Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Tuk Tuk Asian Cuisine 1520 Elm St., #115214-749-1538Promised delivery time: 30 minutes Actual delivery time: 11 (!) minutes The ScoreNeighbor from the apartment upstairs brings food, and it's exactly what I want:...
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Smoke 'em if you got 'em: Craig Johnson, executive director of ProtectYouth.org, a Dallas-based nonprofit and lobbying group, doesn't smoke marijuana himself, he says. He doesn't think your kids should be smoking it either. No drug dealings in the neighborhood; none in the schoolyard either. But he and his group...
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Eat What They Want You To Eat
Why do we ask? Well, a town in Australia just banned bottled water for environmental reasons--all that plastic waste, you know. But there are also those studies proving that, in most cases, tap water is every bit the bottle's equal, in taste as well as good-for-you-ness. Indeed, some brands simply...
The annual study detailing America's growing girth came out this week--and guess what? Once again, more buttons popped again this year.Well, I only glanced at the piece. Really, the numbers seem hollow after repeated startling claims that 60 plus percent of this country's adult population really tipped the scales, issued...
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Drink To Heat
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Newsweek has yet again released its list of the top 1,500 public high schools in the U.S. -- and Dallas, with six on the list, has dropped one from the '08 scorecard: poor ol' Hillcrest High School, which last year came in at No. 547, dang. The School for the...
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Dude Food: Hook Line & Sinker
This morning, Dallas Independent School District board trustee Carla Ranger posted to her blog a letter from a district teacher who's terrified that the DISD's going to use the Classroom Effectiveness Index to clean house. This teacher must be among the some 700 who Tawnell Hobbs writes received letters from...
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Heart to Heart
Last night at Thomas C. Marsh Middle School, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa and school board trustee Edwin Flores took their show back on the road and hosted yet another town hall meeting, following last month's what-up-y'all at W.T. White High School. And, yet again, Hinojosa was affable...
Chef House 4028 Cedar Springs Rd Dallas, TX 75219 (214) 528-2122 Promised Delivery Time: 35-45 minutes Actual Delivery Time: 30 minutes and that's with being lost The Score: Questionable brown sauce leaking from the bag : 2 Lost delivery guy turns out to be a hippie look alike: 30 And...
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Who's counting: Got a head for numbers? Recently laid off from your job in financial services? Well, Buzz has a hot job tip for you: Become a Dallas cop. By the time you read this, the city council likely will have considered an amendment to the city code that will...
To recap: Dallas's malls are going to hell, and our offices are empty. So, ah, how's the apartment-rental business in the DFW? Either awful or godawful, depends who you ask.Says here Dallas has slipped three spots, to the No. 26 position, on a major index that charts national markets' rentals...
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Where’s The Beef?
Moments ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released its latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey -- a snapshot look at what folks are making, ordering and selling -- and it's not looking good, not surprisingly. As in:Texas factory activity deteriorated further in December, according to business executives responding to the...
Larry Plake was just outside the control tower on his way to bed aboard the Cheyenne, an oil barge anchored six miles off the coast of Nigeria, when he heard the shots. A veteran rig worker for Houston-based oil and gas contractor Global Industries, Plake, a Texan through and through,...
My new hero is Eric. He plays for my new favorite sports team: The special education squad from Dallas' Conrad High School. Seemingly an odd choice, because this year Eric probably won't score many baskets and Conrad likely won't win many games. Utterly immaterial, because they've already completed a perfect...
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We've been privy to the Lil' Wayne concert for a while now, but only recently did I start hearing radio drops for it that announce who else would be sharing the stage with him: Keyshia Cole (OK), T-Pain (I can see that), and Gym Class Heroes (WTF)? Not taking anything...
Yup, says so right here on CQ Press' 2008 City Crime Rate Rankings: The fine, fair city of Allen's a Top 10'er when it comes to safety among 385 cities in the country -- and not far below, why, you'll find the likes of Frisco (at No. 16) and Plano...
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Say What?
If you can overcome the dreary weather, Black Friday shopping exhaustion and post-Thanksgiving hangover, there are a few noteworthy shows to choose from this weekend. First, a reminder of what we've already mentioned. Tonight, you can catch Gojira, 36 Crazyfists, In Flames and All That Remains at The Palladium Ballroom;...