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Giant Disgust with Dallas Cowboys

By Richie Whitt
And you thought there was nothing more disgusting than 2 Girls 1 Cup. Though it's tough to trump the shocking Internet phenomenon, what happened at Texas Stadium last Sunday is even more repulsive. New York Giants 21, Dallas Cowboys 17. Are you shittin' me? Barf! After quarterback Tony Romo's pass...
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Northern State Helps the Woman Rapper Comeback

By Michael Roberts
If Northern State's Julie Potash was bitter, no one would have blamed her. Although All City, the New York-based hip-hop hybrid's first release for Columbia Records, made Rolling Stone's list of 2004's top 50 albums, the relationship between band and corporate master soon soured, preventing Potash and her fellow rhymers...
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One Out of Four Texas Children Goes Hungry At Some Point During the Year

By Robert Wilonsky
Twenty-four percent of all children in the state of Texas are "at risk of hunger," says a report released yesterday by America's Second Harvest, the country's largest charitable hunger-relief organization. The report's titled Child Food Insecurity in the United States: 2003 -- 2005, and it analyzes data collected by the...
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Tex-Mex Horse Meat

By Megan Feldman
Because a year ago the courts shut down the last two slaughterhouses in Texas that turned horses into meat for human diners, most people think American equines are no longer being killed to satiate appetites in Europe and Asia. Yet thousands of horses are being exported to Mexico and killed...
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Crack is Wack — So’s the Sentencing

By Robert Wilonsky
I’ve written about illegal drugs here and there, and I've been inside a few prisons for those stories and others. And along the way I’ve met more than a few individuals serving inordinate amounts of time for piddly drug offenses -- specifically, crack cocaine offenses. It’s hard to argue that...
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The Octopus Project

By Michael Hoinski
You might think the use of the theremin would be a mark of distinction, but plenty of bands have employed the sci-fi sound machine. Led Zeppelin built a bridge out of it for "Whole Lotta Love," the Pixies knitted "Velouria" with it and for Phish it was a segue out...
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Mayor Tom Is, Again, Inflating the Truth

By Robert Wilonsky
Angela Hunt has been doing some research. Mayor Tom keeps saying the cost of the Trinity River toll road has more than tripled because of inflation. So Hunt put together a table showing what effect the Department of Labor’s inflation index would have had on the cost of the road...
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Get In on the Collision Art Party

By Chelsea Mueller
We suggest checking out all the work at Collision, including that by the lovely Ange Fitzgerald. Hear Clint Scism explain Collision and see a few more of the works. (Ange Fitzgerald)A brisk tutorial into what occurs when “things” collide: In the wondrous world of computing, collision refers to “an instance...
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Pick Pickler?

By Alice Laussade
If you wear Wranglers, would you please buy the next size up? Seriously, dudes. I know you think "the Ladies" like the way those jeans look when they're all tight, but they're cutting off your circulation, which can't be good for your sperm count and might mean you can't reproduce—wait—I...
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So You Think You’ll Go?

By Merritt Martin
Since Mark Cuban was voted off Dancing With the Stars, my love for televised ballroom dancing has waned ever so slightly. Sure, I appreciate a good foxtrot just as much as the next viewer, but—wait, what am I saying? People watch Dancing With the Stars not for dancing (save a...
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Grande Psychology

By Jesse Hughey
In How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill, a Yale-educated advertising executive, is on top of the world until he's stricken with downsizing, an affair, the resultant fun baby, a crumbling family, brain cancer and no health care. When the manager at his favorite black-staffed Starbucks offers a job,...
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Letter to UT Southwestern Medical Center’s V.I.P. Members

By Patrick Williams
Dear Very Important Person: On behalf of UT Southwestern Medical Center's staff, I wish to offer our sincere apologies for The Dallas Morning News' recent publication of our list of 6,400 people guaranteed special treatment in the event they become patients at any of our facilities. We want to assure...
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Jim Needs The News‘ Help With a Little Fact-Checking

By Robert Wilonsky
Public Appeal to Michael A. Lindenberger, transportationologist, Dallas Morning News: I called you yesterday seeking comment on a story you had in The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday saying that the North Texas Tollway Authority may have to ask Dallas taxpayers for more money for the Trinity River toll road...
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Hot Hot Heat

By Rick Skidmore
The epic, soaring sonics on Happiness Ltd., Hot Hot Heat's latest effort, owe a debt to some tricked-out production that results in a number of satisfying swells. The strongest candidates for airplay are front-loaded for instant gratification, while the rest of the album needs time to ferment. Comparisons to the...
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What, Them Worry?

By Robert Wilonsky
Council member Dave Neumann Matt's at Gilley's right now, sharing a Shiner with Mayor Tom -- can't beat 'em, drink 'em under the table, we say. Actually, this is how Matt breaks down the not-quite-a-victory party at this very moment. I ran into council member Dave Neumann, who was pretty...
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Things You Learn While Being Put on Hold by Southwest Airlines

By Robert Wilonsky
Bizarre as this sounds, I’ve spent the better part of the afternoon calling Southwest Airlines with the express intention of being put on hold. Normally, I despise having to wait on the phone and being held captive by Muzak and that creepy electronic voice that sweetly says, “We’ll be right...
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Drunk on Victory, At a Price

By Robert Wilonsky
Might as well learn to live and love the Balanced Vision Plan. Almost there: 383 precincts in now, and Mayor Tom's got 40,983 out of the 77,296 votes cast. Which leaves a mere 36,313 for Angela Hunt. And only 17 precincts left to go. It's over: The Trinity River toll...
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Clay Chabot’s Got One Foot Out of the Prison Cell Door

By Robert Wilonsky
Authorities are fitting Clay Chabot with an electronic monitor this week in anticipation of his release from prison Wednesday. Judge Lana Myers ruled on Friday that Chabot be released on bail pending a new trial -- if the Dallas County District Attorney decides to retry him for the murder of...
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Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals

By Michael Roberts
Given the advances in digital studio equipment, cutting an album in analog can be both more difficult and more expensive than using readily available modern gear. Ben Harper, though, wanted the old-school experience, so he and his band laid down Lifeline fast and dirty using a 16-track console. The results...
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Ain’t Life Grand? It Is, At Least According to Preservation Texas.

By Robert Wilonsky
Justin Terveen The Grand Hotel, as captured by Justin Terveen for a collection of photos shot in 2004-2007 from inside and outside the building Moments ago, from the steps of the Capitol Building in Austin, Preservation Texas released its fifth annual list of Texas’ Most Endangered Historic Places -- and...
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Trinity Still Divides Council

By Patrick Williams
Divided we stand: Short of reading that the United States has invaded Iran (God forbid) or that Tony Romo broke a leg (God, Allah, Buddha and L.Ron Hubbard forfend), Tuesday's Metro headline in The Dallas Morning News is about the grimmest thing you're likely to see in a long, long...