Old news department. Dallas has a new bridge over the Trinity River near downtown designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. It has been the subject of hoopla. I have been negative. The story of why is too long, too boring. When they had the hoopla party several weeks ago, my…
Dear Mexican: Stop using Spanish in your column. I like reading your column, but when every other word is in Spanish, I don’t know what the hell is going on. It makes you sound like that nerdy kid who uses big words to try and sound impressive. Don’t be lazy,…
The Republican presidential candidates all agree on one thing — the same mantra between all their lines. They all want us to believe that the extreme polarity of rich and poor in this country is an expression of natural law. The super-rich just have to get super-richer. Everybody else, sadly,…
Processed-meat fever came to a head over the weekend. It started with a full-page ad, which appeared on Friday in the Wall Street Journal (and is on display below), paid for by Beef Product Inc. The company branded itself a paragon of food safety and cited “pink slime” libel as…
Welcome to Local Music ‘Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in local music. Lou Medina was born in Denton, grew up in Brooklyn, and moved back to DFW after getting his feet wet behind the turntables. He makes his living as a studio producer and…
I have a column in tomorrow’s paper wailing about the city’s failure ever to generate a true high-concept vision for the park we’re supposed to be building on the Trinity River. We’ve seen bits and pieces of ideas come and go — good, bad and ugly. Audubon Center, good. Horse…
Sunday the Dallas Peace Center chose Dealey Plaza, where JFK was killed almost a half century ago, as the site for a protest demanding justice in the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. It’s hard to feel good about anything associated with the Martin story, but Dealey Plaza was a…
American Airlines wants to ditch all of its labor contracts. I wonder a couple things about that. But first: I do get what bankruptcy is. It’s pushing back the creditors. I get that. Maybe everybody signed deals that were too generous, back in the fat days. Now somebody doesn’t want…
It’s a relatively quiet Wednesday night at Deep Ellum’s newest watering hole, Swallow Lounge (double entendre or just a hastily chosen name? You be the judge). I take a seat at the empty bar lined with bright red vinyl stools. Above the bar, back-lit swallows — those little birds that…
Just want to make sure you know what you’re getting into if you count on The Dallas Morning News to tell you what’s up. It’s not that they won’t. But you do have to deal with the social local filter. The New York Times this morning carries a story by…
Dear Mexican: I was born in los estados unidos, my father is Tamaulipas and my mother is a third-generation Chicana. Being married to a mexicano, we recently vacationed in his hometown of Apatzingan, Michoacán. It was my first time meeting my in-laws and everyone from his colonia. It seems I…
Things have to fall into place a certain way. The right cards must be dealt. But the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination in Dallas on November 22, 2013, could become a hallmark event in a long tradition of popular street actions stretching back to the nation’s beginnings. From Occupy…
All right, I’ve got my lanyard whistle around my neck, and I’m set for a session here. Let’s hustle up out there, Lawners. Time for today’s knee-jerk calisthenics. Remember our interim motto: A knee-jerk reaction is better than not being able to feel your feet. (I’m working on shortening that.)…
In 2009 the New York Times ran an article describing a trend taking over the city. Various shops were selling young coconuts, with undeveloped shells, liberated of their tops and served with drinking straws. “I think it’s stylish, it’s pretty,” said a Brooklyn shop owner who was selling cases of…
Welcome to Local Music ‘Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in Dallas-Fort Worth music. Veronica Navarro is an Internet radio host on Deep Ellum On Air, and her talk show, “Hungover with V,” streams live Sundays at 11 a.m. It can be a pretty uplifting…
Recently I found myself at the register of a Pinkberry with a pretty swirl of coconut frozen yogurt topped off with a load of sticker shock. “It’s just one small,” I said upon seeing the price, gesturing behind me that I was alone and wondering how many swirls she just…
Maybe it’s late in the day for this, but is there any chance the city could rescind its bizarre special ordinance ordering the preservation of the old Crozier Tech high school building at the east end of downtown and just let the poor bastards who bought the place knock it…
Oh, this is going to be painful. I’ve been trying to prepare myself all weekend by eating a diet of prunes and flax seed, riding a stationary bicycle, doing somewhat Yoga-like stretches according to what I’ve seen in the movies and giving myself drill-sergeant pep talks in the mirror, also…
Back in late February, SideDish, the food blog over at D, carried the news that a sandwich shop called Capriotti’s was going to revamp an old gas station downtown and subsequently expand to 50 other locations around DFW. “Has anybody eaten here before? Is it any good?” the post asked…
Cupcakes! Cupcakes, cupcakes, buzzword, cupcakes. Sprinkles is extending its hours, and to celebrate, the cupcake conglomerate is giving away free cupcakes. Or cupcake, singular, to be specific. Tonight only, every pancreas at The Plaza at Preston Center will be given one free cupcake of its choice from 8 to 9…
James Galbraith has a new book out, Inequality and Instability, arguing that … well, you know he’s an economist at the LBJ School at UT Austin, so it’s pretty complicated … I’m trying to boil down what I got out of it … I need to put this into Get-Off-My-Lawn…
On June 13, 2010, Dallas police arrested and jailed Robert Groden, author of best-selling books on the Kennedy assassination and a consultant to the Oliver Stone movie, JFK. The police accused Groden of violating a city law against selling books in Dealey Plaza, where the assassination happened almost a half-century…
