So, it’s pretty much a consensus: We all hate to see Margaret Keliher go. But, seriously…Mayor Keliher? C’mon. Of all the elections in Dallas County last night, no race was as shocking as Jim Foster’s upset of Republican County Judge Margaret Keliher. Craig Watkins surprise defeat of Republican Toby Shook…

So far, we’ve received more than 75 letters from would-be proofreaders “correcting” Richie Whitt’s lead on his sports column this week. For the record, “two shits passing in the night” was not a typo. It was a joke or–as one letter writer corrected me when I ‘splained–an attempted joke. So…

Art and death: Suicide may be painless, as the theme song from the movie M*A*S*H suggests, but talking about it can be a pain in the butt, particularly if you’re a student at Tarrant County College. Would-be filmmaker William Lin found out just how touchy the subject is when he…

Pay to play: We’re having a debate about a debate here at the Dallas Observer. Robert Wilonsky, editor of the Observer’s blog Unfair Park, thinks Belo Corp. is behaving like an evil corporate monopoly by limiting access to the live broadcast of this Friday’s gubernatorial debate. This is bad, he…

Suckers: Not long after Dallas city council member Mitchell Rasansky started talking about the need for a vote of the people on the Calatrava “signature bridges,” Buzz began seeing signs of pressure by the mayor and city manager to head that off. For one thing, Rasansky himself appears to have…

Dear Press Release I received Last Week From Some Girl At Ketchum Communications Concerning The Weight Watchers Account, I don’t think we should see each other any more. I knew our relationship was a sham from the very beginning. I know, at first you were very attracted to me. Or…

The Atlantic has a story (subscription required) this month on how “America’s educated elite is clustering in a few cities—and leaving the rest of the country behind.” Basically, college graduates are increasingly moving to “superstar cities” (places like Seattle, New York and San Francisco) and their surrounding suburbs partly because…

A 2,000-word story about the Emily Dowdy case–“Drugged or Drunk?” by Adriana Gardella—appeared on Salon.com August 30 and prompted more than 60 letters to the editor. (My story on Dowdy, “Oklahoma Railroad,” appeared July 21, 2005 in the Observer.) A former architecture student at OU, Dowdy is now serving 40…

For this, you traveled to Africa? So what has ex-Observer music editor Sam Machkovech been up to since he and the paper parted ways? Rafting down the Nile River. Judging by that hand signal he’s throwing, I’d say that Sam may have left the Observer, but some of that Observer…

A guy named Rob is looking for a guy named Bugs, who may be in possession of a map, or may have firsthand knowledge, “as to the grave of two Bigfoot” here in Texas. We just got an e-mail from Rob, who says he hosts something called the X Zone…

Now, I know you’re all thinking that I make the big bucks, but you’re wrong. Those all go to Wilonsky (“Fingers of Fury,” I believe some of you call him). But even if I did, student loans, aka credit card debt incurred when I was a college student, have now…

In another life, DISD trustee Ron Price was probably a studio publicist in the 1930s with an extraordinary knack for garnering headlines for his Hollywood clients. Through luck or calculation, the school board member and possible city council candidate knows how to snag the spotlight. After Price spoke before the…

Gene Street, chairman of Consolidated Restaurant Operations, is getting himself into fighting trim as he prepares to open a new Silver Fox Steakhouse in the Centrum’s Star Canyon space in January 2007. “I quit everything in May,” Street boasts. “Fried foods, potatoes, sugar, and I quit drinking red wine. I…

There was a time, seems like it was about five seconds ago, when I didn’t think it would ever get below 100 degrees in Dallas. My bike rides around White Rock were put on hiatus. Friday nights on the porch with a cold one were moved inside with six fans…

Today’s D’Angelo Lee story has got me really upset about the state of things. If a former member of the Dallas Plan Commission can’t spend Sunday morning at the Knubian Fantaciez all-nude stripper club–which open-mindedly offers all-male shows after midnight–without fear of having his $15,000 alligator billfold temporarily stolen and…

In college, we had this MTV channel, mtvU, that actually played music videos. Weird, right? You could turn it on and expect to see a full-length, non-TRL shortened version of (at the time) some My Chemical Romance, Phoenix or Snow Patrol video. I know, how embarrassing, I’m showing my old…

In the ongoing soap opera at Water of Life Church in Plano, preacher Doyle Davidson has posted another “message to Lisa” with a new tidbit of information–and what reads like a threat. For the first time, Davidson says that the church–and the Spirit of the Lord–bought Lisa and J.R. Staton…