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Dallas Flashes Back to 1997

By Patrick Williams
A maverick female city council member challenges the powers that be at City Hall all by her lonesome. Voters trek to the polls to decide the fate of the Trinity River project: Will it be a park or an expressway? The feds are sniffing around alleged corruption among southern Dallas...
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Best Sports Blog

Girls Gone SportsOnce upon a time, the sports gods smiled upon the sports fans of North Texas, which was a nice thing to do considering they’d been acting like jerks lately, what with none of the area teams surviving playoffs. In compensation, the game-friendly gods gave us “Mandy” and “Lauren,” two Tarrant County-born, sports-obsessed 20-somethings with access […]
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Down in Flames

By Gary Hodges
In terms of the yawning chasm between what was promised and what has been delivered, Lair earns the distinction of being the biggest letdown ever for PlayStation 3. Worse, it's also one of those games where massive prerelease hype merely ended up underscoring its flaws, transmogrifying a game that would've...
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Cuban Detour to Texas

By Russell Cobb and Others
Enveloped by darkness, a tractor rumbles down the hills that surround Cuba's western coast. The tractor pulls a cart loaded with a makeshift boat constructed from aluminum tubing and an old car motor. Fourteen Cubans cram into the craft, destined for a twisting river that leads to the Yucatán Channel...
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Atmosphere, Mac Lethal, Grayskul

By Andrew Williams
Grayskul's 2005 release, Deadlivers, seemed suspiciously mature for a debut effort, at least until fans did some digging about these ascendant masters of the underground universe and discovered Reason, Fiddle Back Recluse and Phantom Ghost El-Topo were the superhero aliases of scene vets Onry Ozzborn, JFK and Rob Castro. These...
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Not Really a Hispanic Heritage Month Feel-Good Story

By Robert Wilonsky
So, this week we've learned that Irving is the new Farmers Branch. Two days after some 1,000-plus marched on Irving's City Hall, protesting that city's turning over suspected illegal immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at least one religious leader in that suburb is insisting Hispanics are being targeted without...
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Life Without Debt Leaves Jimmy Phipps Owing Society

By Mark Stuertz
On the first Tuesday of every month, Phil Brantley hosts a conference call. He never knows who will be calling in, or from where. Brantley, a retired liquor store owner and one-time manufacturer of surge suppressors from Maggie Valley, North Carolina, took the baton from his mentor, self-made millionaire Jimmy...
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Hot for Hombres

By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican: Why do so many of my peers assume I must have low self-esteem just because I'm dating a Mexican guy? I finally found someone with my same values and who treats me way better than any gringo I ever dated. The same women who complain about "sleazy" Mexican...
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Schmaltzy Martian Child Attacks John Cusack, All Dads

By Robert Wilonsky
John Cusack, who more or less began his career sneaking a peek at Molly Ringwald's panties in Sixteen Candles, has finally become an on-screen daddy—only took, what, 23 years? Except, he's not exactly the most fortunate family man on film: First, in Martian Child he plays a widower who adopts...
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White Rock CoffeeHere’s how you can make a billion bucks in just a few easy steps. First, secure a good supply of cow pies (horse apples will do in a pinch). Next, char those pies or apples (apple pie?) over an open fire until they’re black and crisp. When they’re done, grind ’em up, force hot water […]
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The Marijuana “Muffin Boys” Received Their Punishment Today

By Robert Wilonsky
Dallas County Sheriff's Department Joseph Robert Tellini, at left, and Ian McConnell Walker received their sentences today for their pot brownie prank. Pamela Karnavas, a 10th grade English teacher at Lake Highlands High School, took the morning off to be in the court of Judge Lana Myers -- for the...
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Playing Dumb

By Chris Ward
Love him or despise him, head Jackass Johnny Knoxville has made millions from getting kicked in the yambag. Had YouTube arrived before Jackass, Knoxville, Steve-O, and the show's other gutterpunk masochists might still be slinging French fries, getting burned by hot grease in a strictly nonrecreational way. But with a...
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On Your Mark … Get Set … Goal?

By Robert Wilonsky
Every year when the State Fair of Texas rolls around my optimism somehow reboots. This is the year, I surmise in my most naïve tone. The year I finally conquer my nemisis, the frustrating, impossible game where the goal is to tilt an empty beer bottle upright using a fishing...
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Family Law For Families the Law Forgot

By Robert Wilonsky
In 1999, Central Dallas Ministries was inundated with callers looking for legal help. Most of these callers were poor, but not poor enough to qualify for help of the Legal Aid of Northwest Texas. And yet they had pressing matters they needed help with -- from divorce to child custody...
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Jail Cells and Pasties Highlight Zubar’s Anniversary

By Chelsea Mueller
A Wednesday night out on lower Greenville offered a couple of surprises. First, parking was a bitch. Is Wednesday the new Friday? The second surprise was President George Bush with pasties. Did I really drink that much? Zubar celebrated its 11th anniversary with a prison themed party, Lock Down, and...
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All the News That Doesn’t Fit

By Jonanna Widner
DOMA! DOMA! DOMA!: Little bits of news from the DOMA Nominees Showcase: When PPT agreed to a single-song encore at their closing set at What?Bar, they had already shut down their iMac and were jumping offstage when the crowd insisted "One more!," which resulted in a rousing version of "Work...
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Myth of Sid

By Jonanna Widner
Recently, while researching a story, I stumbled upon an essay by seminal rock writer Lester Bangs, called "Bye, Bye, Sidney, Be Good," about Sid Vicious. The essay focuses on how Vicious murdered (allegedly; the case was never fully investigated) his soul mate, Nancy Spungen, by stabbing her to death, then...
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I Got Your Burger Right Here

By Alice Laussade
Lunch special: Burger, fries and a drink for $6.36 Tiny, tiny building count: 1 Burgers on the grill count: 7 bazillion Either a car just backfired or that was a gun shot count: 1 Every time you drive your car through a Wendy's, you're cheating yourself. Every time you order...