The end is near ... sort of. The city's Redistricting Commission is inching towards putting together a city map it can forward on to the city council, and everyone -- the public and commissioners alike -- is trying to get in a parting shot before then. Last night's meeting was...
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Twice in recent weeks I've heard Dallas ISD trustee Edwin Flores discuss his proposal to rework how the district determines who its "best teachers" are -- the first time, when we spoke two weeks ago about the district's offer to buy out full-timers, then again at his budget town hall...
Last night's Dan Savage appearance at the Kessler Theater, his first ever in Dallas, took the form of a Q&A session. Unsurprisingly to anyone who reads his weekly sex-advice column, about 90 percent of the A's boiled down to: "Sex is good, judgment is bad." It was billed as part...
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Reckless Kelly
True to his word, John Keaten, who's handling PR duties for the just-released The Measure of America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience, sent over a few stats about Dallas-Fort Worth that didn't make the massive doc -- involving, specifically, income, education and health breakdowns "by race." But before you go,...
Just spent the better part of the morning browsing the The Measure of America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience, a report released this morning by the Brooklyn-based nonprofit Social Science Research Council. It's a profoundly long look at the well-being of the country, three components specifically: How smart we are...
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Dallas is a taco wonderland. When questions of the best local culinary offerings are raised, the taco is among the first victuals mentioned by the celebrity chef and vagrant alike. That being so, on Saturday, December 11, three friends and I, including tour leader and former City of Ate blogger...
Friend of the show Amanda Warr forwards along this item from Gawker (which sprang to life on Reddit), in which a Dallas resident goes to the Audelia Road Library to early-vote for Rick Perry ... only, the machine switches his votes to all-Green Party. Or does it? Another heated Reddit...
[Update at 3:19 p.m. Thursday: After the jump is a lengthy statement from Ira E. Tobolowsky, the attorney who is representing the gallery in the case written about below.]While we're perusing legal filings, here's an intriguing case filed only yesterday down at the Earle Cabell. It starts back in March...
Sixth Floor Museum Reading RoomThe Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza has become a serious international repository of documents, films, periodicals and research dealing with the Kennedy assassination, much of which the museum is now making available to the public in a sunny reading room staffed by a full-time academic research librarian. You do have to call ahead for […]
The other day on City of Ate, my colleague, Hanna Raskin, bemoaned the state of the Go Texan Restaurant Week, one of the numerous programs designed by the Texas Department of Agriculture to spur interest and business in our state's food industry. She noted that only seven restaurants in Big...
Hump day once again and what an interesting collection of acts we have descending upon Dallas this evening. Tonight, there's a little bit of something for everyone--so long as that something includes alternative rock, jam bands, post punk or deathcore...
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If You Win We’ll Go Shopping
So say creative-classicist Richard Florida and UCLA demographer Gary Gates over on The Daily Beast, where this morning they tout their Gay/Lesbian Index's metro-area rankings culled from a 2008 U.S. Census Bureau survey. And while Florida notes a handful of caveats that come with crunching the numbers, he also notes...
Since 1978, Mercy Ships has been sending hospital boats, for lack of a better term, to impoverished and beleaguered countries to tend to the "forgotten poor"; at this very moment, matter of fact, the African Mercy is perched off the shores of Togo in West Africa, a country ranked near...
For the fourth time since its inception, Dead Stock, the grass-roots organization of Dallas sneakerheads, will be hosting its annual Kixpo Convention this August. Spanning over two days (August 14 and 15), the expo will be comprised of three different sneak-sational (too much?) events: the Meet-N-Greet at Index Skateboard Supply...
Blazing summer heat? Check. A barren, dusty field for drunken revelry? Check. Hotter-than-the-astronomical-July-heat-index act Ryan Bingham? Sure. The Randy Rogers Band as the established, crowd-pleasing headliner? Absolutely. Alt-rock heroes Everclear? Uh, yeah, OK. MC Hammer? Wait, what? This should be more than a little interesting. In recent years, the festival...
With the heat index regularly topping 100 degrees these days, we've been on the lookout for relief from the oppressive sun. We're always game for brunch or cocktails on a patio, especially if we can bring Fido along. And since Fido loves the shade as much as we do, we've...
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Does Popular Equal Edible?
It looks like this week's edition of Show Announcements could have been written in 1995 thanks to two big shows coming to town. On Friday, October 22, a newly reformed Bush will be passing through town at the Palladium Ballroom. And I'm sure everyone over at Kirtland Records is more...
On a Sunday afternoon in July, Cliff Lee sits alone by his locker in the Texas Rangers' clubhouse. A handful of his teammates have gathered a few feet to his left around the lockers of Ian Kinsler and Michael Young, joking and chatting, but Lee, dressed in a gray Rangers...
Dallas Farmers Market 1010 South Pearl Expressway 214-939-2808 Try: La Popular tamales Don't try: Eating bath fizzies Obviously, if you go to the Dallas Farmers Market this summer you should pick up some Texas peaches, some tomatoes and any other fresh fruits and veggies your heart desires. But, while you're...