Mike Gallagher, the Salem Radio Network-syndicated right-winger who occasionally shows up on Fox News Channel to pimp his book Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America, took time out of his busy schedule to address at TownHall.com Monday’s carjacking of Jesse Diaz, head of the local League of United…
Good God, is there anyone out there not trying to keep Sandra Bridewell in prison the rest of her life? C’mon, you know who Bridewell is, right? Course you do — she’s the former Black Widow of the Park Cities about whom we’ve written quite a bit, especially since her…
We spent a lot of time earlier this year memorializing the original Bill’s Records and Tapes on Spring Valley Road, which closed up shop in February after 26 years at that location. But we’ve not written a single word about Bill Wisener’s new digs on South Lamar Street, right next…
The Scar of David’s author, Susan Abulhawa, will be in Frisco this weekend, probably not for a RoughRiders game, though. If you’re interested in the state of Muslim-non-Muslim relations, you have a jam-packed weekend ahead of you. On Sunday, as we’ve noted before, the Washington-based nonprofit Council on American-Islamic Relations…
David Hollenbach Silly you. You just think there’s a stalled low-pressure system situated over North Texas that’s feeding off Gulf moisture and bringing us all this rain. Turns out, the super soaking is being brought about by “the Jezebel spirit,” in the weather-forecasting words of Plano’s nuttiest TV apostle, Doyle…
The fine folks at Liberal Revolt! picked up on a Boing Boing item today concerning an “impromptu town hall meeting” that took place at a local screening of Michael Moore’s health-care documentary Sicko, which opened on Friday. Reports one attendee at an unnamed local cineplex: When the credits rolled the…
Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Bud Kennedy noticed our item about National Public Radio’s story concerning Dallas’ mosquito problem. And he takes issue with the story’s theory that the giant salt-water-bred pests we’re seeing about town stem from the salt-water lakes created by Barnett Shale drilling: Why wouldn’t reporters ask Fort…
As of this week, there are two Dallas-based artists signed to TVT Records: Joining the Polyphonic Spree is rapper Countri Boi, who, says here, expects to release his major-label debut some time in 2007. TVT’s site says Countri Boi will release I’m a Boy on August 6 — though that…
National Public Radio this morning ran a story about Dallas’ mosquito problem — specifically, the proliferation of aedes sollicitan, a large, aggressive salt-water mosquito that shouldn’t be found ’round these here parts. WFAA-Channel 8 ran a piece about this bothersome breed a month ago, but NPR offers something new: a…
A couple of weeks back, Rolling Stone published a lengthy, thoughtful music-biz obit that resonated with industry insiders, with its bad news (album sales down 200 million units since 2000) and inside-baseball history lessons (the collapsed talks between Napster and label heads seven years ago) and the larger and still-unanswered…
Yesterday morning, I found in my in-box this Columbia Journalism Review story about The Dallas Morning News — specifically, about the state o’ Dallas’ Only Daily in the wake of the 2004 and ’06 layoffs that reduced the newsroom staff by 30 percent. The piece — penned by former News-ers…
God told Moses to free the Hebrews from slavery. He wants Larry to free people from traffic. Larry Neal, a middle-aged man with a healthy crop of boyish red hair, says that by listening to the spirit of God, he’s on the verge of making history, giving us the flying…
In the spring, as Dallas County Constable Mike Dupree was fighting to save his job, he looked at his longtime employee and deputy Les Willie. He pointed at Willie and drew a circle in the air with his finger. “Everyone close to you,” Willie says Dupree told him, “is going…
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…
Faster. Quicker. Meaner. Stronger. Whiter? Exposed, humiliated and dismissed by the athletically superior Golden State Warriors two months ago, the Dallas Mavericks entered last week’s NBA Draft with attitudes to tweak, limitations to minimize and physicality to enhance. So to complement Dirk Nowitzki, they choose a shorter, skinnier, softer Caucasian?…
There are two Marshall Sylvers onstage in front of 500 rapt fans in a high-ceilinged ballroom at the Adam’s Mark hotel. One Marshall Sylver is on a larger-than-life poster, posed in front of a Rolls-Royce, its hood ornament perfectly in focus. This Sylver wears a tailored suit and a shiny…
The Super-trainer Love the writing: In general I do not enjoy journalistic writing, most of which, in my mind, is proof that tired old thinking is available to anyone at anytime. But your article on Steve Asmussen is different; it’s well-composed, insightful and thoroughly memorable (“Dark Horse,” by Jesse Hyde,…
Three cheers for the red, white and blue, and, no, we’re not talking about the 17-games-out Texas Rangers. We speak, of course, of tomorrow’s festivities (and tonight’s, early-starters), and if you’re the type who prefers bands and beers to Mom and apple pie, here are a few select Independence Day…
Speaking of Deep Ellum — well, Grimes was down below, and KUT-FM down in Austin called this a.m. with questions for a whatever-happened-to special they’re doing on the neighborhood — our pals at the Pawn Gallery this afternoon shot us a link to the Save Deep Ellum site. There, we…
If we may recommend a wine for your Fourth of July, well, the Marlborough Unoaked Chardonnay is a fine way to start the day. We see that Charles Shaw Chardonnay, otherwise known as the Two Buck Chuck, captured a double-gold medal at the California State Fair Commercial Wine Competition, marking…
There are two men on this planet who know what they’re talking about when it comes to traveling, writing about traveling and talking about traveling. Those men are Bill Bryson and Rick Steves. If you pick up a guidebook, listen to a radio show, watch a television program or otherwise…
It’s always something with Affliated Computer Services, seems like. Like today: U.S. Attorney Richard Roper just issued a press release in which he gives a thumbs-up to a settlement with ACS, which agreed to pay the feds exactly $2,645,987.30 to resolve alleged False Claims Act allegations. To be more specific,…
