Poor and Pitiful Victims of their own choices: Yet another condescending “save the poor from themselves” article (“The Big Squeeze,” by Paul Kix, September 8). People are free to choose whether to borrow from payday loan companies. It may not be the cheapest source of money, but these folks obviously…
Calling All Film Geeks Dinner and a movie and something better coming to Casa Linda Dallas film buffs rejoiced to learn that the old Casa Linda Theater, which has been dark for six years, will become an Alamo Drafthouse, named in August the best movie theater in America by Entertainment…
C’mon, they deserve better than that. Three of the greatest all-time Cowboys treat us to Super Bowl trophies, a gazillion goose bumps and eternal smiles. In appreciation, we bestow upon them a moniker conjured from an implausible genetic connection and the cunning craftiness of counting to one, two, three. Troy…
The first thing that catches your eye when you walk into Bajito Onda is the prison art. A four-panel screen near the front entrance is covered in it, as are most of the nearby walls. More boards and canvases lean against the baseboard, stacked three deep. The painstakingly crafted images…
Sorry Sack Liar, liar, liar: I served with the 1-120th Infantry (the unit Phil Haberman deployed to Iraq with) as the S3 (Operations Officer). I first met Specialist Haberman at Fort Bragg in February 2004 a few days before we deployed to Iraq (“G.I. Jerk,” by Glenna Whitley, September 1)…
Not so public: Buzz’s congratulations go out to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott for winning the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas’ James Madison Award for his work on behalf of open government. Good for you, General Abbott, now about those Dallas Observer public records requests… “Texas functions best when…
Four days into his short stint at Dallas County’s jail at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center, Mark McLeod talked with his public defender about a plea agreement that could set him free the next afternoon. The attorney remembers that her new client talked slowly as his wide, dark eyes offered…
Who dat? Back in 1987 it was the catchy Cajun battle cry of the NFL’s New Orleans Saints. But last week outside Reunion Arena it was just one of the hundreds of questions from the thousands of evacuees. Is my family alive? How do I get food? Where am I…
UTD reverses course, announces improvements at its Waterview dorm In April, officials at the University of Texas at Dallas said conditions at the Waterview Park Apartments, the nation’s largest private dorm, couldn’t be better. Robert Lovitt, then the top university official over Waterview, called it “one of the best success…
For Judge Margaret Keliher and other volunteers, theres little calm after the storm The calm surprises, even overwhelms. You expect, when the elevator doors slide open, to be greeted by chaos–the sight of dozens of people scurrying about, poring over plans, shouting into cell phones, begging for help. You expect…
Dang, some good news: Buzz, ever the one to point out the dark cloud amid the silver lining, was going to tell you about some of the sad, stupid things we’ve heard from certain people–dimwitted white people–about the evacuees from New Orleans. See, there was the article someone sent us…
Meander through the neighborhood surrounding the Cowboys’ Valley Ranch headquarters and take a trip down memory lane. All the great quarterbacks are immortalized here: There’s Staubach Street, Meredith Way, Morton Avenue and…would you believe, Carano Court? See, there’s still hope for Drew Henson. Not of ever sniffing the Ring of…
Wannabe Warrior Tin soldier: Thank you for your interesting article on Phil Haberman (“G.I. Jerk,” by Glenna Whitley, September 1). I would like to share with you my experience with Phil and why I put his story on the OperationWoundedSoldiers.org Web site. As you can hopefully tell from the name…
She didn’t know the loan would make her ill, make her cry, even make her think her husband would want a divorce. In the beginning, all Kristy knew was that a $300 payday loan would help pay for the vacation she and her husband, Michael, had planned in Eureka Springs,…
All the Pretty Horses… …Are Slaughtered at Dallas Crown. Now a small town is fighting back. At the Dallas Crown horse-slaughtering plant, located alongside a poor but friendly black neighborhood in nearby Kaufman, the specter of death spreads far past the guarded boundaries of the industrial facility. Horse hides flop…
Damn: Last week, Buzz suggested that The Dallas Morning News could provide a service to its readers if it would begin publishing longer Sunday pieces that wrap up big breaking local news stories, rather than letting the news come in bits and pieces. Specifically, we were looking for a scorecard…
America’s Mom Democracy in action: I agree Ms. Cindy Sheehan (“Camp Death,” by Craig Mailsow, August 25) has the right to freedom of speech just as you and I or anyone else does. I don’t believe anyone is in favor of shutting her up. I find it hypocritical how leftist…
Blame the dude in the blue tutu carrying a pink purse. It was Texas Rangers relief pitcher Frankie Francisco, after all, who got all dolled up and hurled this snowball downhill. With his team in the thick of a surprising September pennant race last season, Francisco donned his rookie initiation…
She spotted her blind date right away: the clean-cut guy in the black T-shirt that said Special Forces. Kristen Rhoad had first come into contact with Phil Haberman on Match.com in December 2003. One screen name he favored was 19thSFguy–an allusion to his role in Army Special Forces. A self-described…
He’s 64 this week and should be, if he were a reasonable man, sitting beneath the hot glow of studio lights spouting his views on this or that NFL team, semi-retired and secure in his reputation as one of the league’s greats, waiting for that Hall of Fame induction. But…
Camp Death The site of Cindy Sheehan’s war protest is crowded with opinions and ghosts CRAWFORD–There’s a bunch of people standing across the street from the Yellow Rose, waiting to see if it’ll blow up. An hour earlier, someone called the Crawford Police Department and said the general store was…
Feelin’ groovy: One of Buzz’s all-time favorite lines about the news business comes from the 1994 movie The Paper: “We taint them today, we make them look good on Saturday. Everybody’s happy.” It’s funny, as Homer Simpson would say, because it’s true. Take, for example, two stories that appeared within…
