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How ‘Bout Them Knockers: Greenz

Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Greenz2808 McKinney Avenue, Suite 109Dallas, TX 75204214-720-7788Promised delivery time: 30 minutesActual delivery time: 15 minutesScoring summary:Using Google Maps to locate restaurant delivery near the office: 15Being on a diet and realizing that...
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Jim Schutze Would Be Happier if Racists Weren’t on His Side

Strange bedfellows: Buzz is thinking about some of the response that came in from readers last week after our own Jim Schutze threatened to beat up Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. All Buzz can say is: What did Schutze expect? The Pulitzer? One reader, Ron Walenta of Quitman, Texas,...
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7-Eleven’s Working on Global Domination

Looks like 7-Eleven's new private-label wine is but the beginning of the Dallas-based convenience-store chain's plan to conquer the world. Mark Herron, the senior product director for all things private label, tells Convenience Store News there's more to come: "By developing a global brand, 7-Eleven can better leverage our brand...
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Bonus MP3: Vulgar Fashion — “Pact With The Devil”

Tonight's official release party for denton Deluxe Volume 5 (featuring Peopleodian, Kashioboy and Slack Beat) kicks off the first in a series of ongoing showcases put together by denton Deluxe's Chad Withers. Check out this week's North of the Dial for more on the compilation as well as for more...
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Veggie Guy: Soy Milk

Truth be told, not all soy milks are created equal. I still remember my first experience drinking a brand purchased from a bio-shop in Spain that almost resulted in me losing my lunch...or breakfast, as it were. Granted, I was very much a fan of dairy at the time. But...
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Pho From Home: Bistro B

This week I had the rare pleasure of spending time with my mom. She is in town, well, technically in the country, for the next few weeks and I have been waiting anxiously for her arrival. One of my favorite pastimes is embarking on adventures of the food variety with...
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Top 10 Most Annoying Diet Fads

Grapefruit can change your life. Cabbage soup, too. Balancing the right carbs with the right fats extends one's youth. Smoking shaves off the pounds. Eating only vegetables is ethically right...While Americans didn't invent ridiculous weight loss incentives (they date way back) or the assumption of moral superiority in one dining...
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Bonus MP3: Objektiv One — “Juicy (Banana Boardin’ Mashup)

Area graphic designer/hip-hop producer Objektiv One's always up to something. Or so he makes it seem on his always-entertaining, damn pretty self-titled blog, where he pontificates on all things music- and visual-related. And, earlier this month on his blog, Objektiv One (real name: Ross Edman), released a short, free, three-track...
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Rooney Drummer Pays Tribute to Fallen Mentor Carter Albrecht

Ten years ago, Ned Brower was attending SMU when he formed a band called The Cosmetics with one Carter Albrecht. Now the drummer for the Los Angeles power pop band Rooney, Brower has recently paid tribute to his sadly deceased, Dallas-based mentor. "The title track of our new EP is...
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The Dark, Cloudy Future Of Your Music Collection

"The Cloud is coming to steal my music collection!" It sounds like a bad horror movie, and yet it might be true. The common way to listen to music has changed relatively slowly over the years, from records to CDs to downloadable files, the last format being one we were...
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One Big Appetite

Adam Richman, host of Man Vs. Food on the Travel Channel, makes a living going from city to city to take on eating challenges. "Challenges?" you may ask. "You mean challenges like trying to get healthy food providers into blighted areas to supplement the fast-food and convenience stores that are...
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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Given his preference for static, symmetrical, scrupulously color-coordinated and art-directed compositions, it's less surprising that Wes Anderson has gotten around to directing an animated feature than that it took him this long to do it. Likewise, if Anderson—a nostalgia merchant whose ostensibly contemporary films always seem to be unfolding in...
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Short Orders: Via Real

Via Real420 N. MacArthur Blvd, Irving972-650-9001I might be tempted to call this place venerable if it weren't in Las Colinas. Restaurants just seem to have a little more staying power in that part of Irving.Of course, that's probably impression more than reality. And the kitchen that chef Felipe Gaytan built...