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Bob Josserand is bullish on bullshit. It’s sexy, he says. As mayor of Hereford, Josserand should know. He lords over a town of some 16,000 people and more than 1 million cattle. Three and a half million chew their cuds within a 100-mile radius of his Panhandle home. “A million…

“BUY YOU A DRINK?” The good-looking stranger gestures toward the bartender, who looks up expectantly. What’ll it be? Beer? Martini? Background check? Probably not the latter, as public records are hard to come by in bars. Besides, finding out that someone’s on the national sex offender registry is, generally speaking,…

Art and death: Suicide may be painless, as the theme song from the movie M*A*S*H suggests, but talking about it can be a pain in the butt, particularly if you’re a student at Tarrant County College. Would-be filmmaker William Lin found out just how touchy the subject is when he…

Grody Grillz Reality bites: I am a dentist. Grillz (“All That Glitters,” by Andrea Grimes, October 19) will eventually cause an anterior open bite from wearing them too long. It would take jaw surgery to put your bite back to normal. Allen Pearson Richardson Lovely smile: I would just like…

This week’s paper version of Unfair Park examines the infatuation some Dallas entrepreneurs have with renewable fuels–go-go juices like corn-based ethanol and soy-based biodiesel. It’s a warm, fuzzy feel-good article; you know, fuels grown in the heartland by American farmers who by all accounts have much finer dispositions than either…

It’s all over at City Hall, reports Jim Schutze. Score: David Dean, 1 (or one million, to be precise). Laura Miller, 0. Writes Jim: “Well, if you heard it just now [on WRR], the only thing you couldn’t see was all the senior city staff members behind the big TV…

In August 2005, 31-year-old John Wannamaker of Dallas pled guilty to a federal indictment charging him with a menu’s worth of bad stuff: conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud, actual wire and securities fraud, money laundering and “illegal monetary transactions.” Well, today Wannamaker found out his punishment: U.S…

T.O. Souryal, head doc for the Mavs, has a heart–and a defibrillator, if your heart needs one. Till I read this this morning, I had no idea some 5,000 to 7,000 kids in the U.S. die each year from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) each year. That sucks. But Dr. T.O…

Bill Blaydes was the only council member to get a peek at David Dean’s contract before it went before the council. Tomorrow at city council, Mayor Laura Miller will try to get one of the seven council members who voted to approve Trans-Texas Corridor lobbyist David Dean’s $515,000 contract on…

At 6:30 this evening, the city’s Park and Recreation Department is hosting a White Rock Lake Users Summit at Winfrey Point to address a problem first explained by Yogi Berra about a popular New York restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” As an avid runner, I’ve noticed that…

Sure, we critics dish it out, but can we take it? We’ll find out Wednesday night at Art & the Critic, a free event at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary sponsored by Kitchen Dog Theater and Project X. On the panel with your humble theatergoing scribe from the paper version of…

Tammy and Kirk Franklin went on Oprah to admit his porn addiction. At our house, that’s called Tuesday. At the end of last year, Grammy-winning gospel singer Kirk Franklin–who once graced the cover of the paper version of Unfair Park–made a stunning admission: The dude loves porn. Loveloveloves it. Can’t…

Friday night was a deliciously cool evening, perfect for a stroll around the neighborhood before heading out to the American Airlines Center to watch the Stars give the Blackhawks a swift kick in the third-period balls. The Man of the Hour and I had an hour or two to kill…

Gettin’ Nikoloff: The future Playboy spread–and current SMU student–loves her some Taylor Hicks and Paris Hilton. Deep, Jen, deep. Lucky SMU sophomore Jordan “Jen” Nikoloff appears to have come out on top at the Playboy audition yesterday. The photog liked her best, and she’ll go back for more pictures later…

Roderick Carlton Demmings will perform at Carnegie Hall on Thursday for a PBS broadcast. Twelve-year-olds around the country begin cursing his name Friday. Something to do with “raising the bar.” Roderick Carlton Demmings makes me feel like a total loser. At 12, I was in my middle-school choir in Garland…

There’s yet another deleted scene from Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan making the YouTube rounds, and this one claims to be from the “Denton County Animal Shelter.” Only, there’s no such thing. That’s what they’ll tell you when you call Denton Animal Control–and…

I read this a.m. in my new favorite publication, The Bond Buyer (which I initially picked up because I thought it said The Bong Buyer), that tomorrow the city will issue $230.2 million in general obligation bonds “from three separate authorizations.” Of course, that has nothing to do with the…