Never really got the whole “cowboy poetry” thing. Seems like contrived sentimentality, the bane of good poetry, but since this Sunday Fort Worth will mark the National Day of the Cowboy with a tribute that includes the Cowtown Opry cowboy poetry contest, we thought we’d give it a shot. Let’s…
Blegh: City Hall watchers tell Buzz that it’s likely that the Dallas city secretary will announce this week that council member Angela Hunt’s anti-Trinity toll road petition drive collected more than enough signatures to require a vote on the project. OK, by “City Hall watchers” we mean either the homeless…
Oh, the shame: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The Dallas County GOP must be feeling pretty Dickensian right about now, Buzz figures. Between their despised fearless leader in the White House turning more Captain Queegish daily, and local first-term Dems looking more and…
Of all the versions of “Cinderella” handed down by various cultures, why was the United States stuck with the syrupy translation of Frenchman Charles Perrault’s tale? His Cinderella is a sappy little do-gooder who eventually forgives her wicked stepsisters. Better is the Brothers Grimm take, in which the stepsisters end…
Of all the versions of “Cinderella” handed down by various cultures, why was the United States stuck with the syrupy translation of Frenchman Charles Perrault’s tale? His Cinderella is a sappy little do-gooder who eventually forgives her wicked stepsisters. Better is the Brothers Grimm take, in which the stepsisters end…
You can keep your 2006 fully animated version of Curious George, about the inquisitive ape and his friend The Man in the Yellow Hat, voiced by Will Ferrell. Whatever, kid. Those who know better understand the sine qua non of George, the proper way to ingest him, is in pajamas,…
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…
Imagine asking your cardigan-wearing, golf-playing grandfather if he wants a gin and tonic. “Fo’ shizzle, mah nizzle,” he replies. Gack. That was our reaction when we saw the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is presenting Video Games Live on Wednesday and Thursday. Who is this blend of costumes, game competitions and live…
So, have you ever been tested? Look at you, blushing. We know. We’ve never had an HIV test either, and man, that’s embarrassing. We’ve never needed to be tested, and what sort of sad, cloistered life must have befallen a person who grew up during the frenzy of the AIDS…
So, have you ever been tested? Look at you, blushing. We know. We’ve never had an HIV test either, and man, that’s embarrassing. We’ve never needed to be tested, and what sort of sad, cloistered life must have befallen a person who grew up during the frenzy of the AIDS…
Time was, the celebration of Juneteenth—commemorating June 19, 1865, the day Union Major General Gordon Granger informed slaves in Galveston that they had been freed—was a much bigger holiday. It was black Texans’ version of the Fourth of July. Today, the celebrations are more modest, but the day of freedom…
“What is so dangerous about a character like Ferris Bueller is he gives good kids bad ideas.” I suppose if you’re an aficionado of Serious Cinema, you could substitute the words “film directors” for “good kids” in that line from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and blame Ferris creator John Hughes…
Cats are better than dogs. Oh, I know you’re thinking that’s just my opinion, but you’re wrong. Having just dog-sat for a friend, I can prove it. To wit: Cats don’t smell; they don’t make you feel like the orphanage guy in David Copperfield when you eat; and not once…
Ah, the Ice Queen with the hidden, passionate, horny heart of fire; the bookish woman who whips off her glasses, shakes the bun out of her hair and growls. Keep your Madonnas and your whores, your bleached bims and skeletal supermodels; for sheer hotness, nothing beats Marian the Librarian with…
Membership has privileges: Lucky you. Once again you get to bask in the gloriousness that is Buzz. Please, don’t bother to genuflect. Oh, OK, genuflect. But just a bit. Oops, sorry. We were feeling all Olympian for a moment. Don’t blame us, though; blame the Texas Legislature, which has decided…
Coolness. Kansas is coming to McKinney’s Myers Park and Event Center—at last, a band from my high school years in the ’70s. I remember the first time I heard “Heat of the Moment,” it was…huh? That was Asia? Right. Anyway, I really dug “Come Sail Aw…” Oh…that was Styx. Um…”More…
Dallas Observer reporter Matt Pulle has asked his editors to give you the following information: He has no opinion about the size of former Dallas County Deputy Constable Jim Gilliand’s behind, no interest in procuring sexual partners for Constable Mike Dupree and nothing to do with anonymous phone calls to…
Here’s an odd little fact: The Bay City Rollers have a best-of CD, released in 1995. And, get this, it has 21 tracks, only one of which is titled “Saturday Night,” their hit single from 1975. (The chorus: “S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night!” Repeat ad nauseam.) Who knew they were so, um, prolific?…
Massacred: So, what lessons can we learn from the 3-to-1 stomping of the ballot-box effort to halt Farmers Branch’s anti-illegal immigrant ordinance? That Farmers Branch residents are bigoted butt-heads? Perhaps, though honestly Buzz doubts the people there are any worse than anywhere else. “All men are racists,” an old English…
David Talbot, founder and former editor-in-chief of the Web magazine Salon, comes to the Borders bookstore at the Preston Royal Shopping Center (10720 Preston Road, Suite 1018) at 7 p.m. Monday to pitch his new book, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. The book explores JFK’s efforts to…
Democracy in action: Former Dallas City Council candidate P.D. Sterling, with help from political blogger Sharon Boyd, is preparing to file a complaint with the state claiming that pro-Trinity toll road folk broke some election rule in a mailer the group sent out telling people not to sign the petition…
Artless: Stereotypes are bad. Got that. It’s wrong to say anything is “typical Dallas.” We know. This is a big, cosmopolitan (snort) American city in the 21st century. So, far be it from Buzz—well, not that far, just a few more words—to smirk at a situation and dismiss it with…
