Welcome to Local Music ‘Mericans, where we’ll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren’t necessarily members of a local band, but are more behind-the-scenes folk. Denton’s Eric Delegard was the recording engineer (and executive producer, for that matter) for the LP that really ignited things for…
Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway was on The Ticket’s Dunham & Miller show about an hour ago talking about why he gave the key to the city to convicted dog torturer Michael Vick. It was so typical. The Ticket guys started out all big and pissed off, talking about…
Check me on this. Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the outfit that runs the trains, didn’t know how to keep their trains running in an ice storm. The same kind of trains operate in winter weather cities all over the world. There’s a way to keep them running in an ice…
I’m serious. I want Jimmy Carter to come monitor our elections. We need his help. So, if you were around here eight years ago, when Dallas was getting national attention for vote fraud, you might be especially concerned about recent developments in the county elections department. Until the Legislature adopted…
Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *So, what’s harder to predict: Weather or sports? Coulda sworn Ron Jackson, Pete Delkus and the boys said there was a 30-percent chance of 1-2 inches of snow on Friday. But I…
I watched that video of Tuesday’s Dallas County Commissioner’s Court meeting — the one about Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and the firing of elections administrator Bruce Sherbet — and I swear that Price was doing a whole new persona. He speaks now with a new gravitas, slowly and…
Dear Mexican: My gabacho friends look at me askance for being a gabacho who enjoys mariachi music. They, and even some of my Mexican friends, run and hide when I go a step further and start listening to the mournful ballads of Vicente Fernandez, backed up by—you guessed it—a mariachi…
All you people are here for the Super Bowl. I know what you’re thinking. You call Dallas things like “the Buckle of the Bible Belt.” Then you mock us for being hypocrites, because we have so many nekkid bars. It’s true. We do have a long history of trying to…
Welcome to Local Music ‘Mericans, where we’ll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren’t musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk. David Castell is credited with producing some pretty successful music from North Texas, starting getting his start with live recording in the late ’80s, after building his…
Despite another brave battle, cancer won again yesterday. Back in July I told you about friend and fantastic basketball coach David Milson, one of the happiest people I ever did meet. Lung cancer finally got the best of him, as the former Cedar Hill High School basketball coach has passed away…
In the ’08 Obama/Clinton primary election, it was clear we had two Democratic Parties in Dallas County. We had the one that won that election — the smart Obamacrats. And then we had the losers, the Dallas County Demacrooks, the usual suspects, the ones who took all that Clinton money…
Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Sure the Mavs have won three in a row, but they’ve beaten no one — Nets, Clippers and Rockets — and when you blow a 25-point home lead to Houston and have…
Dear Mexican: A few years ago, I moved to Tucson. In said city, I noticed that there were little piles of stuff accumulated on the medians of the main roads. It looks like what was Dia de la Muertos paraphernalia—I’m not so gringo as to not know what’s up. These…
Ever since Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert announced on January 17 that he won’t run for re-election next May, people have been talking about who will run. I say people. Maybe six people. Most people don’t care. I know. People these days are into other things, like unemployment. Wondering what to…
Welcome to Local Music ‘Mericans, where we’ll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren’t musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk. Last week, with 25-year-old Michelle Pelissero, we found ourselves celebrating the “accomplishment of youth” factor in Local Music ‘Mericans. To further that, allow us to present Katie…
On January 13, I wrote a column for the paper about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and how thin-skinned and paranoid he seems to be getting. Two days after my column came out Watkins issued a new policy directive to his entire staff telling them they are no longer…
Great. Tell me you’re sick of journalists talking about journalists. I was too. I was perfectly ready to drop L’Affaire Tim Rogers — whether or not he used his clout as the editor of D Magazine to get his kid bucked into a preschool program ahead of qualified poor kids…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *So the Dallas Cowboys hire loquacious, bombastic, entertaining new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan not with a press conference but only a press release? That’s like hiring Ricky Gervais to emcee the…
As a community, we get horrible leadership from City Hall. Terrible. City Hall brings out the worst in us. On Monday, Building Community Workshop (called bcWORKSHOP), a housing advocacy group, began installing plywood silhouette figures of homeless people around town with cardboard signs urging people to think about the homeless…
Dear Mexican: I’m not Mexican, but I get mad when the gabachos in my town say that all Mexican girls do is take drugs and get pregnant, drop out of school and end up on welfare. I know a lot of Mexican women who haven’t done any of these things,…
Dear Baby Journalist: Grandpa Journalist sees that you are very perplexed about “L’Affaire Tim Rogers” and that you are struggling to comprehend it in the context of a concept you were taught to believe in at journalism school, called “journalistic ethics.” Grandpa Journalist had made up his mind he would…
The plot thickens. I told you here a couple days ago that Jeff Siegel at the Advocate had been pushing me to run for mayor. Now he has a very smart item up on the Advocate blog Backtalk in which he hopes Angela Hunt will not run for mayor, because…
