Mom…now there was a crabby cook. Ah, a man can still hear her in the kitchen opening up cans of vegetables and searing meat in old grease scooped from a can atop the stove. Bam! Dirty word! Bang! Really dirty word! And finally: “Come eat your damn dinner before I…
Musical chairs: Here Buzz was, ready to weigh in on The Very Important Issue of where D Magazine editor Tim Rogers sends his kid to pre-kindergarten, when our own Jim Schutze, who had already filed a column this week, decided HE wanted to write about Rogers instead. Damn. But Buzz…
MEMO: To: James Oh, vice president of current programming, Fox Broadcasting Co. RE: New situation comedy pitch. Dear Mr. Oh: We have a great idea for a situation comedy that we think would fit well with Fox’s lineup of cutting-edge programming. Our show, tentatively titled Carried Away, focuses on the…
Mayor Tom Leppert’s mad at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Minority council members are mad at Leppert. Oak Cliff’s mad at homeless people. Cowboys fans are mad at Wade Phillips. Dallas County commissioners are mad at Craig Watkins. Democrats are mad at Republicans (and vice versa). The cops are…
Hurry up and wait: Pardon Buzz for a moment while we lose our shit: BEER AND WINE HAVE BEEN AROUND AS LONG AS FREAKIN’ BREAD! CAN A MAN HAVE A CONVENIENTLY PURCHASED BEER? Sorry about that, but we get a little het up around the holidays, which is one of…
Psst. Hey, kid. Yeah, you, the one sneaking a peek at that naughty Observer. So, the parents want to get a picture of you with the Jolly Ol’ Elf at NorthPark Center, eh? Well, listen, peewee: Skip the wish list. We never got a pony, a shotgun or a lid,…
Christmas spirit: ‘Tis the season to celebrate the brotherhood and sisterhood of all mankind and give a thought to those in need. And then throw those God-damned beggars into the slammer. Ho, ho, ho. It’s a Very Special City Hall Noël, as this week the city council was scheduled to…
Still thirsty: All Buzz wanted was to be able to pick up a six-pack of beer at our local grocery store. That’s why we signed the petition, and later, along with 66.2 percent of the local electorate, voted to approve a proposition “wetting up” the entire city for beer and…
A waiter at City Diner and Oyster Bar in Corpus Christi broke the appalling news to my wife, in-laws and me last weekend as we made a trip to the coast: No fresh Texas oysters on the half-shell. Not one. Sorry, he said. Dealer prices a week into the start…
Get this Tea Party started: Well, that didn’t take long. If you wanted a hint of how next year’s session of the new tea-soaked Texas Legislature is going to go, then consider this: State Representative Debbie Riddle camped out at the Statehouse over the weekend to be the first in…
Groundhog Day: It’s Election Day. Gotta say something pithy about politics, even though we’re going to press before results are in. “Nation’s course at stake today,” the Morning News’ front page blared today. Wow, that’s pretty big stuff. Gotta pontificate. Gotta earn that paycheck. Hmm… Let’s see. As usual, Buzz…
Jim, Jim, Jim: At the risk of getting crosswise with the Observer’s own Jim Schutze—a man who files a memo with management every time we call him venerable—Buzz must say something we’d really rather not say: Maybe Mayor Tom Leppert and City Councilman Dave Neumann, who have complained bitterly lately…
A Buzz prayer: We thank Thee, Yahweh/Allah/Brahma/Insert Name Here, for the Texas State Board of Education and its continuing efforts to make Texans appear like the biggest group of yahoos in the nation, outside of Oklahoma. We ask that You sustain them in their task of making our opinionating easier…
To celebrate Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, available this week, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Sorry about throwing up a publicist’s raw e-mail, but those of you who’ve been following our interview with Craft’s Jeff Harris might want to jump on getting a reservation before they’re booked up. That’s right, Mr. Top Chef himself, Tom Colicchio, is coming to town, and he’s gonna cook. Here’s…
BUZZ Kids these days: Well, if that isn’t just about the saddest thing ever. We’re talking about U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who has spent much of the past two weeks being raked over coals after The Dallas Morning News reported that she arranged for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation…
His little light: It’s curious how differently individuals respond to a piece of “news.” Take last week’s video of Dr. Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of downtown’s First Baptist Church, in which he unleashed a harangue against Islam. Unfair Park blog editor Robert Wilonsky, who is Jewish, watched the video and…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
You may have noticed a shortage of posts and the inability to comment on City of Ate today. Well, our servers crashed, our technical people tell us. (We think that’s just their way of saying “stop downloading those high-def food-porn movies from Tajikistan.”) Whatevs. We were lost, but now we’re…
What, no lawsuit?: Civil rights lawyer Mike Daniel didn’t even wait for us to ask a question when he answered the phone. So, he said laughing, the Observer wants to know where’s the lawsuit in the fight over Cliff Manor, the Dallas Housing Authority apartment building at the center of…
English spoken here: This week, as part of a series on illegal immigration by the Observer and our sister papers at Village Voice Media, we bring you our cover story, “Seized,” by Phoenix New Times reporter Monica Alonzo. It’s a brutal read about the kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of…
“I stereotype. It’s faster.” —George Clooney in Up in the Air Meet your neighbors: The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas has joined a nationwide hunt for information about the FBI’s effort “to collect information about and map so-called ‘ethnic-oriented’ businesses, behaviors, lifestyle characteristics and cultural traditions in communities with…
