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Texas Wine Industry Considers Identifying Best of the Bunch

Texas wine enthusiasts seeking a better way to convey to consumers which local wines deserve their attentions are broaching the possibility of creating a wine quality program. Russ Kane, a wine writer who's moderating a panel on wine quality at this week's Texas Wine and Grape Growers Association conference in...
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D’Vegan: Making Meatless Choices Easier

For weeks, my newly born-again vegan friend had been badgering me to try a new restaurant called D'Vegan. Catering to the Vietnamese Buddhist vegetarian community, the restaurant is only six weeks old. The self-proclaimed "green" eatery sits in the food court space between Hong Kong Supermarket and Bistro B. D'Vegan...
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Catfish Industry Fighting for New Labeling Laws in Texas

The catfish industry is targeting Texas as the next state to adopt country-of-origin labeling legislation. The Catfish Institute's president Robert Barlow is now in Texas, rallying support for a bill introduced by state Senator Glenn Hegar. The proposed law, modeled after similar legislation already on the books in five Southeastern...
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Results Are In for Local Carrotmob Hit

The official numbers are in for Dallas' first-ever Carrotmob, a reverse boycott in which participants patronize a restaurant that pledges to spend a certain percentage of its one-night sales on energy efficiency upgrades. According to organizer Tajana Mesic, more than 300 people ate at LaGrange in Deep Ellum last Wednesday...
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Alma: Great Mexican Food, but Give Us Tea for Texas.

"This is the society we're living in," rants angry-guy podcaster/comedian Adam Carolla. "You can order iced tea and get something that tastes like somebody took a pillowcase of potpourri and boiled it." Ask for iced tea at Alma, the latest addition to Consilient Restaurants' Henderson Avenue collection (along with Hibiscus...
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True Widow Settles In and Gets Louder

After touring and recording with Slowride for a handful of years, the last thing on Dan Phillips' mind was forming another band. While living in Boston and attending a furniture-making school and contemplating his future, he did what he normally does to pass the time: sit on his couch and...
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Times Looks at State’s “Draconian” School Cuts

In this morning's New York Times, James C. McKinley looks at how Texas's $27-billion budget shortfall is about to devastate districts statewide -- while using the same word as Dallas Independent School District Michael Hinojosa only a few days ago to describe the coming cuts: "draconian." McKinley's piece comes but...
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Jane Eyre: A Woman of Independent Means.

If Jane Eyre is not the greatest of the Great Books with a permanent position on required-reading lists, it may be the most frequently filmed: At least 10 cinematic versions of the story have been made dating back to the dawn of the silent era—more, if you count made-for-TV adaptations...