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Buzz supposes it was progress of a sort.

True crit The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has finally named a replacement for Elvis Mitchell, the movie critic who left in January to go to The New York Times: Christopher Kelly, a New York writer who has penned essays for Salon.com, Premiere, Out, and Film Comment. Reached at his apartment in…

In less than a month, Dallas voters with time on their hands will flock to the polls by the dozens to consider whether DART should be allowed to sell bonds to speed expansion of its light rail system.

Before we get to the “story” part of this column, please allow me to tell you why I love Marty Griffin. You remember Griffin, right? For years, he was one of Channel 5’s “public defenders,” an investigative reporter who muckraked his way throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area, using his TV…

Falling down I’d feel a lot worse about the demise of Leaning House (“Leaning over,” July 13) if I thought they’d really given it a shot. Until a year or so ago, I had a jazz show on a Berlin radio station. I played their records all the time, and…

You boot up your computer. Go online. Punch in the address www.TimberwolfPress.com and hit “enter.” Against a black background appears a photo of a lone wolf, its eyes narrowing as the image melts and morphs into a graphic: It’s the same wolf, only outlined in devilish red, its eyes just…

It’s the Fourth of July, and the protesters are sitting in the shade under trees near the John F. Kennedy memorial. A replica of the Statue of Liberty stands in the sun with signs reading “Amnesty now!” leaning against her. Another proclaims, “George Washington was an immigrant too!” Television news…

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…