The episode started with plans for strawberry shortcake, moved through discussion of important banana and hamburger precedents, and ended with accusations that might have Dallas Police Chief Terrell Bolton reaching for the Rolaids. Because of the fruit involved, it has one lawyer making references to The Caine Mutiny, the fictional…
When real estate developer Anthony Natale announced plans last year to rehabilitate 15 decrepit 1960s apartment buildings along Gaston and Live Oak avenues, he vowed that the ambitious, $22 million publicly backed project would cement old East Dallas’ reputation as a residential destination spot for young professionals. Six months ago,…
Shut Up, Already Gawking at your illogic: I am not the least bit interested in arguing for Pearl Jam (“Shut Up, Jeremy!” October 12). Music is subjective, and while I’d prefer my reviews peppered with less personal bias, your opinion is your opinion, and it can never be wrong. However,…
Rhode outta town: To quote Bart Simpson, these are “crazy, topsy-turvy times” in which we live. The NASDAQ swings like Dennis Rodman after 10 cocktails, more people are interested in the Mavericks than in the Cowboys, dogs and cats are sleeping together–it’s mass hysteria. Luckily for Buzz, there’s one thing…
A Month before he closed his Texaco service station at Forest Lane and Webb Chapel Road, Greg Kraft surveyed the array of honors lining his office wall–Texaco Excellence Winner, Award of Achievement, Top Performer Award–and laughed grimly. “We never felt that our future was in question,” Kraft said. “I don’t…
“Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. There is no such thing as concealment…” –Ralph Waldo Emerson PROLOGUE The search had been under way for three days in the early summer blast furnace of the El Paso County desert, and, finally, the young female detective in charge…
Some city leaders hope to flush out downtown Dallas’ void of pedestrian activity and tourist facilities by installing a very non-Dallas innovation throughout the central business district: European-style, self-cleaning public toilets. Councilwomen Veletta Lill and Lois Finkelman, Mayor Pro Tem Mary Poss, the Central Dallas Association, and city staff members…
Some 85 years have passed since untold numbers of Armenians died in Eastern Turkey at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, but the historical fact of that genocide has caused ripples in a most unlikely place: the Bell Helicopter division of Textron Inc. in Fort Worth. A resolution put before…
If you didn’t hear Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on The Ticket 1310-AM last week, you missed a beautiful thing: someone (besides us) launching an all-out piss-storm on The Dallas Morning News. Cuban–who declined comment after the show–told Ticket listeners that he’d just come from a meeting with News bigwigs…
Sexy-tary of State: One of the few good episodes of Sex and the City this season saw Carrie riding the wild pony with a state politician. It was memorable not just for the shot of Sarah Jessica Parker’s supple backside, but also because of the story line–that the sex columnist…
Our Stars We want points: John Gonzalez is the one who is “Dazed and Confused” (October 19). At the very least, he has made the mistake of defining the whole by observing only a small portion–rather like the blind men and the elephant. In my fourth year of regular game…
Tow to tangle: Buzz would like to offer the following advice to former DART board member and current Dallas Councilwoman Maxine Thornton-Reese: Next time, take the bus; it’s better for your blood pressure. Our counsel comes after learning that Thornton-Reese was “livid”–her word–because her car was towed while attending a…
It wasn’t Robert Groden’s finest hour. On this sunny day near Elm Street, Groden’s more polished appearances on Oprah, Montel, and Regis were far behind him. In a lot near the Sixth Floor Museum, Groden was duking it out with a stout woman. With the money they’d earned that day…
Charles “Chuck” Muñoz says he’s led a structured life: organized, conservative, somewhat guarded. At 43, he doesn’t seem like someone who would act impulsively. Yet Muñoz is running for sheriff of Dallas County, as a Democrat no less, in the year of George W. Bush. Rather than run for an…
Amy Ralston took ecstasy for the first time in the spring of 1985. It was Saturday night, and Ralston, a striking 25-year-old blonde, had a blind date. At a girlfriend’s urging, Ralston says she dosed up before heading out to the now-defunct nightclub Papagayo, a laser-lit meat market that was…
His voice sounds so familiar–deep, resonant, dweebishly articulate–as he defends George W. Bush in front of a swarm of stinging reporters. His face is also hard to forget, though the years have wrinkled his brow and doubled his chin. He looks rounder in the middle, yet at 52, former Dallas…
David Dean says he was fighting for justice, equity, and due process–that and the right to build a new closet wherever he damned pleased. The Swiss Avenue Historic District homeowner ended up proving that with friends in high places, a good lawyer, a public relations pro, and a willingness to…
Swine Among Pearls A truly pants-wetting piece: Hysterical. Thank you very much for that absolutely fall-on-the-floor funny Pearl Jam article (“Shut Up, Jeremy!” October 12). Now we know that there was another curse upon man that God (or whoever’s in charge) intended. And I thought George Carlin had it all…
Jaws: Occasionally, Buzz has been known to indulge in a little lawyer bashing, going so far as to suggest that some lawyers are less than honest. No, wait. We’re lying. We frequently suggest that it’s common for lawyers to lie like a rug. But not this week. We have found…
Having grown up Jewish in Dallas, I rarely read the Texas Jewish Post–OK, one time when my sister got married and the newspaper ran her picture, and another time after I had heard a rumor that the weekly had extended birthday wishes in its pages to a dead guy. It…
The brick house on Good Shepherd Drive in the West Texas town of Brownwood seems an unlikely place for the headquarters of a minority-owned Dallas company with a big city contract. A wreath of plastic sunflowers hangs on the front door, two Cadillacs fill the garage, and a six-foot satellite…
On a normal fall afternoon at the Dallas Nature Center, the only sounds one expects are those made by the resident wildlife and the rustle of wind-teased leaves. Today, that gentle chorus is being interrupted by the buzz of saws and drills and the groan of a small tractor straining…
