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In the spring, as Dallas County Constable Mike Dupree was fighting to save his job, he looked at his longtime employee and deputy Les Willie. He pointed at Willie and drew a circle in the air with his finger. “Everyone close to you,” Willie says Dupree told him, “is going…

Go away: So much rain…so many clouds…will to live fading…fading… The Dallas Morning News reported last week that despite the record days of rain—what is it now, eight, nine months?—it’s unlikely anyone around here is suffering seasonal affective disorder, aka winter depression. Oh yeah? Then someone explain to Buzz why…

There are two Marshall Sylvers onstage in front of 500 rapt fans in a high-ceilinged ballroom at the Adam’s Mark hotel. One Marshall Sylver is on a larger-than-life poster, posed in front of a Rolls-Royce, its hood ornament perfectly in focus. This Sylver wears a tailored suit and a shiny…

The Super-trainer Love the writing: In general I do not enjoy journalistic writing, most of which, in my mind, is proof that tired old thinking is available to anyone at anytime. But your article on Steve Asmussen is different; it’s well-composed, insightful and thoroughly memorable (“Dark Horse,” by Jesse Hyde,…

Three cheers for the red, white and blue, and, no, we’re not talking about the 17-games-out Texas Rangers. We speak, of course, of tomorrow’s festivities (and tonight’s, early-starters), and if you’re the type who prefers bands and beers to Mom and apple pie, here are a few select Independence Day…

Speaking of Deep Ellum — well, Grimes was down below, and KUT-FM down in Austin called this a.m. with questions for a whatever-happened-to special they’re doing on the neighborhood — our pals at the Pawn Gallery this afternoon shot us a link to the Save Deep Ellum site. There, we…

If we may recommend a wine for your Fourth of July, well, the Marlborough Unoaked Chardonnay is a fine way to start the day. We see that Charles Shaw Chardonnay, otherwise known as the Two Buck Chuck, captured a double-gold medal at the California State Fair Commercial Wine Competition, marking…

There are two men on this planet who know what they’re talking about when it comes to traveling, writing about traveling and talking about traveling. Those men are Bill Bryson and Rick Steves. If you pick up a guidebook, listen to a radio show, watch a television program or otherwise…

It’s always something with Affliated Computer Services, seems like. Like today: U.S. Attorney Richard Roper just issued a press release in which he gives a thumbs-up to a settlement with ACS, which agreed to pay the feds exactly $2,645,987.30 to resolve alleged False Claims Act allegations. To be more specific,…

The Associated Press has a story today about how all the rain’s done killed the tourism trade in Texas of late — at lakes and water parks and every waterlogged thing in between. Leading off the piece is a guy named Rick Williams, who packed up the family in DeSoto…

In the summer issue of Frontiers of Health Services Management, an American College of Healthcare Executives-published journal that’s required reading at UP HQ, Parkland Health & Hospital System’s top officials have penned a paper congratulating, um, Parkland for its fine, fine work. Actually, the 7,000-plus-word paper — titled “The Quest…

Three weeks back we mentioned how the parents of Jacob Stiles, an SMU student found dead of an overdose at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house in December, were furious with school officials. The Stiles said then, as they do now, that the university’s done nothing to find out who…

Upon further review, Bottle Rocket’s easily the best movie ever shot in Dallas — and Bob Musgrave, at left, is the best thing about it. If you shoot a movie in Texas that makes Texas look bad, well, bubba, don’t expect the state to pony up any dough for yer…

Everyone’s in a suin’ mood today: News just came down the pike that Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens is going after an NYC nightclub for $600,000. Seems that a club called Avalon might have “improperly used his name, likeness and famous initials, T.O., in 2006 and 2007 to promote…

You think you’re mad about your tax appraisal? Well, apparently you’re not quite as pissed off as 11 local shopping centers, who today filed suit in Dallas County District Court claiming that the the Dallas Central Appraisal District and Dallas Appraisal Review Board jacked up their respective tax appraisals using…

Dunno if Tum Tum’s gonna be the Next Big Thing outta Dallas’ hip-hop scene, as this piece from DJ Booth.net suggests, but we do know one thing: Tony Richardson’s big. C’mon — he titled his released-last-week album Eat or Get Ate for a reason, right? And if nothing else, as…

At left is state representative and former Army Captain Allen Vaught, the Lakewood Heights resident who was awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained during an ambush in Iraq. Everything you need to know about state Rep. Allen Vaught is on his Web site; the representative from Lakewood Heights (District…

It’s Monday. It rained on and off all freaking weekend, and you couldn’t get your iPhone hooked up because every other trendspotter in the United States was trying to get theirs hooked up. Looks like it’s gonna keep raining, and your iPhone is gonna be obsolete when iPhone 2.0 comes…

This morning, the Washington Post goes inside the mind of George W. Bush — and finds that it’s a very cold and lonely place. Seems the man’s not terribly interested in talking politics these days; he prefers spending his time with “authors, historians, philosophers and theologians” with whom he consumes…

We weren’t going to succumb to this, swear — especially since we stopped watching The Simpsons ’round the time Bill Clinton was well into his second term. And it didn’t help that on Friday, we received at UP HQ a Kwik-E-Mart cooler fillled with a Buzz Cola sixer, a box…