Craig Watkins’s Trip to the White House

As we noted Monday, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins was invited to a White House Christmas party this week. I went over to his Facebook page to see if he’d posted any photos; sure enough. I dunno. I was excepting more. I mean, I guess the president’s somewhere in…

Trade Ya: Top 10 Movie Lists for Free DVDs

Forthcoming later today is this year’s Unfair Park holiday-season auction benefiting North Texas Food Bank, which features not one by several one-of-a-kind, locally produced items. But while we wrap up this year’s goodies, first this giveaway.Yesterday I posted the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association’s tops-of-2009 list. But what say you…

The Big Eazy. What’s Dat?

I love me some journalism. But, God, do I hate me some English. Through and threw. Chord and chat. Axe and aks. And when they’re finished, somehow buildings aren’t builts. In America they’re trades; in England they’re transfer windows. Don’t get me started … or is too late? This Saturday…

Get a Haircut, You Danged 4-Year-Old Hippie!

The story of Taylor Pugh, the 4-year-old preschooler suspended by the Mesquite Independent School District for his long locks, is making the cross-country rounds today. Thanks to this Associated Press video, MISD spokesperson Laura Jobe’s hairstyle has now been called into question…

Roger Staubach is Super Man

He’s always been Captain America. These days Roger Staubach has evolved into a different kind of hero: Super Man. As in, he’s the face of Super Bowl XLV, coming to North Texas in 2011. Sat down with the former Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback a couple times recently to find answers to these…

The Two Rogers Hartmanns

Slowly but surely, videos from the TEDxSMU event, held back in October, are finding their way to the conference’s site. After a slow rollout — and I highly recommend Lewis Warren’s performance, posted last month — two went up yesterday: a talk from Dr. William Abraham, the school’s Albert Cook…

Chuck Greenberg > Tom Hicks. Texas Rangers = Texas Rangers?

Lots of positives on the sale of your Texas Rangers from Tom Hicks to Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg. *First and foremost, Hicks will be a minority voice, but one with zero say on trading, hiring, firing or signing players, coaches or employees. *Nolan Ryan remains the face of the…

Jim Schutze Would Be Happier if Racists Weren’t on His Side

Strange bedfellows: Buzz is thinking about some of the response that came in from readers last week after our own Jim Schutze threatened to beat up Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. All Buzz can say is: What did Schutze expect? The Pulitzer? One reader, Ron Walenta of Quitman, Texas,…

Roger the Dodger Gets Called Back to Lead One More Super Bowl Drive

Captain America is up to no good. While waiting for his mocha frappuccino at a Starbucks near DFW Airport, the man with one of the metroplex’s all-time squeakiest, cleanest reputations gets noticed. Gets approached. Gets mischievous. “Hey, you look soooo familiar,” the woman working the counter says. “Well, yeah actually,…

Buzz | Ready to Rumble

“Buzz” by Patrick Williams, December 10 Good Book, Bad Readers Oh, gee, guys, how many times do we have to say it? It’s not what’s in the Bible, it’s how the doofuses interpret it. In fact, the word “rapture” isn’t even mentioned! It’s crazy people like your caller who give…

Um, About That Whole Tony-Candice Thing

I heard Gordon Keith on The Ticket this morning referencing this “story” concerning Tony Romo’s alleged engagement to CW33’s Candice Crawford. Apparently, the tale has made the rounds far beyond 1310: “News outlets from across the country and throughout DFW are calling us looking for an answer,” says this just-posted…

The Juice is Loose on AA, Redux

Back to that story about John Reed, the first-class passenger on that Sacramento-to-Dallas American Airlines flight earlier this month who asked a flight attendant for a glass of orange juice and wound up with a federal warning for bad behavior instead. A Friend of Unfair Park sends along Reed’s appearance…

Roy Williams Crowns Saints, Then Guarantees Cowboys Will Beat Them. What?

I’m starting to think Dallas Cowboys’ receiver Roy Williams is just kind of kooky. The Hook ’em Horns sign after rare touchdowns. The game-day Michael Jackson outfits. The, um, contradictory quotes. Williams was at his nonsensical best yesterday at Valley Ranch, telling reporters in the same breath that the Cowboys had no…

You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

Speaking of the O.C. …We were in Bishop Arts over the weekend when my 6-year-old espied this “sad sign,” as he called it, affixed to a telephone poll at the N. Bishop Avenue-W. 8th Street intersection. ‘Tis the season. My son, blog editor in training (poor kid), thought I should…