Watch ‘Em BlowNot just “bad” teachers: I experienced nothing short of a panic attack as I read Jim Schutze’s “Schoolhouse Dynamite” (October 16). You see, I teach for DISD in a school that is predicted to be low-performing after the 2003 TAKS scores are released this spring. I predict that…
It is midafternoon, and another day of Mavericks training camp has wrapped up, sending the players scurrying from the practice court in the lower reaches of the American Airlines Center. Some head to the ornate locker room and gorge themselves on chicken and fish and warm, fresh breads; some camp…
Lets Hear it for the Boy As we reported a month or so ago (“Can’t Boogie No More,” September 11), Mayor Laura Miller is considering revising Chapter 14 of the city code, requiring all clubs to shut down at 2 a.m. (They’re currently allowed to stay open until 4 a.m.)…
Two old ladies were vacationing at a Catskills resort. “The food here is horrible,” one said. “I know,” said the other, “and such small portions.” Lisa Luna is in no mood for classic food jokes, not with the recent cuts to the meal budget of the Texas Department of Criminal…
When Buzz last checked in with the Dallas-based Vice Fund (VICEX) at its birth late last August, the mutual fund’s managers were betting that investing in sin would pay off big. There are few certainties in life, the reasoning went. There are death and taxes, then there’s the human hunger…
Pretty in PinkI’m being followed: Thank you for your article on the Mary Kay Company (“Think Pink,” by Sarah Hepola, October 9). It was interesting to note the comment by Ms. Piro: “That’s why we don’t go looking for salespeople. We want people who can let the person who’s trying…
When we last left Richard Daniels, he had been removed as a security guard at the Dallas office of KTVT-Channel 11 (Buzz, October 9). He was let go after he had a run-in with Deborah Norville of Inside Edition, who was in town and had to tape her show in…
She could have escaped this city the moment the ink dried on the recording contract that became her ticket outta here. No one stays here too long, not when theres a glam town like New York City or Los Angeles gleaming like a pile of gold at the end of…
If you want to hang at the ICE house, first you have to know the rules. It’s easy; they’re posted on the living-room wall, scrawled in felt-tip on a poster. There are six, first among them no cursing. Second, no violence. Third rule, show respect for…wait a second, let’s go…
It was Saturday night before the Eagles-Cowboys game, and some writer friends of mine from Philly were in town. They were looking for a grand time, but they had to settle for a grand amount of cold beer at one of those ubiquitous chain eateries in Las Colinas. We sat…
Tomorrow Always Knows There’s a conservative revolution under way–read all about it in The New Republic and The New York Times–and for the nation’s political cartoonists, it must seem like both the best and worst of times. On the one hand, there are plenty of plump, slow-moving targets. On the…
Miller’s True Colors Facing the truth: “Color Bind” (by Jim Schutze, October 2) was a great article. After reading this I thought of the term “racist” and how ridiculous the word can be. It is a shocking word, meaning to shock the accused, and when we hear the word thrown…
Swizzle Shtick Recently, Reggie Swinton, wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, was traded to the Green Bay Packers. It was a sad day for us. Not so much because Swinton was a good player, because he wasn’t. No, we were sad to see him go because Swinton provided us with…
Kimberlee Simko had a well-paying corporate job and a thousand complaints about it. One day, a girlfriend suggested Kimberlee speak to her aunt. This aunt wasn’t just successful; she was living The Dream. She owned a big house. She was her own boss. And she had done it working for…
Sitting at the kitchen table in his parents’ comfortable DeSoto home, looking out on the line of miniature American flags his father has placed on the front lawn, Marine Corporal Lee Strange is relaxed and smiling. Now into the second week of his 30-day leave after lengthy service in Operation…
I’m a loser. There’s really no other way to put it. This probably doesn’t shock most of you, particularly those who know me personally or those who tend to send in letters to the editor, most of which generally begin or end, not surprisingly, with “you’re a (place expletive here)…
Buzz is envious of Deborah Norville in several ways. For starters, the host of the nationally syndicated news-magazine show Inside Edition helps draw about 4.5 million viewers to the program each day. Buzz is lucky if our wife reads our weekly rants. Also, Norville is fit and alluring. Buzz, not…
Picks and Pans Respect for NPs: It is only now that I have found the time to peruse your Best of Dallas issue (September 25) and was quite surprised to find such a rude, backhanded comment about nurse practitioners on page 139 in your Best Young Doctor pick. (Please do…
Show me the phone, lend me a dime I ain’t rollin’ over, I ain’t doing no time Ain’t coppin’ no plea, I’m hip to your game I ain’t talking to no one ‘cept Racehorse Haynes –from the song “Racehorse Haynes” by Tom Russell/Andrew Hardin When attempting to examine the legendary…
Ever since a dead bird in Dallas tested positive for West Nile virus in the early summer of 2002, local animal control offices and health departments have been in bird-call hell, especially during the warmer, mosquito-breeding months. Residents all over the place apparently have been calling their respective dead-animal handlers…
Legends don’t wait in line. That’s just the way it works. Tony Dorsett was out at Valley Ranch recently. He was standing with various media members and waiting patiently to sign the guest book and get a little visitor sticker that would allow him entrance to the Cowboys facility. The…
Bolton’s Blues Call it what it is: When I moved here from Houston three years ago, it was obvious that something was wrong with the Dallas Police Department. In time, I would learn about different goings-on within the department and wonder, “When is this guy (Bolton) getting fired?” I am…
