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The D-Town Boogie Positions Itself For A Big Score This All-Star Weekend

Forget Kobe Bryant. Forget LeBron James. Forget Dwyane Wade. Yeah, this weekend is about those names as the National Basketball Association brings its annual All-Star Game to Cowboys Stadium, along with a string of events in and around downtown Dallas. Yet it's also about another prominent roster that's coming to...
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Wowboys 20, Beagles 16: My Top 10 Observations

10. Lots of heroes Sunday night in Philly, but the biggest - smallest - play was made by rookie linebacker Victor Butler. With the Eagles down 7 and facing third-and-10 from Dallas' 33, Donovan McNabb scrambled right into what seemed to be an open field for a good 10 to...
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Walt & El Grupo

In 1941, with financial woes mounting and an animators' strike making his studio anything but the happiest place on earth, Walt Disney took President Franklin D. Roosevelt up on the offer to be a cultural ambassador to Latin America. For the United States, it was a chance to woo potential...
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Dive In | Fuzzy Math

"Dive In," by Jesse Hughey, November 12 Diving Veterans Great article. I love the dive bar, but one thing is missing—the VFW or American Legion bars scattered all over the place. My wife and I (late 20-early 30s) will go to an American Legion in Oak Cliff to see my...
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And The Winner Is…

It was certainly a vocal week on City of Ate. People like bc, jamey, curmudgeon and DallasDude churned out more words that I did--at least it seems that way.Of course, we're still on our 'no prizes' kick so their efforts earn them little more than our appreciation. We did have...
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The Boys Are Back

In the Oscar derby for Best Actor, is it better to die or to grieve? Clive Owen opts for the latter route in this strained, sentimental adaptation of a memoir by widowed English journalist Simon Carr. His 2001 book—boozy, breezy and thoroughly unsystematic—was a precursor to the new laissez-faire parenting...
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Best Martini

Sevy's GrillSo everybody in Dallas orders vodka instead of gin. And the shaken or stirred question never comes up. At least Sevy’s understands that, when you deign to order a real (gin) martini, the proper end result requires a balance of spirit and vermouth. And they don’t let you get away with uneducated calls. Say “Bombay” […]
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Rent Control Part Two

Two years ago, GlobeSt.com took a look at the state of Dallas-Fort Worth's apartment market and said, in short, Lookin' good. Occupancy rates were on the rise, as were rents -- up to an average of $724 a month. But today, things are a little different: Rates are higher than...
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Bible Study With the ACLU of Texas

Maybe you recall the ruckus raised last May, when some folks up in Frisco got upset with the fact the school district allowed for the dissemination of Gideon bibles on campuses. And no doubt you recall what happened a year earlier, when some Jewish kids in Plano ISD were taunted...
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Days Gone Bite: Quake Cereal

Even though I was only 10, I actually cast a ballot in the 1972 election. You'll recall that it was a landslide. And as with every election in which I could legally vote afterwards--at least until the early 90s--I ended up on the losing end. That's right, I marked the...
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Keep on Truckin’. Just Not in the Left Lane.

For the last four years, the Texas Department of Transportation and the North Central Texas Council of Governments have been restricting big rigs from driving in the left lane along small sections of I-20 and I-30. And they're delighted with the results of the pilot program: Dan Kessler, NTCOG assistant...