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    Let Me Sum Up

    The best Best of 2012 is Buzz's Best of 2012. Plus: pig's blood!

    Eric Celeste
    Dec 27, 2012 | 12:47 pm
    • Leslie Brenner of the DMN named FT33 Restaurant of the Year
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    • The Observer did not say that Big Tex burning down was the most important newsstory of the year.
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    • The Observer said that Rick Perry's meltdown was.
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    • The late Larry Hagman stars in a Dallas holiday greeting promoting the upcomingseason.
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    There are multiple, damn fine reasons this column is up so late today. One, it’s Christmastime-ish, still. I’m in Tulsa trying to sum up Dallas news and stuff my face with a third helping of Coney I-Lander chili dogs before I leave town.

    Also, I’m trying to wade my way through all the “best of 2012” kudzu you find climbing the paywalls this week.

    I really need some sort of relative velocity time dilation capsule to meet my deadlines this week, amirite?

    Granted, many of the best of lists or predictions are fun to scan. I particularly got some chuckles out of Elaine Liner’s “83 Things We Learned in 2012” post at The Mixmaster. (“Don’t send email to your mistress.” NOTED.)

    And I was pleased to see that Leslie Brenner bestowed the title of “Restaurant of the Year” on FT33, which offered the best meal I had in Dallas this year. But — and I know I railed against this yesterday, but hear me out — even that perfectly fine story got turned into a GD slideshow.

    The Dallas Morning News is doing that with a bunch of its lists this week, even going so far as to create a “5 movies you should see this week” and “5 movies you should avoid this week” slideshow. (No, I’m not linking to them.) Sometimes I think the only reason they still actually write service pieces in non-slideshow form is because they’re still forced to put out a print product — or so people tell me.

    Which is why I’m here to praise the annual feature that graces this week’s Dallas Observer cover, managing editor Patrick Williams’ “Year in Buzz.” (The headline is something else, but whatever. That’s the way I remember it.)

    It’s my favorite year-end wrap-up for three reasons. One, Patrick (with whom I used to work but now only exchange e-mail about once every two years) really hates writing it. He starts dreading it and complaining about it and generally trying to schedule something else every chance he can. So knowing that he probably pulled an all-nighter to finish this thing over the weekend makes me giddy with schadenfreude.

    Two, it’s not a mother-truckin’ slideshow.

    Three, he does very well what I try to do in this space, with middling success: pull out the major themes from the news, those that are important or telling or simply fun to discuss, and give context to them. Highlight what makes them absurd, give you a sense of what is more important in the long run, and why. And he does so in a really entertaining fashion.

    For example, he didn’t say Big Tex burning down was the most important story of the year; he said Rick Perry’s big meltdown was. Which is true — the idea that this idiot still runs our state should give us pause every day we live here. But he also writes about pig’s blood and dumb DJs and generally puts the year in context, in a manner that’s meant to be read, not clicked through. There’s still value in that, Patrick, so thanks for the all-nighter.

     Elsewhere

    Speaking of pig’s blood, the grand jury indictments are in.

    Speaking of Big Tex, Big Bob Wilonsky tells us that the State Fair is now taking donations to help pay for his restoration. Big Tex’s, not Big Bob’s. The amount of carded wool or worsted yarn to make the number of flannel shirts needed to fully restore Big Bob would make that project cost prohibitive.

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    Ahhh! Zombie Larry Hagman!

     

    J.R. returns! Larry Hagman has the last laugh in rollicking Dallas holiday video greeting cmap.it/Trv5Jl

    — CultureMap Dallas (@CultureMapDAL) December 27, 2012

    Pretty sure this will result in Shipp rocking back and forth, mumbling in a recursive loop for the next six to eight hours.

     

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    Crime & punishment

    SMU and KC Chiefs star Rashee Rice sentenced for Dallas high-speed crash

    Associated Press
    Jul 17, 2025 | 6:13 pm
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    DALLAS (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Thursday, July 17 after authorities said he and another speeding driver caused a chain-reaction crash that left multiple people injured on a Dallas highway last year.

    The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said Rice pleaded guilty to two third-degree felony charges of collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury in the March 30, 2024, crash. As part of a plea agreement, Rice was sentenced to five years of deferred probation and 30 days in jail as a condition of his probation, prosecutors said.

    The judge will allow Rice, 25, to find a time or times to serve the jail sentence, a spokesperson for the district attorney's office said.

    Prosecutors said he was also required to pay the victims for their out-of-pocket medical expenses, which totaled about $115,000.

    Rice was driving a Lamborghini Urus SUV at 119 mph (191 kph) when he made “multiple aggressive maneuvers around traffic” and struck other vehicles, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said that after the crash on North Central Expressway, Rice failed to check on the welfare of those in the other vehicles and fled on foot.

    The accident was caught on a dashcam video by motorist Bill Nabors.

    The news release from prosecutors included a statement from Rice that was released by his attorney. Rice said in the statement that he's had “a lot of sleepless nights thinking about the damages that my actions caused, and I will continue working within my means to make sure that everyone impacted will be made whole.”

    “I am profoundly sorry for the physical damages to person and property,” Rice said in the statement. “I fully apologize for the harm I caused to innocent drivers and their families.”

    Brian McCarthy, the NFL’s vice president of communication, said in a statement, “We have been closely monitoring all developments in the matter which remains under review."

    The Chiefs said Thursday that they did not have a comment.

    Rice was leasing the Lamborghini that police said was speeding along with a Corvette when the crash occurred. Rice's attorney has said that the Corvette belonged to Rice. The driver of the Corvette, who police said also left the scene, was also charged in the crash. The status of that case was not immediately clear on Thursday.

    Rice, a member of the Super Bowl-winning Chiefs team, is from the Dallas area. He played for SMU in Dallas and grew up in the Fort Worth suburb of North Richland Hills. Rice was selected by the Chiefs in the second round of the 2023 NFL Draft and has caught nine touchdowns in his two seasons with Kansas City.

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    AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta contributed to this report from Kansas City, Missouri. It includes archived material from CultureMap.

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