Most of the City Council’s housing committee ho-hummed or twiddled their fingers at a February 3 briefing on a big city-bankrolled development deal called “Patriots Crossing,” but a few expressed dismay. They said the city had paid way too much money for land on Lancaster Road across from the Veterans…
Last Tuesday evening The Dallas Morning News sponsored a conference in the arts district called “Come Together,” supposedly to talk about “economic development, education and opportunity” but really to talk about culluh. Yeah, skin color, that topic that pretty much the whole rest of the world is bored to death…
Ian Anderson: Hero to flute-rock enthusiasts everywhere.I remember in the sixth grade when we were all arbitrarily assigned instruments to learn. It was hell for broke parents who were now forced to buy or rent instruments they knew were just going to collect dust in a broom closet. And it…
Jaime LeesMy R. Kelly necklaceI can’t stop thinking about Rihanna. Her single, “Stay,” came out a year ago this month and it’s still omnipresent. I’ll hear it on the radio, in the grocery store and played on the jukebox at a bar by some sad bastard with no concept of…
Well this sucks. It hasn’t even been a year since I wrote about the temporary closure of Samar and its potential impact on the sandwich scene here in Dallas. Samar earned four stars in the Dallas Morning News, and it was arguably one of owner Stephan Pyles’ most exciting restaurants…
Got a story in the newspaper newspaper this week I’d like you to see if you have a minute. It’s about the Nasher Sculpture Center and Museum Tower, the condo building accused by the Nasher of reflecting too much light on it. I spoke with officers of the city’s police…
We have come to a point of crisis in the matter of the sunburned sculpture garden and the pension fund. The clear appearance is that the mayor is injecting politics into the management of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund. It’s not exactly how the mayor of Detroit and…
Dear Mexican: Why is it that many first-generation Latino students are so quick to judge and alienate second-generation students just because their parents went to college and are able to afford a little more? Pocha Pero No Pendeja Dear Wabette: I turn the columna over to Jody Agius Vallejo, sociology…
You’ve been there: You’re walking through Nordstrom in NorthPark because it’s on the way to the rest of the mall, and some cute plastic watch in the jewelry case catches your eye and so you ask the nice saleslady if you can “Check that sucker out,” and the nice saleslady…
Editor’s Note: Shea Serrano is an award-winning music writer and goofball whose recent exploits include Bun B’s Rapper Coloring and Activity Book. In his new column, he writes about his life and times. Among many other things, my twin 6-year-olds sons think I am Manu Ginobili when the Spurs play…
Being a box office attendant may have been Joy Hom’s foot in the door of the music business, but that doesn’t mean it was an easy stepping stone. It takes a music fan dedicated enough to still be sober at the end of the night to do things like…totaling dollar…
In many ways Oak Cliff is the soul of Dallas — home to several of its best restaurants and most vital residents. Its finest music venue, The Kessler, is the great counter-argument to all those who would accuse Dallas of worshipping only the new and shiny. The theater is an…
Last Friday we talked here about the new voter ID law and the difficulty everybody seems to be having with the lack of difficulty. I told you that, after the first election under the new law, I, as a lifelong libtard, was extremely distressed by the lack of distress. I…
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…
We should be doing what we can to keep up with news about our sister community, Westchester County in New York. It’s the other local government entity in the nation, along with the city of Dallas, formally accused by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development of practicing deliberate…
Motley Crue’s going on tour again, and the band promises it will be its last. Of course, as everyone knows, these hype-inducing, ticket-sales-generating promises are made to be broken. And Motley Crue know everyone knows that. And so, on Tuesday in L.A. they upped the ante with a compelling gimmick:…
I should begin here: During the actual ’90s, I was much too busy listening to Japanese videogame soundtracks (educate yourself) to actually enjoy ’90s pop music. My first-hand memories of most of it are hearing it in a car, at a skating rink, on somebody else’s Discman, and shaking my…
My fellow libtards, I am trying to hang with you on the voter ID issue, and I want to hang with you, and I will hang with you if I can, but I have to admit that It’s getting hard to hang with you. Yesterday The Dallas Morning News had…
Noonie. Pee-pee. Dingle. Cha-cha. These aren’t stripper names. They’re the baby talk that many parents like to teach their kids instead of teaching them the words “penis” and “vagina.” I asked a mom why she was calling her kid’s parts weird things and she said that she was uncomfortable with…
Yes, I have campaigned here ceaselessly over the years to get Dallas to be more like my hometown, Detroit, but I was talking about stuff like the farmers market. Not the pension fund, for God’s sake! Yesterday The Dallas Morning News editorial page called for the Dallas Police and Fire…
Song associations are strange, because when I hear “Longview” by Green Day, I think of Rosemarie Sandoval’s hair. We were both sophomores, sharing a table in Mr. Nardinelli’s 3rd period art class. I think she was almost a year older, and if she wasn’t taller than me anyway, her bangs…
All illustrations by Dave WattMusic journalism can be a pretty tough gig. Between eating complimentary cheese slices at your friend’s bar and the women/men constantly sensually caressing your neck-beard for you, it is sometimes difficult to seek out interesting, topical material. Thank God, then, for Justin Bieber — that sparkling…
