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Fort Worth's drowsiness more than a century ago led to an urban myth of sorts that a panther had wandered up from the Trinity River bottoms and was spotted sleeping on a...
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Smoke 'em if you got 'em: Craig Johnson, executive director of ProtectYouth.org, a Dallas-based nonprofit and lobbying group, doesn't smoke marijuana himself, he says. He...
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Right about now, I'm flippin'.
This has got to be one of the last time-windows for co-defendants to flip in the 2-month-old Dallas City Hall corruption trial in federal court....
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Josh I has 26 tattoos, some of which are demons.
Belying a stable, middle-class upbringing, he has a résumé littered with revolving-door drug and alcohol rehab...
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Dear Mexican: My family hasn't been long in this country, came here because of lousy treatment by other Europeans, and didn't live close enough to the southern U.S. border to...
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It's fitting, perhaps, that the first sound heard on the new Telegraph Canyon record, The Tide and the Current, is the faint whisper of a buzzsaw churning in the distance,...
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Hailing from Norman, Oklahoma, Mickey Reece, the man behind El Paso Hot Button, combines dirty guitar riffs, pulsing kick-drum action and searing vocals into a tenacious aural...
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It'd be easy to lump Trey Johnson's solo work in with his earlier efforts as the frontman for Sorta. That old familiar voice, after all, in all its vulnerable, heartfelt glory,...
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Natasha Khan creates illusions to help take her audience on a journey and, in part, as a way to dispel those images for herself. She's the wildly creative force behind Bat for...
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It's amazing how cyclical certain aspects of the Denton music scene can be, because, for the second consecutive year, an album release show for The Heartstring Stranglers...
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Everyone is familiar with Dean Fearings and Stephan Pyles and the other big boys of the Dallas dining set, but this year a group of relative unknowns is challenging their...
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With many of my favorite homegrown Dallas restaurants closing down (Mr. Barbecue Bus is gone, Big D's Dogs bit it and now Vern's Place is shutting its doors? I hate choo,...
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Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is consummate Hollywood entertainment—rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.
It's also...
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Comedian Dennis Miller hated on Ronald Reagan as much as any other comedian in the 1980s, but when 9/11 happened, the self-described libertarian was among the first celebrities...
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To help finance the November relaunch of the quarterly magazine Art Prostitute (which features interviews with and works by modern artists) in hardback, The Public Trust needs...
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Until Zombies of the Opera chronicles the undead love for a stunning soprano, The Phantom of the Opera maintains its hold as my favorite stage production. We're talking...
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Flex those vocal cords, because you'll be singing operatics after a night of Mediterranean cuisine. Who knows, the food just might inspire you to sing your way over to the...
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Foodies everywhere should know that it's Hatch Chile season--the best time of year for those tasty treats from Hatch, New Mexico, aka "Chile Capital of the World." If you love...
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The super-mellow sounds of the pop music sub-genre AM Gold reached a fever pitch as the 1970s came to a close. However, two of its biggest stars didn't make their mark until...
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We love book clubs, but most of them are speculative. We really don't know what the author meant by certain turns of phrase, or how the story was originally conceived. Since it...
