Jennifer. May I call you that? This is just between us. I like your picture. There’s a certain assertiveness there. I just like it. And this has all been so unfair so far. These news hacks — guys like Dallas Observer Editor Joe Tone, Unfair Park EditorEric Nicholson and that…
OK, wait, wait, before we start the party, can I ask a couple questions? Could we maybe just try to put ourselves in a global context first? In July, 2011, the city of Copenhagen was ravaged by the worst flood in recorded history, rated by scientists as a “1,000-year” flood,…
Sometimes you really do want to go where everybody knows your name. If you’ve played your cards right, your favorite place will know your drink order, have a secret parking spot for you and let you stick around after hours. The art of the regular takes practice, so here are…
Ryan Henry’s played with the New Frontiers and is ramping up a new act, Low Dark Hills, but we figured we’d catch him while he’s still largely behind-the-scenes at the Granada Theater, where he’s crawled up the ladder from working on their “Serenity” crew (who handle security and maintenance) to…
The longer the Dallas-area light rail system is around, the less of a habit it becomes, according to a story in this morning’s Dallas Morning News. The trend over the years has been for ridership to diminish at many stations after people get over the novelty of a train station…
It speaks volumes that people at The Dallas Morning News, like some other people in Dallas who should know better, do not know what heavy industry is. Two pieces in the print edition of the paper this morning describe scrap-metal and architectural remnant recyclers near Lamar Avenue as “heavy industry”…
I was right on the verge of what I am sure would have been a very satisfying episode of outrage, when my damned libtard alarm went off. It’s a case of certain past experiences coming back to haunt me, getting in the way of what might otherwise have been some…
Dear Mexican: I work construction in Texas. The mojados at work call me “Chicano” (which really angers me) to make fun of me, and I reply to them by saying, “¡México, bien por su gente!” This usually leads to debates that the Hispanic population will be the majority of the…
Hey, it was great having Mitt Romney in town this week, was it not? He looks so different in Texas. Those national mediatoids were making him out to be a rich plutocrat who made his money killing companies and shipping jobs to Vietnam, but when we got to see him…
About seven years ago, G.I. Sanders signed a record deal with MCA, as part of a pretty successful local rock act called South FM. The sun set on that band not long after, and Sanders more or less walked away from playing music, and into his own start-up company, Fancorps…
Oh my God, am I just going to keep blabbing about John Wiley Price every day for the rest of my life? Will I wind up buckled into a padded chair against the wall in some long corridor with ladies in white dresses whispering to the visitors, “He’s the John…
A grandfather and his granddaughter were fighting over the headphones. She couldn’t have been more than five years old, but she was stubborn, and insisted she ” … would cover her ears with her hands the whole time.” In an effort to prove the headphones were cool, the elder removed…
Pretty soon, any day now, maybe tomorrow, well, possibly in a week or so, I may join a 12-steps program in which I stand up at the beginning of every meeting and say, “Hi everybody, my name is Jim, and I can’t stop talking about John Wiley Price.” Not today…
OK, I’ve got my idiot coloring book out again. Sorry. Just have to do this. I just want to help people not get totally lost in the delicious detritus of the FBI affidavit released yesterday in the Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price corruption probe. The details are delectable –…
Let’s be clear about this. Old, rich keep-a-lid-on-it Dallas is not going to rule next year’s 50th anniversary observations of the Kennedy killing in Dealey Plaza. No matter what it takes. The official City of Dallas JFK Assassination 50th Anniversary Celebration Committee, named in a story this morning in the…
Dear Mexican: Why can’t the United States and Mexico agree on just one name for the Rio Bravo/Grande river? And I don’t understand why the Americans lo dice in español? —Marfa Maven Dear Wabette: The Mexican is a Californian by the grace of God so doesn’t dare tread the intellectual…
To shred or not to shred? Is sudden large-scale document shredding in a semi-public entity ever a good thing? On the morning of May 21, Randy Johnson, the recently fired director of horticulture at the Texas Discovery Gardens, goes to a sit-down visit at City Hall with Paul Dyer, director…
Oh, man, and me a total Obamatoid! Am I going to have to vote for Mitt Romney? But he’s already way to the left of Obama on education and batting 1.000 on one of my favorite themes, the need to integrate schools by class, not race. For years there has…
Typically, I do not believe in signs. But after a weekend spent at Homegrown Fest, after-parties and beyond, it was difficult not to interpret a good omen or two as I made my way into Lota’s Goat on Sunday night. Glenn Frey’s “You Belong to the City” was on full…
So today I put aside my morning paper after the customary two-minute encyclopedic read, and I think, “OK Lawners, you tell me.” You work it out. I can’t. I’m tired. So you give me the answer. Who is the “conservative” here? On the one hand I have former City Council…
Aside from being a spitting image of actor Dermot Mulroney, KHYI-95.3 FMGeneral Manager Joshua Jones is quite the rising celeb. On a local level, anyway. He’s taken advantage of the fact that he manages a station owned by true supporters of good, old-fashioned local and live radio, and the Jones…
Dallas is a weird little speed-trap town in its own way. I often wonder what visitors think. What they need to think is, “I’ve got to be really careful and keep my mouth shut until I get out of this burg safely.” These musings come to me after reading a…
