Dear Mexican: You mentioned in the past that your dad is against illegal immigration, but that’s a voice you never hear. Why aren’t the legal immigrants and legal aliens “vocally outraged” about the illegals who drive down wages, drive up housing prices, use government services, give all immigrants a bad…
Several minor political brush fires sent up smoke at the Dallas public school system after a tough new reform-minded superintendent took over the reins last July. But in two months the whole woods will be on fire, with Superintendent Mike Miles in the middle of it. Does he survive? I…
Scott K. Parks has a pretty good OK story in The Dallas Morning News today. It’s the good-enough-for-Belo version of a story we brought you two weeks ago about the city’s use of eminent domain to seize a privately owned parcel of land near the Trinity River, sandwiched between the…
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. The Farmers Market is going to be…
And here we go with the discussion of cheap housing for artists in that triumphal and glitzy array of Mussoliniano mausoleums that we insist on calling our “arts district,” even though art has the same chance of surviving there as a cockroach in a microwave oven. Say this for the…
Oh, Dallas. Something is fishy at our sushi restaurants. Katharine Shilcutt at the Houston Press has been digging through a new Oceana Study, and it doesn’t say very nice things about the sushi we’re eating. That snapper you covet, sumptuously draped over carefully seasoned and packed rice, may very well…
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…
Wanted to go ahead and let you know, since apparently nobody else is going to do the story, that Robert Groden, the Kennedy assassination author, has won yet another legal victory in his fight against the city’s years-long efforts to muzzle him. And, sorry, certain commenters here, but that’s what…
Fort Worth singer-songwriter Clint Niosi, 33, works in the basement of a community college library doing on-site tech support and on-call tutoring. This does not sound fascinating, and I quickly see upon taking his invitation to meet him at his job that it really isn’t. For about a half hour…
M&M’s are small chocolates with candy shells. They melt in your mouth, not in your hand. And they’re not fucking supposed to taste like carrot cake. Or candy corn. JUST BE M&M’s, M&M’s. It’s not that hard…
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. Dearest The Klyde Warren, It’s my hope…
Tale of two dailies today, I guess. Our own Dallas daily, the Morning News, takes a kind of hey-why-not approach to a bill introduced by Houston GOP state Senator Dan Patrick that would divert more money from state funding for public schools to charters. The Austin American Statesman, meanwhile, gives…
Meet Wes McIntyre. Yeah, he works at Granada…for years now. You’ve probably seen him. He’s been gaining a reputation around the venue as being a pretty awesome human being in general. Exemplified in his nice-guy style of security work, and cornerstoned by his recent role as Santa at a Libertine-organized…
Casually drop that you’re a power Yelper while you dine at a restaurant, and undoubtedly your service will improve. Perhaps an extra cocktail will come your way. And ah, is that a free dessert? Of course some of us aren’t as forward as others. It can be hard saying out…
It looks like Okon Metals, a fourth-generation-owned scrap recycling company, may have found safe haven after all. If nothing else, at least Okon’s proposed move to a site even more isolated than its current address on an island between downtown and the river will put it out of the prying…
Dear Mexican: You have defended illegal immigrants by arguing that they will do the jobs gabachos won’t do for the same wages. I agree. I have a white-collar job, so I’m totally content to benefit from the low prices brought about by an uneducated underclass unprotected by American labor laws,…
Wait. Take five. That’s all I’m asking. As we approach mosquito season in Dallas, the conversation about aerial spraying for West Nile once again begins to sound like free beer day at the ballpark. Last week The Dallas Morning News published a story with a triumphal tone saying, “Aerial spraying…
I’m almost at a loss for words. Almost. Sometime on Monday, it was revealed to the Internet that the “breastaurant” chain known as Twin Peaks would be trashing up Mockingbird Station. I have some thoughts on the announcement. If you think Twin Peaks is a super great idea, if you’re…
A new court order in the federal corruption probe into John Wiley Price tilts the case in the county commissioner’s favor, maybe just a little, maybe quite a lot. We all recall that in 2011 the FBI seized $229,590 from a safe in the Dallas County Commissioner’s Oak Cliff home…
She worked the room with a certain kind of magic. A blonde, tiny slip of a thing, she walked from table to table greeting each guest. Sometimes offering a small token, sometimes complimenting a patron, and generally just being effusively charming. I knew she didn’t own the place because she…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins started out with one question to answer. Now that he has defied a subpoena, he’s got at least a couple more. Last week Watkins was ordered to appear in the court of state District Judge Lena Levario to answer an accusation that he brought…
It started off as a simple idea. Go to a restaurant after 10 p.m. or so, order some food, consume it, and if it’s good publish a Late Night Eats post about the place. The first three were actually just that simple. Then it got hard to find additional places…
