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Best Place to Go to Understand Dallas

Sixth Floor Museum Reading RoomThe Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza has become a serious international repository of documents, films, periodicals and research dealing with the Kennedy assassination, much of which the museum is now making available to the public in a sunny reading room staffed by a full-time academic research librarian. You do have to call ahead for […]
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Dallas Toques Give Thanks: Five Chefs Talk Turkey

Over the past week, City of Ate has caught up with Dallas-area chefs. We asked them about their Thanksgiving plans and what they're thankful for - because if we have to suffer the same cheesy fate at our families' Thanksgiving, it might be interesting to learn if they did, too...
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If You Win We’ll Go Shopping

Previously, our fair Frisco RoughRiders have maintained a fairly even win-loss record with the Midland RockHounds this season. The Riders were the first half division winners, but recently their Ls seem to be creeping up in number. This is concerning as I see it, because there are just way more...
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Dallas, the 19th-Gayest Big City in U.S.A.

So say creative-classicist Richard Florida and UCLA demographer Gary Gates over on The Daily Beast, where this morning they tout their Gay/Lesbian Index's metro-area rankings culled from a 2008 U.S. Census Bureau survey. And while Florida notes a handful of caveats that come with crunching the numbers, he also notes...
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Download: Dead Stock’s Kixpo 2010 Mixtape

For the fourth time since its inception, Dead Stock, the grass-roots organization of Dallas sneakerheads, will be hosting its annual Kixpo Convention this August. Spanning over two days (August 14 and 15), the expo will be comprised of three different sneak-sational (too much?) events: the Meet-N-Greet at Index Skateboard Supply...
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Stockyards Stampede With Randy Rogers Band, Ryan Bingham, Everclear & MC Hammer

Blazing summer heat? Check. A barren, dusty field for drunken revelry? Check. Hotter-than-the-astronomical-July-heat-index act Ryan Bingham? Sure. The Randy Rogers Band as the established, crowd-pleasing headliner? Absolutely. Alt-rock heroes Everclear? Uh, yeah, OK. MC Hammer? Wait, what? This should be more than a little interesting. In recent years, the festival...
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Top 10 Patios to Chill Out with Your Pooch

With the heat index regularly topping 100 degrees these days, we've been on the lookout for relief from the oppressive sun. We're always game for brunch or cocktails on a patio, especially if we can bring Fido along. And since Fido loves the shade as much as we do, we've...
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Does Popular Equal Edible?

When I waitressed at a country club where the manager didn't approve of us servers disparaging any dish, my stock response to customers who asked about a notoriously bad entree was a cheery "People order it!" I always figured guests understood what my honest non-endorsement meant. But in this age...
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Show Announcements: Bush, Smashing Pumpkins, Free Week at Rubber Gloves, Joanna Newsom, Los Campesinos!, Hanson, Futureheads, We Are Scientists, White Denim, Trail Of Dead and More!

It looks like this week's edition of Show Announcements could have been written in 1995 thanks to two big shows coming to town. On Friday, October 22, a newly reformed Bush will be passing through town at the Palladium Ballroom. And I'm sure everyone over at Kirtland Records is more...
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Thrice Returns To The Form It Never Really Left

It's been a tough year for Thrice—personally and professionally. The sometimes bristling, sometimes atmospheric post-core California rockers are ready to close the book on their putative "return-to-basics" album, Beggars, as well as the disc's accompanying tour cycle. It's been a rough go—one that's found the entire quartet dealing with issues...
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Dennis Gonzalez Finally Gets His Due

The world is just now getting to know Ariel Pink. The totally out-there Los Angeles freak-folker has been stuck in the underground, making some of the world's weirdest music for over a decade. But since his critically acclaimed indie-pop album, Before Today, earned its release back in April, people have...
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Sometimes Off the Beaten Path Should Stay Off the Beaten Path

This past weekend's Pacquiao-Clottey fight marked my first visit to Cowboys Stadium. Being the ever-so-dedicated blogger that I am, I took this opportunity of being in Arlington to try out a restaurant about which I'd been hearing good things. Whenever I am in Arlington, I usually visit my old stand-bys,...
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You Said It: Toll Roads Really Taking a Toll

"Buzz," By Patrick Williams, March 4 Toll Fatigue I am a fiscal conservative, and I am tired of the toll roads. People and politicians need to suck it up and completely revise the gasoline taxes. Instead of being per gallon, they need to be a percentage of the price. It...