Ronquillo Calls Out Rawlings On Fat-Cat Contributors. Me, Too.

Yesterday, mayoral candidate Marcos Ronquillo came out with his own take on a topic we discussed Monday — the number of political contributors who have given Mayor Mike Rawlings way more than the $5,000 limit per candidate per campaign. See also: Well-Heeled Donors Flood Mayor Rawlings with Money. Hey, Know…

Let’s Stop Calling Leon Bridges “The Truth”

Over the past six weeks, Leon Bridges has been at the center of one of the biggest stories in Dallas music in recent memory. On Christmas Day, it was announced that the 25-year-old R&B singer from Fort Worth had been signed to Columbia Records. It was a huge accomplishment. But…

Down with Paper Drinking Straws

I get it: It’s 87 degrees in January and it hasn’t rained since the early ‘1990s. We all should be conserving. But considering the overflowing dumpster the size of a short bus behind every restaurant in America, I’m having a hard time thinking drinking straws are where we should focus…

A Plan for Fixing the Trinity River: Do Nothing

In this town, if you say you don’t think we should build a highway practically on top of the Trinity River through downtown, the people who want to build a highway on top of the river through downtown always say, “Well, what’s your idea instead?” As if that’s the perfect…

The Revived 35 Denton Is Showing No Pulse

Comebacks are a bitch. More often than not, they’re a plain bad idea. But when we kept hearing, throughout the summer and fall of last year, that the organizers of 35 Denton were planning to bring back the festival after its one-year hiatus in 2014, we couldn’t help getting excited…

Texas Tribune Blows Wallace Hall Story Again

Last week when the Texas attorney general released a long-stalled investigation of a lucrative off-the-books compensation system at the University of Texas Law School, The Texas Tribune, the on-line news service that has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from the University of Texas System, blew off the…

Trust Your Dentist or Your Doctor On Chemical Exposures? Why?

Lots of people — and by that I mean Steve Blow — base their faith in fluoridated drinking water on what they believe to be the preponderance of scientific opinion as expressed by dentists. I refer to Blow’s recent column in The Dallas Morning News. The implicit assertion — made…

The 10 Guys You’ve Dated in the Dallas Music Scene

There’s something about a man in a band. Or who can play the guitar. Or who can sing. Or really who even hangs out with the band. Put a guitar in front of or in the general vicinity of a man and women will drop their panties. Men will drop…

9 Ways to Make Denton Music Great Again

Okay now, hear us out on this one. Last Friday, we ran a piece arguing for the benefits of Denton bringing in a larger, mid-sized music venue to help make the scene a little more robust. Not everybody liked that idea, which is fine; the point of healthy conversation is…

Pain of Selma Doesn’t Stop When Movie Ends

Selma was on my mind again a few days before Martin Luther King Day, for unexpected reasons. I had to call my old friend, Peter Johnson, to ask him to talk to another journalist. He picked up, but he couldn’t stay on the phone long because he was walking out…