Story in The New York Times today talks about the Bush dynasty reclaiming its influence in the Republican Party by championing immigration reform. I have another idea for them, based on their legacy in Dallas: school reform. But this is grudging, man. Why do I want the Bushes to reclaim…
It’s been a spell since we’ve touched base with Lance Yocom, the ever-busy man at the head of Spune. Lance has been in this column before , and shortly thereafter, gave us all a start when he fell seriously ill while in Arizona, and spent over two weeks in a…
Hey, sorry, I didn’t want you to think I was falling down on the job with the “New York Times discovers Wendy Davis” story-story. Remember I did catch you up Friday. See also: Wendy Davis Is Sort of a Laura Miller Candidate. So How Did that Work Out? I reminded…
Every week, when we examine our proofs at the Observer — big sheets of paper with the article laid out as it will appear in print — I’m treated to another drool-worthy photo of a dish I’ve selected because I think it will resonate with my review. See also: This…
Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist and is the author of The Girls’ Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to…
The New York Times today contains what apparently is going to be a regular feature on how cool Wendy Davis is. Today’s installment is called “Democrats see value in Texas in candidacy for governor.” The one two weeks ago was, “Democrats see hope in Texas star.” The one three days…
Once, Deep Ellum bouncer Anthony Streeter paid the bar tab of a guy he had just thrown out. He didn’t know him and it didn’t matter. The guy was shitfaced, riled up and ready to fight, too. “Look,” Streeter said, trying to talk the guy down from wherever the night’s…
“It’s money” opens Doris, the way-way-way-too-much-anticipated album from Odd Future standout and internal rhyme genius Earl Sweatshirt. “It’s money,” the intro repeats, “It’s money.” If you bought a physical copy, you’re hearing that opening while thumbing through the artwork: an intoxicated-looking (though he kind of always is) Earl standing next…
This week’s music feature is an interview with Joe King Carrasco, the king of Tex-Mex Rock ‘n’ Roll, who was born in the Panhandle and lives in Puerto Vallarta today. His most recent album is a reunion with El Molina, a band that features several members of the Texas Tornadoes…
Dear Readers: The Mexican wants to beat you to the carne asada case this Labor Day fin de semana, so behold two oldies-but-goodies I amazingly haven’t yet passed off as new in this columna. The first one is extant and one of the favorite questions the Mexican ever got; for…
Ever have this feeling? Something pops up in the news in Dallas like, “Ribbon Cutting Today on Gigantic Mississippi Riverboat Floating Country Club for Rich People in White Rock Lake.” And you’re saying, “Wait. Ribbon cutting? Riverboat? Floating country club?” Sometimes I pick up the newspaper, and I immediately look…
Welcome to Alice Column, in which Alice Laussade writes stories about things on (roughly) the same day of (roughly) every week, making it (roughly) a column. Got an idea for a column? Start your own blog and write it up, you lazy shit. You decide to go to Cane Rosso…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings wants the Dallas school board to fish or cut bait on the school superintendent. “We need the school board to decide whether Mike Miles is going to be our superintendent of schools,” Rawlings says in today’s Dallas Morning News. “If a majority says that we don’t…
Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist and is the author of The Girls’ Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to…
Halfway through “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart,” the leadoff track on 2002’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. That’s when I stopped listening to Wilco, which had been one of my favorite bands of the ’90s because of their first three albums- A.M., Being There and Summerteeth, as well as the…
Lindsey BestAndrew Youssef[Editor’s Note: Long-time concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out two years ago that he had stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events, on top of other freelance work and working a day job at a hospital, of all places…
So tell me again. Dallas vice cops have been running undercover sting operations to protect the local taxicab industry from an app-based private livery service? Know what? I don’t think that’s really a story about livery services. That’s a story about the vice squad. The vice crackdown on Uber, a…
Yesterday was a rough day to be a Dallas apologist. First, word that East Dallas taco haven La Banqueta was stuck between a bit of a rock and a hard place that involves them NOT SERVING TACOS. Then, word spread quickly that the City of Dallas was working to help…
Let me offer a disclaimer at the top. Part of what I am about to tell you here about the investigation of Dallas school Superintendent Mike Miles is tea-leaf-reading. I happen to think I’m pretty good at reading the tea in this area. But tea leaves are tea leaves. Some…
There is a silver lining in the David-Dewhurst-calls-the-cops thing. It’s just more fun with Republicans. Nobody thinks it’s terrible that the lieutenant governor called the Allen cops to get his relative out of jail. Anybody would do that. It’s not even that Dewhurst tried to pull rank. Everybody does that…
Deep Ellum is not the only place in where music happens in Dallas. But it is the most storied: It’s where our blues scene found its legs and where Kurt Cobain found our fists. And today, the neighborhood is home to every kind of show, from one person with an…
Wow. What a bunch of junk in the The Dallas Morning News this morning about Rene Martinez, The LeMaster Group and Dallas school Superintendent Mike Miles. The whole school reform story in Dallas just gets more weird with every passing day. But should that surprise us? Remember: Dallas County Commissioner…
