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Oh, all right already: Its outside smells like street-person pee. Its inside, when Buzz was in the bar years ago, looks like your parents’ basement rec room. Its concrete and metal exterior reminds one vaguely of the nicest hotel ever built in the old Soviet Union. So Buzz, who considers…

“Bridging the Gap,” by Naomi Zeveloff, May 8 Looking for a Home I appreciate the story and the informational side it seeks to provide. That being said, there is certainly a cultural misunderstanding by many about homelessness, especially the “chronic homeless.” As a former “chronic homeless” individual, I can assure…

They came in twos and threes up the stone steps of the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo this week: rail-thin women in stiff cotton prairie dresses, their chins tucked low, their faces unadorned with makeup, their hair pulled back in tight braids and buns. They were the women…

“Stacey, what do you see?” Sergeant Jonathan Markham asked his wife. He stopped the white Volvo. It was a sunny December day in 2006, and they’d been driving through Burleson as he prepared to finish his second Iraq tour after two weeks of leave. Stacey looked out the window at…

As long as there are stories about the dangers associated with the smoking-cessation drug Chantix, there will be references to Carter Albrecht, who was on the drug the night he was shot to death on September 3. Take, for instance, this story from the Los Angeles Times posted this afternoon,…

So says this short film, one among many just posted to the YouTube by a company called Your Concierge TV, which makes promotionals for cities and posts them to interactive maps, if this Chicago map’s any indication. Only, the site’s “currently in production” at the moment, so it’s hard to…

After I posted the note that the Inwood Theatre had completely revamped its downstairs theater, several Friends wondered what, precisely, does the new interior look like, anyway? Well, the Landmark-ers have kindly provided photos of the joint, three more of which are after the jump — including a shot of…

People has the “exclusive photo” from Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz’s nuptials over the weekend. But, really, I think it’s the photo of Joe Simpson’s other daughter at bottom left that is far more … interesting. –Robert Wilonsky…

The Gruccis were responsible for the Statue of Liberty Centennial Fireworks in New York Harbor on July 4, 1986. Speaking of things that go bang, we just received word that tomorrow morning, in front of Hall of State at Fair Park, Mayor Tom’s going to make some announcement concerning the…

Found this story this morning in the Army Times concerning the Army and Marine Corps’ peeping “a new, long-range sniper rifle, designed to kill an enemy from as far away as 1,800 meters.” Didn’t know why it was datelined Dallas, till I realized the story stemmed a discussion held yesterday…

Week from today, ExxonMobil shareholders stage their annual meet and greet at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, which means folks who work in and around the downtown might want to consider alternate routes. Looks like you might want to make it in before, oh, 8 a.m., as that’s when…

Looks like former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller’s battle with Big Coal didn’t go unnoticed by some folks in D.C. Because yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency included her among some 15 recipients of the 2008 Climate Protection Award. Also receiving the honor — which is bestowed upon folks who “have demonstrated…

Jason Grant/National Trust for Historic Preservation The groovy fire pit in the Statler Hilton Hotel A few Friends have asked if there are any more photos of the old “endangered” Statler Hilton; turns out, sure, the National Trust for Historic Preservation always has one more to spare. And Jason Grant,…

The old U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. Just remember it after you jump, K? In today’s mail we find a copy of Progressive Nation: A Travel Guide with 400+ Left Turns and Inspiring Landmarks, written by Jerome Pohlen — who’s running for Congress in Illinois on the Green Party ticket,…

Peter Elkind Don’t know how we missed this one at the end of April, but, thankfully, Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith took note. Because, according to the The New York Observer, former Dallas Observer editor Peter Elkind’s done landed himself a nice six-figure payday with a book about former New…

Doyle Davidson My in-box has been filling up of late with messages concerning the most bizarre, fascinating love-hate story I’ve ever come across: the passion of preacher Doyle Davidson for his so-called “wife,” Lisa Staton, about whom we’ve written plenty over the last couple of years. Still, the story grows…