Navel Gazing Liliana Lovell opened her New York Coyote Ugly Saloon at 24, an age at which most are still puking patrons rather than bar entrepreneurs. Now Lovell thinks the Big D may be the next perfect spot to “get ugly.” “What I liked about Deep Ellum,” Lovell says, “people…
Buzz has a great idea for a high school band’s halftime show: a marching musical tribute to state Representative Tony Goolsby. Yearbook staffs, chess clubs and computer groups should do something nice for the Dallas Republican, too. Why? Goolsby has introduced legislation to stymie school bullies. Praise his name. (A…
It’s time once again for Buzz to look back on the year that’s passed, to recall the noteworthy events of 2002, to pause and reflect and grind out roughly 4,000 words of warmed-over hash served with a side of wise-ass. All right, let’s roll. Here they come, the events of…
The year started innocently enough. I was living and working back on the Right Coast, making a little bit of money, looking optimistically toward the future. That’s when things went horribly awry. I should have known. Hope is to me what a white Christmas is to Texans–a rumor enjoyed by…
Drugged and RapedDazed and confused: If the Dallas police can’t tell the difference between Sheetrock and cocaine, how would one expect them to know about sophisticated things like rape drugs? The fact that they have never sent a drug-rape case to be prosecuted in itself is evidence of their negligence…
You didn’t just walk up to Jeremiah Simmons and start talking business. You had to go through someone he trusted–that’s how he survived. So when one of his associates asked him to meet a white high school kid with money to spend, Simmons was willing but wary. “He wants to…
Longtime civil rights attorney Frank Hernandez knew little of the tragic and tangled story when the long-distance plea first came to his Dallas office. What he heard was a tale of one child murdered and another’s life forever tainted, allegations of over-stepping by law enforcement, judgment rushed and political ambition…
Savage philistine that Buzz is, we’ve never quite understood the appeal of ballet. Yeah, yeah–grace, beauty, all that–we know. But there’s just not enough gunplay or nudity to make an entertaining night out for Buzz. We need some action, some drama. Maybe we need to head out to see Ballet…
As another year draws to a close, we pause for a cause: remembering some of those who left us in 2002. Join us in tipping our 40s in honor of our “Top 50 Homies Who Couldn’t Be Here N Shit.” Stanley Marcus, department-store magnate Dave Thomas, Wendy’s founder Ted Demme,…
Dead KennedyDon’t touch it: Although I agree that the Kennedy Memorial should not be moved (“Just Shoot Us,” December 12), who gives a flying fuck what the New Yorker or The New York Times thinks about it? Jimmy Verner DeSoto I won’t cry: To the question, “Where is there a…
Like a corpse in a horror movie, Amy Shackelford shot straight up in bed, going from comatose to wide awake in seconds. In those moments she realized she was naked. She leaped off the mattress, clutching the bedcovers around her body. Looking around, she saw that she was standing in…
It wasn’t just another obligatory holiday party, the kind of work-related seasonal gathering only made palatable by good liquor and plenty of it. On December 7, most of the guests who arrived at the far North Dallas home of lawyer Bruce Priddy actually wanted to be there. They shared something…
Maybe Robert Ramirez should have named his new Oak Cliff restaurant the Twilight Zone. Ramirez’s efforts to open the Twilight Café, a bizarre saga that resulted in an ethics complaint and the resignation of Dallas plan commissioner David Spence after he improperly used his city title to get a copy…
It’s always something out at Valley Ranch, but it’s rarely good. This time around, the media pack–I wonder, if pack reporting were outlawed, would there be any sports coverage in D-FW?–has descended upon Dwayne Goodrich. Apart from being a terrible cornerback, Goodrich is also apparently fatigued; he’s fielding questions about…
Choosing LifeTrue convictions: I see four important questions coming out of Nancy DePriest’s case (“Lethal Rejection,” December 12): 1. What steps are our lawmakers taking to ensure that convictions are correct and just? 2. What steps are our district attorneys taking to ensure that convictions are correct and just? 3…
Although the new year is a few weeks away, as an early Christmas gift, we offer this list of resolutions. We know you don’t need these–you’re thin, beautiful, rich, smoke- and disease-free. But just in case… 1. I will quit smoking. 2. I will lose weight. 3. I will stop…
It could be that Brenden Morrow’s head hurts, which might explain why the thoughts come slowly, even a little unwillingly. It would certainly figure. His face is decorated with black stitches across the left part of his nose and above the left eyebrow, and his forehead is spotted with what…
Back in the last century, when Buzz was in college learning all the important things an aspiring newspaper person needs to know–how to glom onto free drinks and food, how to type, how to slyly spread the hidden liberal agenda of the media elite–we were hired to help edit the…
Sucker PunchKick ass she did: Wrong title–looking at the picture, it should have been called “A Boy Named Sue.” Having finally gotten past the pic, I discovered what a farce Valerie Mahfood really is (“A Girl Named Suicide,” November 28). One of the best things a good athlete can do…
Ever since her daughter’s funeral, she had been stalked by the same nightmare: Nancy is in the Pizza Hut in Austin, stripped naked in the washroom, shoved to her knees on the cold, soiled floor by someone unseen. Sobbing, she begs for her life: “Please don’t hurt me. I have…
In the recent pre-dawn promise of Arkansas’ first ice storm of the season, sports author/journalist Jim Dent bundled himself, put his work on a new book aside and embarked on a six-mile walk. It was a solitary trek born of anxious waiting. He was in the countdown days leading up…
