In October 2007, Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College with a dual degree in theater and Hispanic studies, she'd mostly cobbled together part-time jobs—waitressing, teaching Spanish, coaching high school speech. Olson was looking at nanny listings on Craigslist.org when she came...
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Yuletide Fiddlin’
Speaking, as we were below, of The Great Depression II: Electric Boogaloo, Forbes asked some of the wealthiest folks in the U.S. and A. to predict where the economy's headed in the coming year. Among those to respond to the survey was Mark Cuban, who offers his prophecy in terms...
The crisis over the Dallas levee system represents a total failure of the traditional leadership class in this city. We can and will argue for years about why this happened, but the important thing now is that it did. The mayor lied. City council members, with the exception of Angela...
So, one of those "Welcome Home, George & Laura" signs popped up in my neighborhood this week -- because, right, he will totally see it and appreciate the awesome gesture. And since we are days away from George and Laura's move to the '229, I thought it best to see...
Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council will vote on an ordinance that targets "apartment complexes with excessive crime rates," as the council considers revising Chapter 27 of the Dallas City Code, which deals with code compliance in multi-tenant units. It's an extensive overhaul that was first presented to the council's Public...
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With the exception of strolling over to Schutze's office, it's hard to find anyone in the media willing to criticize Mayor Tom, but Advocate publisher Rick Wamre is quickly rising up Leppert's naughty list, and his blog yesterday on Back Talk might vault him up to the top spot. While...
Kristina Hunken A few years back, a great little EP of demos by a Denton band called Cordelane came across my desk. Poetic but unpretentious (a little like Liz Phair covering Nick Drake), the five songs were written by Taylor Reed, a Seattle resident who came to our area to...
Demonstrated by Julian Barsotti of Nonna We here at City of Ate pride ourselves on making things easier...for us. If that means cajoling chefs into a display of finesse that fills blog space, more the better. Fortunately, we are also aware that your hectic schedule (and the fact that it...
As one of contemporary R&B's brightest stars, John Legend possesses Grammys and hits galore. But could he be any blander? His twinkling tunes about love and relationships are, at best, serviceable. And, lyrically, he treads the same ground as a hundred other singers. His status as a genre top dog...
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Panda Delite1060 W. Frankford, Carrollton972-395-1118Promised delivery time: 35 minutesActual delivery time: 46 minutesThe ScoreNear-promptness: 43Phone patience required: -3Old fashioned boxes: 15Semi-cold food: -6Spending threshold: -9Self-effacing, totally open, honest and unabashed delivery guy: 30Degree of difficulty: 8Total Score: 78Overall StandingsNandina Asian Tapas 93Panda Delite 78Zini's Pizzeria 51See the final 2008 Standings...
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No Inspection, No Cry
Mayor Tom Leppert made two stops on his tireless convention center hotel campaign tour Tuesday as he dropped by for "coffee and conversation" with the Dallas County Council of Republican Women shortly before squaring off with anti-hotel group leader Anne Raymond at the Westin Galleria. Leppert addressed the recent TV...
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 8, 2009... The alleged final version of Eminem's Dr. Dre-produced, "Crack a Bottle" has hit the world wide interweb. It features Fitty and Dre, each contributing a verse. The reclusive rapper even takes a jab at himself in reference to the...
It has always been a point of envy how gracefully Alberto Lombardi's restaurants blend casual comfort with a strange sense of pretense. His sort of crowd enjoys homespun simplicity, from the bistro feel of Toulouse to Taverna's everyday vibe—just as long as the place doesn't get bogged down by suburbanites...
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests generated from the Dallas-Fort...
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A Friend of Unfair Park points us to this announcement from WFAA-Channel 8 concerning its being dropped from Charter Cable come New Year's Eve, and wonders, "WTF?" So happens, reports Television Broadcast today, that the local brouhaha is part of a larger battle between Belo and Charter, which is likewise...
Back in August, Grapevine-based GameStop posted big second-quarter gains, but the stock price dropped nonetheless, because, as The Wall Street Journal pointed out at the time, there were "sign the results and outlook may not be good enough for investors." Also, even in August folks were scared the oncoming recession...
At first, it's the slow and lazy Louisiana drawl that sets the mood. Then, it's the way country legend Lucinda Williams earnestly asks you about your family—y'know, the one she's never met. Talking with Lucinda Williams is like talking with your older sister, except Time magazine never named your older...
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