What timing. Just as the trial of Texas' voter ID law kicks off in D.C., a new analysis by the Associated Press has found that such laws in other states have led to hundreds of ballots being rejected, both in 2008's general election and in the primaries this year. The...
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Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they're peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we're ranking Dallas' food trucks to sort out which trucks are worth chasing around town and which may be headed for a blow out...
See also, from Unfair Park: *Meatless Mondays at USDA Out-and-Out "Treason," Ag Commish Staples Says An internal USDA Newsletter has some Republican tweeps in an uproar. On July 23, the USDA posted a five-page newsletter for employees, offering tips and status updates on "greening efforts" including cool roofing systems, recycling...
Updated to include an additional interview. A Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial published this weekend concludes that Tarrant County has not exonerated nearly as many innocent prisoners as Dallas County simply because it did not wrongfully incarcerate them in the first place. This black-and-white view is too simple for what's become...
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Rita’s Italian Ice Ice Baby
Friday morning's horrific shooting in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater moved a number of Texas politicians to tweet, Facebook and press-release their condolences. 1st District U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert got some extra attention -- and is now claiming his remarks were taken "grossly out of context" -- when he appeared...
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Village Voice Film Critic Karina Longworth is out at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Tom Hanks is possibly playing all the characters. Karina will be along each day on The Mixmaster with news, reviews and updates from Canada. This is a blog post about two movies that were screened...
"I have always been against this idea of the 'clash of cultures,'" Marjane Satrapi says. "It's the biggest piece of bullshit I've ever heard." That's apparent from her films and graphic novels, which bridge worlds. Born in Iran, Satrapi emigrated to Europe with her family when she was a teenager...
Last May, Texas joined the growing roster of states with a voter ID law requiring those seeking to exercise their most fundamental civic duty to present a state-issued ID before casting a ballot. Like a driver's license or, this being Texas, a concealed handgun permit. And that was that, at...
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Dial M for Mena
This was all supposed to be wrapped up months ago. The City Council formed the Gas Drilling Task Force more than a year ago, which was initially scheduled to wrap things up and have a final recommendation by November. A handful of issues -- proper setbacks, whether to allow drilling...
What do you get if you mix rainbows and sprinkles, unicorns and starbursts, with a little country-and-western Texas realism? Well, Jennifer Moreman is the woman to ask. Now living in Tyler, Moreman grew up in Dallas, where she graduated from Trinity Christian Academy before taking a BFA from Baylor. She...
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Last week, Gregory London got his job back. The Precinct 1 deputy constable had been fired in 2011 along with 16 of his peers after a county audit of the constabulary's GPS units concluded that the officers had lied about their whereabouts, saying they were serving, say, an eviction notice...
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10 Top Acts With Dual Drummers
Laurel Halo recently finished touring Europe. While overseas, she learned how to say the equivalent of "Party hard!," the motto of fellow Ann Arborian Andrew W.K., in Russian, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese. Since returning home, she's forgotten how to say it. And despite not having a quantitative way to measure...
Michael Morton skyrocketed into national headlines last year when he was exonerated of his wife's murder after 25 years in prison. A bloody bandana found near the crime scene was a key to Morton's release when DNA testing implicated another man. The Observer included his case in a recent article...
When Debbie Jones saw her mother, she knew the news was bad. For weeks, Jones had been waiting to hear from the Dallas County District Attorney's Office about the results of a DNA test. Now, on a sunny April morning in 2008, one of the DA's investigators, Jim Hammond, had...
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Urban Rio’s Next-Mex
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A while back, DART announced it was considering fare changes that will, assuming they are adopted, will go into effect on December 3. The proposal would do several things. It would streamline the fare structure and introduce variable pricing for peak- and non-peak hours, but for most riders, it will...
Our record-busting summer 2011 continues to be an object of fascination to climate scientists all over the world. Alongside floods in Thailand, drought in Eastern Africa and the European heat wave, the driest, hottest year in recorded Texas history has provided a case study for gauging the influence of climate...
See also: Vinyl Fantasy's Nathan Johnson on Sunn O))), Carly Rae Jepsen See also: Dennis Gonzalez on Ramón Ayala We've started poking around in locals' iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don't even care...
So on the radio this morning I hear all about the spike in West Nile deaths in Dallas and how the county health department will be on the job tonight protecting us by sending the pesticide trucks through three more neighborhoods, this time in North Dallas. I just hope we...