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Kent Rathbun is finally getting every single finger on Abacus and Jasper’s. After much prodding, chef Kent Rathbun finally released a statement confirming that he and former Ruth’s Chris Steak House CEO Bill Hyde have purchased the Abacus and Jasper’s restaurant interest from the estate of the late Robert Hoffman,…

Anand Jon, who designs for Paula Abdul, is a wanted man in Dallas. Must be the week for unsealed indictments. Only, we had an idea these were coming, as three arrest warrants on sexual assault charges have been issued in Dallas for New York-based fashion faux pas Anand Jon. The…

Bella Union Midlake performing on the BBC in April At least around Unfair Park HQ, a mere mention of the word “Midlake” can spawn a fairly heated debate: On one side are those who dig the Denton band’s lush brand of soft-rock; on the other are thems who think the…

Dallas-based Kimberly-Clark, manufacturer of Huggies diapers, is in a pissing match with Procter & Gamble Co. over this pretty amusing ad. Seems the makers of Pampers aren’t laughing at Kimberly-Clark’s commercial that says, in short, Pampers are good for one thing: diapering bricks, not babies. Says here that Cincinnati-based P&G…

And he wants respect, damn it. At least, that’s how Fortune figures it in a lengthy profile of Cuban tied, course, to his Dancing With the Stars appearance that keeps on keepin’ on, at least for one more week. Writes Devin Leonard about the Dallas Mavericks owner’s reasons for mamboing…

In 1999, Central Dallas Ministries was inundated with callers looking for legal help. Most of these callers were poor, but not poor enough to qualify for help of the Legal Aid of Northwest Texas. And yet they had pressing matters they needed help with — from divorce to child custody…

Once again, a Dallas resident is in the running to be America’s Next Top Model. In last night’s episode, the season’s third, spunky 19-year-old Ambreal finally got a little screen time, sashaying down the runway working a Colleen Quen gown “inspired by violets” and working a couture gown while hanging…

Tori Van Fleet, a forensics and firearms expert with the Fort Worth Police Department, has been following an unusual case making its way through U.S. Tax Court — one that will determine whether it’s acceptable for people to claim transgender surgery as a tax deduction. Van Fleet hopes the answer…

On Monday, after the feds handed down their long-awaited indictments in the City Hall corruption case, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price had nothing to say to The Dallas Morning News. He “declined to comment on the indictments” specifically for a story headlined, “Wary of motives in City Hall case,…

In her November “Culture and Commerce” column for The Atlantic Monthly, former Dallasite Virginia Postrel complains about the resale value of her Uptown town home — which is now worth “$6,500 less than we paid for it” in 2000. Why? C’mon, you know why: “The supply of housing in Dallas…

Casey Thompson and Tom Colicchio, their time at an end Like she said yesterday, Casey Thompson will be back in the Shinsei kitchen on Monday — not the Top Chef after all, not even almost. In the very end, after a give-us-yer-best cook-off during which she came off rattled and…

“Meet the new urban Texas,” proclaims USA Today in a story about, among other things, Ross Perot Jr.’s Victory Park spawl-mall built on “on 275 acres of former wasteland.” It’s quite the advertorial for the Hillwood development: Perot, perched atop the Ghostbar balcony in a photo taken by the great…

Home to roost: First off, Buzz apologizes to U.S. Attorney Richard Roper and his cohorts for ever hinting in this space that the feds’ investigation into alleged corruption at City Hall was taking too long. As the release of indictments Monday accusing 16 people of various counts of bribery, extortion,…

Laura Sanchez glances at the gold watch on her wrist. She looks up and smiles stiffly. She only has an hour, she says, fidgeting with the pearl ring on her finger. And then she has to catch a flight to Monterrey, Mexico. She needs to escape; she needs to stop…

Teenage and Transgendered Not an easy life: I was very impressed with the way the Dallas Observer and Megan Feldman told Jay and Amber’s story (“Girl Meets Boy,” September 20). Being transgendered is something that I would not wish on my worst enemies (yet I am proud of who I…

The beauty of big-box chain stores such as Target and Wal-Mart, if there is any beauty to speak of, is that customers can at least knock out just about everything on the shopping list at once. Kitty litter, cleaning supplies, condoms. But nobody wants to be the creep loitering in…