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World of Longmire.com This is really just a post to let you know where I’ll be tomorrow through Saturday, if you need to find me: at the Hyatt Regency Dallas, for the 27th Annual National Conference of the Romance Writers of America. You must respect the list of conference sponsors…

It’s every parent’s nightmare. You work hard trying to raise your child, teaching him bad manners and a healthy disrespect for authority, and the little jerk turns out to be a straight-A nerd on the straight-and-narrow. If only there were some kind of rehab for young geeks, a place where…

So, we finally got an answer from Andria Kavanaugh, Fort Worth’s official mosquito specialist, about those saltwater mosquitoes National Public Radio reported were swarming in Dallas County. As you may recall, NPR ran a piece last week about Aedes sollicitans, a big and mean ol’ mosquito that shouldn’t be found…

Big day for our old pal Keven McAlester, whose his Roky Erickson doc gets a DVD release right about now. Kev, former met-ropolitan and current good human, celebrates with the biggest video currently racking up positive feedback on the blog-o-circuit: Spoon’s new “The Underdog” from the out-today Ga Ga Ga…

KPRC-Channel 2/Houston So, the Dallas Police Department is trolling for officers — in Houston, says here, which seems like a bad idea. Because, see, while Dallas needs about 350 new officers to swell its ranks to a reputable count, the Houston Police Department “has 400 to 500 officer vacancies, while…

This weekend, its first in its new Fair Park-area home, a church for the homeless and needy endured a death and a break-in attempt. On Saturday, a man named Rodney Burris died in the back of a Fair Park-area church while protecting a gas-powered generator; two other men who were…

Tim Seelig’s left the Turtle Creek Chorale, but he’ll still be plenty busy. Standing ovations were easy to come by at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center last night as Dr. Timothy Seelig conducted and performed his last concert as the artistic director of the Turtle Creek Chorale. (How many…

Matt Pulle’s not looking for a new gig, Mr. Mong, but he does want you to know what a fine job your paper’s doing. You’re welcome. I can’t believe I’m about to write this, but here goes: Jim Moroney and Bob Mong are right. The Dallas Morning News is doing…

Dallas native Michael Kieschnick is founder of, among other things, Working Assets. Since 1985, it says here, Working Assets has generated over $50 million for progressive nonprofits” — among them, Greenpeace, Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International and various enviro-friendly causes. It does this getting folks to use their “donation-linked services,”…

Before he started working with substance-abusers outside of Dallas, Isiah Robertson was one of the NFL’s biggest and baddest. Isiah Robertson lives with his four children in Garland. He looks like an ordinary guy who’d be out mowing his yard and playing catch with his grandchildren — well, except for…

Asher Frankfurt, a local kid, read his screenplay to a Smithsonian audience recently. No one will even look at ours. Congrats to three local high school students who were recently honored as Presidential Scholars of the Arts. Very big deal. These three kids — Jay Jackson (Carrollton), Brittanie Brown (Oak…

Here’s the latest St. Vincent video, another solo trip recorded at the Atlantic Sound and Union Hall in Brooklyn — this time, she melts through her “Paris is Burning.” (Here’s an earlier clip from the same studio session, where she performs “Your Lips Are Red.”) I love her — oh,…

I just got off the phone with Tom Polston, who sells medical equipment in Plano. The reason for the call: I (like every film critic in town) was forwarded by the local Weinstein Company representative a letter Polston sent to Michael Moore after he saw his health-care doc Sicko at…

For Pastor Sherman Allen, things just got a little bit worse. A Christian credit union has filed a motion in bankruptcy court asking permission to foreclose on the building that houses Pastor Sherman Allen’s Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Christ, at 1270 Woodhaven Blvd. in Fort Worth. The Evangelical…

OK, if you haven’t seen the spillway at White Rock Lake recently, pull on your galoshes and head over there. Not only would it classify as Class Four rapids on the Selway or the Taos Box, it’s become a tropical aviary. The steady rains have apparently swept up copious numbers…

If you’re into artsy nudes, a compendium of “pictures that changed the world” and a list (complete with photos) of the “top 15 skylines in the world” and three honorable mentions — yes, Dallas is indeed on there somewhere — have I got the Web site for you. And, yeah,…

Folks in California always seemed to like their Daily Grill — a chain of eateries known, it says here, for “big portions of traditional grill recipes at affordable prices.” Certainly been around long enough — 23 years, growing from a single Beverly Hills restaurant into a 26-location chain that extends…