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How ‘Bout Them Knockers: Pizza By Marco

Delivery Time: 45 Minutes (No Time Quoted) Having To Go Outside To Direct Delivery Man: Minus Five Points Extensive Array Of Offerings And Pizza Toppings: 30 Points Small Pizza A Little Too Small For The Price: Minus Five Points Finally Putting Enough Sauce On A Pizza: 30 Points Use Of...
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“Cybersegregation in Boston and Dallas”

This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone who's spent any time on the Craigslist Rants And Raves forum (what can I say -- it goes good with a glass of Franzia Sunset Blush), but science has now proved that Craigslist posters are -- and this is my own...
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This Week In Dallas Music History: Erykah Badu Gets Her Due.

Not sure how much of the usual here's-why-this-is-an-important-read info that you'll need to find this piece interesting--you know, what with all the national press that Erykah Badu's received as of late. In case you live under a very large rock, Badu ended April by filing a not guilty plea with...
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100 Favorite Dishes: Chicken Gizzards at Sushi Yama

As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can...
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All In a Day’s Work

Anyone who's watched Leonardo DiCaprio sketch Kate Winslet naked on a couch or dared to look under their meth-addicted roommate's trap door knows the artistic highs and lows that can come from an hours-long flurry of single-minded inspiration. Could be art, could be a bicycle tire wrapped in unbent paperclips,...
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Getting Tanked Up On Caipirinas At Your Local Churrascaria

Summer on Ipanema Beach in Brazil. The sand is densely packed with tall buildings and beautiful people. And the people are beautiful because they can afford to be. You see, Ipanema is one of the most expensive places to live in Rio. Ipanema means "bad water" in the Tupi language,...
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What’s the Role of Penises in Mexican Insults?

Dear Mexican: I worked a summer job during college in southern Arizona during the late 1960s, where most of my coworkers were Mexicans from the state of Sonora. Their favorite expression when something was broken was no vale verga, literally "not worth dick" but actually meaning "totally fucked up." What...
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Um, Did You Watch The Good Guys Last Night?

Entertainment Weekly has taken a look at the early numbers for last night's sneak peek at FOX's shooting-here series about mismatched Dallas police detectives (Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks) and concluded that so far, so so when it comes to eyeballs. "An inauspicious start" is how Lynette Rice characterizes the...
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Idol Rich: One North Texan in the Bottom Three

Tim Urban was the second of the American Idol contestants to end up in the dreaded "Bottom Three" on the painfully long voting results show. It looked like Casey James might end up there too, but then it came down to him and Panhandle Texan Lacey Brown to fill the...