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Lotta places you could go with a story pitting one waste-disposal company against another; sounds like two or three Sopranos episodes, at least. Only, this one’s being waged in a Dallas courtroom: Duncan Disposal is alleging that Dallas Waste Disposal & Recycling is hauling off its “roll-off” waste disposal containers,…

Commissioner of Higher Education Raymund Paredes is “not a scientist.” A week ago today we broke the news that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Committee on Academic Excellence and Research in Austin was considering the Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research’s request to grant master’s degrees in science education. Well,…

Dear Someone Who Has Access To A Phone At Park Cities Volkswagen, Dallas’ No. 1 Volkswagen Dealer, Pick up the phone. Call me. Reassure me that I am not currently on the receiving end of some of the worst customer service in the history of the planet. If you can’t…

Dennis Road runs from Royal Lane north toward Forest Lane, where it turns into Josey Lane. But on that short Northwest Dallas street, federal law-enforcement agents discovered a fairly large heroin trafficking operation that, early next year, could very well land three Dallas men in prison for life. The U.S…

Far as I’m concerned at this point, three e-mails is a “torrent,” so consider this a public service: If you’d like to order yourself one of those pink Tony Romo jerseys, like a certain someone was wearing Sunday at Texas Stadium, all you gotta do is go here — to…

Someone out there’s working on a doc called Devious Dallas, clips from which have been surfacing on the YouTubes for the last couple of months — like this “promo” and this clip featuring the guy who “considers myself a pony or a horse.” Today we’re treated to “The Bubble Dancer,”…

A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention this a.m. to KERA’s Arts + Culture blog, which features a short film from Rob Tranchin, who writes, produces and directs docs for station. The subject of his short film Million Dollar Monarch is, no kidding, a tree — specifically, the familiar…

So, the deadline’s came and went yesterday, without a single soul bidding on Johnny Cash’s signed contract to play the Big “D” Jamboree at the Sportatorium on April 19, 1956 — for the whopping sum of $175. The Austin-based collector trying to part with the contract, which bears the signatures…

Memo to Chris Anderson, “40-year-old Dallas marketing manager”: If you’re going to spend “$1,000 on games like Mattel’s 1977 handheld Electronic Football,” it’s probably not wise to tell Newsweek — especially when the game’s going for just a few bucks. Oh, and when it’s for a short story titled “Forty-Year-Old…

Susan Byrne, making cents Susan Byrne’s the founder, chairman of the board and chief investment officer at Crescent Court-based Westwood Holdings Group, which manages major corporations’ pension funds and big-money players’ mutual funds; she’s also a member of the Dallas Citizens Council, fancy that. And this week, she’s one of…

At last, the perfect Christmas gift for the baseball fan who has everything: two mausoleum crypts at Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home, Mausoleum & Memorial Park on Northwest Highway, right next to where Mickey Mantle’s been resting in peace since 1995. Each crypt will only cost you $50,000 a piece, but, dang,…

Over at OnPoint, a legal issues blog from the Courthouse News Service, Matthew Heller argues that Duncanville’s gonna have a very hard time swallowing The Cherry Pit. As in: Even if Duncanville can defend the scope of its ordinance, it still is unlikely to show that its interest in prohibiting…

Come February, Houston’s launching a new PR hellbent on selling the not spot as a hot spot; among those taking part are George and Barbara Bush, Hilary Duff and George Foreman — wow, impressive. Before that, though, there’s a new photos-and-essays book out called Houston. It’s Worth It, which stems…

USA Today today mourns the death of Christmas carol. Alas, don’t fret, says Michael Hawn, Director of the Master of Sacred Music Program at SMU: “It will take imagination and a willingness to break the ice,” he tells the paper. “Singing is an act that naturally enhances a sense of…

Landon Austin, secretly a Zapp’s fan So, Doritos is putting on a battle of the bands called “Crash the Super Bowl,” the winner of which eats up some 60 seconds’ worth of precious ad time during, d’uh, the Super Bowl XLII broadcast on February 3. And top prize also consists…

CBS Sunday Morning was in town to profile Neiman Marcus, just in time for the holidays — specifically, its 100th Anniversary Christmas Book, which, this year features, among other high-priced items, a private concert (hosted by Regis Philbin) and the Triton 1000 submarine for a $1.44 million. (And, yes –…

There will be blood: Javier Bardem in Dallas-Fort Worth’s crix fave pic of 2007, No Country for Old Men The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association this morning released its year-end film huzzahs, and topping the best-picture list is … envelope please … No Country for Old Men, followed by a…

Last month, we cruised the Highway to Hell with Pat Robertson — good times, good times. You remember, right? K, then. Anyway, mentioned in that 700 Club report was James Stabile, “a 19-year-old homosexual who’d come by to drink and party” on Cedar Springs and wound up, like, finding God…