Why wait? Dallas school board member Jose Plata, a two-term trustee and staunch supporter of now-booted Superintendent Waldemar Rojas, says he’s throwing in the towel. Slowly. Plata won’t seek re-election when his term expires next May, and he’s advising his fellow trustees to do the same. He says he can…
If you wonder why the Tuesday “Today” section of The Dallas Morning News often resembles a parenting magazine, or why there seems to be an unending number of touchy-feely family stories in the paper, or how come it’s working on a multipart project focusing on young children, you should have…
McKinney resident Bill Lynch doesn’t know exactly what caused the strange turtle his daughters named Godzilla to wash up dead from the East Fork of the Trinity River behind his home, but he has his suspicions. “It’s all mutated and weird,” Lynch says of Godzilla, one of three turtles he…
On being a man I wonder if what really bothers Mr. Randy Thomas (“Mr. Fixit,” July 20) is not the “it” but actually the lifestyle. The comments on his “gay dream” and the fact that he is not his sexuality really touch me. I believe many of my homosexual brothers…
If you squint hard enough, it’s 1990 again–only the affluent have cell phones, George Bush The Original resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Randall Cunningham is back scrambling in a winged helmet and ghastly green Philadelphia Eagles uniform. He is unpredictable from the moment the ball is snapped, deciding at…
Stan Miklis farm — and its future, it seems — lies somewhere between Fate and Poetry. Halfway between these two tiny burgs, in Royse City, Miklis owns and harvests his 100-acre stretch of land. In this farm-rich area, cattle and horses graze and lazily canter amidst prairie grass, juxtaposed nicely…
GUN BARREL CITY–On early East Texas evenings, when the frustration becomes unbearable, Keith Tarkington, a 34-year-old cable installer, takes a solitary drive south into an isolated section of Henderson County. Past Cedar Creek Lake, out Highway 274, then onto a blacktop lane leading to a narrow dirt road that winds…
In the Oak Cliff neighborhood where Juan Ontiveros operates his furniture shop, signs on the barred store windows advertise “recámaras” and “comedores.” For most customers at the shop on West Davis Street, no English translations of the Spanish words for bedroom suites and dining-room sets are needed. In recent months,…
Ernest Sherman has been playing with fire, and the Dallas Fire Department is not pleased. In what his opponents call a carelessly worded press release, this trustee of the Dallas Police Patrolman’s Union let the heated word go out last week: The fire department has a paramedic shortage. Twenty-nine, to…
Very personal injury Dennis Rodman has settled a lawsuit filed in Dallas County by a woman who alleged he infected her with herpes. Stacie Shobe claimed in her 1998 case that she had unprotected sex with the former Dallas Maverick after he told her he did not have any sexually…
At a glass-topped dinette table, beneath a framed painting of Jesus Christ, 15-year-old Quinton Dixon quickly eats lunch before heading out the door of his small Oak Cliff apartment. “Don’t stay out too long,” his mother, Ada Dixon, 48, cautions from the couch in the living room a couple of…
Duncan snuffs the pests I have just read the article “Tribal vengeance” (July 20) and am sick of yet another example of a person sticking up for themselves and literally getting pushed over the cliff. I, as well as others, would have reacted the same way as Melton Barnes had…
Back in the day, if you had asked Ruby Bouie about her drug of choice, she would have told you right out, “Whatever you got, honey.” Booze, pot, ecstasy, acid, crank, coke, smoking it, shooting it, snorting it–she had been drinking and drugging since she was 16.
The Plano church has invited Randy Thomas to speak today, and to anyone who’ll listen, he has much to tell: of his work with an “ex-gay” ministry called Living Hope, where he ministers to those yearning to cast off their homosexuality, and of his own former gay lifestyle
Ellis Pickett uses his camera to document the oceanic minutiae that tell the story of how, when, where, and why the beaches he loves are going all to hell.
Buzz supposes it was progress of a sort.
True crit The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has finally named a replacement for Elvis Mitchell, the movie critic who left in January to go to The New York Times: Christopher Kelly, a New York writer who has penned essays for Salon.com, Premiere, Out, and Film Comment. Reached at his apartment in…
In less than a month, Dallas voters with time on their hands will flock to the polls by the dozens to consider whether DART should be allowed to sell bonds to speed expansion of its light rail system.
Before we get to the “story” part of this column, please allow me to tell you why I love Marty Griffin. You remember Griffin, right? For years, he was one of Channel 5’s “public defenders,” an investigative reporter who muckraked his way throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area, using his TV…
Falling down I’d feel a lot worse about the demise of Leaning House (“Leaning over,” July 13) if I thought they’d really given it a shot. Until a year or so ago, I had a jazz show on a Berlin radio station. I played their records all the time, and…
You boot up your computer. Go online. Punch in the address www.TimberwolfPress.com and hit “enter.” Against a black background appears a photo of a lone wolf, its eyes narrowing as the image melts and morphs into a graphic: It’s the same wolf, only outlined in devilish red, its eyes just…
It’s the Fourth of July, and the protesters are sitting in the shade under trees near the John F. Kennedy memorial. A replica of the Statue of Liberty stands in the sun with signs reading “Amnesty now!” leaning against her. Another proclaims, “George Washington was an immigrant too!” Television news…
