Warren Fagadau, a Dallas ophthalmologist who has been involved in health insurance reform efforts in Texas, has a piece on the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News today about the qualities our public hospital in Dallas should look for in its ongoing search for a new chief executive officer…
I know you are tired of the year-end lists, the resolutions. The time for wishing is over, and the time for doing has begun. By now you have probably been forwarded or seen some of the observant commentary on The Paris Review’s recent piece, “Dallas, Part 1: From Afar,” by…
So by now it begins to be obvious there are two ways to go on this city-owned private high-dollar golf course being proposed in a poor neighborhood. Not one and a half ways. Not three ways. Only two, and they point in opposite directions. 1) Help the ‘hood. 2) Dig…
Dear Mexican: Is Lou Dobbs right when he says that close to 80 hospitals in California have been closed because of the illegals, or is he lying? Cabrónes No Necesitamos Dear CNN: Dobbs is right to a certain point, and only in spite of his idiocy. The father of two…
An odd sense of kinship came to me recently when I read an essay by New York writer Andrew Solomon about his new book Far From the Tree, in which he examines and gives voice to Tom and Sue Klebold, parents of Dylan Klebold, who with his friend Eric Harris…
New Year’s Day was great — saw The Hobbit with son and girlfriend, came home to prime rib, what could be better? — but I also spent a hell of a lot of time on the iPad trying to find out if I had fallen off a cliff yet. I’m…
Oh, it’s the very last day of the year, and I’m just not going to write about that damned fiscal cliff thing because it makes me so angry, and I don’t feel like ending the year on that note. I want one day off from angry, if you don’t mind…
For roughly 25 years, Arthur Stephens has been running Dallas’ ASA Audio. Historically, he’s a familiar face amongst Deep Ellum’s gifted sound-crafters: He mixed at Club Clearview until 2007, then it was on to the sorely-missed Deep Ellum Live, formerly located just a block behind The Dancing Marlin and Angry…
This is my end-of-the-year lawn, but I’m so grateful to you loyal lawners out there for showing up, I’m going to go you one better. In fact, 100 better. This is “Get Off My Lawn” from the year 2112. So here I am in the year 2112 still cranking out…
A couple of days ago The Dallas Morning News reported that the new Audubon Center, a vaunted jewel in the tiara of the Trinity River project, is sucking wind already, failing to attract the visitors and income the city had hoped for. Being mean to bird-watchers is difficult even for…
Resolutions. I have only ever kept one. Still, the year’s end is a moment to take inventory of what I want less or more of, and it’s hard not to get swept up in the promise-keeping to our newer, shinier, skinnier, well-read selves. I will get eight hours of sleep…
This holiday season we are sharing our home with two rescue dogs, and, yes, frankly, I do believe it makes me holier than thou, thank you for asking. I think it makes me a saint. We had a long series of dog deaths, two while walking. Don’t even ask about…
Dear Mexican: I need some advice. My wife (who’s a half-Mexican L.A. native, just so you don’t think we’re a couple of white hipster dickheads) and myself (who’s white, but an immigrant, so I hope that lowers my dickhead factor) have had it up to our orejas with our Hispanic…
This is the first holiday season I can remember in which people stood around the Yule log talking about the country going off a cliff. No, wait. That’s not the big part. The big part is that some of the people standing around the Yule log want the country try…
For three years now, Annette Marin’s been a mover and shaker at Spune Productions, alongside Lance Yocom, and had a hand in this year’s Index Fest and Untapped Festival. In 2013, she’s helping ready new releases from Air Review and Datahowler. As a student, Marin set out to pursue a…
Somewhere somehow we just got on the wrong track, folks. All these issues like the public schools, crime, unemployment: We’re still trying to rearrange the furniture when the house is already on fire. For example, as I said here yesterday, that bright shiny new superintendent of schools we just hired…
OK, it’s almost here. Time to slip into that annual existential crisis and wonder just WHERE IS YOUR LIFE GOING? Look, there is no real answer to that question. Also, you can totally contribute to where your life is going. But before we swim through the waters of your put-off…
I used to have a neighbor who would refer to me as Night Queen. Sitting outside on a shared porch area, he’d see me arrive home after work, settle into my place for dinner or some such activity, and emerge hours later to go see what everyone was up to…
Dear Mexican: Many of my friends think I’m loco for playing with my dad the way I do. See, mi padre is retired and living in Mexico and is worried that I am now 30 and not married, so he wants me to go back to where he lives to…
Last week when the Dallas City Council was deciding whether to donate public land for a private golf course venture in southern Dallas, I listened hard to council member Tennell Atkins. It’s easy for me to get dismissive about what I hear from Atkins sometimes. Maybe I need to listen…
Los Angeles Times political columnist and cartoonist David Horsey, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, authored a column and cartoon yesterday arguing that, “… there are way too many oddballs among us with violence on their minds and guns within reach.” I get the second part, about the guns. I’m…
Alright, believe it or not, this is a question, not a diatribe. I really do want to know. What is the downside of a ban on high-capacity ammo clips? First I should ask: Do you think high-capacity clips are a significant factor in gun slaughters? It seems to me they…
