The most telling announcement Dallas Morning News President and Editor Bob Mong made last week was the one he didn’t. Mong, in a memo to staff, detailed sweeping changes in management designed to help kick-start a “revolution,” a word used repeatedly by Publisher James Moroney. A new No. 2 editor,…
Among the miles of sentences The Dallas Morning News has constructed about the proposed Dallas Cowboys stadium at Fair Park, here’s one that caught Buzz’s attention: “The footprint for the project, which would be north of the midway, would affect some areas of the park, including the sheep and cattle…
The day after the Dallas Mavericks ended their uninspired season with an even more insipid playoff performance, the atmosphere at the American Airlines Center had become poisonous. There weren’t many people around, but the ones who did limp into the office–save one helpful media relations assistant who managed to remain…
Frisco RFD Fast and furious: Regarding Zac Crain’s article “Perfect Town, USA” (April 22): The article kept referring to the concept that you can build in “values” to a community by simply placing buildings in certain locations and certain configurations. If you do that, it will magically be 1960 again!…
Every few minutes, the man screams the same desperate sentence, hands cupped around his mouth in a futile attempt to be heard above the crowd. Hunched over in his seat high up in the rafters, he’s like a jockey whipping a horse, urging it toward the finish line: “LaMarcus, you…
Their thoughts are ridiculed by other students and often, they say, by the professors themselves. They are required in class to watch movies to which they are opposed and then offered no forum afterward to discuss their opposition. They are the minority on campus, yet some lectures from some professors…
Don’t rush to the polls to vote on that new stadium for the Dallas Cowboys, unless you like waiting in line for 10 months. No matter how long it takes the team to decide on a location for Jerryworld–on the Trinity River, in Las Colinas or in Fair Park–Dallas County…
Boy, Oh, Boy Who doesn’t know of Boy George? He’s an icon who eludes concrete description. Ever-changing, multi-talented, hilarious and incredibly honest. We spoke with the legend in anticipation of his May 1 gig here DJing for the NYC vs. Dallas party at Liquid. Should I call you Boy or…
My reformation started about a month ago. It was around that time that one of our reporters–whom I respect a great deal because he’s a fantastic writer who’s won more awards than I knew existed–advised me to be careful. He lauded my ability but cautioned me to be more judicious…
Funny Guys in Fezzes Refusing care is not the answer: I cannot believe the naïveté that Jim Schutze displayed with the article on Ron Anderson and the Parkland hospital issues with Cynthia Comparin (“Die, Poor People, Die!, April 22). If Dr. Anderson had been the one turning people out at…
Four decades of James Bond films have proven that I must die now. Ive seen all the secret plans, uncovered facts and figures. I now know how the evil geniuses in Frisco plan to take over the world; i.e., I know too much. So this is where the needlessly complicated…
Few entrepreneurial journeys in Dallas have been as unusual as Monica Greene’s. Working in many of Dallas’ finest and most popular restaurants through the 1980s and early ’90s as Eduardo Greene, she personified the quintessential host: gracious, savvy and acutely tuned to the social complexion of the dining room. As…
Usually, Buzz is wary about weighing in on workplace strife. See, Buzz has a history of, ah–how exactly would the company lawyer prefer we put this?–a history of explaining ourself loudly and forcefully to co-workers. Truth be told, Buzz has, on several occasions during the past decade and a half,…
Playing Coy “It’s not easy to play a woman,” playwright Charles Ludlam once observed. “I often think it must be hard for a woman to play a woman.” Dallas actor Coy Covington would agree. He’s been donning hip pads and heavy pancake for women’s roles for a decade. But don’t…
What a Dildo Cover it up: Thank you for bringing us this wonderful cover (“Sex Toy Story,” by Glenna Whitley, April 8). My child was impressed when we passed by it as it was so proudly displayed. But I’m quick–when he asked me what it was, I said it was…
Rancher James Fuqua fancies himself a soothsayer. In 1997, a rainy year, Fuqua surveyed the sprawling fields of green grass near his West Texas ranch in Quanah and smelled impending peril. The uneasiness prompted him to increase his water supplies and buy every blade of hay he could get his…
Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, who fled to France with their child and founded a secret royal dynasty after he died on the cross. Since 33 A.D., church fathers have tried to cover this up because they must rid the world of the sacred feminine or, in other words,…
When we last visited the hamlet of Burleson–in last week’s cover story, “Sex Toy Story” by Glenna Whitley–the big question on many minds was whether Chris and Joanne Webb are “swingers.” In a just world, the only answer required would be “none of your damn business, Bub,” but this is…
The first time Kevin Ellis tried skeleton racing, he felt sure. He knew, after five days of lessons, how to make his sled turn and how not to crash into the ice walls or get seriously injured. He had been instructed on his footwork at the gate and the importance…
Bad Vibrations Takes the cake: The cover story of your April 8 issue is very tasteless and not funny (“Sex Toy Story,” by Glenna Whitley, April 8). While I am no prude, I think that your picture on the cover with Joanne Webb giggling and holding a cake with a…
You may never march for a cause, picket your employer or talk back to authorities. You may not even have an opinion of your own. You might prefer the company of TiVo, live in Highland Park and vote Republican. You are still being monitored. It isn’t just the police who…
We’re not a big fan of parties and festivals here at Buzz, and not because we’re misanthropic. Well, not solely because we’re misanthropic. We also happen to believe that organized group festivities are generally a bad idea. Nearly every story we’ve heard of wildly inappropriate or dangerous behavior–getting way too…
