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When the Texas Rangers’ Double-A minor league affiliate threw its first pitch in Frisco 16 years ago, it was from the ground floor of an impending phenomenon. In its infancy, Stonebriar Centre offered vacant spaces and ample parking. The “$5 Billion Mile” was just a twinkle in some developer’s eye...
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Can’t touch the net, or even dream of dunking. If named head coach, promises the team would have started the season 0-8. Admits to being only a 50 percent free throw shooter. Nine months ago, didn’t know the name Mark Cuban. Despite that flimsiest of basketball résumés, Cynthia “Cynt” Marshall...
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In Animal House, John Belushi’s “Bluto” and his fraternity brothers shoot a horse, throw a toga party, commence a food fight, molest an unconscious girl and get placed on double secret probation. In Old School, Will Ferrell’s “Frank the Tank” and his frat boys go streaking, tie cinder blocks to...
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On Aug. 18, 2016, the Lakewood location of Mi Cocina, a popular upscale Tex-Mex chain, faced one particularly unhappy visitor: a Dallas health inspector. The food safety report filed that day graded Mi Cocina at 60 points out of 100. The details weren’t pretty. Flies in the kitchen. No hot...
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Dallas’ next culinary revolution began in a quiet specialty grocery store in Irving, a small shop where boxes of imported foods line the metal shelving all the way up to the ceiling. Here, in 2004, a woman named Boonmie Phennara fired up a Bunsen burner to make dinner for visiting...
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“This is a David Lowery production,” says a 7-year-old Lowery at the end of Poltergeist, his short film shot with a home camera. It starred his little brother in a sheet and showed promise even then. Now 38, Lowery is still proud of that first cinematic attempt and posted it...
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