In the smoke, din, blinding flashes, screams, roars, flying body parts, weird music and scarily bad odors blasting out from Mayor Mike Rawlings’ enormously maladroit public school takeover campaign, there has been a silver lining. It is a very thin silver lining, kind of like a kitten that survives an…
Monday I said Mike Rawlings was about to announce a pause — a tapping of the brakes — in his public school takeover campaign. I was a little off. Instead it turns out he has been meeting with three really old guys. I guess that could have the same effect…
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 help you stop doing it wrong. Send your problems to her –…
There is a distinct possibility the mayor or somebody else associated with the public school takeover effort now underway — called “home rule” by its backers — will announce this week that they are “tapping the brakes,” pausing the campaign for now. That will make lots of people happy but…
In 2014, you should’ve already figured it out by now: Your dumpy, forgettable band with few fans should be touring. The need to turn your local bar band into a mobile poverty-stricken disaster unit is of utmost importance. It’s your chance to see beautiful rolling landscapes, fall in love with…
When Mexicans Give You Limes, Make Limeade
Dear Mexican: Can you help me unravel the citrus dilemma? When I am in Mexico or a Mexican restaurant or market I am unable to find lemons (yellow, egg-sized, tart-tasting fruits). Whenever I ask, I get green-colored fruit, which looks and tastes to me like limes (green, smaller than egg-sized,…
I got it. I have the big idea for Fair Park. Really. Not kidding. Let me tell you how I got there. Mayor Mike Rawlings called and took me to task recently for suggesting in a blog item that his commission on repurposing Fair Park was a secret. He pointed…
Dearest Butt Faces Who Broke into My Car at White Rock Lake Last Week, When you broke the windows of my car (I was parked on Lawther by the stone tables), just like you’ve done to five other cars at the lake this month, according to police reports, and stole…
Dear Andrew, I love my girlfriend, but she’s a bore in the bedroom. My previous girlfriend had crazy sex with me. She introduced me to a lot of stuff, like playing with my ass. I couldn’t even begin to ask my new conservative girlfriend about ass play. Or can I?…
You probably have passing familiarity with the boy-in-the-bathtub story, about 10-year-old Arnav Dhawan, the Frisco child whose decomposing, five-days-dead body was found by police under ice packs in the family bathtub. The mother, 38-year-old Pallavi Dhawan, is charged with murder, even though the official finding on cause of death in…
Ed Timms and Kevin Krause had a great story in The Dallas Morning News on Sunday about a local agency that certifies businesses as minority or women-owned. The North Central Texas Regional Certification Agency seems to be sort of the same outfit as something called All Temps 1 Personnel. The…
The mayor’s pissed-off walk-out last week from a meeting with Latino leaders to discuss his school takeover plan is, if anything, more of a mystery, now that a recording of the meeting is circulating. He said last week he walked out because the meeting was being hijacked and he wanted…
The other night after talking all day to people about the no-sewer zone around the new University of North Texas at Dallas campus in Southern Dallas, I got to wondering. If the rest of us in other parts of the city had to give up a single part of the…
This is a statement that your brain will reflexively disagree with but also one that it will eventually accept as truth: Ludacris is one of rap’s greatest and most unstoppable guest-verse performers of all time, and, despite his millions of album sales and shelf full of awards, remains somehow underrated…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings last night walked out of a meeting he’d called to engage a broad cross-section of Hispanic leaders about the “home-rule” push, an effort to strip control of Dallas ISD from the board and possibly put it in the hands of him. Multiple sources who were at…
Dear Mexican: The current clothing trend is for ladies to wear low-cut jeans and belly shirts that expose their midriffs. That looks great on a hard-bodied woman, so why do so many fat Mexican mujeres insist on dressing like this? Their gut hangs over their pants and pushes their shirt…
UPDATED MAY 1 2014: A Cease-Fire Breaks Out at DISD ORIGINAL POST:Oh, do give me a break. Sure, there are some really compelling arguments for dumping the current system of governance of the public school system, the main one being the public school system. The stealth petition drive that has…
Dearest Addison: It has come to my attention that you have decided to change the logo for your town. This greatly saddens me. I have loved that logo since its inception. Every time I drive down Midway Road and find myself passing through your suburb, I yell, “Yay, I’m in…
The timing sure seems dicey on this “home rule” deal — the plan to get rid of the school board and turn the whole thing over to Pete Delkus.* Right now it looks like the plan will get tossed into the laps of the school board in May, right when…
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Yesterday my item about the no-sewer zone in southern Dallas drew sharp comments complaining about the “14-1” single-member City Council system in Dallas. In that particular case, the council member for the district won’t allow sewers to be built in an entire region of his own district because he’s afraid…
Small update here on the part of Dallas to which City Hall refuses to extend sewer service. We have spoken about it here several times. It’s an area abutting the brand-new University of North Texas campus near Interstate 35E and I-20. DART is building a new rail station right there,…
