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2001 Stories by Patrick Williams

• Politically Incorrect

  published December 27, 2001

  When you got nothing, the great Bob Dylan once sang, you got nothing to lose. Maybe perennial mayoral candidate Bill Jack Ludwig has been... More >>

• Good Money After Bad

  published December 20, 2001

  Last week the Dallas Observer printed an article about Charles Wilkerson, an itinerant minister who seems to have a knack for... More >>

• A Guy Thing

  published December 20, 2001

  (Editor's note: The following contains a very un-P.C. sexist rant. The author is not normally a pig, but Yuletide avarice has affected his... More >>

• Out With the Old

  published December 13, 2001

  Shit happens: During this mayoral campaign season, when talk of getting back to basics--fixing streets, sidewalks, etc.--is all the vogue,... More >>

• Wing, No Prayer

  published November 29, 2001

  Whoever decided to release a flock of caged white doves at the end of the Cowboys halftime show Thanksgiving Day no doubt intended them as... More >>

• No Mas

  published November 22, 2001

  Boxing fans had anticipated the superfeatherweight championship bout between unbeaten champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and No. 1 ranked... More >>

• Recall 9-11

  published November 22, 2001

  The rubble of the World Trade Center towers had not stopped smoldering before ideas began surfacing about how best to memorialize the destruction... More >>

• Deck the Malls

  published November 22, 2001

  To you, what best epitomizes the beauty of the holiday season? Is it a midnight Mass? A child's delight on Christmas morning? Serving food to the... More >>

• Guilty, Guilty, Guilty

  published November 15, 2001

  To the end, Herbert Lee Madison insisted he was no cop killer. Maybe not, but he definitely should learn to look both ways before crossing... More >>

• In the Screening Room

  published November 15, 2001

  Two years ago, a colleague of Michael Cain's asked the founder and director of the Deep Ellum Film Festival just why the hell he named his... More >>

• Run, Domingo, Run

  published November 8, 2001

  Domingo Garcia confirmed to Buzz this week that he is "forming an exploratory committee" to look into the possibility of declaring his candidacy... More >>

• Pay for Play

  published November 1, 2001

  It wasn't a good week at The Dallas Morning News. The city lost out on its Olympic bid to friggin' Houston. (Hey, but that... More >>

• Buzz

  published October 25, 2001

  First, a little disclosure on Buzz's part. We were talking this week with Gilberto Cortez, publisher of the local Spanish-language... More >>

• Ride'em, Cowboy

  published October 25, 2001

  In a previous life in San Antonio, each February our boss would send out a memo encouraging employees to wear Western clothes to work to... More >>

• Buzz

  published October 18, 2001

  So the daughter of City Council member Laura Miller called a family meeting to reveal her list of eight reasons why Miller should... More >>

• Buzz

  published October 11, 2001

  The State Fair of Texas operates as a tax-exempt nonprofit outfit because its mission supposedly is "educational." With that in mind, Buzz... More >>

• Buzz

  published October 4, 2001

  It's not yet last call at the Lounge, the beloved bar adjacent to the Inwood Theater. On August 8, the bar's owner, Theresa... More >>

• Buzz

  published September 20, 2001

  A fine line separates indefatigable optimism from loopiness. Buzz, whose sense of optimism abandoned us about the same time we started... More >>

• Buzz

  published September 13, 2001

  So City Council member Laura Miller says she never said those mean things about untidy, code-violating Hispanic businesses in Oak Cliff... More >>

• Buzz

  published August 30, 2001

  Damned faint praise: A herd of Pegasuses...Pegasi...whatever...have started cropping up on downtown streets, drawing swift... More >>

• Buzz

  published August 23, 2001

  Peace of the action: We thought it must have been a joke. A co-worker dropped on Buzz's desk a price list for being listed on a new... More >>

• Buzz

  published August 16, 2001

  Black not like them: As the Dallas City Council's redistricting panel wraps up months of mind-numbing labor, some residents in... More >>

• Buzz

  published August 9, 2001

  The Rangers are in the toilet; the Cowboys are teetering on its rim. Dallas needs a winner. What's a sports fan to do? Try... More >>

• Buzz

  published August 2, 2001

  Kissy, kissy: With the uninterrupted lovefest celebrating the opening of the American Airlines Center under way in the pages of... More >>

• Buzz

  published July 26, 2001

  When we last checked in with Amelia Core Jenkins, proprietor of a downtown bed-and-breakfast, she was in a tussle with the... More >>