You’re driving the 110-mile, high-speed burn from Dallas to Flint, Texas, with visions of gold in your mind. OK, maybe not gold, but at least enough cash to pay that exorbitant TXU Gas bill that hit you like Ray Lewis earlier this month. As you pass the junk shops and…
The small crowd huddled inside and around a tent pitched on a vacant lot on Good Latimer near Swiss. The weather hit below-freezing temperatures, and the TV news broadcasters stirred panic over a coming ice storm that never came. But the citizens and city employees who collected here had waited…
“How badly do you want this story?” he asks, leaning forward, saying that he has the scoop that could expose the truth behind Chris Christian’s management of The Studios at Las Colinas. This anonymous source, this “Deep Throat” of the Dallas film community, soon pulls from his pocket a letter…
Sex Offenders Married to one: I really en1joyed your article “Hello, My Name Is Pervert” (January 11). It was very interesting and hit close to home. I am married to a so-called sex offender, but I would not trade him for anything. Your article kind of touched on the people…
“I’m off like a prom dress,” says Shannon Ritch, finishing an afternoon of 330-pound bench presses–not bad for a guy who weighs 190 tops. He brushes back his bleached-blond flattop, adjusts a black T-shirt over his T-bone shoulders, and swaggers toward the door. The aggressive blare of Limp Bizkit and…
With the exception of the city limits sign, which sells Glenn Heights as the “Gateway to Southern Country,” there is little to alert drivers bouncing down Hampton Road leaving DeSoto that they’ve entered a city of more than 6,000 residents confined to nine square miles of generally neglected territory. With…
Jason January, a Dallas County special prosecutor until he suddenly and inexplicably quit in October, accumulated some impressive photographs during the last couple of years. There’s the one where January’s arm is around Peter Jennings’ shoulder at Jennings’ ABC News office in New York City and one of January on…
Sinner man: When it comes to the seven deadly sins, Buzz has never had a particular problem with envy. Gluttony? Mmmm. Lust? Heh-heh-heh. As for our personal favorite, sloth…well, we’d get into it, but it’s late and we want to go home and get some couch time. But we’ve never…
Unnatural Selection Academic martyr: Baylor professor Charles Weaver complains that William Dembski’s work has been published in forums that lack peer review (“Monkey Business,” January 11). If Weaver isn’t satisfied with the grueling reviews Dembski’s dissertations (two, count ’em) received at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois…
One after another, they drift into the cramped Dallas offices of counselor Phil Taylor–a half dozen of America’s Most Unwanted, registered sex offenders all. Reeking of strong coffee, summer sweat, and stale cigarettes, they have come this Saturday morning seeking group therapy for the same reason they do every Saturday…
In the beginning, there was a bang. A very big bang. Nothing exploded into something. Quarks and leptons collided violently in an intense fireball of plasma. As the plasma expanded and cooled, the collisions became less violent, and particles joined together to form protons and neutrons and electrons, then nuclei…
Supreme Beef Processors, the Dallas company that went bankrupt while fighting the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has won another court victory over the government’s right to enforce stringent new meat-testing standards. Critics say the new standards, designed to detect pathogens in meat such as salmonella and E. coli, are unfair…
Stinking thinking: Make that 20 good ideas for 2001. The latest issue of Inside magazine–the print version of media fetishist Kurt Anderson’s Inside.com Web site, which claims to cover “the business of entertainment, media & technology”–touts on its cover a feature detailing 21 good ideas for the new year. (One…
Cringeworthy I am the future of art: “All art is a gimmick, and in that gimmick lies the heart of the art.” –Sassoism. “When an artist signs his name to his art, then that’s a promotion.” –Sassoism. Why shit on me and ridicule me about my art? You obviously know…
Teed off: Dallas officials zealously guard the city’s status as a major convention magnet. Certainly, civic leaders know that conventioneers spend precious little time actually convening at trade shows and professional gatherings. But once you’ve seen the grassy knoll, taken in a game, and zipped to the top of Reunion…
When C.A. Reynerson walked into Keith’s Comics in September 1999, it was clear he wasn’t looking forward to catching up on the action in the second installment of the anime comic Demon Beast Invasion: The Fallen. He was looking for a case. Reynerson, a detective in the vice section of…
Michael Kline, organizing chief for Dallas-based Teamsters Local 745, says he’s never had a supporter quite like Fred Pfisterer. The night shift freight loader and union backer was fired in September from Saia Motor Freight Line Inc. during an acrimonious labor dispute that’s being closely followed throughout the trucking industry…
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico–The fine-powder caliche dust rises from the road, forming a suffocating haze that clears only when Esther Chavez slows her car to avoid ruts and rocks or to yield right of way to the dozens of stray dogs trotting aimlessly through the colonia located on the northern edge…
Young, Drunk Bushies Dude! Where’s the polling place? Thank you, Joe Pappalardo, for clearing up something that has bothered me for a long time: Why would anyone vote for George W. Bush (“The Party Party,” December 21)? Because they were drunk and/or stoned! Party on, all slackers/boozers/stoners. You have elected…
Dallas vitamin entrepreneur Craig Keeland remembers vividly the cocktail party at which he reluctantly passed on a golden opportunity to pitch his products to George W. Bush. In the early 1990s, Keeland, founder and chairman of the vitamin company Youngevity, became acquainted with Bush when the two men had offices…
The tree, all trimmed with popcorn and tinsel and Dallas Morning News :CueCats converted into Christmas ornaments, is dim now. We’ve finally shipped off the gifts. (More free colon-afflicted :CueCats. Buzz is cheap.) So it’s time to toss a few :CueCats on the fire, fill up a water tumbler with…
Like any other parent, Maria Gomez has high hopes and aspirations for her son. Marco, 16, is a student at Moisés Molina High School in Oak Cliff who is well liked by classmates and teachers for his infectious laugh, limitless energy, and sunny disposition. Of medium height, Marco has a…
