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…
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…
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…
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…
Dear Mexican: I am a butt-white Irish guy, happily married to a beautiful Chicana. Her familia is from a gorgeous rancho deep in the corazón of Zacatecas, and I’ve been wanting to experience all of the ranchero lifestyle I keep hearing about from my acquired familia mexicanos. However, our State…
Robert Abtahi, a lawyer who ran unsuccessfully for the District 14 City Council seat in East Dallas last time around, had an interesting essay last week on the opinion pages of The Dallas Morning News. He castigated critics of City Hall, whom he lumped together as a new and burgeoning…
Sometimes, as the song says, you want to go where everybody knows your name. But in the spirit of disrupting cliché, perhaps you could take the opportunity to tread on new paths, to a place where you may not know everyone’s name, but before it is all said and done…
It’s now been over four years of gathering dirt and data in Local Music ‘Mericans Q&As, and we figured it was high time to give you a fun retrospective of some quotes from some of the more recurring questions we’ve asked our local music luminaries in the column. Mainly…… What’s…
Yikes. My Invasion of the Body Snatchers dreams are back. Need to stock up on Benadryl. But, wait: did you notice a story in The Dallas Morning News a couple weeks ago saying barely half of Dallas school system employees think the school district is headed in the right direction…
I am sick and tired of my kid being so lazy. He’s lived under my roof his whole life, eating my food, leaving his crap all over the house expecting me to pick up after him without ever once saying “thanks.” It’s like, dude, you’re 7 months old. Grow. Up…
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. Perhaps you do not know this because you do not follow weather trends of the Southeastern United…
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…
CORRECTION: This item is wrong. The city did respond to my request for information. I did not see their response. I sent my initial request on December 4, 2013. The city did not respond within the 10 day time limit set by state law, but on December 26 a city…
Thomas ClaveiroleRecently, I stopped drinking alcohol for a few weeks due to a severe case of “turning into a tremendously fat man.” As a result, I’ve been compensating by drinking cold press coffee — a dark, sludgy substance that resembles the loneliness of space. It makes me feel like my…
With the passage of a few days, my take on the election of A.C. Gonzalez as the new Dallas city manager has come into sharper focus. I have a column in this week’s paper saying he was the wrong choice, and I’m sticking by that. But maybe I was a…
Bobby Abtahi, the guy who ran against Philip Kingston for the District 14 city council seat in East Dallas last time around, had an essay yesterday on the opinion pages of The Dallas Morning News castigating critics of City Hall. He lumped us all together as a new and burgeoning…
School of Rock’s Mollie Reyes is quite the character. She’s animated, never taking life too seriously, but she’s in a new position for the school that can be easily filed under high-pressure: one that wedges her in between the parents of suburbia and the youngsters of the metroplex who are…
Here in the city where Republican swiftboating was invented, we have good reason to wonder what’s really at the heart of it. In 2004 when the character assassins went after John Kerry, I assumed their motivation was straight-up cynicism. Muddy him up so Bush will look better. But this new…
