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Seems yesterday’s Dickey’s item is almost as popular as Wednesday’s posting about Rebecca Aguilar’s suspension — well, OK, not quite. Regardless, for those so interested, news that Dickey’s is franchising across the country — not to mention across the pond — has spawned a heated debate about where to find…

We would be remiss if we didn’t start off Friday by reminding you where you need to be Saturday: at the Granada Theater, starting at 7 p.m. As we’ve mentioned before, tomorrow night’s the Carter Albrecht Memorial concert, tickets to which are $30, with the proceeds going toward the establishment…

Holy crap: Man oh man oh man. Just met Dallas County Judge Jim Foster for the first time. Wow. In more than a decade of writing nasty things about public officials, we’ve never been speechless or felt a twinge of conscience, but writing an accurate description of a chat with…

As of a year ago, I had been writing critical stories and columns about the Trinity River project for a decade. I went to work for the Dallas Observer in 1998 in part because I knew it was the one place in Dallas where I could write honestly about the…

My prey is just around the corner. I can hear it before I see it. The child’s high-pitched whimpers reach my ears as I crouch behind a fence. The gaping wound in the side of my head is sticky. I am exhausted. But my hunger is not yet sated. I…

Gone Too Soon No relevance: I’m not sure I understand the relevance of this issue and how it really relates to Carter Albrecht or Darin Archer (“Better to Rust,” by Jonanna Widner, October 4). By saying that Carter was not an addict or an “asshole” (again, relevance?) and yet lump…

Last year Dallas Children’s Theater did several performances of The Secret Life of Girls, a play about bullying among teenage girls. The play revealed that along with depression and cutting, eating disorders is one way victims of bullying manifest their pain. Rebecca, a character in the play, gives hints throughout…

Middle-class Americans formerly addicted to begging and borrowing are spending less and saving more, reports Newsweek in a story about the death of the “latte era.” To make the case, the story focuses on two local couples: 34-year-old computer engineer Brian LaCroix and his wife Yvette, who make $200,000 combined…

The producers at America’s Next Top Model almost got us this week. Opening with the short, spunky Janet proclaiming herself the “house mom” and Dallas’ Ambreal getting significant screen time, we weren’t sure which model was going to get canned — but any time a model gets that kind of…

Amanda Newman sends an update concerning the health of beloved Dada doorman John “Beard” Brewer and the benefit concert scheduled for October 28: He’s doing well. They’ve moved him out of ICU and into a regular room. He’s been looking forward to being in a real room because, as he…

Earlier this month, leaders of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth said they were considering leaving the Episcopal Church, which they consider too liberal, and affiliating with “another province of the worldwide Anglican Communion,” according to this Dallas Morning News story. And as reporter Sam Hodges pointed out, “Should the…

The original Dickey’s barbecue, founded in Dallas in 1941 In the St. Louis Post Dispatch, of all places, Roland Dickey Jr. talks about the plans to turn the family business into the nation’s favorite barbecue franchise — and, yeah, that’d be Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, like you couldn’t figure that out…

Member papers of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) this week are providing links on their websites that direct their readers to the many places on the Internet where the home address of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is listed. AAN papers are doing so to show solidarity with the…