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On Sunday, The Dallas Morning News ran a piece headlined "The last, frantic days of Perot family hedge fund," which detailed how Parkcentral Global Hub Ltd. -- described in the story as "a Bermuda-chartered fund run from Plano and Dallas by the Perot family" -- saw its assets dwindle from...
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A Cure For Tinnitus at UTD?
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The Science Diet
Mention a bout with mezcal and at least one of your acquaintances will fire back with the "did you eat the worm" question.But insect larvae added to bottles of mezcal are a relatively recent marketing gimmick rather than some age-old tradition--an attempt to counter the spell its cousin, tequila, holds...
Geographically speaking, it makes perfect sense why we see so many shows in town come mid- to late March. Yet, every year, it manages to surprise us. Below is a breakdown of some of the more promising shows coming through as a result of South by Southwest overspill. But it's...
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Just noticed this on the Dallas City Hall Web site: the results of a recently taken survey of more than 1,600 Dallas households, who were asked about their thoughts about the city -- everything from "Perception of the Overall Quality of Life in Dallas" to "Ratings of Dallas As a...
The city council's Transportation and Environment Committee yesterday afternoon met for 90 minutes in executive session after Unison Consulting, the city's consultant for Love Field airport, presented a briefing on the benefits of competition for the airport's concessions. Because rent is paid to the city based on a percentage of...
Several hundred defense attorneys are attending an all-day conference at the Belo Mansion today to learn about the next wave of DWI defense work: the blood alcohol test about which we wrote last month. In recent years, police departments across the state have moved away from offering the breath test...
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Gaslight Anthem with Heartless BastardsGranada TheaterApril 28, 2009Better Than: Watching an anti-climatic basketball playoff. The Granada played host to brawny rock last night as the Heartless Bastards and headliner Gaslight Anthem played to a testosterone-rich crowd. In sets that were long on music and short on charisma, both bands played...
The Dears, Great Northern, EulogiesHailey's Club, DentonMay 16, 2009Better than: a bill featuring The Dear Hunter along with The Dear and the Departed. For The Dears' first show in Denton, it was rather surprising to see Hailey's far from capacity. Blame this on the fact that UNT was out of...
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I just spent way too long on Youtube searching for videos from this past weekend in area concert-going (apparently our spring semester interns' last days have come and gone), and all I came up with were videos from Edgefest 19 up at Pizza Hut Park this past weekend.But beggars can't...
Updated at 3:07 p.m. As we mentioned yesterday, the freshly inaugurated city council is set to approve a booting ordinance after the Economic Development Committee voted unanimously June 16 to put a modified version of the staff recommendation on tomorrow's addendum. This didn't make the Save Deep Ellum coalition happy,...
"Off Course," by Jim Schutze, April 23 till it's gone Building reservoirs to feed Dallas' growth is Texas' version of paving paradise to put up a parking lot. Jim R. from Sachse, via dallasobserver.com That reservoir has been planned for decades. Dallas is going to need that water to prosper...
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Heart to Heart
On Monday, we noted that the Royal Lane-based Institute for Creation Research filed a mammoth lawsuit in Dallas federal court in which it alleges that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board violated its constitutional rights when denying its application to offer master's degrees in science last year. Today, the ICR...
When the pro-hotel group kicked off its campaign at City Hall, they touted the 195,000 room nights and more than $200 million in economic impact booked by the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau resulting from the city council moving forward with plans to build a convention center hotel. Led by...
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Black Moth Super Rainbow, School of Seven Bells, Darktown StruttersHailey's Club, DentonJune 3, 2009Better Than: Sulking at home last night while poking around on Craigslist and eBay for those Animal Collective tickets you should've bought months ago... Turns out there weren't any "Quadrophenia-esque rumbles" in Hailey's parking lot after Black...
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, who performs under only the first of her four names, has earned plenty of plaudits for 19, an album whose title corresponds to her age at the time of its release early last year. And, as a result, the disc earned the singer four Grammy nominations—two...
Even though all the pirate news lately has focused on the waters of Somalia, you've probably heard by now about The Pirate Bay's founders, who were found guilty of copyright infringement having assisted in making copyrighted files available for download in a Swedish court last week. Today, though, news came...
With Romeo and Juliet, the problem is this: Cast seasoned actors who look a little too old for the title roles or use young ones who can pass as teenagers (Juliet's barely 14 in the play) but might be too green to wrap their heads around the characters' intense emotional...