TABC: Texans Against Booze Chumps
First off: TABC personnel say they are fully committed to maintaining a loose interpretation of Ordinance 49.02 of the Texas Penal Code. ("A person...
A Letter on School Funding
Dear Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst:
Gov. Rick Perry has called the Texas Legislature into special session to begin April 17. And after months of saying...
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Oil Hogs
Willie Nelson, friend of the farmer, pothead, and gay cowboy, has proved yet again he's the coolest guy ever. On April 1, he and...
He Fought the Law, and the Law Waffled
Remember Trevor Goodchild, the young Austin musician who was tasered repeatedly last February for the heinous crime of telling a cop he didn't think...
A New Landmark, Please
Dear XTO Energy,
Hi. You don't know me, but I live in downtown Fort Worth. I'm familiar with you, not through any vast knowledge of...
The TABC and You
Last week, undercover agents for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission went into 36 bars in a Dallas suburb and arrested 30 people for public...
You Got That Right
It so happens that Chow, Baby prefers its seafood po-boys plain. On the right kind of bread (crusty French), the only things that fried...
Highway Patrol
Unfortunately for Chow, Baby's "take any U.S. highway out of town" fallback for finding yummy dining, the stretch of Business Highway 287 that is...
October Skies
Whoever said bar bosses don't work hard should meet October Pennington. She spent years busting her butt at the Poop Deck Lounge, a salty...
Tea Time
A couple of hundred years ago, a bunch of colonists - including some of my ancestors - fought a revolution to win freedom from,...
