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Oops. New Numbers Show That Toll Road Underwater After All.

(This story replaces a version published this morning.) This just in: What the city has said for 20 years about flood safety and a proposed toll road along the Trinity River very possibly is not true. In a major flood that road may be underwater and threatened. Yesterday after I filed...
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Sad Details Emerge In January Drowning of Infant in Southwest Dallas

Justice Hull never had a chance. The 2-month-old, allegedly intentionally drowned by the child of her CPS-appointed caretaker in January, was born to a mother who was already subject to eight CPS reports before she was born. Keshondria Hull, according a report issued by the Texas Department of Family and...
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Uncle Vanya Gets a Makeover

It’s been said by many a drama critic that the plays of Russian writer Anton Chekhov are more about what’s being said between the lines than the dialogue itself—that they revolve around subtext. And if that’s the case, then it’s not sacrilegious that the Dallas Actor’s Guild has brought modern...
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5 Art Exhibitions to See this Weekend

Melvin Edwards: Five Decades Melvin Edwards has spent the last five decades working in steel. His most famous body of work is a series of small, steel reliefs titled "Lynch Fragments." These 3-dimensional pieces, which Edwards has been making for much of his career, aren't overwhelming in size, but carry...
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Yo Gabba Gabba Feels Your Pain

Sometime in the past 10 years, the purveyors of children’s television figured out that parents fully hated most of what their kids were watching. As a result, there was a great backlash against Barney and Elmo, and a chorus of tired voices rose up and said “We are not going...
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Is the Big 12 Expanding? Imploding? Who’s Looking to Leave?

On a chilly December night, in the wake of a 38-27 win at home over ninth-ranked Kansas State to close out the 2014 college football regular season, Baylor head coach Art Briles stood amid his jubilant bunch of Baylor Bears on a makeshift stage in the middle of McLane Stadium...
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Leslie Moody Castro: “This Is Dallas.”

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 wish I could photograph people's faces when I tell them that I cancelled the...
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FX’s Hillbilly Noir Justified Was the Forgotten Prestige TV Show

No show wears its love for language and land more proudly than FX's Justified, which ended its six-year run Tuesday night. Based on a novella by Elmore Leonard and starring squinty-eyed sex symbol Timothy Olyphant, the hillbilly noir never received the critical adulation or the audience one might expect for...
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The Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, 5/22-5/24

Welcome to the end of the working week. Seems as though the rain will never end so we'll have to just get used to Dallas being Seattle. I n the mean time, while you adjust to this, check out a few shows around town. Buffalo Black, Tru Def, and Jenny Robinson...
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Cheap Bastard’s Work-Outer’s Guide

Do you want slimmer eyeballs? Maybe your elbows are looking a little heavy these days? Do you want to wake up, look in the mirror and love what you see so much that you invite yourself to sex? Do you want rock-hard abs and a new haircut? Do you want...
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Texas Cops Seized $486 Million Through Civil Forfeiture Last Decade

Two years ago the Texas Legislature slipped into the state budget an item mandating a thorough review of certain civil forfeiture proceedings. Civil forfeiture -- the process state and federal prosecutors use to seize property from suspected criminals, whether they've been convicted or not -- is a source of perpetual...
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Braving Brunch at Eureka! Dallas

Kathryn DeBruler searches far and wide for DFW's most interesting breakfast food. Come along. I didn't have high hopes going into this brunch, and the fact that a manager apologized half an hour after my order was placed didn't help much. She explained that I was there during Eureka's first...