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For Two Weeks Now, Spune’s Lance Yocom Has Been In An Arizona Hospital

While vacationing in Arizona a couple weeks back, Spune Productions owner Lance Yocom checked himself into a Flagstaff hospital with flu-like systems and a fever of over 100 degrees. Problem is, doctors have had difficulty determining what, exactly, was the specific cause of his condition.Since early last week, he's remained...
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And the Winners Are … You

A few years ago, you'd hear the happy-go-lucky, impossibly supportive local music fans shout their rallying cries, and you'd smile because, much as you wanted to believe that what they were saying was true, you knew in your heart that it wasn't. Still, you listened to their rants: "There's just...
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Whitt’s End: 9.16.11

[jump] *Kudos to Fox Sports Southwest and Rangers fans for raising $156,375 during Tuesday night's online auction to benefit the Shannon Stone Memorial Fund. Biggest-drawing item: 18-seat luxury suite at Cowboys Stadium for Oct. 2 Lions-Cowboys. Winning bid: $28,500. *Why do people use toothpicks when there is an invention called...
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When Local Attorneys Judge the Judges

Judges hate the Dallas Bar Association's judicial evaluation polls, a semi-semi-tradition dating to 1975 that took a brief pause in '07, when judges managed to get the thing sidelined by grousing that the methodology was unfair and, besides, it weren't nothing but a popularity contest, so ... harrumph. But two...
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2011 Dallas Cowboys Training Camp Day 8: My Top 10 Observer-ations

10. Impressed yesterday that -- on a players day off -- 6th-round draft choice and receiver Dwayne Harris was running sprints and routes. All by his lonesome. 9. Mat McBriar isn't exactly Rob Ryan, but he's departing pudgy and heading toward fat. McBriar pulled his hamstring running in last Wednesday's conditioning...
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Making Her Mark

Since becoming a popular movement in the 1950s, minimalism has remained a powerful force in fashion, art and architecture. Of course, as with any art movement, there are critics who are quick to attack minimalist art as too simplistic or less meaningful than, say, impressionist or abstract art. But art...
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More Than a Crush

Ladies in comics aren't always relegated to the roles of helpless damsels in distress or impossibly proportioned Barbie doll heroines in skin-tight costumes, and ladies creating comics don't have to fall into the mold of cranking out dull everywoman schlock like Cathy. Exhibit A: the awkward high school protagonist of...
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Looking at The Grape Through The Eyes of Three Critics

I chose The Grape for this week's review with a specific purpose: to reflect on the mechanics of restaurant criticism, and to gain a better understanding of Dallas' dining culture. The restaurant was recently reviewed by both D and the Morning News. What better way to learn about two critics...