Tag Archives: Dallas

Tom Miller : Stoney Burns Was Dallas’ Underground Iconoclast

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Remembering Stoney Burns:Dallas’ underground iconoclast He lived up to his image: longish brillo hair, loads of dope, young cuties by his side, and a great appetite for outrage and graphic explosion. By Tom Miller / The Rag Blog / May … Continue reading →

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Thorne Dreyer / James McEnteer : Dallas Underground Icon Stoney Burns Dead at 68

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Stoney Burns is arrested by Dallas Police officers at Lee Park on April 12, 1970, after what The Dallas Morning News called “a clash between law officers and young people” that “occurred when police tried to arrest several hippie-types” at … Continue reading →

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Gregg Barrios : The Risqué Business of Texas’ Most Famous Stripper

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

In the late ’50s, Candy Barr was the toast of the Dallas burlesque circuit.Risqué Business:The complicated life of Candy Barr,Texas’ most famous stripper By Gregg Barrios / The Texas Observer / January 21, 2011 How times have changed. These days, … Continue reading →

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Medea Benjamin : Death Marchers Haunt New Bush Library Digs

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Demonstrators from March of the Dead protest in front of Dallas SWAT officers during groundbreaking at new George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU, Nov. 16, 2010. Photo by G.J. McCarthy / AP.Breaking new ground:Protests at the future siteof the … Continue reading →

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Mariann G. Wizard : Dallas Activists Honor Marilyn Buck

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Poster of Marilyn Buck on wall in San Francisco. Photo from Interchange.Black August tribute:Marilyn Buck honored byNew generation of Dallas activists By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2010 See ‘Black August’ by Marilyn Buck, Below. … Continue reading →

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Greg Moses : A Conversation With Saad Nabeel

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from Dallas Morning News / Facebook.A Conversation with Saad Nabeel: ‘While Everyone Goes to College, I Go to Jail’ or How Saad Nabeel became an All-American Kid, majored in Electrical Engineering, was Thrown into Jail by the USA, deported … Continue reading →

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Greg Moses : Deporting Texas Student Was Big Mistake

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Saad Nabeel. Photo by Shehab Uddin / Der Spiegel.What the Times forgot to mention:Story of deported Texas studentAwaits President in Dallas By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / August 9, 2010 While the New York Times Monday morning proclaims … Continue reading →

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David P. Hamilton : Where’s Our Sense of History?

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Rocamadour, a historic village in the Dordogne region of France. Photo from Les Bau-Tremblay en voyage website.A sense of history:We don’t have it. France does. By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / June 9, 2010 “Living in France … Continue reading →

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Paul Baker : Giant of Texas Theater Dies at 98

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Paul Baker in front of Dallas Theater Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1960. Photo by Eliot Elisofon / Life Images.Giant of Texas theater Paul Baker:Director, educator, firebrand dies at 98 See ‘Paul Baker at Baylor: A student remembers,’ by … Continue reading →

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Banking : Independence and the Texas Patels

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

A rupee saved is a rupee earned. In contrast to the frozen giants of global finance who drag us every day down closer to the next bottom… the Texas Patels are moving their Dallas banking enterprise into competition with billion-dollar … Continue reading →

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Cindy Sheehan : The ‘Myths of the Robber Class’

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Rag Bloggers meet with Cindy Sheehan, June 11, 2009. From left, Former Camp Casey organizer Patrice Schexnayder, The Rag Blog’s Jim Retherford and Alice Embree, Cindy Sheehan, Rag Blog co-editor Thorne Dreyer and correspondent David MacBryde, and Chris Hargreaves of … Continue reading →

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What’s in a Name? ‘César Chávez Blvd’ and Dallas’ Own Border Fence

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Supporters of renaming a Dallas street for César Chávez crowd a City Planning Commission meeting at Dallas City Hall.Dallas: Latino Heroes Need Not Apply right-wing, anti-immigrant forces… dig in their heels and draw their own border fence to block Latino … Continue reading →

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