Anthony Mariani
Letter from the Editor
I thought we were moving on from this bullshit. Now, we’ve got four more years of it. Four more years of fear, anxiety, anger,...
Script Censorship?
At pretty much any other 817 school district, students and parents, and their friends and supporters, might show some grace to trustees greenlighting theatrical...
Sign-Stealing Socrates Strikes
Several political yard signs in the Ridglea area were stolen and replaced with copies of a wild philosophical screed typed and printed out, placed...
Welcome to Best Of 2024
“Best Of”s and listicles are everywhere these days, but remember our Best Of dates back to 1996. You can reasonably say our institutional knowledge...
Anti-Rainbow Coalition
An embattled metaphysical shop on the North Side is under attack again.
A far-right North Texas coalition plans to “peacefully” march outside 3-year-old Higher Purpose...
Buck U: Perspective
Deep breaths, everyone. After last week’s 21-point collapse while hosting UCF, the stage was set for a bounce-back game against cross-town little brother SMU,...
Follow the Leader
When the mostly Hispanic cheerleaders from the mostly Hispanic North Side High School went to shake hands with the Arlington Heights High cheer squad...
Fantasy Life
As soon as I saw her, I LOL’d. A cigarette dangling precariously from the side of her mouth, her tangled strawberry-blonde hair matted against...
Fall Gallery Night
Before the lockdown, Fall and Spring Gallery Nights raged. Local exhibition spaces invited the community into their art-filled embrace, and we responded by tippling...
Quiet Resistance
Just when your average rational person couldn’t respect and admire public school teachers any more, there’s a new alleged “gotcha” video that only reveals...