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Last Night: Cake at the Palladium Ballroom

CakePalladium BallroomDecember 30, 2010 Better than (eventually): The insane traffic that was backed up from the venue, all the way down Lamar, down the ramp and onto freaking I-30. Cake has it figured out. For the uninitiated: The California-based nerdy rock outfit managed to not only blow up into big...
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Watch the Dallas Police Department Watch You

Couple of weeks back Patrick spent the day hanging out with the Big Brothers watching the watchers at the American Society for Industrial Security confab at Dallas Convention Center. Turns out, some attendees were also given an all-access pass to the Dallas Police Department's video surveillance operations center, located at...
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DFW Film Crix, Very Social at Year’s End

The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its year-end best-of list, with David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's Facebook film The Social Network coming out on top -- just as it had in the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review polls...
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Comparing Anchor’s 2009 and 2010 Christmas Ales

Now that we're into December, Christmas beers, winter warmers and other special seasonals are showing up in stores and beer joints. It is truly the most wonderful time of the year if you're a beer lover, and year after year, Anchor Christmas Ale, also sometimes called "Our Special Ale" (and...
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Karina Longworth’s Top 10 Movies of 2010

Every four years, the American people act en masse to send a message to the nation's power brokers, and every four years, this vote is interpreted as a sign of the decline in taste, intelligence and moral rectitude of the populace. Every four years, a Jackass movie opens at number...
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East Texas Turkey Fronts New York Times Dining Section

John T. Edge's profile of Greenberg Smoked Turkey in this morning's New York Times no doubt whetted appetites nationwide for the Tyler smokehouse's "spice-rubbed and hickory-burnished bird," but the product's long been a local favorite. As a newcomer to Dallas, I couldn't fathom what John T was doing when he...
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J&J’s Pizza Cranks Up the Sound

Two things integral to the fabric of a city that is both a college town and a music town are pizza places and small music venues. J&J's Pizza, located on the Square, is an old Denton haunt where you can see 5-year-olds eating pizzas with their moms, local musicians and...
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Top Chef Fan Favorite Tiffany Derry
Out of a Job

What's a Fan Favorite title from Top Chef worth? In Dallas, an unemployment check. Teresa Gubbins yesterday reported that Go Fish Ocean Club, the North Dallas restaurant helmed by cheftestant Tiffany Derry, shut down after service Saturday night. Owners blamed the location for intolerably slow sales. Derry wrote on her...
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Whitt’s End: 12.17.10

Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Tony Romo took girlfriend Candice Crawford to the top of Reunion Tower last night to celebrate her 24th birthday. And then, yep, he popped the question. Very cliched and Dallasy of...
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Pomplamoose’s DIY Revolution

On an improbably sunny midwinter day, amid green pastures and meandering cows, two unassuming musicians are waging a revolution against the established order of the recording industry. Here, inside a dim shed formerly used as a dog kennel, Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn are recording their next album as Pomplamoose—a...
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Eagles 30, Cowboys 27: My Top 10 Observer-ations

10. DeSean Jackson is fun to watch, and so easy to hate. After his 91-yard catch-and-run touchdown he stopped at the 1 and slowly fell backward into the end zone. Where's George Teague when you need him? 9. At 4-9 the Cowboys are officially losers (for the first time since '04)...
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That’s It. We’re Outta Here to Go Get a Burger.

OK, next time I have to write a complicated story about genetically modified salmon or high-fructose corn syrup, I'm illustrating it with a picture of a hamburger. Because if I'm interpreting the results of the American Society of Magazine Editors' annual best magazine cover contest correctly, readers can't resist burger...