Schutze ScoresGod’s work: You have a very fine journalist in Mr. Jim Schutze (“The Orphan Chronicles,” August 29). I apologize for scaring him with my sternness, but having dealt with his father for a few years, I know he was familiar with sternness before he met me! His father and…
Bring It On Three cheers for Jill Jones, co-star of UPN’s Girlfriends Duncanville native Jill Marie Jones, who cheered for the Dallas Cowboys from 1993 to ’95, is a novelty and then some, an acting novice with a good gig and serious chops. As one of the principals of UPN’s…
Being a Democrat, a Latino, a woman, Sara Saldaña believed she had chosen the right election cycle to run for civil district judge in Dallas County. With George W. Bush off the ballot, there was no better time–or so said the Democratic Party regulars when they convinced her and 23…
Never let it be said that Buzz misses a chance to brag about, well, Buzz and assorted Dallas Observer co-workers. And we need only the flimsiest premise to do so. For example, you may have seen the recent spate of stories informing you that Laura Miller, Dallas mayor and former…
Latin BeatStereotypes: I read your article (“Blue-Collar Nights,” August 15), and as part of the Hispanic community I did not appreciate the stereotypes used throughout the article. I did not like the way things were addressed. Yes, the music is part of my culture, but I am not a lawn…
From 1998 until this year when both of my parents died of old age and natural causes, I knew Lois Lillico only from an arm’s length as the stern night nurse at the health-care unit of Presbyterian Village North, the retirement community on Forest Lane near Greenville Avenue where they…
I have been writing about racial issues in Dallas for almost a quarter-century, during which time my thesis has always been that Dallas is a weird place. A while back I had an experience that caused me to wonder if there might be another possibility–that perhaps I am a weird…
The judge takes his seat behind the bench, wearing shirtsleeves, a striped tie and a bucketful of country-boy charm. “How y’all doing today?” “Fine…OK…good…,” respond the two dozen or so recovering addicts who remain seated in the gallery. “I could be doing better,” he tells them. “I just got back…
QB&A After leaving SMU, Kelan Luker is Submursed in rock and roll Usually, it works the other way around: Most athletes wait until they’ve made their millions in the pros before they indulge their adolescent rock-star fantasies. Journeyman pitchers such as Jack McDowell (Stickfigure) and Scott Radinsky (Pulley) have tried…
Prior restraint are words used to describe the actions of a judge or some other government official who tries to tell the press that it’s forbidden to print or broadcast something. They’re also fightin’ words for people in the news biz in America, where we are pretty much free to…
Cat Scratch FeverAny press is good press: I would like to thank Zac Crain for the five kittens he gave The Filthy Skanks in his column the other week (Full Frontal, August 8). We haven’t gotten that much pussy in quite some time. Johnny T The Filthy Skanks Irving Good…
To avoid any unnecessary angry letters that even vaguely anti-hunting comments tend to stir up in this state, allow us to say this up front: Buzz doesn’t hunt. We find it distasteful. Whoa there, big fella, put down that pen. We said distasteful–as in not our cup of tea–not immoral…
Maria Gonzalez shakes her fully clothed thing to thumping booty music on the giant dance floor. Next to the girls in skimpy bras and even skimpier panties, she looks like a lost canary at an exotic cat show. When the music stops, she gets in line with the other four…
It has become a tragic summer litany. Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home at gunpoint. In Stanton, California, a stranger asking help in finding his lost puppy takes Samantha Runnion. In St. Louis, 6-year-old Cassandra Williamson is last seen riding off on the shoulders of a…
Now Hear This Once again, it’s time for the next great thing in Internet music Since the major record labels can’t figure out how to distribute music online–it’s hard to see the future with your head stuck up your bum–a pair of local boys have done it for them. Due…
Expunge Him Culinary assassins: Apparently Mark Stuertz never listened to his mother’s admonishment to “don’t say anything if you don’t have anything nice to say.” Like his predecessor Mary Brown Malouf, apparently the Dallas Observer prefers to hire verbose assassins rather than skilled journalists who are knowledgeable food critics. Your…
The arrival of the West Nile virus in Dallas has proceeded with all the panicked fanfare that typically comes with public health scares: News reports announce the “deadly” virus’ arrival; residents begin to worry, and city officials respond, in this case, by spraying neighborhoods with pesticides in an attempt to…
Yvonne went skiing the day KKMR-FM (93.3), better known as Merge, went off the air. It was January 3, and the radio station had given away ski trips to a few lucky listeners–among the few listeners Merge had–and Yvonne, the host of the station’s morning show, Early Merge, was to…
Henry Miller would be dumbstruck. The New York-born author of sexually explicit novels often castigated Americans for their chronic paralysis of taste and crude cuisine. “Americans will eat garbage,” he once wrote, “provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper or any other condiment…
Maybe it’s no coincidence that Central Market’s serpentine maze empties into a delta of counters stocked with chef-prepared food, sandwiches and Paciugo Gelato ice cream. After all, this is the realm where margins are fattened. But will it fatten consumers, too? This Mecca of convenience dining is called Café on…
Don’t you just hate it when columnists get lazy or run short on ideas and resort to answering their mail in print? You do? Well, turn the page, bub, ’cause this week, Buzz gots a letter. Joan Covici of Dallas didn’t appreciate our item last week where we purported to…
Heart of GoldForgotten inmates: “The Ex-Con Game” (August 1) is right on target. I’ve known and worked with Ned Rollo at various conferences. His rough exterior belies the softness of his heart. Tell Ned to keep his chin up and continue his great work for those forgotten inmates. Dr. H…
