After two and a half hours of deliberations, jurors in Andrew Wamsley’s capital murder trial returned a guilty verdict this afternoon. With tears in their eyes, Wamsley’s family stared at him as the verdict was read. As he was throughout the trial, Wamsley was stoic when the guilty verdict was…
This ranks as one of the worst-kept media secrets in town: WFAA-Channel 8 is in the process of converting a portion of its revamped 9 a.m. show Good Morning Texas (or GMT, for the hip frau) into paid programming, or “advertainment,” as one concerned citizen puts it. According to many…
The city of Dallas gets pretty well sliced and diced in a searing report released Friday by a Texas House of Representatives legislative investigative committee, which concludes that Dallas tries to duck its crime-fighting reponsibility by shoving it off on private businesses, engages in witness retaliation and uses official pressure…
With all this huffing and puffing over the future of Deep Ellum–and, from what I saw in The Dallas Morning News this morning, all’s well, so what’s the fuss?–has anyone at City Hall or from the Deep Ellum Association given John Thayer a ring? Who he? Well, Thayer’s a 31-year…
Got an e-mail last week from a Canadian reader (who knew?) wondering whatever happened to that Nick Tosches-Homer Henderson CD due for release, oh, in 1998. Frankly, Willow (if that is your real name), I have no idea. But in the spirit of whatever Jewish holiday’s coming up, here’s “The…
Andrew Wamsley’s defense rested about an hour ago at his murder trial in Fort Worth. (For those too busy to click the link, Wamsley’s accused of shooting and stabbing his parents shortly before Christmas in 2003, so he could collect their $1.65 million estate. Chelsea Richardon has been convicted of…
Looks like former Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Moses has another new job. Nice to see someone got something out of his tenure. –Robert Wilonsky…
Former Observer writer Adam Pitluk’s new book is due in May. Got a copy of the forthcoming book Standing Eight: The Inspiring Story of Jesus “El Matador” Chavez Who Became Lightweight Champion of the World, which bears a cumbersome title worthy of this criminally prolix blog. But more important, the…
He’s an �ber-talented freak, a legit MVP candidate and the best player on one of the NBA’s best teams. But at the biggest times in the biggest game of the season, a 98-89 loss to the San Antonio Spurs Thursday night, Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki wasn’t good enough–or even good…
International Truck off: Who says we’re addicted to oil? Just spent some time at the International Truck manufacturing plant in Garland to check out the CXT (which stands for, er, commercial extreme truck?), a behemoth pick-up that’s built on a trash-hauler chassis. This seven-ton, $93,000 (est. base sticker) truck stands…
I already hyped a show tonight at the end of this week’s Is This On? column–the Cavern’s 10th anniversary show, which is free, starts at 8 p.m. and includes free grub from Daddy Jack’s–but I ran out of space and neglected to mention another interesting gig across town. Tonight at…
Lots of speculation on the mysterious absence of Greg Williams, one half of The Ticket’s “Hardline,” the most popular sports talk radio show in town. Seems ol’ Hammer has been absent since last Wednesday. His partner, Mike Rhyner, has been extremely vague about the void on the air, and the…
The U.S Department of Justice has concluded the first part of its investigation of the Dallas County jail system, which for years has been a veritable house of horrors for inmates with chronic medical conditions. Even after Dallas County commissioners voted to fund a more expensive budget for the sheriff’s…
So, what are the rules here, anyway? Just blog blog blog? Is that the rule? Paul Kix wrote an item for the D Magazine blog about blog maven Sharon Boyd suing a dead guy. (He got it from us, but whatever.) But Paul, a great reporter, never called Sharon to…
It’s not the Paris Hilton sex tape, but if you’re sitting on a jury, you can’t exactly complain. On June 7, an otherwise mundane prostitution trial will be spiced up by the likely introduction of raw footage featuring a naked Dallas police officer receiving a rather expansive massage from a…
Seems like everybody loves Rhett Miller right now. He’s currently one of the “featured artists” at MySpace’s music section, where his latest solo album, The Believer, is available to preview gratis. Miller’s on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight, and Rolling Stone and some non-music mags, such as Esquire…
New York University professor Jay Rosen and a 17-member brood of undergraduate and graduate J-school students siphoned from Rosen’s blogging 101 class set out to sift and rank the best newspaper blogs from among the nation’s top 100 newspapers by circulation. The winner? The Houston Chronicle. “By a mile.” The…
Finally, it was over. After seven months of pain and six hours of mediation, they reached an agreement. Documents signed. Sighs exhaled. Farewells exchanged. But wait, Kenny Rogers had one more surprise for Larry Rodriguez. As the former Texas Rangers pitcher, the KDFW-Channel 4 cameraman he assaulted last June and…
Never say die: The last time Buzz wrote about Dallas Blog Queen Sharon Boyd’s lawsuit against Dallas school board member Joe May (August 5, 2004), we compared her to the Terminator, an unstoppable force unfazed by any roadblock as she pursues her cause. Man, we nailed that one. Boyd had…
WHEN IT COMES to crafting conspiracy theories, Oliver Stone has nothing on Judge Sally Montgomery. Facing a relentless, flat-out obsessive challenger in the Democratic primary for her county judge seat, Montgomery has several explanations for why so many people think that the only time she should sit on the bench…
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled in favor of prison inmate Emily Dowdy (“Oklahoma Railroad,” by Glenna Whitley, July 21, 2005), granting her an evidentiary hearing. Her family hopes the ruling could lead to a new trial. But the hearing, which must be held by mid-April, will take…
Three-Chord Wonder Darlington again: Like any other Thursday morning, I was reading through my Dallas Observer when I came across “And Another Thing” by Sam Machkovech (February 23). What caught my eye was the startling Jolie-lipped Darlington staring back at me. Like the recent Darlington articles, I figured it would…
