Beginning in 2006, 'round the time Rex Tillerson replaced Lee Raymond as CEO of Irving-based ExxonMobil, the company said it would cut funding to public-policy groups whose policy it was to deny in public the existence of climate change and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, matter...
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Dude Food: Ojeda’s
Sweat pours down Marguerite's sun-baked face. She feels briars scratching through her dusty jeans. The buzzing and biting of mosquitoes is maddening. So is the old fence lining one of the back pastures. It's broken again. Marguerite stops what she's doing. Why in the heck am I doing this? she...
It's easy for an artist to idle as they slide down the long tail, settling into their niche of cult fandom. But Michael Franti's been able to maintain his creativity as strongly as his social activism for more than two decades now. He initially burst on the scene in '88...
Against all odds, Deep Ellum is again showing signs of life. To see them, just take a drive down Elm Street. The cars lining the street are among the first things to catch the eye. So, too, are the construction workers milling about, preparing the soon-to-be-opened businesses along the 2700...
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Stages Of Style
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Steve Earle
10. Sounds to me like Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is leaning against rebuilding the indoor practice facility that collapsed May 2, leaving special teams coach Joe DeCamillis with a broken back, scouting assistant Rich Behm paralyzed from the waist down and director of college scouting Chris Hall with a...
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Food For Thought 5.11.09
On Wednesday afternoon, in a well-lit classroom on Forest Lane, the Dallas Happiness Club held its first meeting. I know -- it sounds like something advertised in the back pages of the paper version of Unfair Park. But the club's actually a monthly gathering rooted in the belief that happiness...
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Lone Star Face
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Kenny's Burger Joint1377 Legacy Dr. (Stonebriar Commons)Frisco214-618-8001One thing about Kenny's really, truly irked me.Years ago, chef Kenny Bowers served batch after batch of fantastic French fries at his Addison restaurant. Blanched and finished in beef tallow, they were crisp, rich and reminiscent in flavor of McDonald's fries from the 60's...
Earlier today, the Fort Worth Police Department sent out the following press release in response to Saturday night's raid on the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth. In short, the FWPD's temporarily breaking up with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission till both agencies figure out how the raid on the newly...
Nearly all of the 16 jurors grabbed their notebooks and focused on Brian Potashnik as the prosecution Wednesday morning called the witness expected to provide the most damning evidence in the City Hall corruption case. But while Potashnik's testimony raised concerns about the ethics of some of the five defendants,...
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How Insightful
In gearing up for Project Runway, we've been checking out Louise Black's fashions. We've also been gut-checking to see if we can handle watching Dallas' David Cohen on, um, Megan Wants a Millionaire (because Beauty & the Geek, Rock of Love and I Love Money weren't enough for that girl).See,...
"Tracks of My Tears," by Jim Schutze, July 23 Rails to the Future I found Jim Schutze's article on DART to be informative, as his articles usually are. The subway that he describes certainly sounds like a better solution than another surface track going through downtown. The only problem I...
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Merten and Pulle are out; Schutze is about. They'll offer their reports from hotel shindigs pro and con -- and, just maybe, some council member throwdowns -- later in the night, as Dallas County Elections begins kicking out returns from the day's vote. But till then, the early-voting results are...
This is a cruel joke. Texas Rangers fans who for decades have yearned for pitching are finally getting it, only to see their woody go limp when they finally need it. Something I thought I'd never type: The Rangers can't pitch hit. Spent Father's Day plopped on the couch not believing my...
After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its report on the city's levees, we were baffled to learn that construction on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge would continue, especially since drilling a concrete pier for the bridge into the floodway resulted in the troubling discovery of sand and the...
Better late...: After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its report on the city's levees in April, we were baffled to learn that construction on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge would continue, especially since drilling a concrete pier for the bridge into the floodway resulted in the troubling discovery...