Musicians releasing songs to benefit those in need is not a new phenomenon -- look no further than 1985's "We Are the World" charity single, by the supergroup USA for Africa, featuring Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, and strangely enough, Dan Aykroyd. And let's not forget the awesomely awful Haiti remake.Civic...
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10. There was a time when the Mavs going 3 of 17 on 3-pointers in a playoff game meant certain doom. Last night, Dallas didn't shoot particularly well, but it defended and rebounded. Wow did it rebound, to the tune of +12, +11 at the offensive end. 9. Turns out Brandon Roy's...
10. For the Mavs, a shocking 2-0 lead. For the Lakers, a Stinko de Mayo. L.A. missed its first 15 3-pointers and was booed off the court in Staples Center. As they head for Dallas and Friday night's Game 3, the Lakers are muttering things like "dispirited" and "trust issues." Surreal...
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(Sex) Traffick911 Press Release
I want this NBA championship. Selfishly? You bet. As a shaggy-haired 16-year-old who wanted to grow up to be Pete Maravich, I attended the Mavericks' first game back at old Reunion Arena. Not the regular-season debut victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Oct. 11, 1980, but the inaugural preseason...
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They waited as long as they could before they left without him. "Don't bother going out tonight," Kathy O'Keefe had told Brett, her 18-year-old son, the night before their family vacation. It was March of last year. Brett's older brother, Kyle, was home from college for spring break and his...
On the other side are two surveillance cam videos the Dallas Police Department just posted to YouTube as part of its ongoing effort to enlist the public whenever the department needs some extra eyeballs. In this instance, the department says that two men, at least one of whom carries a...
Dear Readers: Although many of you have loved and/or loathed my columna for years, the Mexican still finds new readers every week in the unlikeliest of spots (hola, Chattanooga! See you in August, inshallah!). As a result, I sometimes receive questions about the methodology of the column, questions all of...
I am suspicious of at-home remedies. I don't believe in a cure until a stranger in a white coat feels up my glands and then prescribes it to me, in the form of an innocuous-looking pill, a potentially addicting spray or a vile-tasting serum. I believe in pumping my body...
Chick-fil-A's first store designed to meet environmental design standards, opening this week in Fort Worth, will feature energy efficient appliances, low-flow restroom fixtures and a cistern for plant irrigation, but the fast food chain's still isn't ready to institute unbleached paper napkins. David Farmer, vice president of innovation and service,...
While everyone's looking back at 2010, let's glance ahead at the first meeting of the Landmark Commission in the new year, which takes place Tuesday. There you'll find the results of that so-called "courtesy review" First Presbyterian Church of Dallas asked for in advance of its decision to purchase 508...
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Dan Deacon1 a.m., Rubber Gloves Rehearsal StudiosRubber Gloves, the way its creator meant for it to be --- swimming with the flailing appendages of sticky college students, the air clammy and thick with the palpable stench of dozens of human bodies excreting gasses and liquids, feeding into a stagnant air...
On a bridge 10 miles outside of Saint Jo, Texas, a small, sleepy town an hour and a half drive northwest of Dallas, a handful of locals have gathered on a July afternoon to look at a sand mine being built off a remote country road. Rolling hills dotted with...
So. David Leininger, Dallas Area Rapid Transit's chief financial officer, and council member Linda Koop just called to talk -- what else? -- streetcars, on both the DART board and city council's to-do lists tonight and tomorrow. And Leininger made it very clear: While rider revenues for the next few...
During Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's budget-gutting presentation to the school board yesterday, when he warned that the state's $27-billion budget shortfall could result in as many as 3,900 layoffs and secondary school classrooms filled with at least 35 students per teacher, the district posted to its Facebook page an...
This weekend's biggest show will give local music fans a good reason to get outside: On Saturday, Homegrown Music & Art Festival will feature performances from Neon Indian, School of Seven Bells and a handful of other bands with local ties at Main Street Garden Park in downtown Dallas. Before...
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The Guth and the Glory
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Think of it this way. It's Saturday morning. You could sleep some more. Oh, wait, you're awake. That's why you're lying here thinking. So you need something to do. You could go to NorthPark Center and buy a monogrammed mother-of-pearl hairbrush that's also an antique music box that plays "God...
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Whitt’s End: 4.29.11
Below is City Manager Mary Suhm's memo to the council noting that revenue from red-light cameras is way below last September's FY2010-11 guesstimates. But at present, that's the least of her concerns: On Wednesday, the council will hear from Assistant City Attorney Larry Casto, the city's Director of Legislative Affairs,...
It feels like the wrong day to be talking about burns, but -- on the off-chance the thought of scalded skin might help you feel temporarily toasty -- City of Ate today presents five favorite restaurant kitchen remedies for the burns that result from grabbing a too-hot skillet handle or...