This year’s Best of Dallas sports section kicks off with a story on the Dallas Desire, our local squad in the new Lingerie Football League. Its first season began a few weeks ago, and the Desire played their first home game at QuikTrip park last Friday night (yes, we’ve got…
Stays in Comes all the way back to Dallas. I didn’t wake up with a tooth missing or a tiger in my hotel bathroom. But only one – that’s right, one – of the following did not happen during my 4-day excursion to Las Vegas. Venture a guess?…
Dear Mexican: In Garfield strips in the funny pages that appeared earlier this year, Garfield is wearing a sombrero and taking siestas. While cute and all, isn’t that the sort of thing that we have been striving to stop? What was Jim Davis thinking? Maybe he needs a refresher course…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Just because I’m off to Vega$, I won’t deprive you guys of the only two things you really appreciate on this blog …..
Dallas pot-stirrer, education activist and computer inventor Russell Fish — the subject of a Dallas Observer cover story a couple years ago — is making trouble Down Under. One of Fish’s many diverse and unpredictable hats is as an activist on sexual predation issues, apparently on a world-wide basis. Fish…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope of merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Heard The Ticket was making a patented “major announcement” today. First reaction: It’s moving Dallas Stars night games to a better signal, likely Cumulus brethren 93.3 FM or even 570 AM. But…
This morning, I think I saw the first little indicator of how the city plans to deal with these lean times. I’m coming back up my street from walking my dog, and I see a little natural-gas-powered city car with a Public Works logo on the side stopped with the…
See that? Over there. To your right? That’s not the money you could be saving with GEICO. It’s the money you lost last year betting with Richie Whitt. But, alas, in the spirit of persistence, stubborness and doubling down, we’re back at it again in 2009. I owe it to…
We gabachos get differing reports regarding the Reconquista. Some say it’s a genuine movement, well under way. Others claim it’ll never happen, but that it’s useful as a slogan that both antagonizes white America and energizes young Mexicans. Let’s say for now that it’s a genuine movement destined for success…
Rudy Bush has a story in this morning’s Dallas Morning News attempting, thank goodness, to do the reporting that Bruce Tomaso did not do yesterday in his blog item about flooding and the proposed Trinity River toll road. Bush has accepted our suggestion on Unfair Park yesterday that The News…
I had other work to do this morning, but Robert was right: I couldn’t stay away from Old Man River. A bit after noon I ventured down to the site of the Calatrava suspension bridge construction site to see how the high water of the last 48 hours is affecting…
Yesterday, in a pitch of live-blogging fever at the Dallas City hall corruption trial, I penned a little missive — as a sort of aside, really — about a certain sick symbiosis in Dallas politics between rich white arts mavens and sell-out minority politicians. Between my wife and Sandra Crenshaw,…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *As for August’s PPM radio ratings – surprise! – 1310 AM The Ticket continues to dominate. Among men 25-54, The Ticket remains No. 1 in the market leading every hour from 6 a.m…
See that? Over there. To your right? That’s not the money you could be saving with GEICO. It’s the money you lost last year betting with Richie Whitt. But, alas, in the spirit of persistence, stubborness and doubling down, we’re back at it again in 2009. I owe it to…
Judge Barbara Lynn, Ms. Punctuality, is 15 minutes late getting the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial started at the Earle Cabell this morning. Usually she keeps the jury informed about every little blip in court procedure, but today she sits down and fires up the day’s proceedings without a…
Why do Mexicans make the sign of mucho dinero with a gap between their thumb and index fingers, as if holding an imaginary wad of bills between both fingers? —El Zorro Chupagringos Dear Gabacho-Sucking Fox: Because if a pendejo like you can get the gesture, imagine us normal folks? Why…
Regardless of how far to the right – or left – you lean, do yourself a favor this morning before you drop off the kids at school – or make them stay home. Read President Obama’s speech to students scheduled for this morning. Every word of it. I did. If…
Tickets sold to Saturday night’s SMU opener at Ford Stadium: 34,749, a reported sellout. Actual attendance, however, wasn’t 34,749. But SMU actually beat Stephen F. Austin, so … Pony Up? In other college football news …..
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *93.3 FM – the station formerly known as The Zone, The Bone, Quality Rock and who knows what all else – has for the last day or so been “stunting.” That is,…
Look at the sequence of events: In early August, Carol Reed, a city council lobbyist and the top political consultant to Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, is mentioned in the ongoing Dallas City Hall corruption trial because she advised a client to keep giving private business contracts to a city council…
I am a 22-year-old Mexican-American woman, still living with my parents but going to college, working full-time and taking care of myself financially. I grew up in a very traditional Mexican household, youngest of four kids, and we were all born in the United States. I’m unmarried but with a steady boyfriend I have been…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Okay, let me snap off this Olive branch and extend it to the Christians this week. Peace? *Props to 103.3 FM ESPN Radio’s Randy Galloway for landing the first in-depth interview…
