The current Observer city columnist says the Calatrava bridges are a bust. The former Observer city columnist says they’re gonna be the best things, like, ever! Not long after Jim Schutze’s August 31 cover story on the Calatrava bridges, “Eye Candy for Suckers,” hit the streets, I got a call…
History has this way of throwing bean balls at us. Just about now, the city finally has escaped its South Dallas guilt complex. People no longer feel obligated to sluice money into boondoggle rip-off scams that do nothing to relieve poverty and only benefit the same six people. For a…
Dear Mexican, I have a stupid, unemployed, 16-year-old gang-bangin’ cousin who already dropped out of school, and I’m pretty sure most Mexicans are related to somebody who fits that description. About eight months ago, he knocked up a girl around his age, so last week I was dragged to their…
Schutze to D: Stick with what you know best. Speaking of, know where we can get a good burger? Tim Rogers posted a long item today on the D magazine blog FrontBurner accusing me of writing deceptively about the Trinity River project. Some personal innuendo was made, which I will…
Pat Cotton has hired Dallas lawyer James Murphy to sue The Dallas Morning News and political reporter Gromer Jeffers over quotes Cotton says she never said. On September 6, in a story that appeared in the paper that was republished online, Jeffers quoted Cotton as threatening to “destroy” city council…
Dear Mexican, I see Jews, Asians and Persians making something of themselves and conducing safe, walkable communities. Of course they’re not perfect, but I don’t see high Jew-crime communities, either. I see these people sticking together and helping each other out instead of envying their own. Why can’t Mexicans get…
Ever since the 1998 bond election when the city got its hands on $246 million in tax money for the Trinity River Project, City Hall has done everything it could to keep the public out of it. Now, thanks entirely to council member Mitchell Rasansky, the lone wolf of the…
They’re thinking of making the Calatrava bridge with PVC pipe. What, they got something against popsicle sticks? Because that looks good to us. I love the The Dallas Morning News story about how the first Calatrava Bridge over the Trinity River downtown is going to cost half as much because…
Dear Mexican, My gabacha friends and I marched in the May pro-amnesty rallies and wanted to show our support on our chests as well as our feet. We wore T-shirts that read, “I only (picture of big, juicy lips) mojados” on the front and “Yo solo (lips) mojados” on the…
All last week the media were doing their year-after-Katrina stories. Whose fault was everything? What have we learned? I’m reading this stuff, and it occurs to me I’m not really interested in group lessons. What have I learned? What do I do, here in Dallas, Texas, next time this rolls…
Did Pat Cotton say she would “bury” or “destroy” Mitchell Rasansky? Or did she just suggest she would rub him gently with oils? Smokin’ up the grapevine today! Lots of hot gossip. Political consultant Pat Cotton says Dallas Morning News politics writer Gromer Jeffers made up a quote by her…
Now, the mayor’s trying to tell us that the Calatrava bridges will stop flooding. Oh, that is such bullshit. Mayor Laura Miller, speaking from Hobby Airport on her way back to Dallas, was on KRLD-AM (1080) just a bit ago talking about the Calatrava bridge. KRLD must be getting calls…
Dear Mexican, I heard that Mexicans at an Orange County, California, candy factory think they saw the Virgin Mary in a pile of melted chocolate. Why do Mexicans always see the Virgin Mary in the stupidest things? –Non-Believer Beaner Dear Wab, It’s not just Mexicans who find the Holy Mother…
Keep saying it to yourself, over and over again: Legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, eye candy, legacy, legacy… In the paper version of Unfair Park hitting stands today, I have a piece about the first of three Santiago Calatrava bridges the city wants to build across the Trinity River. As usual…
WRR used to be play rock music. Now it plays classical music. So we’re told. Good luck with all that. So for once the city council shows some sense. Ecstatic lovers of WRR-FM (101.1) started calling me yesterday afternoon the minute a council committee voted against a proposal to sell…
The flood of names of people offering to leave The Dallas Morning News is numbing. Every update makes me jump out of my chair. The editorial cutbacks over there will change the basic nature of the newspaper forever. I can’t believe some of the people they’re losing. But I’m just…
Dear Mexican, What’s with Mexican-Americans who live in New Mexico claiming they’re Spanish and not Mexican? Many actually get angry and combative if you ask them if they’re Mexican. But if you look at them, they look more Indian than Spanish! Why have so many developed a deep-seated embarrassment of…
Lee Hancock’s recent series in The Dallas Morning News, “Mary Ellen’s Will,” introduced us to Mark McCay. He is a partner in a used furniture store in Deep Ellum called Deco-Dence who went to an old lady’s death bed in order to convince her to sign a new will cutting…
Andrew Young, the former U.N. ambassador, said he doesn’t really dig Jews, Koreans and Arabs who own stores in black neighborhoods. Then he apologized. Good luck with all that. Wilonsky’s piece on South (not “Southern”) Dallas in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park is full of hope and commitment…
Domingo Garcia said 10,000 Latinos registered to vote after April’s mega-march. Uh, not so much. Sorry, my colleagues over in the youth wing at the Dallas Observer may pooh-pooh, but I think Lee Hancock’s series on the Mary Ellen Bendtsen story (old lady on Swiss Avenue exploited by vultures) has…
Dear Mexican, Why do Mexicans forget about great beers like Tecate, Negra Modelo and Bohemia and start drinking swill like Bud Light when they come to the United States? I always remember John Steinbeck’s immortal line–“Ah, Bohemia beer and the Pyramid of the Sun; entire civilizations have created less”–yet if…
The Santiago Calatrava signature suspension bridge across the Trinity drainage channel to Ray’s Sporting Goods–a gun shop–will be put out for new bids soon, City Manager Mary Suhm told me yesterday. That hasn’t been public yet. You read it here first. Last time it was bid, the lowest bid was…
