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Tim Marshall and his wife, Kay, were bickering like seagulls when the cow dung flew inside their pickup's passenger-side window and splattered across his face. "Put the vehicle...
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Free Jenny
Thank goodness Margaret Morin hasn't given up on Jenny—without hope, there often is nothing. If Jenny knows, she appreciates it.
Morin has a wonderful vision...
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Lost in translation: Wow. That was some piece of reportage The Dallas Morning News produced this Sunday about Richard Allen's inland port project in southern Dallas County....
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If you claim to have witnessed the wildest game in Dallas Mavericks' history, chances are you're lying.
Only 9,007 fans squeezed into the team's makeshift home at SMU's Moody...
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Dear Mexican: In an earlier column, you mentioned that conservatives can't have an argument against illegal immigration without it degenerating into a diatribe against culture....
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There's no denying the convenience of iTunes or even Amazon's online store. Or, for that matter, torrents and music blogs (at least when it comes to the pirates among us).
The...
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Metalheads looking for enough hair windmills—a circular type of headbanging that, um, is exactly what it sounds like—to give Don Quixote a coronary will find their...
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So here's the deal. Old Neil had his 1959 Lincoln Continental re-jiggered so it could run on some sort of bio-hydro-electric propulsion system, and then he wrote an album about...
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Jovial Baltimore titan Dan Deacon has made his name with a glowing green skull, a ratty Fred Flintstone T-shirt and a joyous one-man electronic arsenal combining pulverizing...
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Watching Chris Finley ready his gear before performing a gig as Kashioboy is like watching someone preparing for an '80s computer techie's yard sale. At a recent fund-raiser...
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If your oral surgeon misses by the tiniest fraction, that foolproof replacement tooth could end up cracking your mandible. Did you know that? I didn't either until I overheard...
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The sign at Wok China that reads "No refunds. Exchange only" might scare away some diners, but not me.
That was true especially once I saw that every entrée on the...
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Kevin Macdonald's Washington thriller is a bellows designed to puff up the most beaten-down reporter's chest. Compressed from the highly regarded BBC miniseries first telecast...
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The last time a PG-rated movie won the Best Picture Oscar was almost 20 years ago. Really, it's difficult to imagine that Driving Miss Daisy could charm Oscar voters in the...
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Akubra. Balmoral Bonnet. Casquette. Fascinator. Kolpik. Porkpie. Ushanka. You're probably wondering what all these weird words I'm throwing at you are, and no, they're not...
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The multi-tasking Mo Rocca has had his fingers in a multitude of comedy pies over the last decade. He accomplished the rare task of representing "real" media like Larry King as...
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The skydivers chugging Mountain Dew and eating Taco Bell were bad, but I didn't think EXTREME marketing could reach a lower point than Extreme Pringles. Really, Pringles?...
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I've never understood why guitar festivals insist on booking the same tired blues and hard rock guitarists year after year. Really, when was the last time you heard anyone...
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Are you behind on your gallery-hopping? We understand. Dallas has a whole lot of galleries, and checking out all of the best ones isn't always easy. Luckily The Dallas Art...
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Looking for some snakeweed, a pink skullcap, small leaf pussy toes, a red hot poker or fire bush? Well, you can find them at the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife...
