Leo Hicks stands at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X boulevards, which lies in the shadow of Fair Park. It’s the only place in the United States where two streets with these names meet, and the imagery weighs heavily upon the shoulders of the man charged…
First the good news, for those of you who like a little choice in your democracy: The Texas Libertarian Party has collected more than enough signatures to place its candidates on the November ballot and is awaiting qualification by the Texas secretary of state’s office. It was touch and go,…
The clubhouse was nearly empty, save a few players who were milling about near their lockers, talking and reading and watching television. The strange thing was the knot of 20 or so reporters standing in the center of the room, gathered tightly together as though they were huddling for warmth…
The Devil Comes to Town Polygamy’s victims: I read your piece on the polygamists in Eldorado, Texas (“The Polygamists Are Coming,” by John MacCormack, May 20). I found it interesting and right on the money. I am one of the apostates from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints Church. I left…
It was a high-noon scene straight from a vintage Hollywood Western, complete with a small town in panic, menace on the horizon and a mysterious stranger sounding the alarm. Under a bright March sky, more than 150 West Texas ranchers and townsfolk gathered at midday outside the old limestone courthouse…
Jack Matthews was the only one who saw it, the only one who looked at the deserted buildings on a forgotten street off downtown and pictured a community. But, hey, that’s his job. He’s a real estate developer, a guy who is supposed to see something where everyone else sees…
When we ran our cover story on LaMarcus Aldridge (“He Wants to Be a Millionaire,” April 29), it seemed as though the Seagoville High School basketball stud had finally made up his mind. After flirting with entering the NBA draft, the 7-foot 18-year-old signed a letter of intent to play…
There were plenty of reasons for Tom Hicks to smile, but as the elevator opened and let him out at the clubhouse/field level he only half-nodded before shuffling past me and vanishing down a long concrete corridor. You’d think that the owner of a team that’s been the surprise of…
My Daughter’s Guitar How about my daughter next time: I was amazed to see a familiar guitar on a familiar stage on the cover of your May 13 issue (“20 Bands 7 Days”). The guitar is that of my daughter, Maren Morris, and the stage is Poor David’s Pub. Equally…
It’s Saturday night at Club Indigo, and I’m staggering toward the finish line of a 20-band marathon. The act taking the stage is one I normally wouldn’t see, a local and rather popular metal act whose brand of hammering, unsubtle music makes me want to shed a tear for every…
Now and again, one of the beat writers would run into him in the empty hallways at Valley Ranch, but for the most part no one had seen Bill Parcells in months. He warned us that it would be that way. After the season ended, he told us that he’d…
Heap of Doo-doo The buck stops where: Jim Schutze’s review of The Dallas Morning News’ “Dallas at the Tipping Point” was right on the money (“Talkin’ Doo-doo,” April 22). I read the entire section, cover to cover, every word, and came to similar conclusions. I gave the study very good…
The smell of grilled lamb and exotic spices permeates Ghion, a restaurant run by Dessalegn Befekadu, a native Ethiopian. Desi, 48, is the evening chef; wife Amaki cooks lunch. That way they can trade off driving duties for their 13-year-old daughter. Craving the flavors of home, Ethiopian and other African…
So Ted Benavides hired a white guy to be chief of police? Wow, we didn’t see that coming. Our money was on former San Jose Chief Louis Cobarruviaz; Dallas has had tons of white chiefs and one black chief. The Hispanic population is booming, so picking a Latino seemed to…
Stop the car–pull over. You need to look at this. We’re downtown, and there are people all over the place walking dogs. No, not blind people. These are people taking their pooches for a stroll. Think about it. There never used to be people walking dogs in downtown Dallas. I…
The most telling announcement Dallas Morning News President and Editor Bob Mong made last week was the one he didn’t. Mong, in a memo to staff, detailed sweeping changes in management designed to help kick-start a “revolution,” a word used repeatedly by Publisher James Moroney. A new No. 2 editor,…
Among the miles of sentences The Dallas Morning News has constructed about the proposed Dallas Cowboys stadium at Fair Park, here’s one that caught Buzz’s attention: “The footprint for the project, which would be north of the midway, would affect some areas of the park, including the sheep and cattle…
The day after the Dallas Mavericks ended their uninspired season with an even more insipid playoff performance, the atmosphere at the American Airlines Center had become poisonous. There weren’t many people around, but the ones who did limp into the office–save one helpful media relations assistant who managed to remain…
Frisco RFD Fast and furious: Regarding Zac Crain’s article “Perfect Town, USA” (April 22): The article kept referring to the concept that you can build in “values” to a community by simply placing buildings in certain locations and certain configurations. If you do that, it will magically be 1960 again!…
Every few minutes, the man screams the same desperate sentence, hands cupped around his mouth in a futile attempt to be heard above the crowd. Hunched over in his seat high up in the rafters, he’s like a jockey whipping a horse, urging it toward the finish line: “LaMarcus, you…
Their thoughts are ridiculed by other students and often, they say, by the professors themselves. They are required in class to watch movies to which they are opposed and then offered no forum afterward to discuss their opposition. They are the minority on campus, yet some lectures from some professors…
Don’t rush to the polls to vote on that new stadium for the Dallas Cowboys, unless you like waiting in line for 10 months. No matter how long it takes the team to decide on a location for Jerryworld–on the Trinity River, in Las Colinas or in Fair Park–Dallas County…
