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Arlington Pastor Hates Gays and Mormons

First Baptist Pastor Robert Jeffress gets most of the press for his outspoken views on homosexuality and Mormonism, but over at the Dallas Voice, John Wright highlights the, um, retrograde views of another prominent local preacher, Dwight McKissic of Arlington's Cornerstone Baptist Church. McKissic successfully introduced a resolution at the...
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Get Thee To A Gallery!

Get uncomfortably close to the canvas at Circuit 12 tonight, I dare you. Really smell its breath, artistically speaking. The group show is a challenge, one that challenges its work's creators to roughhouse with juxtaposition. Surface Pattern calls form, color and line into question, abstractly altering each just enough to...
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Refugees Are Flooding to Texas

Texas has become the top destination for refugee resettlement, with Dallas the second largest hub, according to recent statistics. It became the main destination for resettlement as of last year, rising from number five in 2001. In an article earlier this week, the Houston Chronicle reported that Texas' rise in...
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Four Fort Worth Bands To Watch

I'm not going to get involved in the stupid "Dallas vs. Fort Worth" pissing contest, although I've lived in the Fort for most of the last 35 years, so that should give you a clue as to my loyalties. Now that development dollars - many of them from Big D...
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You Can’t Handle the Truth

I see everything through flood control. The world. Why? You become what you do. If you take a guy like me and make him a flood-control reporter his whole life, he's going to come out with a flood-control point of view. Or drainage. Take your pick. No wonder nobody ever...
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Earth (the Planet) Now Has a Stuffed Crust

Just like everything Pizza Hut makes, Planet Earth now comes with a stuffed crust, after 300,000-plus wheels of gorgeous and delicious Parmesan and Grana Padano cheese were lost in a 6.0 Earthquake this past weekend. Last year, we watched Scardello crack a 90-pound wheel of Parmesan-Reggiano, the all-omnipotent King of...
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100 Favorite Dishes, No. 73: Fish and Chips at the Londoner

To prepare for this fall's Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we're counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I'm likely done with the Londoner till the Premier League kicks...
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Santigold Finds a Balance With Her New Album

Despite spending the previous evening performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and hosting a celebratory afterparty at downtown Manhattan hot spot Le Baron, Santi White, aka Santigold, is surprisingly fresh-faced and cheerful the morning after the release of her second album, Master of My Make-Believe (Atlantic/Downtown). Her demeanor might...
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Here We Go Magic on Picking Up Nigel Godrich (and John Waters)

"It was a really amazing gift for us as a group," acknowledges Michael Bloch, guitarist for Brooklyn quartet Here We Go Magic. The gift? Nigel Godrich, the producer and "sixth member" of Radiohead, offered his services for the band's new album, A Different Ship. Godrich and Thom Yorke became fans...