Taking a walk in the park isn’t easy in Bob Salesky’s neighborhood. Just around the corner from his home in Southeast Dallas, there’s Bisbee Park. With its wild shrubs and fallen trees blocking the main walkway, it’s not so much a park as it is a patch of wilderness, one…
What’s in a name So Gordon Keith, KTCK-AM radio jock and sometime contributor to this paper, agreed to change his name to Dallasmaverick for one year and have the team’s logo tattooed on his body in exchange for $125,000 from Mavs owner Mark Cuban–half the money going to Keith, the…
The young bricklayer peered out the window into the gray January morning, sipped from his coffee cup, and resigned himself to an idle weekend. No construction crews, he knew, would brave the bitter temperatures and frozen roads to work. The previous night’s blizzard, which left a 12-inch blanket of snow,…
Man for Marrs… I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised when I read Robert Wilonsky’s article on Jim Marrs (“The truth is way out there,” July 6). I have been a Marrs fan and Kennedy assassination buff for a few years now. I was surprised because I thought…
July 6, 2000 To: Stuart “Stu-meister” Wilk, Managing Editor, The Dallas Morning News From: Eric “Bon Vivant” Celeste Re: Helen Bryant’s old job Stu-ster: Consider this my formal application for the position of gossip columnist for the Overnight section of your fine newspaper. Sorry if this seems presumptuous, since Helen…
The Nut lives just outside a small town called Paradise, a few miles northwest of Fort Worth. With his wife of more than 30 years, The Nut inhabits 25 acres of land deserving of its proximity to a town called Paradise, because even the still, damp air of summer feels…
All day Hesha Abrams has wondered what to tell them. Now as the sun sets, she meets at her Dallas home with more than a dozen members of her fledgling congregation called Ruach Torah, the “Spirit of Torah.” On this eve of Pentecost, the Jewish holiday commemorating that ancient time…
Alan Paden has looks like the stereotypical computer geek. His dirty-blond hair has a Bill Gates part to it, his cheeks are drawn a bit on his pale face, and he is rather soft-spoken; he clearly prefers to speak in computer language if at all. Each day, he rises at…
Isn’t it ironic Being one of the few Dallas Morning News subscribers under the age of 85 to read the paper religiously, Buzz thought we had a pretty good notion of who the daily’s friends were. We were wrong. When the city council recently designated the newspaper the city’s official…
Former FBI second-in-command Oliver “Buck” Revell of Dallas regularly makes the rounds of network and cable TV news shows to talk about everything from Internet security to international terrorism. A 30-year FBI veteran and international security consultant who authored the well-received autobiography A G-Man’s Journal, he’s a respected and knowledgeable…
No, you take him While I appreciated Jim Schutze’s article “One honest man” (June 22), he did reveal his own racist nature. Dr. Rojas has not been referred to as a black man since he’s been here. In fact, the black board members have been his most consistent critics. (Jose…
Clouds hover, but rain has not yet begun to fall on a Wednesday two weeks ago. It is 6:18 p.m., and Larry Fitzgerald has just finished the job he’s done more than a hundred times before: witnessing a Texas inmate being put to death. This time, it is a 44-year-old…
Mary Thompson has her prey in sight. Thompson, a Dallas grandmother of six and co-founder of the women’s anti-gun-control group Second Amendment Sisters, is patrolling the hallways of Capitol Hill, looking for targets in her war against gun control. What better place to find her enemy, the gun-control lobbyists and…
It had been 14 years since she last saw him. Now looking at her father as he lay in the casket before her, she thought that he hadn’t really changed. Same round face. Same shaved head. It was as if no time had passed. But it had. And something was…
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. –The Second Amendment to the Constitution, approved in 1791 Texas, it would appear, has become a lightning rod for the nation’s most volatile…
People don’t talk politics at most funerals, out of respect for the dead. But on the steps outside Munger Place United Methodist Church after former Dallas Mayor Wallace Savage’s recent funeral and again half an hour later at a reception at his home, intense little circles debated who may run…
Feel a draft? From the start, it wasn’t exactly a marriage made in heaven. Now it appears that Belo Corp. and the Dallas Mavericks are headed for an amicable, if lucrative, separation. Belo revealed this week that it has reached an “oral agreement” to sell its minority share of the…
Mending fences Your article was most interesting and you were right on target about Flower Mound (“Good fences,” June 15). A few points: ··· Since the town of Flower Mound has mandatory water rationing from May to October, I wonder how are we going to be able to provide water…
It seemed like such an innocuous idea to his new American scientific partners: take visiting Russian scientist Alexander Chepurnov out for dinner and a movie. Some laboratory joker recommended that they take Chepurnov, head of a virology lab in Siberia, to see Mission: Impossible 2. When he settled into his…
I was stretched out on my futon reading Harpers, the cat asleep on my stomach, when the fire alarm in the hallway went off. I have often heard fire alarms accidentally triggered, so at first I didn’t think much of the sound except how annoying it was. Then I looked…
Donna Blumer made a pronouncement to her peers on the Dallas City Council at mid-morning. “It seems as though things are unraveling,” she said simply. They were. The council had spent all morning last Thursday slugging through the language used to describe the duties of the soon-to-be-created city ethics commission,…
In the dark, troubling aftermath of last September’s shooting rampage at Wedgwood Baptist Church, predictable rumors began circulating even as funerals were being planned and reparation to the damaged sanctuary was under way. A half-dozen writers, locally and from afar, were talking of tracing the tragedy, fashioned by mentally deranged…
