When the screaming began inside No. 211 of the Atrium Apartments, Louise Doe and Neil Clement froze. It was around 2:30 p.m. on April 25. Apartment manager Doe and Clement, a resident who sometimes does odd jobs for her, were walking through one of the courtyards to check out what…
State Representative Harryette Ehrhardt, a popular Democrat and unabashed progressive who for eight years has represented East Dallas, Oak Lawn and parts of North Dallas that together composed the 107th House district, still lives in the same Swiss Avenue house she has called home for 30 years. But she no…
There are almost never employee meetings at the Lounge, the 19-year-old bar nestled within the lobby of the Inwood Theater. There has never been much need for such formal get-togethers, because families–and that’s what the bar’s nearly dozen employees, from bartenders to bar backs, consider each other–know what’s going on…
Black not like them: As the Dallas City Council’s redistricting panel wraps up months of mind-numbing labor, some residents in East Oak Cliff’s black middle-class neighborhood of Cedar Crest are aghast at their neighborhood’s late entry into redistricting politics. They fear the hardscrabble neighborhood of black South Dallas is attempting…
Silence Is Golden Good riddance: Thank God! That fool Tom Kamb is finally gone (“Sound of Silence,” August 9). Silence really is golden. For months, KLIF listeners have endured verbal assaults from the mouth of quite possibly the most offensive person ever to sit behind the mike on AM 570…
Midwestern State University’s practice field is lined with the usual media types who chuckle and babble about nothing in particular. It’s hot. Almost unbearably so. The heat index at Dallas Cowboys training camp is in triple digits again and will be for the rest of the summer–or until G.W.’s plan…
The temperature approached 100 degrees, but the hundreds of children and parents stood firm in a sweaty and noisy three-block-long line outside KD Studio in Dallas. The children were all trying to land a role in the upcoming season of Barney & Friends, the long-running program on public television. The…
Pacing the Addison hotel room he calls home, a cell phone pressed to his ear, Ron Cohen is speaking in a firm but understanding voice to a 26-year-old Florida man who is standing outside a federal penitentiary in Fort Dix, New Jersey, preparing to surrender himself to begin serving a…
The Rangers are in the toilet; the Cowboys are teetering on its rim. Dallas needs a winner. What’s a sports fan to do? Try poetry. Dallas’ entry in the National Poetry Slam Competition held recently in Seattle narrowly edged out Los Angeles 113.3-113.2 to take first place in a field…
One for the Cat Box Do yourself a favor: Like Eric Celeste, I also recently canceled my subscription to The Dallas Morning News (“Say Goodbye,” July 26) in favor of the daily Wall Street Journal and the Sunday New York Times, and I urge everyone out there to do the…
In retrospect, it could have been much worse. When KLIF-AM 570 talk radio host Tom Kamb didn’t show up for work two weeks ago, station management immediately began a worried search for him. Kamb, a race- and gay-baiting conservative known for angering Mayor Ron Kirk and garnering a nearly infinitesimal…
At 5 o’clock in the morning, a van pulls into the deserted parking lot outside the Richardson public library. Ordinarily at this time, a group of Falun Gong practitioners would be gathering for their morning exercises, but today they have a more urgent mission. They will spend the next week…
As Tom Stanley lay dying, his heart worn down by time, Lillian Stanley searched for ways to console her husband. Each day he spent at Presbyterian Hospital in January, she would gather family and friends around him–those who had loved him and those who had wronged him–so Stanley, 83, could…
“Little Rose” has a butter-melting smile, cascading cornrows and huge brown eyes. An adorable 5-year-old, she’s the kind of cute you can’t resist hugging. But don’t be fooled by her Shirley Temple pout; she is also a powerful weapon in the arsenal of drug-policy reformers, those men and women who…
Kissy, kissy: With the uninterrupted lovefest celebrating the opening of the American Airlines Center under way in the pages of The Dallas Morning News, regular readers of this paper might expect us to have something nasty to say. Lord knows Buzz tried, but so far the arena seems to be…
Winning Hand Fascinating “sport”: I am probably alone and certainly biased in my assessment, but I must say it’s nice to see some coverage on a player I respect (“The Player,” July 19) and on a game I love to play and watch. For some reason, poker is treated like…
Stephan Pyles almost didn’t move into his new 5,000-plus-square-foot, three-story house. It earned him two offers before construction was even completed. One anxious buyer even asked Pyles to throw out a number. He was stunned when the would-be buyer grabbed it. But the offer fell through, and Pyles had to…
Mark Brandon Read was 17 when he entered prison for the first time. A young man, yes, but one who had never really been a child. His father had spent 24 years in the Australian army; the old man was battle-scarred, to the point where he always slept with a…
ALVARADO–There are days now–rare but more frequent than he’d ever thought possible–when John Maddux’s life follows a routine path that he finds both welcome and comforting. But then, with the slightest provocation, his mood will darken and the memories flood back, returning him to that moment almost a quarter of…
I have read a local newspaper almost every day since I was 8 years old. I began by reading Boston Red Sox box scores to see how well my favorite player, Jim Rice, hit during the previous night’s game. In high school, I cut out editorials or political essays that…
When we last checked in with Amelia Core Jenkins, proprietor of a downtown bed-and-breakfast, she was in a tussle with the Convention and Visitors Bureau over that agency’s decision to remove her inn from bureau publications that recommend lodging to tourists. There were too many street people near her establishment,…
Soak the Middle Class Stinks of corruption: Many thanks for Thomas Korosec’s revealing article “The Little-People Tax” (July 12). His description of how the wealthy rather than those in the middle- or lower-income brackets were helped by the state Legislature’s 1997 decision to cap property tax increases at 10 percent…
