Run ‘n Shootin’ the wad? SMU’s June Jones era starts tonight in Houston. New uniforms (back to the white helmets of the Pony Express). New quarterback (Katy freshman Bo Levi Mitchell is in and two-year starter and record-setter Justin Willis is kaput.) New results?…
Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans paint stripes on their donkeys in Tijuana? —Avenida Revolución Reveller Dear Gabacho: Same reason we put worms in tequila bottles, celebrate Cinco de Mayo and star in Beverly Hills Chihuahua: to cheat gabachos out of cash. To paraphrase the classic dictum: a gabacho and his…
You may or may not read blogs. I’m not sure which way to advise you. Some local politics, news and sports blogs do provide a better window on the city than what you get from mainstream media. But you may need to keep a clothespin handy for your nose. For…
In the end, I’m not totally convinced that it matters. Name this band and win – oh, I dunno – a year’s free subscription to The Sportatorium? Find and return a certain sportswriter’s shoe somewhere in the mosh pit and win two years. By the way, best concert this summer…
I know. We’ll just do this as an IQ test. Here’s the situation: You’re a builder. The law says you can only build a new condo building on Oram Street in East Dallas 36 feet or three stories up from the ground. You want to go up four stories, so…
Dear Mexican: I am the proud uncle of five Mexican-redneck kids who recently moved to Wausau with their mamá Wisconsiana after living in la Capirucha all their lives. I’ve talked to them on the phone several times a week since they left for la tierra de los sueños materializados, and…
Thought we’d see a lot — and I mean a lot — of this in 2008. Thought wrong. I’ll have much more on this in next week’s column in the dead-tree version of The Sportatorium, but it commands addressing right here and right about now. Justin Willis won’t be SMU’s…
This is the last you’ll see of this sign, as it’s been scrubbed from the side of Booker T. Washington for good. Can you call off the dogs if you’re one of them? Too deep for me. Anyway, I admit that I was very upset when I heard that the…
Where the Ross Brothers are buried, really, from the Save Ross Web site Speaking of Ross Avenue, a Web site has been created to save the street — at least, its original name. The site, which comes complete with a petition, warns people that renaming Dallas’s proud Ross Avenue for…
Dear Mexican: As a Mexican, I’m always ashamed of the fact that a lot of Mexican women just come to the United States to have babies and to use this country’s welfare. I know a lot of them that just keep having children, and they do not pay a dollar…
Aha. Finally got my documents from Dallas Area Regional Transit. Think I may be on to something. Last November DART announced it was suddenly almost a billion dollars short in its budget for new rail line construction. DART gets its money from you. It is committed to building new lines…
Ugliest kind of scoreboard. I realize this is waaaay off topic for our little sports blog extravaganza, but I think this is worth a bending the rules. In case you haven’t heard, our economy sucks. There’s a housing crisis. We put our house on the market last October and got…
Mark Graham As we mentioned in 2001, Santos Rodriguez is buried at Oakland Cemetery amongst Dallas’s elite. This is the kind of morning I dread. I wake up. I pour coffee. I turn to The Dallas Morning News editorial page. I read things there that make sense. I hate this…
Dear Mexican: Where I recently started working, Latinos make up about 95 percent of the workforce. We are, however, prohibited from speaking Spanish. Our supervisor tells us that if we can so much as speak one word of English, that we cannot speak in Spanish. We are constantly being threatened…
By any chance, were you ever one of those people from a church or synagogue or mosque or some other outfit that used to come downtown in a van and feed the homeless? I say, “used to,” because, as you know, feeding the homeless is all taken care of now…
Pauline Medrano The real joke in the Ross Avenue name-change controversy is the Three Stooges double head-slap the three Latinos on the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project committee are taking from Mayor Tom Leppert on this. In the first place, Mayor Pro Tem Elba Garcia talked Steve Salazar and…
Turn to Page 25 of your document, where you will find that a “shade structure take[s] the place of tree vegetation in this plaza preserving views of the downtown skyline and promenade.” Also: a solar-powered water taxi. And: jet packs for everyone! This morning, while the Dallas city council’s Trinity…
Joyce Foreman On her blog yesterday, former Dallas Area Rapid Transit board member and political activist Joyce Foreman posted an item in which she called Dallas city council member Dwaine Caraway “[Mayor] Leppert’s head Negro watcher at Dallas city hall.” There has been some tittering about it already today over…
One of the names nominated for the renaming of Industrial Boulevard recently was Stanley Marcus Boulevard. Walk a quarter-mile in my shoes on this, will you? Marcus’ name was one of several put forward by the public in a recent competition run by City Hall to find a new name…
Dear Mexican: What’s with calling yourselves “La Raza”? Being Mexicans, Chicanos or whatever isn’t enough—now you’re THE race? Sounds pretty racist to me. —The Race Is On Dear Gabacho: Few things annoy the Mexican more than the Know Nothing Nation’s deliberate ignorance with this most nebulous of Mexican idioms. Despite…
Maybe it’s Obama. Something is going on, something bubbling up. I feel it all around me. Don’t you? Not just nationally but locally. Some kind of touchiness. Not touchy-feely. Touch-pokey. Things are complicated all of a sudden. When Russell Fish and I had lunch last week, the first thing we…
Dear Readers: Gracias, merci, obrigado for the many submissions in our contest asking readers to argue in 25 words why corn tortillas are superior to flour, or vice versa. Below are the winners for some of the cities that carry the Mexican; see the full list at dallasobserver.com. Don’t see…
