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Unlike his neighbors' homes, Craig Cunningham's house in Northeast Dallas looks abandoned. The grass is dried out. The concrete slab under the front door is lopsided and...
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Clearing the smoke: Every two weeks or so, we wander into our publisher's office and flip through copies of our company's sister papers in Denver and California, where medical...
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You heard it here first. Possibly. If you have already heard it somewhere else, please keep that to yourself. I want the credit.
North Oak Cliff is the new Austin.
Only...
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I was wrong.
Not about the Minnesota Vikings beating the Dallas Cowboys, mind you. That one I nailed. My mistake was predicting that—short of a Super Bowl...
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Dear Readers: Siempre, the wisest words that appear in this column come from ustedes, y the following two cartas prove this maxim. The first one addresses my year-end column,...
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Here we are, sitting in a church in Denton, watching Sarah Jaffe perform before a no-shit-Sherlock adoring audience—every single pew in the place completely...
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The New York City hardcore legends of Agnostic Front definitely still bring it: They're still as loud and confrontational as always, even with their wrinkles, gray hair and...
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Fact: Guitar legend Johnny Marr is not a vampire looking for youthful blood. He is not having a mid-life crisis. He's not even a guitarist-for-hire.
Fact: The brothers...
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When an all-local bill leads to a sell-out crowd on a cold Saturday night, one usually expects to see a well-established act atop the bill. But that wasn't the case during...
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In the absence of Michelin stars, The Mansion on Turtle Creek serves as Dallas' culinary measuring stick.
The priciest restaurants are described as "more expensive than The...
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I heard about Chicago Hot Dog from a friend who knows food, so I was pretty eager to eat lunch there the other day—so eager that I showed up at 11 a.m. on the dot, right...
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Extraordinary Measures is a race-against-time thriller in which a desperate dad (Brendan Fraser) sacrifices everything to cure a rare disease that's seconds away from killing...
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It's 2010. We thought we'd have flying cars and jet packs. We do not. But, what we do have is burlesque. Is that an even trade? Some think so. If your last hours of 2009...
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I didn't know it as a warped junior-high dork, but Glenn Barr's art was already informing the love of surreal visuals that I shared with millions of other kids who loved The...
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Yang Jin Long came of age in the intellectually and creatively stifling environment of post-Cultural Revolution China. Apparently, the result of leaving behind such a tightly...
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If one of your New Year's resolutions this year is to be more a more charitable member of the community, then the 2nd annual Soup's On! event is here to give you a jump start....
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To celebrate the University of Texas-Dallas' 40-year anniversary, the Visual Arts and Humanities Faculty presents an exhibition of works spanning the past four decades,...
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Before I got old enough to pair up with a lady and start attending dinner parties, I never really understood why said parties were the setting for so many pivotal events in...
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"In sleep we lie all naked and alone, in sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness," wrote novelist Thomas Wolfe. "And we are strange and beautiful asleep."...
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When I was a child I had several of those bizarre compilations with kid versions of adult pop songs. One of my favorite songs was "Up, Up and Away," followed closely by "Let...
