Dallas

We Knew It Was the Cubans All Along

Playbill: The Von Ehrics

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

Pullem’ Up? Sometimes Dallas Makes It Way Too Easy

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

This Just In: Radioheaded This Way

Why Does Ike Hate the Cougars?

The Downtown Open/Closed List

Houston Pavilions Almost Ready For its Close-Up

High-Tech Look At Ike Devastation

We Get Ike, Dallas Gets A Minor Earthquake

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 v ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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. ... More >>

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 Hous ... More >>

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, ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 monke ... More >>

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 t ... More >>

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 mes ... More >>

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 an ... More >>

The Smokin' Joe Kubek Band with Bnois King

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 an ... More >>

“Immigrant Entrepreneurs”

Paul Greenberg explores the double lives of American Dream Achievers

Rock Box hosts The Party

DJs Sober and Select offer up at least one reason Dallas doesn’t suck

The Valentines

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

School's Out

Dallas outshines Houston when one magazine rates education

The Tits Are All Right

Our queer Nightfly agent gets in a little over his head

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 ... More >>

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 w ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 o ... More >>

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 Fo ... More >>

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 Int ... More >>

Red Blooded Fans

Win or lose, the mood is always congenial in U of H watering hole The Den.

The Agony of the Cobnoggins

​Overconsumption of roasted corn, or elote con crema, is believed to be responsible for a disformity of the cranium known as cornhead. The condition, which is mainly confined to the cornbelt state of Nebraska, can also cause delusions that lead the afflicted to believe they can beat the Texas ... More >>

Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs

Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Hungry In Houston: A newcomer to the local food blog scene, this husband-and-wi ... More >>

Big Blaze Hits Dallas' Lower Greenville Strip

Photo by Jim Schutze​The Lower Greenville Avenue portion of Dallas is one of the city's more enjoyable areas (Caveat: We haven't been there in a while; maybe it's become Douchebag/Yuppie Central.) (And yes, we know the response to that is "Well, it is in Dallas.") A four-alarm fire engulfed a chu ... More >>

Dirty & Nasty Breaks Down Erykah Badu's "Window Seat" Video... The Naked One

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place -lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good- so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Have something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email it to introducingliston@ ... More >>

Food Fight: Battle Blue Corn Chip

​I love blue corn tortilla chips. I admit, I like them better than yellow corn, at least when it comes to buying for home--perhaps because hot and greasy restaurant chips are so hard to replicate at home, and they're almost always of the yellow corn variety--so I keep the realms separate, not ... More >>

Google Book Gizmo: Who's Been Mentioned More In Books, Dallas Or Houston?

So many phrases to compare​Google has a new gizmo that lets you compare how often two words have shown up among the 500 billion words contained in its database of centuries of books. Like, say, how often "Rolling Stones" are mentioned, as opposed to "Beatles." Or, say, "fisting" vs. "kissing ... More >>

Match.com Full Of Lousy Listings, Lawsuit Claims

Beware of these listings, a lawsuit says​A suit in Dallas federal court claims online dating site Match.com rips off subscribers by filling its listings with expired accounts and scammers and gives dudes an exaggerated perception of how many women are available. "Match falsely advertis[ed] th ... More >>

Super Bowl XLV -- At Least It Was A Good Game

This means sonething different when Ben Roethlisberger does it​Okay, so now we can put the whole Brett Favre/Aaron Rodgers thing to bed, right? While Aaron Rodgers still has a ton of work to do to build the overall resume of the Ol' Dongslinger, yesterday's win over the Steelers, and just as ... More >>

John Wiley Price: Why Can't Harris County Commissioners Court Meetings Be Like This?

John Wiley Price is a legendary Dallas pol, a county commissioner who lives to stir up the shit. His latest escapade has become a YouTube hit, as he dismisses critics at a commissioners court meeting by noting that they were "all white." And, apparently, one of them was fat. Here's the take from o ... More >>

Sneak Peek at Blue Fish (No, the Other Blue Fish)

​I have to wonder if, when Dallas-based Blue Fish set its sights on Houston, they realized that there was already two restaurants here with the same name. Not just any restaurants, but fellow sushi restaurants -- and fairly popular ones at that. Confusion is bound to play out for the rest of t ... More >>

When Houston vs. Dallas Didn't Mean Texans vs. Cowboys

​Our sister blog in Dallas, Unfair Park, got pointed to the latest installment of Uni Watch, the blog by Paul Lukas, who has long obsessed over old sports uniforms. It dealt mostly with the old Dallas Texans of the AFL, but did feature the above program for a Dallas-Houston game. Another one ... More >>

Comment of the Day: My Sweet Lord, George Harrison Liked What?

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

bull-jeans stories

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>