More Cops for UTDDorm University president moves to help troubled Waterview Finally, action. After years of student complaints, the new president of the University of Texas at Dallas has ordered the school to fix security problems at Waterview Park, the nation’s largest private dorm. Dr. David Daniel said last week…
Where’s the love? Your regular Buzz correspondent travels out of town for a week’s vacation, and only then Dallas decides to hold one of its most absurd political farces in the past decade. OK, we’re overstating it. The farcical comes fast and frequently from City Hall. Still, the sight of…
Governor Friedman? Nuts for Kinky: What a treat to pick up the Dallas Observer and find your article (“Seriously Kinky,” by Robert Wilonsky, June 30). I was one of the 200 present June 17 at Kinky’s book signing and had on my Kinky button yesterday when I came across your…
Over here, in the corner, is Charlie Hatley, whaling away. “Unhhhhhhhhhhh,” he groans, jaw slack. The boxing dummy bucks, sways, threatens to fall over from Hatley’s blows. The kids outside the ring stare, saucer-eyed. They love Hatley, 19, the superstar of the place, ranked second in the nation at 141…
The Tao of Cowboy Horse guru Robert Liner says he’s never met a horse he couldn’t train Fresh from the corral, Robert Liner wipes beads of sweat from his temple and drapes his arms across the back of the couch, trying to soak up a little air conditioning in the…
If Southern Dallas African-American politics gets any sadder, Buzz may have to stop reporting on it. You may see headlines here in the weeks ahead: “News on Dallas black politics too sad to report.” Today’s story is about five Wellbutrins’ worth of pathetic news. The black ministerial group Clergy for…
Edge Gripefest Monopoly matters: I just returned from my stint on the Warped Tour and picked up this week’s Dallas Observer with all these letters (June 30) to Sam Machkovech regarding the state of local music on 102.1 The Edge…So I popped up the article (That Infernal Racket, June 23)…
Only when pushed, and then prodded and then finally pinned, will Richard Friedman explain why he’s running as an independent candidate for Texas governor. Initially, he will offer only the glib, catchy one-liners that befit the songwriter nicknamed Kinky who once proclaimed, “They ain’t makin’ Jews like Jesus anymore.” He…
She wasn’t the problem, the lawsuit claims. It was the lieutenants and sergeants below her who for months, years even, covered up how nasty things were in narcotics. Supervisors–all of them men–who should have reported to her, a 28-year veteran with no less a title than assistant chief of police,…
First the bad news, at least for the media: Since the U.S. Supreme Court declined this week to hear an appeal by two reporters found in contempt of court for refusing to reveal the names of confidential sources, journalists, especially in Texas, have scant protection from prosecutors who want to…
A Big Dallas Welcome For Sam Machkovech: Your debut article slamming 102.1 The Edge for not supporting the music community in Dallas is off the mark (That Infernal Racket, by Sam Machkovech, June 23). In fact, they’re responsible for many of the stories that have come out of our great…
“We left Fort Worth on Friday at 5 a.m. headed for Sturgis, South Dakota. Our destination for our first night is Clayton, New Mexico…We were very fortunate, for the weather was kind to us…While we were gassing up in Amarillo, John had his first alien encounter of the trip. Velma…
Sacramental Beer Theology Live gets spiritual–in more ways than one The beer garden is packed. Sitting shoulder to shoulder at the long, wooden picnic tables, the Ginger Man pub’s Monday-night patrons are doing, well, what people at bars do. Guffaws echo from the corner as a group of baseball-capped frat…
The news is a bit old now, but if you think Buzz is going to pass up a chance to riff about high school cheerleaders pooping on a pizza, then all we can say to you is “Welcome to Dallas, new reader!” We’re talking about the story widely reported last…
Secret Code Validation, finally: Thank you so much for this story on the city’s code enforcement department (“Kick Down,” by Jim Schutze, June 9). To those of us affected by the constant ups and downs of the department, this article was very much overdue. My father was one of those…
Thirty-five years ago, on June 12, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirate and future Texas Rangers pitcher Dock Ellis found himself in the Los Angeles home of a childhood friend named Al Rambo. Two days earlier, he’d flown with the Pirates to San Diego for a four-game series with the Padres. He immediately…
Mostly Air Self-defense training for U.S. airline flight attendants is lax, despite 9-11 Our first-class galley flight attendant and our purser have been stabbed. And we can’t get into the cockpit. The door won’t open.” American Airlines flight attendant Betty Ong’s recorded phone call from aboard American Airlines Flight 11…
Two questions leaped to our mind when we saw the billboard for Amdecon along Interstate 35 near Oak Cliff, featuring a chalk outline of a dead body and offering cleanup for the aftereffects of homicides, suicides and decomposing corpses. First, has Dallas’ long reign at the top of the nation’s…
Stuck in Squalor Landlocked: You make a lot of good points in your article (“This Teardown Town,” by Robert Wilonsky, June 9). I have tried in the past to acquire a city-owned unsound structure in South Dallas with unpleasant results. Also, there are some people willing to build in South…
It is not often that Dwayne Jones just gets into his car to drive around the city and look at the buildings he has spent so much of his life trying to protect. The head of Preservation Dallas has no time to gaze at Dallas’ dilapidated wonders, crumbling ruins and…
Stuff It Gluttony a deadly sin? Try telling these “athletes.” Mmmm, tamales. Twelve Dallas Tortilla and Tamale Factory tamales piled per plate to be exact, two plates at each table setting. No, this isn’t lunch hour at the factory; this is the start of the first world tamale eating championship,…
Arabs fighting Kurds. Israelis battling Palestinians. Americans vs. Iraqis. And so on. Can’t we all just get along? Or, barring that, can someone tell a black woman where she can get a decent, inexpensive haircut in this town? Stay with us; this will make sense shortly. A haircut is what…
