He’s heard it dozens of times: The publishing business is a risky business. “But what business isn’t?” asks Glenn Yeffeth, one of those people who, midcareer, switched professions (15 years as a business consultant) to start a new business (independent publishing house) with money he saved–one of those people you…
Exactly how bad will Dallas’ curbside trash recycling program have to perform before anyone with city government acknowledges that it just ain’t right? Pretty bad, apparently, judging by the latest numbers in a national survey. The survey published last month by the trade publication Waste News found that only 2.2…
MONTERREY, MEXICO–The twin circles on the smooth concrete plaza swell, drawing more and more young bodies into the hurricane of bad haircuts, bright tropical shirts, baggy pants and dirty sneakers. The ever-growing number of young men in the circles twirl and twist and strut and shake their bodies to the…
In the musical 1776, John Adams objects to the removal of a particularly stirring and poetic paragraph from the Declaration of Independence. “We’re a congress, not a literary society,” another delegate reminds him. If the Dallas City Council failed to create a document that might inspire residents to sacrifice their…
Play Ball It was a rookie mistake, really, inviting my wife to accompany me to the Playboy Spin-the-Bottle Tour’s Dallas stop at Mike’s Treehouse on February 22. She was only supposed to be my insurance policy, a way for me to avoid being roped into participating in the night’s festivities…
So, have you laid in your supplies of plastic sheeting and duct tape to prepare for the next inevitable terrorist attack? Feeling more secure now? No? Not to worry, citizen. Fortunately, the Texas Legislature is way ahead of the feds and is taking its own steps to combat “terrorists”–at least…
So SpecialMossEisley: So let me get this straight, the mainstream music industry has its eye on a good young band built around a young happy family (“The Force Is With Them,” by Zac Crain, January 30), something extraordinarily special and extraordinarily rare? Sigh. I’m not saying this is going to…
This is not a discussion Mike Modano wants to have. Later, maybe–a month from now or after the season is finished. But not now. He thinks it’s premature to talk about his MVP candidacy, and besides that these hockey types don’t go in for that sort of self-promotion. There’s an…
Mae Sai, Thailand, has little to recommend it to most foreign tourists. The small teeming town along the Burmese border at Thailand’s northernmost tip is built around an ugly main street and a nondescript river bridge. Much of the low-slung outpost is given over to a street market described in…
Hank Mishkoff tries hard to convince you he isn’t a chronic complainer–some high-minded crank who thrives on conflict and refuses to back down. But the 53-year-old Dallas computer consultant belies that characterization when he directs you to the string of gripe sites he’s created on the Web and the string…
A plan to allow Mesquite to operate soccer fields at Dallas’ troubled Samuell Farm (“Farm Teams,” February 6) appears to be rolling right along. We’d like to tell you more about what that plan entails, but it’s a secret. You, Dallas taxpayer, should just butt out and mind your own…
The Day the Sky FellColumbia’s final flight: Of everything I’ve seen, read or heard, nothing brought me to tears like this story (“Last Rites,” by Jim Schutze, February 6). You brought it down to such a human level…one that touched my heart in a way that CNN, local news, the…
Full Frontal likes to keep up with the times, which these days means stepping back in time–to an era when ‘fros were fresh, Vietnam was our current quagmire and the American Basketball Association was the grooviest game on hardwood. Since we can’t afford those 400-buck Wes Unseld jerseys LeBron James…
Bob Mong stood in front of several hundred journalists at the Hyatt Regency this past November to sell them his dream. Mong, editor of The Dallas Morning News, told his staff, “I want to speak to you today about our aspirations…as a newspaper.” He told them he’s in charge of…
5 things Bob Mong should do Use Associated Press stories: Readers do not read bylines except for those of columnists and sportswriters. Let the wire services cover the day-to-day national stories and use your staff for analysis, opinion and investigation. Assign three Sacred Cow beats: Put one investigator on Tom…
The lawsuit reads more like a lesson in black history than it does a class action in federal court. Its pleadings tell the sad tale of Andrew Jackson Hurdle, a 10-year-old slave who was torn from his family in 1855 and sold to a Texas cotton farmer who purchased him…
More than a week after another disappointing loss to the Sacramento Kings, the same odd mixture of feelings likely ties your gut in knots. The All Star break probably did little to assuage your fears, and yet there is hope. That strange dichotomy is the burden that both you and…
Hate Groups for Peace Deals with the devil: And here I was thinking I was one of only two or three who had questions about this peace coalition for many of the same reasons mentioned in Mark Donald’s “Get On the Bus” (February 6). Thank you, Mark. I have heard…
Say AnythingJust in time for Valentine’s Day, we received a book in the office titled Speaking of Sex: Funny, Wicked & Joyful Remarks About Almost Everybody’s Favorite Subject. It is a Bartlett’s-style book with quotes about love and sex, which aren’t always synonymous at Full Frontal’s crib. It is, perhaps,…
A Buzz reader wrote in to suggest that we make some comment on a Dallas Morning News report last week that the Sheriff’s Department somehow lost 50 keys that could be used to start about 180 cop cars. “Surely this deserves some commentary, preferably of a more flippant variety,” the…
It’s hard to know how to dress for the peace protest in Washington, D.C.: warm gloves, ski parka, sensible shoes, a gas mask. My wife has unwittingly packed some snacks into a Gap bag. I repackage them in a Whole Foods sack, unwilling to risk the ire of anti-globalization types…
Dallas park officials would probably prefer that you not read this article. You can’t really blame them, though. You might not be interested in publicity either if you were talking about replacing most of a pastoral Dallas park with 40 soccer fields and 1,600 parking spaces–all of it belonging to…
