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Widow Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Fatal UTD Crane Collapse

The weather on July 7 quickly turned windy, almost violently so. The sudden gusts, which reached 40 miles per hour, capsized a surfboarding 55-year-old into the waters of White Rock Lake, where he drowned. Even more dramatic was the scene a dozen miles to the north, when a construction crane...
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Ask Fan Landers: Will Fatherhood Kill My Music Dreams?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to...
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The Killings in Kaufman

There was a time before 8:38 a.m. on January 31 when the people of Kaufman County would commonly leave their doors unlocked or sleep with windows open on a temperate night. In Kaufman, the county seat, no one had been murdered in years. Folks came here to get away from...
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Best Dessert

Carbone's SemifreddoTexas convention says everything should be ridiculously big. Dallas convention is that all dessert should be sweet. The two combine to result in portions the size of a The Rock’s forearm, chocolate that’s cloying and fruit that’s so saccharine it tastes like a plastic-wrapped freeze pop. It doesn’t have to be this way. In Highland […]
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Best Talk Radio Show

BaD Radio, KTCK-AM 1310 The TicketIt’s difficult to single out the best talk radio show in Dallas, let alone on The Ticket. Each of the station’s shows has its own appeal, avoiding sports-talk-at-all-costs for funny bits and raunchy laughs. The show in the mid-afternoon slot, BaD Radio, takes the most high-brow approach to its humor. The complex dynamic between Bob […]
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The Descendents Didn’t Want To Grow Up, But They Did

From his home in Fort Collins, Colorado, Bill Stevenson sounds as content as any legendary punk rocker can be. The Descendents drummer certainly has a right to be laid back: After more than 30 years behind the drum kit, Stevenson has nothing left to prove. Hell, the guy doesn't even...
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What Texas Drillers and Regulators Learned From the Barnett Shale

The development of North Texas' Barnett Shale did not go as smoothly as gas companies had hoped. The flaming water in Parker County, elevated levels of benzene in DISH, elevated rates of breast cancer in Flower Mound, and any number of other reports contributed to the perception among the general...
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Fellow Republicans: A Five-Point Plan to Stop Our Asses From Getting Kicked

To: Lovers of America From: The Republican National Committee RE: Emergency platform changes Dear Patriots: It seems that 47 percent was somewhat larger than we anticipated in last week's election. Henceforth, we urge all Republicans to adopt these immediate policy changes. Our new platform on babes. Please refrain from any...
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Best Italian Restaurant

NonnaNonna may also deserve an award for best strip-mall conversion. While the exterior of the restaurant is frighteningly dull, as soon as you step through the doors you forget that a liquor store and a tailor flank the restaurant and realize you’re in one of Dallas’ more romantic restaurant spaces. A white pizza with clams […]
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The DMA Got A $250,000 Grant. Here’s How They’ll Use It.

The Dallas Museum of Art has received several large grants over the last few months, with many going to support the institution's expansion of its Conservation Department. But its latest 250 thousand dollar acquisition will be spent exploring how visitors relate to art and programming offered and how engaging they...
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Best Falafel

Fadia's Bakery & DeliFalafel has gotten a bad reputation thanks to the many Middle Eastern restaurants that fry pre-made fritters of pre-mixed batches of chickpea dough long before a customer places an order. Not Charbel Hamad. The owner and operator of Fadia Bakery wants you to focus on his handmade sweets, but it’s hard to listen to him […]
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A Sneak Peek Inside the New British Beverage Company

I'm kind of a sneaky bitch. I happen to work in the Quadrangle in Uptown (AKA The Quad -- yep, I'm still trying to make that one happen), so as the British Beverage Company (or BBC) has been building out the gutted, cavernous remains of the former Hully and Mo,...
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Best Steak

Nick and Sam'sWhile beef sourcing, ageing and handling can have huge influences on the meat that lands on your plate high-end steak houses, all end up serving about the same thing: steak cooked your requested shade and a big fat check. Nick and Sam’s has a few differentiators, and their biggest is the steak sauce. Chef Samir […]
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Best Worm Doo-Doo Pee-Pee

Worm Wine Texas Worm RanchThe art of using worm doo-doo pee-pee to make your garden grow is called vermiculture, and one of the nation’s best outlets for both worms and their culture happens to be right here in our midst, at Texas Worm Ranch. Heather Rinaldi is the big ranch boss, ridin’ around ropin’ worms all day. A farm […]
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Turns Out, Houston Really Does Have Worse Traffic Than Dallas

Over the weekend, the Texas Department of Transportation released its list of the Texas' 100 most congested roadways, which breaks the news that LBJ, Woodall Rogers, and Central Expressway? All really congested. You knew that already, but did you know that drivers on the stretch of LBJ between Central and...
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Barking Dog Avi Adelman Fights Lawsuit, Says Free Speech is Being Stifled

Melissa Kingston, the Lower Greenville resident and attorney representing neighborhood groups in negotiations over the Greenville Avenue Walmart, didn't hold back in her lawsuit against Avi Adelman. The longtime neighborhood activist and proprietor of BarkingDogs.org is a "menace" and a "neighborhood terrorist" who bullies anyone with whom he disagrees, the...