Persistence is a virtue: Laray Polk is conducting what she calls an “intervention.” Dressed in black from head to toe, Polk is perched on the curb outside a downtown parking garage, pleading with two young Hispanic men hurriedly getting into a sleek black government sedan. The driver, a military recruiter,…
Yee-haw, Y’all! Hook ’em, fakehorns: You could not be more right about Dallas jumping on the yee-haw bandwagon that is UT (“Tex-cess,” by Richie Whitt, January 19). Yeah, I was born and raised in Texas, but why should I be celebrating the Longhorns’ win? I guess Dallas really does suck…
Alex Winn’s bedroom was crammed with a dozen teenagers. The smells of old pizza, rank sneakers and sweat hung in the sweltering air. Empty boxes of Goldfish crackers littered the floor and peeked from under the rumpled bed. Against one wall, emitting incredible heat and a blue glow, stood a…
He has been such an icon for so long he is known only by a nickname given to him some 36 years ago when he was a student at North Texas State University. Back then, they called him “Armpit,” because he apparently looked like “one hairy armpit,” he recalls now…
As one of only three horse rendering plants in the country, Dallas Crown in Kaufman provokes its share of horror stories–and while some are undeniably true, including its abysmal sanitation record with the city of Kaufman, others are harder to prove. Now, though, a division of the U.S. Department of…
“Exuberantly shallow”: Perhaps you missed this gem, reported in The Dallas Morning News on December 10. Emily Ramshaw, staff writer for the Dealey Daily, take it away: “With a glimmering Dallas skyline behind them and a serene, russet riverbed before them, state and local officials joined renowned Spanish architect Santiago…
How ’bout them Dallas Longhorns! What a great story. Vince Young, raised on the tough streets of Oak Cliff, survives to star at Carter High School and eventually matures into the leader of the nation’s No. 1 college football team. Wow! And it all happened here in our own backyard…
Dead Again Looking forward to a resurrection: Come on. Just because two beloved Deep Ellum nightclubs recently bit it doesn’t mean an entire entertainment district is going down the tubes (“Deep Sixed,” by Robert Wilonsky, January 12). Times are changing, the money people have to burn is far more scarce…
Forget Bill Parcells. What would the Cowboys do without Wilford Jones? Considering the glaucoma and the strokes have left him blind, he’s probably not going to replace Drew Bledsoe. He’ll have a hard time upgrading the pass rush with an amputated right leg and that clunky wheelchair. And his Social…
On a recent Friday evening, a small group of artists gathered in the bowels of a hulking industrial building overlooking the Trinity River. Called Southside on Lamar, the nine-story brick building sits at the end of a row of rusting warehouses not far from downtown Dallas. Once a Sears distribution…
Forney residents began early voting on Monday after a judge ordered a new election for mayor following a highly charged eight-day trial that saw more than 170 witnesses take the stand. In his order, visiting District Judge Andrew Kupper cited “clear and convincing evidence” that last May’s city elections were…
Pickup tricks: Spotted on the tailgate of a tricked-out Ford dually pickup: “This vehicle used to belong to a drug dealer. It was forfeited and he went to jail.” On the doors: the seal of Mesquite police. Sounds like the Mesquite police are thumbing their noses at the hapless cocaine…
Borderline Justice That giant sucking sound: You are beginning to get on the right track with one of the biggest problems in this country–illegal immigration (“Run for the Border,” by Rick Kennedy, January 5). The fact of the matter is the Mexican government has no respect for the United States…
Oldies but goodies?: Just when Buzz thought listening to Bill Parcells and the Cowboys would no longer mean enduring Bill Haley and the Comets, Dallas’ football squad is set to sign a radio extension with Dallas’ oldies station. The Cowboys’ four-year contract with Infinity-owned KLUV 98.7 FM expires at the…
For enduring this hell on earth, dedicated soldiers of God are rumored to be rewarded with the splendors of heaven. Eternal life. Vanishing love handles. Endless plasma TVs. Angels with big wings and bigger breasts pouring free beer into the biggest mugs. And for suffering this painfully unsuccessful era, devoted…
The 2,000-Year-Old Virgin She gets around: I enjoyed the latest sighting of the Virgin Mary; it was an interesting article (“Do You See What I See?” by Jesse Hyde, December 29). She really gets around. My own spiritual journey started off with the myths and superstitions of Christianity and later…
Susana Loera remembers the first time she heard her boss tell somebody to break the law. It was in early 2004, and the parents of a Mexican man arrested in Dallas had come to the consulate seeking advice. Luis Lara, Mexican vice consul for protection, found out that U.S. immigration…
Kevyn Matthew Williams has been a lot of things. Pro football player. UPS guy. Self-published poet. Host of Dallas’ top-rated nighttime radio show for adults. But right now he says he’s just confused–and unemployed. And confused about being unemployed. Better known to North Texans as “Rudy V,” Williams was the…
“Can you see her?” he whispered. We were standing about six feet away from the tree, which was surrounded by a chicken-wire fence. Pink plastic flowers and burnt-out candles circled the trunk. He introduced himself as Martin Espinoza of Oak Cliff. He wore gray sweats, leather sandals and a hat…
When the inspector showed up to make sure Harrold Andresen’s new enterprise complied with the Americans with Disabilities Act, he learned one of Andresen’s clients–a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic–wanted to learn to weld with his mouth. “Impossible,” most people would say. He’d be incinerated. “No problem,” Andresen says. In a large metal…
Grinched: We’ll be honest. Christmastime isn’t exactly Buzz’s season. We prefer caustic sarcasm to the mawkish sentimentality, and it’s not often when we can combine both in one tidy package. But it happens. Like now, for instance. See, we received an e-mail from “Two Guys from Dallas, Texas” asking us…
Trailer-Park Blues Out of sight, out of mind: There’s a deeper issue behind the East Dallas campaign to drive out the “trailer trash” (“Board of Scrooges,” by Jim Schutze, December 21), and it’s one that exposes what is probably capitalism’s most grievous flaw and one that may ultimately prove fatal…
