Look carefully at an old family snapshot. Does the image in your hand match the one held in your memory? Are details and vividness missing from you mind or from the photo? Has the moment the photo captured faded from memory, or does it come flooding back with smells, sounds,…
Merry, merry, merry: OK, Santa, cancel the pony. We’ve already received the bestest present any Dallas newsguy could desire: Betty Culbreath is running against her former mentor, County Commissioner John Wiley Price, in the Democratic primary. Just typing those words made us pee a little. From the happiness, you know?…
Dear Santa, Well, once again I’ve been a fairly rotten boy, but I hope you can overlook that and make with a gift that will help improve my soiled moral character. You see, Nick — Can I call you Nick? — I need a new brain, one never exposed to…
Boom shaka-laka: Occupy Dallas called for a general “strike” by wage earners this week. We’re not sure which day, because, you know, it’s a fluid movement (in more ways than one). Whichever day it was, none of us were supposed to shop or show up at work. Ooh, better lay…
Microcosmic world: Buzz recently received an email from the president of the homeowners association of our condominium, ordering all residents to remove personal property — door wreaths, potted plants, holiday displays, everything — from the building common areas. (There’s actually a point to this anecdote. Stay with us.) Some residents…
Trust them: Jim Schutze took the week off from his Trinity “Oh, shit, here comes the water” beat this week, but our river problems keep rolling, so it’s up to Buzz to fill Schutze’s Wellies. Last week, Schutze got his hands on some internal documents from the local office of…
Love and its assorted baggage get a musical unpacking in It’s Only Life, a musical revue of songs by John Bucchino, creator of the scores for Urban Myths, Lavender Girl and A Catered Affair, among others. Talky, self-critical, urban singles dealing with love’s foibles are the threads running through the…
What if it were possible to pass through a portal in time, travel back to November 22, 1963, and prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Would you be willing to face the big bouffants, the racism, sexism, homophobia and cheesy fashion sense of the early ’60s to stop…
Just because you’re paranoid: We may never know the real reason Lisa Chambers was canned by Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins after serving just 15 months as the county’s director of homeland security and emergency management. Chambers says her firing last week came because she pointed out “irregularities” in the…
Ah, the big, fancy wedding. At least half the guests (the male half) would rather be somewhere else. The bride is exhausted. The groom is either hung over or just generally looking pole-axed. The lines for food and the bar are long. The clothes are uncomfortable. How is so much…
Why zombies? Why are the undead shuffling atop a wave of popularity, as opposed to those angst-ridden, broody vampires whose moment in the sun — or moon — has been eclipsed by sartorially challenged zombie folk? Is that some sort of commentary on where America’s head is at in these…
Welcome to sunny Greece: The very week that Governor Rick Perry, campaigning for president in South Carolina, announced his plan to overhaul the federal tax system, an ugly report emerged on the condition of the 50 states’ finances, which are awful — even in the miracle land of Texas. Perry…
No, no, no. Not that Angelina Jolie flick from 2008. That’s just Changeling, and while Jolie’s huge, puffy lips are kinda creepy, they can’t hold a candle to 1980’s The Changeling, the moody, haunted house spooker starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere and Melvyn Douglas. OK, you kids, stop…
Fat, rested, ready: Buzz is back after a week’s vacation spent camping out on Wall Street, fueling the fires of progressive revolution as we take back America from the crony capitalists and amoral fat … Naaah. Just foolin’. We spent the week in New England, eating large quantities of fatty…
Really? There are still kids today who would enjoy posing in a version of Cinderella’s magically transformed carriage? Thought they’d all be busy killing things in Gears of War 3. Amazing what we don’t know about children (damn restraining order). If your little princess — or prince, we’re not judging…
Block the vote: Listen up, fellow white people. Buzz knows that the election of a black president has ushered in a giddy era for many of us. White people have been able to get away with stuff we wouldn’t have dared in pre-Obama days: that whole birther thing, the secret…
One day, the light bulb comes on above your head. You have a great idea for … something, anything. Cargo pants, maybe. Or sliced bread. The world needs your innovation, but how do you let the planet know about it? A dozen contestants at the TEDxSMU speaker auditions taking place…
Terrible thing to waste: So that’s it, then. Governor Rick Perry’s run for the GOP presidential nomination is done, o-vah, dust in the wind. One inarticulate response in a debate watched by precisely 172 people in which he muffed a chance to call Mitt Romney a flip-flopper again, plus a…
Just kidding: Wrapped around this issue is our 2011 Best of Dallas® edition, in which we take a lighthearted look at predictions that the end of the world is near. Man, we hope those jokes don’t come back to bite us in the ass. We say this because Texas AgriLife…
Go with the flow: How about that? City council member Carolyn Davis said something Buzz agrees with. Either it’s time our doc adjusted our meds, or Davis actually made sense at a recent hearing on “waste flow control” when she said: “[Trash has] been going there for 50 years and…
So the Morning News on Wednesday reported on a battle brewing in Plano ISD over attendance boundaries between Plano West and Plano East senior high schools. Pretty dry stuff, unless you’re a parent who gives a shit, so you likely missed this nugget from the story: Along with some others,…
Fair warning: So what is it about Big Tex? Is he the devil, or are we just dumb? How does that tall, black-haired State Fair icon tempt us back to Fair Park year after year, though we know pretty much exactly what we’ll get? It’s not that we don’t love…
