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What are you gonna do tonight? Watch Top Chef, and see if that lady from a restaurant you can’t afford to eat at wins some stuff? Puh-shaw, I say to you. Get thee to the Addison Improv, where Noted Regional Comedian Dave Little will be performing his one-man show. It…

Mark Graham Sequina Moore lives in the Pleasant Village Apartments, one of two Dallas complexes bought by a Portland-based property management company. Two issues ago we spotlighted the efforts of a Portland, Oregon-based property management company that’s attempting to turn around one of the worst apartment complexes in Dallas. To…

Alas, our Top Chef-ing’s almost at an end: Tonight we find out whether Shinsei’s exec chef Casey Thompson is crowned queen of the kitchen or whether Hung or Dale takes the title. For thems who can’t wait another second, here’s Bravo’s Web-only two-minute sneak peek at tonight’s final finale –…

It was either a cool kid or Wentworth Miller — so we went with a little something for the ladies. Today at 11 a.m., medical researchers from the Perot Family Center for the Care of Brain and Nerve Injuries at Children’s Medical Center and UT Southwestern Medical Center will announce…

ABC-TV So, Albert Reed is no longer Dancing With the Stars — whoever Albert Reed is. Which means, yes, Mark Cuban remains on ABC’s dance floor for one more week, despite the general consensus that he’d mamboed his way off the show Monday night. (And here I thought we were…

Have you prayed for Osama today?If you want to know what defines an evangelical Christian, look no further than Brother Andrew, the 79-year-old Dutchman who called himself “God’s smuggler.” He is a revered figure among evangelicals because of his single-minded devotion to spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ — one…

One of three paintings from Strictly Tabu on sale on eBay Though it’s been gone eight years, it’s still hard to believe Strictly Tabu isn’t still hanging out at the intersection of Lomo Alto and Lemmon — damned good pizza, if I recall correctly, and it was the perfect place…

Architect Bob Meckfessel .. or former Dallas Observer editor Peter Elkind? I rarely go to shul, and when I do, it’s usually for something unusual — like, oh, a mayoral-candidates forum or a Trinity toll-road referendum debate. And, see, Temple Emanu-El does it right: Sure, you have to get up…

Moments ago, Gordon Keith of KTCK-AM (The Ticket, 1310) played on the morning show this tribute to Cowboys QB Tony Romo — if “tribute” is the right word, and I’m pretty sure it’s not. “The Search for Romo” was posted yesterday by the user “love4romo,” who’s surely trying to be…

Dallas-based Dean Foods, which stocks the dairy case with Land O Lakes and Oak Farms products, said today it’s not going to milk as much out of consumers as it previously expected — something to do with “rapidly increasing and record high dairy commodity costs.” And it’s bad news all…

“Like watching a bulldog chase a squirrel.” That’s how Mark Cuban and his dance partner Kym Johnson wound up scoring an 18 during their “Ride Wit Me”-lite mambo. Might wanna check out the video below, if you missed Cuban’s Dancing With the Stars appearance last night — could be close…

Whew. We just spent a couple of hours reading the 166-page indictment from the feds’ investigation into alleged bribery and extortion at City Hall, charges concerning a federal low-income housing program and other tax-supported real-estate doings. Thought we’d try to spare all you people with real jobs the trouble or…

In February, Brian Potashnik, at left, attended the opening of Southwest Housing Development’s senior citizens apartment complex in San Antonio. Brian Potashnik, president of low-income housing builder Southwest Housing Development, has issued a statement concerning his being one of the 14 indicted this morning in the feds’ City Hall corruption…

Turns out former city council member James Fantroy’s indictment is a spin-off from the City Hall corruption investigation — kind of like Rhoda was to The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Alas, no perp walks or indictees vowing to fight the charges while holding back tears. Except for the allegations that…

Ex-Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill — and sorry, but how could we not run this picture today? Glenna’s just returned from the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse, where U.S. Attorney Richard Roper finally named the 14 indicted in the City Hall corruption investigation that began more than two years…

Perhaps you’ve only read about The Human Cannonball at the State Fair of Texas. And, like, maybe you wanna see “The Rocket Man” in action. Well, now you can, and without the Fair Park-ing hassle. Thanks, YouTubes. Speaking of, ever heard My Morning Jacket’s version of “Rocket Man”? Well, now…

Dallas designer Marion Lee Last week we broke the news, such as it is, that Dallas will, for the first time, have a designer on the very haute Project Runway, which starts its stride on Bravo on November 14. We’ve since learned a little more about 39-year-old Marion Lee –…