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Low Gas Prices Are Here to Stay, Says GasBuddy’s 2015 Forecast

Sustained high oil production in the Permian Basin, the Bakken region of North Dakota and Western Canada, along with the seeming willingness of OPEC to ride out the resultant plummeting oil prices mean gas prices will continue to remain below recent levels, according to GasBuddy.com's 2015 Fuel Price Outlook. In...
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Dallas State Rep. Anchia Files Bills to Kneecap Trinity Toll Road

Rafael Anchia has backed up claims that he would listen to his Texas House district when it comes to the Trinity toll road. Early Friday, Anchia filed legislation that would prevent the Texas Department of Transportation from providing funding for the Trinity roll road and require the road proposal to...
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Put Your Damn Phones Away and Enjoy Your Concerts Already

We've all heard of the FOMO, that is, the Fear of Missing Out. In Aziz Ansari's new special, Live at Madison Square Garden, he sharply criticizes the millennial generation's anxiety in regards to missing out on something better happening right now. Woe unto the person at the thing, who checks...
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Ten: One of Dallas’ Best, and Singular, Ramen Shops (Review)

"I need one spicy mazemen ramen,” Matthew Hoa, the baby-faced executive chef at Dallas’ newest ramen shop, Ten, announced. Sous chef Christian Koelling cranked the heat on a sauté pan, spun around to the other side of the galley and started chopping roast pork belly. “Hai,” he offered, softly. In...
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More than Heavy Rain Is Flooding Local Lakes. We Are, too.

You know what this unusual season of heavy rain and flooding is really? It’s Mother Nature giving us a big wake-up call. She's telling us we need to go all the way back to zero. We need to rethink everything we thought we knew about flood control, which is everything...
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A Guide to Eating Well in the Cheap Seats at Rangers Games

The Texas Rangers rolled out some mouth-watering, stomach-upsetting new concession items this season: a state fair stand with nothing but fried foods, nachos with tater tots instead of tortilla chips, bacon beer. There is also a thing called the “sausage sundae.” But that’s all on the ground level, where the...
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An Incomplete But Epic History of Dallas Freaking Out Over Sex

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, you may have heard, is “deeply concerned” about eXXXotica, the three-day porn expo that arrives in Dallas on Friday. Alas, he wrote in a letter to the Dallas Women's Foundation, which had objected to the event taking place in the city-owned Convention Center, there was nothing...
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It’s Time to Make a List of What the Arts in Dallas Want

In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro I liken my job in the arts to a long-term relationship. It has the ups,...
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Madding Crowd Means Well but Sells its Heroine Short

Though it’s hard to believe in 2015, there was a time when fictional heroines didn’t have to be role models, when a character’s backbone could be more than just a row of vertebrae lined up into teachable moments. It’s wonderful that modern readers love Jane Austen — we still warm...
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Hailey’s Makes a Surprise Reinvention as Denton’s Hip-Hop Haven

Two concepts, both alike in dignity. Denton: A bubbling melting pot for DIY punks, garage rock and metal. Juxtaposing it, hip-hop has long been at odds with the city, attempting to stake a claim at one of its venues. Though it isn't exactly Montagues and Capulets, it's a standoff in...