Do Mexicans Really Dislike Cubans?

Dear Mexican: The pinche Republicans are making a gigante ruido about their “Hispanic” senators in Congress. Wachale! Let’s call a pendejo a pendejo. Please discuss with tu audienca what Mexicans really think about Cubans in these Estados Unidos. El Güero Tejano (no Cubano) As a recent transplant from Miami to…

The Trinity Toll Road Just Keeps Rolling on the River

The Trinity toll road is undead. It walks in the night. Forget garlic. It is coming. It’s a fundamentally crazy idea. But it lives. If anything, the idea is protected by its basic craziness. It’s so crazy, it never quite comes together in people’s heads, and that’s how the powers…

The Worst Supergroups Of All Time

A supergroup is a difficult project to make a success of. The work of previous band members overshadows any new material, and although it brings a ready-made fan base, it also brings unreasonably high expectations. Not only that, those that make up the new band might have similarly unreasonably high…

Is Money, Celebrity and Politics Distorting Cancer Research?

Wait a minute. We here in Dallas know all about people who have used cancer research to promote themselves. Nancy, Lance, Rick, for three. But when do we ask questions about the research itself? The Dallas-founded Komen Foundation blew up last year after founder Nancy Brinker allowed it to be…

Amber Campagna is Deep Ellum Royalty and a Boundless Musical Spirit

As you’ve recently read in DC9, Amber Campagna’s family is practically the subject of a new documentary on fallen Dallas musician Frankie Campagna Jr.’s local punk assembly, Spector 45. We got a chance to know Frankie Jr. pretty well here at DC9 over the years, as well as his father,…

Conquering English One Word at a Time

Dear Mexican: Grammar question/rant. If Spanglish is a legitimate dialect/language, why do you feel the need to italicize every instance of code switching? I seriously doubt that when you speak you emphasize every puta palabra (emphasis intended here), but that’s what your article reads like. We all know that you…

The 10 Heavy Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

In the near or not so-near future,when you’re lying on your deathbed, you’ll reflect on things in your life that you’ve failed to accomplish: the kiss you never gave, the boss you never slugged and the metal album you never bought because your partner was bitching about the money that…