From 1998 when the Trinity River Project was first presented to voters as a racially unifying parks project, there has been a tension, to put it very politely, between the promise and the real agenda. As a matter of fact, I don’t really use the word tension. I prefer lie…
Highland Park police say they shot and killed a man Tuesday after he escaped from handcuffs while locked inside a patrol car, shot out the back window of the car, attempted to escape and got into a gun battle with them on a crowded shopping center parking lot where other…
Dear Readers: U.K.’s spectacular Guardian newspaper has asked if I could field some questions for their readers as part of the paper’s summer travel package — turns out Brits want to know more about Mexican food! Let’s be benevolent toward those buggerers: Their idea of what our comida constitutes comes…
Heard an interview with some actress on the radio recently talking about how she chain-smoked and behaved badly in college, causing her to lose a lot of weight and wake up incredibly beautiful one day. She said it gave her the confidence she needed to become a movie star. I…
Lindsey BestAndrew Youssef [Editor’s Note: Longtime concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV Colon Cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for our sister paper OC Weekly on top of other freelance work and working a…
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. The city of Dallas is considering a…
Now that we’ve given up hope that state or federal governments will ever do us any good, the focus is on cities. So what about Dallas? The Brookings Institution is offering us advice as part of its “Global Cities Initiative,” telling Dallas to concentrate on education, exports and sister cities…
He’s one of the quiet observers-from-a-distance of our local music scene. He knows local people both big and small, but judges no one. He’s sick and tired of all the name jokes, and wisecracks about being eaten on a Lee Harvey’s burger. He’s the ultimate barfly, and wise observer of…
If you were a Martian visiting Dallas for the first time, you might have trouble even believing how obscure the issues are in City Council elections here, as if we were always voting between one guy who ties his shoes left to right and another one who goes the other…
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…
Welcome to Ask Willie D, where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, “funny, serious or unpredictable.” Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! Photo courtesy of Peter BesteLOVING ORANGE COUNTY Dear Willie D: I’m a newly single divorcée with lots of time and…
It occurs to me this country is quite spaced out. Not in the drugs sense, although God knows that happens too, but in the sense it is really quite large. I mean, have you seen a map? That shit is humongous. Furthermore, there are only so many places poor overworked…
Good read by Jay Root in The Texas Tribune today about whether Governor Oops will run for re-election as governor of Texas or run for something else, who knows what, president of France, whatever. Root suggests it will be the governorship again for Oops, and he talks some about other…
As the temperature increases and we all make that switch to that summertime state of mind, we at The Overserved thought it might be nice to toast our rising hemlines and glowing foreheads with a little summer kick-off. Blake Ward has kindly let me take over his Friday night party…
Lindsey BestAndrew Youssef [Editor’s Note: Longtime concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV Colon Cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for our sister paper OC Weekly on top of other freelance work and working a…
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. There’s a shopping center off of Royal…
Oh, no, wait a minute, please. You’re telling me The Stonewall Democrats of Dallas are shocked and amazed because Delia Jasso, the City Council candidate they endorsed against Scott Griggs in North Oak Cliff, turns out to be a spineless flip-flopper? They thought she was going to be what? Abraham…
As proprietor of what could possibly be the finest P.A. system in Deep Ellum, Trees’ Lee Russell is a repeat guest in this column. We spoke to him in January about his jet engine of a sound system, installed at Trees, but he’s up to more now. Much, much more…
The underground parking lot of the W Hotel isn’t all that different from the Ghost Bar some 300 feet above it in some ways: white walls, industrial interior. Still, the lack of air conditioning was growing uncomfortable, and my perfectly waved ‘do was giving way to frizz, but that will…
We can be proud of our glittering Vegas-scale Arts District and still be honest about how it came to be. Right? I hope so, because maybe if we look at that history frankly and think about it for a bit, we will be better equipped to gauge what’s going on…
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…
Occasional correspondent Bill Marvel, who defends the high holiness of art, sent me the following headline this morning, “DIA’s art collection could face sell-off to satisfy Detroit’s creditors,” along with a personal note: “I know this will warm your heart.” The DIA is the Detroit Institute of Art, their big…
