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Pet Sounds

By Steve Jansen
Sonya Fitzpatrick lies on a bed surrounded by her seven cats and five dogs. Dressed in a red blouse with matching red nail polish, blue jeans, gold hoop earrings and a gold necklace, Fitzpatrick, who's inside her Conroe home that's shaded by towering pine trees, is on the phone conducting...
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In Need of Another Rolling Blackout? Then Read This New Story of ERCOT.

By Robert Wilonsky
This morning we received the same report presented to all members of the Texas Legislature: The Story of ERCOT, prepared by the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power. It's a mammoth thing -- 110 pages based, says TCAP, on "months of research, including a review of journalistic accounts, regulatory documents, academic...
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TGI Friday’s: No More In NorthPark; Yes More in the Middle East

By James A. Keith
T.G.I. Friday's, a place known for its red-and-white stripes and flair for shrugging off the work-week, may be feeling the crunch just like everyone else -- or it may just be changing its game. Within the last week, the location at NorthPark Center shuttered its doors amidst numerous T.G.I. Friday's...
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Living At, and Around, DFW Airport

By Robert Wilonsky
About four years back, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor John D. Kasarda ID'd Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as the city center of the future -- the so-called aerotropolis. Well, Kasarda's turned his article into a full-blown tome that just landed in the mailbox: Aerotropolis: The Way We'll...
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The Shortest Day

By Michelle Mathews
Greeting cards try to tell us the "reason for the season," but we know the truth. The real reason for the season is the moment when the earth is tilted furthest away from the sun, resulting in the longest night of the year--otherwise known as the winter solstice. Even ancient...
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Well-Grounded Chuck

By Andrew Marton
When the Cooking Channel first debuted last year, I had heard that a fair chunk of its programming was imported from Canada. Well, if the Cooking Channel can be qualified as an emerging gastro-nation on the television grid, then its number one emissary of all around sweetness and gap-toothed light...
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Natinsky Reveals His “Priorities For Dallas”

By Jesse Sidlauskas
Ron Natinsky asked members of the media to join him Monday afternoon at The Cedars Social -- not for a drink, sadly, but so he could announce an endorsement (from the MetroTex Association of Realtors) and unveil a handful of "priorities" intended to rejuvenate Dallas -- which include, ta da,...
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Stone Old Guardian 2011 Classic Release vs. BELGO Version

By Jesse Hughey
While not everyone thinks it's a tremendously creative idea, Stone Brewing Co. this year has introduced a program called "Odd Beers For Odd Years," in which the recipes for Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine and Stone Imperial Russian Stout are tweaked. This year, the brewery is adding the Belgian yeast...
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Mars Needs Moms: Maternal Anxiety in Outer Space Flounders.

By Nick Schager
Who said animation should look real? Robert Zemeckis, for one, though as evidenced by Disney's recent closing of his ImageMovers Digital studio, he increasingly appears to be alone in that sentiment. Mars Needs Moms stands as the potentially final Zemeckis-produced motion-capture effort, and like The Polar Express, Beowulf and A...
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Gin Crush at Artin’s Grill: A Slow-Sipping Old-Style Fave

By Chris Meesey
Diners may feel lost in Artin's Grill's cavernous interior. Service can be spotty, and the building's configuration is such that there are precious few windows to allow for viewing of the Bellagio-style fountains. Nevertheless, the food is quite solid and there is an attractive wine list and an equally attractive...
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Women’s Funding Network sex trafficking study is junk science

By Nick Pinto
ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING CRAIGSLIST told Congress on September 15 that the ubiquitous web classifieds site was closing its adult section. Under intense scrutiny from the government and crusading advocacy groups, as well as state attorneys general, owner Craig Newmark memorably applied the label "Censored" in his classifieds where adult advertising once...
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Last Night: Marnie Stern and Tera Melos at Sons of Hermann Hall

By Chelsea Upton
Marnie Stern, Tera MelosSons of Hermann HallFebruary 24, 2011 Better than: corporate team-building exercises. Marnie Stern stepped onto the small, half-circle stage at Sons of Hermann Hall, looking casual and cool with her hair braided down the side, wearing a cut-up Elvis Costello T-shirt that complemented her no-fuss style.During the...