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…
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. Michelle Pelissero can be seen working at some of the luckiest of spots — like rinkside at a Dallas Stars game or dead-center in front of a lot…
Hey, generally speaking, the response to my offer of yesterday to run for mayor was quite disappointing. I got 20 comments, almost none of which were positive about the possibility of my being the next mayor. In fact most of the commenters talked about where the worst potholes are around…
Jeff Siegel at the Advocate has nominated me for mayor, and, after long consideration and discussion with my family, I have accepted. I shall run, unlike our current mayor. If elected, I shall serve. If offered a salary, I shall accept. I have decided to keep my platform simple. My…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Jerry Jones is desperate to break the Super Bowl attendance record, set at the Rose Bowl back in 1980. To do so, he needs to pack 104,000 into Cowboys Stadium. Or…
I guess everybody thinks the Dwaine and Barbara Caraway marital discord story is over, now that Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway has confessed he called the cops to his house because he was having a fight with his wife. Well, it’s not over for this cowboy. I need answers…
Oh, now it starts. Faced with a state budget deficit somewhere between $15 billion and $27 billion, Governor Rick Perry says the most important thing for the Legislature to do now is ban “sanctuary cities.” Those are cities where the cops don’t ask people about their immigration status, because if…
Dear Mexican: Read your column in the Village Voice and am hoping you can help me. I think I have a Mexican problem. In short, I have a home in sunny California on a property with an abundance of agave cactus and century plants growing along the street. Every year…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is supposed to be a star—a big star. Four years ago after he was elected Dallas County’s first black prosecutor, Watkins leaped into the national limelight for his role in DNA-evidence exonerations of wrongly convicted prisoners. So what’s the matter with him? Maybe the…
Mark Cuban wants to fix the BCS. And, via its voting, so do college football writers and coaches. Despite not getting a chance to play for a national championship, undefeated TCU received three No. 1 votes from the media and one from a coach in Tuesday’s final college football polls…
Two things. First, I would like for people to quit bitching about my photo. One guy wrote in that he found it “disturbing.” Well, WTF, Einstein. It’s not meant to be a sympathy card. Second: Another guy wrote in with a really good idea yesterday. I had written about how…
Gromer Jeffers is saying this afternoon it’s “all but certain” Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert won’t run for reelection in May, although he doesn’t quite say how he’s so certain. I certainly have been picking up a lot of ground clutter in the last week, mainly about various hopefuls knee-walking with…
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. Brian “Torch” Idell’s beat is the streets of Deep Ellum. He’s not a cop or reporter, though. Rather, he promotes local music. And he does it with…
Let’s not even get into the underlying issue of whether Robert Groden should be able to sell his books and magazines about the Kennedy assassination on Dealey Plaza downtown. Just for grins, let’s put that to one side. What gets me is the extreme Vladimir Putin-style in-your-face we’re-not-even-embarrassed-by-it thug-ocratic stupidity…
You know what the pigeon drop is, right? Some scam artist convinces an old lady she can get $10,000 for free by withdrawing a mere $1,000 from her bank account. All she has to do is allow the scam artist to hold her thousand dollars for half an hour. I…
