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Four Punk Rock Heroines Band Together to Raise a Wild Flag

In many ways, Mary Timony is just now learning the tricks and pleasures performing live. The guitarist and co-vocalist of the all-female punk rock supergroup Wild Flag is two decades into a fairly successful career as a professional rock musician at this point. Her claim to fame is her lead...
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The Rum Diary Needs More Punch

Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary is what the Brits might call a rum movie — an oddly inoffensive piece and a personal project for its disconcertingly unengaged star Johnny Depp. The movie adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early '60s and published, under...
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In Defense of… Rihanna’s “We Found Love” featuring Calvin Harris

Some exciting news out of Rihanna camp last week: Her new album is scheduled to release on Monday, November 21. The announcement came in conjunction with the release of her latest single with electronic music producer Calvin Harris."We Found Love" is Harris' latest collaboration with a British Commonwealth diva. (He...
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Pho Colonial Brings Pho to Main Street on Wednesday

Last minute invitations often result in accidental food discoveries. Last night a friend asked me to join her for dinner, which turned out to be the "soft opening" of a new restaurant in her downtown neighborhood. As City of Ate reported back in January, the creator of Steel is bringing...
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The Problem With… Jennifer Lopez’s “Papi”

Current American Idol judge and People Magazine's "World Most Beautiful Woman" for 2011 Jennifer Lopez has had quite a year between having twins and announcing a split with her third husband Marc Anthony. For the past couple years, though, J-Lo had tried to draw a line between her personal and professional...
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West Coast Women Splash More Than Paint at Stay ZaZa

Deborah Oropallo's massive pieces command your attention the minute you enter the Stay ZaZa Art House & Social Gallery, a partnership with Santa Fe's Turner Carroll Gallery. It's a relatively small, simple event space with a chandelier interestingly tucked in the back right corner, black floors, and bright track lighting...
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Lawsuit Over a Very Bad Spa Day at Anatole

Courthouse News brings word this morning of a suit involving Unfair Park's 'cross-the-freeway neighbor, the Hilton Anatole -- specifically, its V Spa, which bills itself as "a sublime setting, a true spa experience, a multitude of treatments ready to revitalize and pamper, heal and refresh." The suit, filed Friday in...
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At My Lan and Hiep Thai Market, Suburban Strip-Mall Magic

Convincing devoted urbanites to venture to Garland can be a hard sell, no matter how hungry they are. The endless concrete pavement and strip malls, all heavily guarded by expansive parking lots, aren't inviting for exploration, especially when polished ethnic eateries lurk inside the loop. But culinary adventurers willing to...
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Fear and Fracking in Southlake

Thirty miles northwest of Dallas, there is a suburb the outside world scarcely touches. There is no evidence of recession here, no stagnating unemployment. In 2008, Forbes named it the most affluent neighborhood in the country. The next year it was named one of the richest ZIP codes of its...
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Bethan Gets By With A Little Help From Some Friends

When Denton's Novaak announced their break-up up shortly after the 35 Conferette in March, the band's lead singer, Jessi James, already had a few tracks in her solo repertoire. Just a month before, James had flown to New York City to work on a handful of songs with the help...
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The Brief and Wondrous Lives of Teach for America Teachers in DISD

Teach for America, the nonprofit teacher pipeline founded by Park Cities native Wendy Kopp, has made a couple of appearances in the Morning News lately, first in a news story and then an editorial about the rate at which TFA teachers stick in their jobs. Apparently the first class of...
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My First Show: 2011 Edition

Since this Sunday is Christmas, we decided to do something a little different with this week's edition of My First Show. Checking back in with a number of the people we interviewed this year, we wanted their takes on the best shows they saw, and to also get a preview...
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Dallas EPA Investigator Would Do Anything For Love. Yes, Even That.

For Dallas-based EPA investigator Keith Phillips, the visits to a Louisiana oil refinery started in the late '90s, and came, it seems, with dual purposes: business and pleasure. It started as an investigation into the refinery's waste storage methods and refinery manager Hubert Vidrine, who was eventually prosecuted. But court...