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Downtown Luxury Store Would Hurt Neighboring Apartments, Owners Say

Forest City is not happy about Tim Headington's plan to install luxury goods purveyor Forty Five Ten on Main Street downtown. The apartment management company — which owns the Wilson Building next door, as well as the Mercantile, Continental and Element buildings nearby — says it was misled about the height...
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Arlington Voters Banned Red Light Cameras. Now What?

On Saturday, Arlington residents voted by a healthy 59-41 margin to ban the city's red-light cameras, which was surprising only in that there are 10,808 people in Arlington who apparently like red light cameras. The real questions are: When are the cameras coming down; when is the vendor, American Traffic...
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Texas Ballet Theater’s Dracula Was a Lesson In Emotional Intelligence

Consider Dracula––really consider him. Despite what commerce and fandom suggest, the story of Dracula (any vampire, really) is hinged on emotional intelligence and moral complexity. To put a finer point on it, the reader or viewer is forced to confront certain issues in ways that challenge the accepted moral and...
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Planned Parenthood Execs’s Pay Targeted by Anti-Abortion Group

For years, Republican lawmakers have tried their hardest to make sure poor women who depend on their local Planned Parenthood clinics for abortions or just regular check-ups won't get the help they need. An "unprecedented" number of state-level abortion restrictions have been enacted since 2010, the Guttmacher Institute Found, and In Texas,...
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Dallas Chefs and Restaurateurs Embrace the Weird

Have you noticed the giant blue B and G sculptures strategically placed around town? The ones that invite passersby to pose in the center as an “I” so they can feel like they’re part of the super-sized action? If you haven’t, you really should get outside more often. Fourteen or...
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Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants 2015

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. Check back here as the list grows until Best of Dallas rolls out...
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XTO Energy Insists It Didn’t Cause All the Earthquakes It Caused

One would think that maybe, just maybe, that XTO Energy, faced with a peer-reviewed study by SMU researchers and a mountain of evidence that the company is causing earthquakes, consider shutting down its fracking and disposal wells in Azle and Reno. The SMU and federal research demonstrates pretty clearly that the...
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Eat This: Remedy’s New Beet-Cured Salmon Sandwich

If I didn't know what I'd ordered, I would have assumed the plate contained freshly sliced tuna. The fish was a deep and rich crimson, not from myoglobin stores, which tuna and other red fish have plenty of, but from beets. The fish was salmon that had been cured with the...
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Nina Hoss Illuminates Phoenix

Some of the best love songs are those whose lyrics perch precariously between "I adore you, let's be happy forever" and "I'm miserable without you, where have you gone?" Together, the melody and words of Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash's 1943 ballad "Speak Low" take the shape of a vaporous...
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At Boulangerie, a Tedious Process Yields the City’s Best Baguette

Greenville Avenue was still sleepy when Ashlie Taylor pulled up for work at Boulangerie's back door one recent morning. A late-night cleaning crew worked the floors at the pizza place next door, and a nearby 7-Eleven had a few stray customers, but the only other activity at 5 a.m. was...