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Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 38: ¡C. Señor!

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  It's been a year since ¡C Señor! took over the former El Padrino taco...
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5 Art Exhibitions to See This Weekend

 Professior R. Mutt and his Duchampaphones It's impossible to pinpoint where an idea comes from. What compels one person to creatively rethink something that's come before? Why would a guy masquerading as" Professor R. Mutt" would look at the bicycle wheel sculpture by Duchamp – in homage to whom he...
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Susan Hawk’s Mental-Health Reforms Are Good, but They’re Only a Start

Now that she has returned from the lengthy mental-health sabbatical that put a bold-faced exclamation point on her remarkably tumultuous first several months in office, Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk is projecting an air of super-competence. Not only is she fielding the public’s questions (and quite deftly, by all...
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Water Near a Bunch of Texas Fracking Sites Is Polluted for Some Reason

On the slick website of the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council, a lobbying organization for the local drilling industry, an anonymous man asks a question on behalf of his worried wife. "My wife is concerned about potential contamination of our 800-foot-deep well. Who will oversee the safe drilling of the well which...
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Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 43: Mot Hai Ba

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  A crispy vietnamese pancake filled with seafood may be one of life's very...
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Arlington Cops Release Audio from Christian Taylor Shooting

Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson still hasn't released the surveillance video of 19-year-old Christian Taylor being shot to death by APD officer Brad Miller, but he did release more than 16 minutes of dispatch radio audio Monday. Johnson released the audio in response to multiple videos circulating that used scanner...
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At Mr. Wok, It’s OK to Play With Your Food (Review)

The moment comes after much build up. If you're looking down at your own beggar's chicken, you've called Mr. Wok in Plano at least two days in advance and likely spent at least that much time wiping drool from your chin as you replay the coming scenes in your head...
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RIP, Urban Acres Farmstead & Cafe

The farm-to-table movement in Dallas is still going strong, at least that seems to be the case with the proliferation of restaurants that promise this style of locally focused cuisine. On the home kitchen front, though, it looks as if Dallasites might be losing interest in purchasing locally made meat...
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6 Museum Exhibits to See in Dallas/ Fort Worth This Weekend

This weekend marks the true beginning of the fall museum schedule, with shows opening or entering the second week at nearly every major museum in Dallas and Fort Worth. Here, we outline the highlights.  Being the River, Repeating the Forest Thoreau once said, “Nature will bear the closet inspection. She...
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Dallas Police Say City Councilman Scott Griggs Coerced a City Staffer

Dallas City Councilman Scott Griggs is accused of using his position to influence the actions of a member of the Dallas City Secretary's Office, the Dallas police announced late today. In a short press release, the Dallas Police Department said it had submitted the results of its investigation into Griggs...
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Root Beer Floats: Many Restaurants Are Doing it Wrong

I love a root beer float and firmly believe that Dallas restaurants should be serving more of them — especially in the summer. Floats make perfect desserts when the weather is hotter. They're lighter than a massive slice of cherry pie and much more cooling. You haven't lived until you've...
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“Air and Light” Aren’t Rights in Texas, Developer Says

A fight centered in what seems to be one of the most contentious blocks of downtown Dallas continued last week with developer Tim Headington asserting that Texas law doesn't guarantee apartment dwellers the right to access "air, light or a view." He was talking about tenants in the Wilson Building...
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Lone Star Park Racing Shut Down as Texas Gambling Fight Continues

The fight, the one that's at least temporarily shut down all horse betting in the state of Texas, is over the ability of Texas horse track bettors to wager on the outcome of races that have already happened. Tracks want so-called historical racing terminals because they're almost identical, at least...