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I could find nothing about this in this morning’s Dallas Morning News, but the San Antonio Express-News notes yesterday’s arrest in Dallas of former schoolteacher Carolyn Blake. The U.S. government alleges that Blake, along with her brother and sister-in-law, are involved in “the largest Army contract-rigging and bribery case to…

Two weeks ago, a pretty Irish lady who also happens to be the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize winner was in Dallas to talk about a city she is opening in Italy. There, hundreds, maybe thousands, of orphaned, abused and otherwise displaced refugee children will come to live in safety and…

Blegh: City Hall watchers tell Buzz that it’s likely that the Dallas city secretary will announce this week that council member Angela Hunt’s anti-Trinity toll road petition drive collected more than enough signatures to require a vote on the project. OK, by “City Hall watchers” we mean either the homeless…

After more than six months of operating with two judges instead of four, the Dallas immigration court is finally getting one replacement. Still, Judge Richard Randall Ozmun of El Paso will be arriving in October to a court that’s so backlogged that new hearings are being scheduled as far out…

Off the Mark Mean girl: It is very obvious that this review (“Do It Yourself,” by Merritt Martin, July 12) was written by someone who was just trying to be mean and hateful. It appears that they have a personal issue with Michael Mark’s Trattoria and/or the Canyon Creek area…

News that some abused and neglected children have ended up sleeping in offices at Child Protective Services highlights the need for a kind of care that most consider a relic of Dickens’ time: residential care facilities, or orphanages, if you will. Since January 1, when CPS adopted new regulations for…

Click here for more photos from this story   Elias dangles the dead iguana by the tail. His friends close in around him, watching hungrily. With a knife he slices through scaly green skin and peels it back to reveal bloody meat, dark red and glistening in the sun. Working…

We’re pretty sure this photo of the Knights of Pythias Temple was taken many, many years ago. Whilst listening to the Deep Ellum deep-dishing on KERA-FM’s Think yesterday afternoon, I overhead Deep Ellum Association prez Gianna Madrini say something about how the Knights of Pythias Temple, located at 2551 Elm…

Janice Mixon — prophetess and, get this, former Dallas Police Department Officer of the Year. Which makes sense, when you think about it. Life is complicated. That’s all I can say for certain after hearing one of Pastor Sherman Allen’s prized “daughters” in ministry, Prophetess Janice Mixon, preach last Thursday…

At this very moment, the Unfair Park HQ cafeteria’s full of people watching Channel 4’s feed of smoke and smoldering ruins. Don’t go east. Whatever you do. It just took me a ridiculous amount of time — an hour, at least — to get from Mockingbird-Abrams to Unfair Park HQ…

A solid hit: Bootstraps Comedy Theater’s The Boxer lands some good ones at the Festival of Independent Theatres. Great poster too. The less said, the better The Boxer is. The new play by Dallas writer and Bootstraps Comedy Theater founder Matt Lyles, who also directs this production, is a clear…

Whilst perusing our latest copy of Jewish Women magazine, which we only take because we know so gosh darn many of ’em, we find on the cover the shayna punim of one Lisa Loeb — with whom, ahem, I starred in The Pajama Game when she was a Hockadaisy way…

From our Friend “Nimbus the Great,” whose fire photos we linked to below, comes perhaps the greatest pic thus far from this morning’s big bang. Oh, and the person who writes the best cutline for this photo will win a pair of tickets to see Wilco at the Palladium on…

Till this morning I’d never heard of the National Rural Funders Collaborative, a Dallas-based “collaborative philanthropic initiative” funded by some of the largest foundations in the country, among them The California Endowment, The Ford Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. The NRFC is prominently featured…

Yet again, one month to the day since the last one, through the windows of Unfair Park HQ at Maple and Oak Lawn we spy a mammoth plume of smoke rising from near downtown. (Says here it’s from an explosion near Industrial Boulevard and Stemmons Freeway. Says a colleague with…

Cas Haley keeps getting higher and higher in the ironically named America’s Got Talent contest. “Higher and higher.” Get it? No? You will. Writes “Rev. Randy L,” among Haley’s fans on the NBC site: “I am on top of the list to get a CD.” Someone needs to let the…

Jerry Yule, who apparently was a well-known pianist at local “upscale nightclubs and restaurants,” died Friday at the age of 64. This morning, we couldn’t help but take note in The Dallas Morning News of the paid obituary for local man Jerry Yule — “the step-brother of the world-famous movie…

Legal clients everywhere owe Dallas lawyer Coyt Randal “Randy” Johnson a great debt. And some steak sauce. A few days ago, an arbitration panel ordered famed Houston trial lawyer John O’Quinn to pay almost $36 million to former clients, in a trend that Johnston calls lawyer cannibalism.”When I started suing…

We told you yesterday that Rudy Mikula, among the best things about Victory’s mostly shrill dining experiences, has left Nove to graze the pastures of Consilient Restaurants. Now word comes that Kyle Kepner, the former III Forks cellar master and managerial weight behind Luqa downtown until just after it opened,…

In our “news from the future” department, we have this New York Times story dated July 25, about how Harley-Davidson’s trying to sell its bikes to the ladies. And though the story’s got a Nashville dateline, much of it takes place at a Grand Prairie dealership, where, recently, some 50…