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Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling’s book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona’s Immigration War Zone

Editor's Note: As a staff writer for Phoenix New Times, award-winning journalist Terry Greene Sterling reported for years on the political brawls and human tragedies that have made Arizona the epicenter for the national immigration debate. Sterling is now a contributor for The Daily Beast, and Writer-in-Residence at the Walter...
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Yuletide Shredding

If someone were to propose the idea of a progressive symphonic metal band with dozens of touring members, elaborate synchronized light shows and pyrotechnics that rival any Kiss concert, it might sound like a pretty cool idea. Now, if someone told you that this band would perform mostly Christmas songs,...
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How ‘Bout Them Knockers: Hong Kong Express

Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Hong Kong Express4760 Preston, Frisco972-377-8850Promised delivery time: 45 minutesActual delivery time: 30 minutesScoring summary:Finding a place that delivers when you have no phone book and the Internet is useless: 19Classic 'column A,...
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Chuck Greenberg > Tom Hicks. Texas Rangers = Texas Rangers?

Lots of positives on the sale of your Texas Rangers from Tom Hicks to Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg. *First and foremost, Hicks will be a minority voice, but one with zero say on trading, hiring, firing or signing players, coaches or employees. *Nolan Ryan remains the face of the...
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Pho From Home Makes Her Own Pho at Home (Part 2)

What started out as a fun idea to share my mom's recipe for pho with City of Aters turned into something more nerve racking. My mom isn't exactly Martha Stewart, fastidiously measuring out every tablespoon or gram needed for an exact recipe. She, like many Asian cooks, measures sauces and...
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Pairing Off: Ore-Ida Fries

Thanks to a deadline timing fluke largely of my making, this was my birthday dinner: half a bag of supermarket French fries.You know--those freezer burnt sticks one pops in the oven, checks after the recommended 15 minutes to find a batch of glossy, flaccid, half-baked things. So you leave them...
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Hophead: Homebrewing For St. Brigid

I'd like to give a lake of beer to God / I'd love the Heavenly Host to be tippling there for all eternity ... I'd sit with the men, the women of God, there by the lake of beer / We'd be drinking good health forever and every drop would...
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Question Of The Week: What’s Wrong With Fruitcake?

After all, those things from the Collin Street Bakery aren't bad. And the five or six people who take the time to do homemade ones the old fashioned way (steeped in booze) probably turn out brilliant cakes.Or maybe not.For some reason, few dishes besides rancid pork and salt-cured calf fries...
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Where’s Greggo? In Wichita Falls. Sorta.

​I found Greg Williams. On the radio. Again. Sounding coherent, opionated and refreshingly edgy. Sounding like, well, the Greggo you know and love. "I've had to hook my delay back up," says Williams' new radio partner John Clay Wolfe. "This guy makes me want to cuss." Wolfe, who happens to...
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Operation Car Wash, Vacuuming’s Extra

View Larger MapJust saw this press release from the Dallas Police Department that contains relatively few details about something called Operation Car Wash, which DPD says has resulted in 27 arrests since warrants were first issued back on September 9. The release catalogs the drugs also seized, and DPD spokesman...
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Question Of The Week: Should Small, Chef-Driven Restaurants Expand?

A Nick Too Far?​Last we we asked about chains. This time around, we were wondering about small-scale expansion. Word came recently that Nick Badovinus, chef and owner of Neighborhood Services, would soon open a second and third branch of the restaurant. Nothing wrong with this--expansion is sometimes the only way...
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Measures of a Man: Harrison Ford is Nothing if Not Useful

Extraordinary Measures is a race-against-time thriller in which a desperate dad (Brendan Fraser) sacrifices everything to cure a rare disease that's seconds away from killing his kids. Extraordinary Measures is also a heartwarming tale about a disgruntled doc (Harrison Ford) who throws in with a biotech startup fronted by...well, a...