollow-points. He said, “Don’t attack my dog or you might get shot.” Now that’s some macho cowboy stuff right there. I don’t…
I did a thing for DC9 at Night yesterday about how the city didn’t do anything wrong at that rave at Fair Park over the weekend, and I got a lot of very positive response in the comments, most of it probably from the people who put on the rave,…
Welcome to Local Music ‘Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene — those who aren’t necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. Tony Edwards was almost certainly a hummingbird in a past life. He darts, moves,…
There is no question that Al Lipscomb was ethically challenged. When Wilonsky called me Saturday to tell me Lipscomb had died, I remembered a story the Reverend Peter Johnson told me years ago. Johnson, who had campaigned across the Old South with Martin Luther King Jr., came to Dallas afterward…
I’m sure at some moment in history, all of the people who had insisted the earth was flat went very quiet. After some centuries of debate, burnings at the stake and loud dinner-table arguments, the jury was in. Everybody knew it was round. The exponents of flat were suddenly extremely…
Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Jason Terry’s voice is still hoarse from all the partying and cigars, but yet we’re already peeking at 2012. Problem: The Mavs aren’t a team built for the future, but rather…
Two things I could have done to make my dad really happy with me would have been to become religious and to care about baseball. I failed him in both. Let’s not talk about the religion thing and say we did. But professional sports: I can’t even tell you why…
Dear Mexican: I’m a white girl dating a Mexican from Jalisco who works for my dad. There lies the problem. Dad absolutely dislikes him and totally opposes my dating Ignacio and has been almost rude to him, which I don’t like. Some details now: I often visit Dad at his…
Think of it this way. It’s Saturday morning. You could sleep some more. Oh, wait, you’re awake. That’s why you’re lying here thinking. So you need something to do. You could go to NorthPark Center and buy a monogrammed mother-of-pearl hairbrush that’s also an antique music box that plays “God…
I’m doing an informal poll. Is there anyone left out there who gives a rat’s ass what former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert did or did not say about the safety of the Trinity River toll road project? Wait. Wait. I’m looking. I’ve got my binoculars on. A-ha! I do spy…
Welcome to Local Music ‘Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene — those who aren’t necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. In 2011, both DJ Merritt and DJ Jeff K remain so immersed in DFW…
If you want to know how Dallas winds up with crazy stuff that no normal citizen in his or her right mind would ever approve, take a good long look at the North Texas Tollway Authority, a $420 million-a-year fiefdom run by a bunch of mopes nobody has ever heard…
Oh, no, this can’t be. The plan to bring together all of the city’s disparate and independent small arts organizations under a central government ministry in the new “arts district” has hit a snag. According to a recent story in The Dallas Morning News, the independent arts organizations are failing…
Before we put the Trinity River toll road story down for another much-needed nap, we have two very important items of laundry to attend to. One is called Tom Leppert. The other is named Mike Rawlings. First, did former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate,…
