Subject: Dallas

• We Knew It Was the Cubans All Along

  February 19, 2007

• Playbill: The Von Ehrics

  January 25, 2007

• Still the Best at Being the Worst: Four Texans Honored in Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

  August 24, 2007

• Pullem’ Up? Sometimes Dallas Makes It Way Too Easy

  October 24, 2007

• Jason’s Friedman’s NFL Picks, Week 13: Packing It Up Early

  November 29, 2007

• This Just In: Radioheaded This Way

  January 9, 2008

• Why Does Ike Hate the Cougars?

  September 10, 2008

• The Downtown Open/Closed List

  September 15, 2008

• Houston Pavilions Almost Ready For its Close-Up

  October 9, 2008

• High-Tech Look At Ike Devastation

  October 22, 2008

• We Get Ike, Dallas Gets A Minor Earthquake

  October 31, 2008

• Texas' Mess Of A Democratic Primary System May Be Changing

  The Democratic Party of Texas caught some grief this year for its strange method of choosing delegates to the national convention, an odd and confusing hybrid of a primary and a caucus. The system ended up favoring urban, liberal parts of the state this year -- Hillary Clinton won the popular vote statewide, but when it came time to awarding delegates Barack Obama got more. There's a move on to change the system, and it looks like Houstonians will get a chance to be heard.

  November 18, 2008

• Duran Duran Still On... for Now

  Although Duran Duran drummer Roger Taylor is battling a pernicious ear infection that makes travel impossible, forcing the '80s icons to cancel last night's show in San Antonio and tonight's in Dallas, the band's publicist says Friday's show at Verizon Wireless Theater is still on. For now, that is. Stay tuned to Rocks Off for any changes. Tickets are still available through the venue or Ticketmaster. - Chris Gray  

  December 2, 2008

• State Reps Finally Get A Luxurious Members Lounge Worthy Of Them

  Sure, the economy is tanking, the state is facing a big deficit, government agencies will likely be asked to slash their budgets -- but at least the Texas House of Representatives has got a nice new lounge.State officials unveiled the new members-only lounge to the media today, and Associated Press writer Jay Root tries to say as much as he can about the experience without losing that famous AP objectivity."Among the expenditures listed," he writes, "are the two brass chandeliers at $14,500 each

  December 8, 2008

• Houston's Infrastructure Wish List Is Half Of Dallas's

  With the holidays approaching, mayors across the country have published their equivalent of letters to Santa, and all they want for Christmas is a total of $73 billion in federal funding for municipal projects they say could kick-start job growth.The U.S. Conference of Mayors released this week the results of a 427-city survey asking what improvement projects each city had on its plate that could use some government cheese. The stipulation is each of the projects needs to be undertaken immediate

  December 11, 2008

• Dominique Sachse, The Ball's In Your Court

  We were nosing around the blog of our sister paper the Dallas Observer and saw this item about a local newswoman's interview with George W. Bush.In reading the comments to it, we learned that the blogs of the local television newspeople in Dallas are a helluva different in Dallas than they are here.We get Isiah Carey throwing around exclamation points like they were Christmas cookies; they get Jane McGarry talking about how much she shaves her pubic hair.Stay classy, Dallas!!McGarry has been wit

  January 13, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Envy, You're Up

  Best In Texas music magazine can breathe a sigh of relief this month. We've found a new publication of supreme arrogance and ineptitude to ponder and dissect. Other than pedophiles, no group of people pisses Lonesome Onry & Mean off more than Elitist Pricks. Dallas is full of them -- not that Houston doesn't have its share. Nothing in recent memory screams "elitist pricks" like the vapid December issue of Envy magazine LOM found lying next to the Press at his favorite watering hole. Before t

  December 18, 2008

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Macon Greyson Puts the Moves on The Wrestler

  The Press has touted Dallas rock band Macon Greyson numerous times. Music Editor Chris Gray had its 20th Century Accidents as one of his top albums of 2007. National mags like No Depression, Paste and Amplifier have all raved about the band while our sister paper in Dallas, the Observer, has studiously ignored MG for whatever hipster reasons that operate in Dallas. Go figure. Anyway, not to say we told you so - well, maybe a little - but Macon Greyson, who play fairly often at Goode

  January 15, 2009

• Two Men Jump Out of the Way as Shards of Glass Rain Down From Houston Office Building

  Photo By Melanie Pang We don't like the look of that dangling granite, eitherJust after 1 p.m. as the lunch crowd was making its way out of downtown restaurants and back to their office cubicles, the general peace was disturbed by one of those true OMG moments.The wind was gusting pretty high when two guys sort of ran sideways on the sidewalk and glass from an office window at the corner of Louisiana and Dallas came crashing down. No one was hurt, but clearly it could have been lethal.It

  January 27, 2009

• The Sweet Smell Of Condenscension, From Harvard Via Dallas

  There's some sort of school up north called Harvard, or something like that (we guess it's like Rice), and it has some sort of business school.Now apparently when you get a degree from that there Harvard business school, you can pretty much pick and choose what city you want to work in. (Or, as they no doubt put it at Harvard, "pick and choose the city in which you wish to work.")Their guide for Texas is clear: Go to Dallas, young Harvardian. Or maybe Austin. Avoid Houston. The best part about D

  February 2, 2009

• Viet-Tex-Mex: Fried Avocado Lettuce Wraps

  "Fried Avocado Lettuce Wraps" is the name of popular new appetizer on the menu of Matt's Rancho Martinez in Dallas. Invented by fourth-generation Tex-Mex chef Marco Martinez, the dish features chicken-fried avocado slices served with Vietnamese-style lettuce wraps and condiments along with a monkey bowl of ranch dressing for dipping. "Why not?" Marco Martinez said. Everybody loves the lettuce wraps served in Texas Vietnamese restaurants, he observed, so why not put the popular lettuce tacos o

  February 18, 2009

• It's Knoll Design Day In Dallas, Home To The World's Most Famous Knoll

  Photo by Stephen WitherdenPress release headlines that maybe should have been rethought: "Mayor of Dallas, Tom Leppert, Declares March 5th Knoll Design Day."In Dallas? Would that be a grassy knoll you're talking about?"OK, Dallasites, we are looking for your best knoll designs!! Where to hide that third shooter? Where should all those Cubans go? March 5th is your day to decide!!"Of course, in strict terms of president-killing effectiveness, the current and past design of the knoll has proven to

  March 5, 2009

• State Rep Wants To Break Up Houston & Dallas School Districts

  Everyone knows the Houston school district has some problems -- it's an urban school district, after all.But it's got nothing on the problems going on in Dallas. Investigations, a budget shortfall, vicious and public fighting between board members, parent groups, administration officials, it's a mess.So one Dallas state rep wants to dismantle it. The problem is, her bill would also dismantle Houston ISD.Yvonne Davis, a Democrat from Dallas, has had enough of the hijinks in DISD. She's filed a bi

  March 17, 2009

• The Cop Who Hassled Ryan Moats Speaks Out, Softly

  We've heard from Texans running back Ryan Moats on his experience with the Dallas cop who hassled him as he was trying to reach his dying mother-in-law, and now we've heard from the cop.KTVT in Dallas got an exclusive interview with Robert Powell.It starts off with a question that makes you wince and imagine a series of puffballs on the way: "Whats it like to be a person who is the most hated person in Dallas if not beyond?" (Powell answers, "It has been difficult -- we're worried about our two

  April 1, 2009

• Waldhauser Surrenders

  September 30, 1999

• Charlaine Harris

  The author of Living Dead in Dallas comes to Houston, where the living ain’t dead (at least not that we know of)

  January 1, 2009

• Dallas Domination

  The Metroplex schools Houston when it comes to the indie scene

  November 22, 2001

• The Smokin' Joe Kubek Band with Bnois King

  September 18, 2008

• “Immigrant Entrepreneurs”

  May 29, 2008

• Old 97's

  Drag It Up (New West)

  August 5, 2004

• Rock Box hosts The Party

  December 20, 2007

• Dallas

  CAMH invites you to relive your parents’ favorite drama

  October 4, 2007

• The Valentines

  The Valentines perform Saturday, May 19, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh, 713-521-0521.

  May 17, 2007

• Screw October

  June 1, 2006

• School's Out

  Dallas outshines Houston when one magazine rates education

  May 11, 2006

• The Tits Are All Right

  Our queer Nightfly agent gets in a little over his head

  April 6, 2006

• Cruiserweight, with the Letters Organize, My Epiphany and Blackout Pact

  Sunday, July 17, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-863-1875.

  July 14, 2005

• Best Wings

  September 23, 2004

• Best Way to Break In to the Big Time

  Strake Jesuit joining the UIL

  September 25, 2003

• Best Adult Videos

  Friendly Mart

  September 26, 2002

• Ben Kweller, with My Morning Jacket and Little T & One Track Mike

  Tuesday, July 16

  July 11, 2002

• Chain for Fools

  Houston versus Dallas: We're family-run; they're chained up.

  September 27, 2001

• Wandering Son

  Carlton Pride, son of Charley, opted not to take any country roads

  February 1, 2001

• Amplified

  Local Music News

  July 15, 1999

• Texas Traveler: Must-Do Dallas

  ​So maybe, like Texas Traveler, you're exiled to Dallas for a business conference, or an extra-long layover at DFW airport, or relocated for work and have no idea how to pass the time. Well, Texas Traveler has a few ideas, some off the beaten path, and some right smack square in the middle of it.6. Deep Ellum Deep Ellum is but a shadow of the often-interesting, sometimes frightening neighborhood it used to be, but it's still worth a visit if only to grab lunch and check out some of the histori

  August 11, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Macon Greyson Pushes Strings, Strings Push Back

  Starr Hayward​ Macon Greyson, the Dallas band our sister paper up north loved to ignore until it landed a song in The Wrestler, has just emerged from the studio with a four-song EP titled This Machine Kills Hypocrisy. Unlike last year's Twentieth Century Accidents, the new tracks are a return to working with producer Eric Herbst and sound, well, exactly like Macon Greyson live: a solid, pounding rhythm section, smoking Southern-rock guitar licks and Buddy Huffman's smartest-guy-in-the-room lyr

  August 24, 2009

• The British Isles: Texas Haggis

  Photo by Robb Walsh​In photos, canned haggis looks alarmingly like dog food. It is traditionally eaten as part of a full Scottish breakfast or as an entrée on a bed of mashed rutabagas and potatoes, which go by the cutesy names of "neeps and tatties" in Scotland. I bought a can of Caledonian Haggis at the Rice Village store called the British Isles the other day. I'll file a full report on the flavor as soon as I get hooked up with some neeps and tatties. I had stopped by British Isles

  August 24, 2009

• Dear Sir: Your Criticism Of The Texans Proves You Are A Male Homosexual

  ​Our cover story this week is on the Houston Texans, and their seemingly unquenchable urge to toy with the hearts of local football fans. Alas, we could not bring ourselves to feel optimistic about the coming season, and presented a history of the team to demonstrate why. Instead, according to one astute observer, we merely demonstrated that we are a homosexual. We won't print the guy's name, because we haven't had a chance to see if it's not a case of someone trying to make the guy look li

  August 31, 2009

• Houston Companies Don't Do Too Badly In Survey Of Gay-Friendly Workplaces

  ​The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has issued its latest rankings of how businesses treat their gay and lesbian employees, and things look a little better than last year.The report gave 305 businesses a top score of 100 this year; that's an increase from last year's 260. Eleven of the top 20 Forbes-ranked companies got perfect scores. (Not ExxonMobil, which has such a nice large building here and has yet to adopt the gay-friendly benefits policy that Mobil had.)How'd Houston do?Trevor Thoma

  September 11, 2009

• Coma White: A Sampling of Songs About the JFK Assassination

  Craig HlavatyDealey Plaza in downtown Dallas​ Warning: Some of these videos contain very graphic images. Anyone who knows Rocks Off, even in passing, knows of his fierce JFK assassination obsession. The theories, the scientific data, the literature and the various opinions shooting through the Internet with a lightning-fast velocity are all like catnip to us. We even make the trek up to godforsaken Dallas every year to visit the Grassy Knoll and throw down our own conspiracy theories about JFK

  November 20, 2009