Standing behind a discreet Japanese screen partitioning a small space in one of Texas Instruments’ vast hallways, massage therapist Lynn Street plugs her product. “These chemicals,” she says about the endorphins released inside the human body during a rubdown, “will stay in the system for up to 72 hours.” It…
The coach gestures like an overcaffeinated child, frantically pointing here and there. He runs across finished hardwood–part of the pristine workout facility at the Baylor-Tom Landry Center–warm-up pants swooshing, directing players like a traffic cop at a broken light. Basketballs thump in a kind of asymmetrical chorus, and the air…
Robert Bledsoe walks across a vacant lot just behind Main Street in the century-old town of Ladonia. Wearing a weathered baseball cap and dirty work pants, he steps onto the concrete foundation where the city’s railroad station once welcomed eight trains a day. The building is gone, but that’s OK,…
SEVEN POINTS–On a late morning last week, as the cool Texas air was sweetened by overnight rains and the sun sparkled on the surface of the nearby Cedar Creek Lake, 34-year-old Keith Tarkington stood in the parking lot of the local Dairy Queen, pulled on his straw hat, and declared…
Making him pay: Terrific piece of journalism (“Marked Man,” November 2). The mentality that a cop is dead (or injured) and someone must pay is absurd. I am outraged! I expect that any complaints to the DPD about the handling of this matter, including Mr. Rebeles’ allegations against detective Kimberlin,…
Three weeks ago, Herbert Lee Madison celebrated his 47th birthday. Alone. But he was safe inside his home, at least, away from the terrifying posse of police officers and squad cars that converged there on the afternoon of August 19 to arrest him. Madison will never forget it: One officer…
Felix Lozada, Dallas Park and Recreation Board member, is sleeping in his chair. Board member Dwaine Caraway, sporting a gold crucifix and a Gore-Lieberman pin, is swiveling his chair back and forth, looking at the scene from behind gold-rimmed glasses. He checks his watch. It’s 10:30 on a Thursday morning,…
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…
