Sacramental Beer Theology Live gets spiritual–in more ways than one The beer garden is packed. Sitting shoulder to shoulder at the long, wooden picnic tables, the Ginger Man pub’s Monday-night patrons are doing, well, what people at bars do. Guffaws echo from the corner as a group of baseball-capped frat…
The news is a bit old now, but if you think Buzz is going to pass up a chance to riff about high school cheerleaders pooping on a pizza, then all we can say to you is “Welcome to Dallas, new reader!” We’re talking about the story widely reported last…
Secret Code Validation, finally: Thank you so much for this story on the city’s code enforcement department (“Kick Down,” by Jim Schutze, June 9). To those of us affected by the constant ups and downs of the department, this article was very much overdue. My father was one of those…
Thirty-five years ago, on June 12, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirate and future Texas Rangers pitcher Dock Ellis found himself in the Los Angeles home of a childhood friend named Al Rambo. Two days earlier, he’d flown with the Pirates to San Diego for a four-game series with the Padres. He immediately…
Mostly Air Self-defense training for U.S. airline flight attendants is lax, despite 9-11 Our first-class galley flight attendant and our purser have been stabbed. And we can’t get into the cockpit. The door won’t open.” American Airlines flight attendant Betty Ong’s recorded phone call from aboard American Airlines Flight 11…
Two questions leaped to our mind when we saw the billboard for Amdecon along Interstate 35 near Oak Cliff, featuring a chalk outline of a dead body and offering cleanup for the aftereffects of homicides, suicides and decomposing corpses. First, has Dallas’ long reign at the top of the nation’s…
Stuck in Squalor Landlocked: You make a lot of good points in your article (“This Teardown Town,” by Robert Wilonsky, June 9). I have tried in the past to acquire a city-owned unsound structure in South Dallas with unpleasant results. Also, there are some people willing to build in South…
It is not often that Dwayne Jones just gets into his car to drive around the city and look at the buildings he has spent so much of his life trying to protect. The head of Preservation Dallas has no time to gaze at Dallas’ dilapidated wonders, crumbling ruins and…
Stuff It Gluttony a deadly sin? Try telling these “athletes.” Mmmm, tamales. Twelve Dallas Tortilla and Tamale Factory tamales piled per plate to be exact, two plates at each table setting. No, this isn’t lunch hour at the factory; this is the start of the first world tamale eating championship,…
Arabs fighting Kurds. Israelis battling Palestinians. Americans vs. Iraqis. And so on. Can’t we all just get along? Or, barring that, can someone tell a black woman where she can get a decent, inexpensive haircut in this town? Stay with us; this will make sense shortly. A haircut is what…
Conor’s Crying Game The wanker in the mirror: Turn around, Rob Harvilla (“Turn Around, Bright Eyes,” June 2). I’m always impressed with the Dallas Observer’s many stories on various artists and make it a point to pick up the latest copy for that reason. The Dallas Observer truly is a…
“Let me set up a, what do you call it, a hypothetical for you,” Dawn Nettles says in her Texas drawl, her voice roughened around the edges by her daily pack of Misty menthols. “Let’s say you’re the boss of a company, and you give one of your employees a…
Death for a Killer A 21-year-old woman gets death sentence for couple’s murders “Please don’t kill us, girl.” From a distance, the letter looked like it could be a high school note, a young woman’s bubbly handwriting sprawled across the page. What appeared to be a heart was drawn on…
Being the suspicious, cynical sort, Buzz couldn’t help but salivate a little bit when we heard that Mayor Laura Miller’s chief of staff, Crayton Webb, quit his job not long after the strong-mayor proposal was defeated. Not to paint an unduly harsh picture of Webb, who’s always been friendly, helpful…
The Scarlet “S” Social castration: This is a brief version of my full rant–I’m supposed to be working–but I just want to thank you so much for publishing this article and giving solid examples of how the current system harms individuals while failing to give adequate information to parents and…
Amid the Christmas rush at the Mall of the Mainland in Texas City, Ruth Pavelko’s back scrunched into a prickly knot. The 49-year-old mom stumbled through the Foley’s parking lot to her Pontiac, her lungs feeling as if they were filled with Jell-O. Three blocks down the street, Pavelko lurched…
First the good news: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is all over the bureaucratic SNAFU that allowed convicted sex offenders to receive Viagra and other sex-enhancing drugs through the state’s Medicaid program. State Senator Florence Shapiro has agreed to attach an amendment drafted by the AG’s office to another bill…
Lucas on Love Luke, you insult me: Hey, Luke Y. Thompson, if you’re going to review a movie, i.e., the new Star Wars episode (“Sith Is It,” May 19), then stick to reviewing movies, not making judgment calls about adopted people and their families. You pointed out that George Lucas…
These sex offenders, they’re all perverts, right? Pedophiles. Rapists. Sick freaks, the whole lot of ’em. Lock the bastards up for life. And good riddance, by God. And in the cases where we can’t lock ’em up, where these sickos are showing off their weenies to little girls or some…
You couldn’t miss him: a teenager dressed always in black, with Elvis sideburns and a hard-charging way of bounding up the stairs, as if life were moving too slowly for him. In the same class as my oldest son at the Science and Engineering Magnet at Townview, occasionally at our…
Narrow EscapeAsylum seekers find the door to the U.S. is closing With a sly smile, Daniel Komayombi shows off his drawings of Texas cowboys and snow-covered African volcanoes. Some of his pictures are remarkably complex for a second-grader. All six Komayombi children–Nadia, 18; Rosine, 17; Jean Yves, 15; Grace, 12;…
Buzz is in Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, mode this week, trying to get to the bottom of several mysteries: Who was the driver of the car that fled from the scene of a traffic accident involving Ricardo Medrano, brother of District 2 city council candidate Pauline Medrano? Why was political…
