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A 9-year-old from Richardson came up with this invention. Oh, like you could do better. Most of the time, when I tell people what I do — which is, make fun of myself and my peers for a living — people respond with a hearty, “That’s so cool! You must…

James Waller is one of the DNA exonerees expected to attend Saturday night’s DNA Blues Ball. Dunno how much posting we’ll be doing between now and the weekend — pretty sure some of us have families with whom we’d like to spend what’s apparently some kind of holiday or something?…

Just got word that Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band will indeed make it to Dallas — on April 13. Where? No idea; not yet. I’d think the American Airlines Center, but Dallas and Houston, which follows the next night, are the only two cities on the just-released itinerary with…

The Smashing Pumpkins, at the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie last Sunday, love the DFW — or, at the very least, our wimmins. Best show ever? So says drummer Jimmy Chamberlin in this brief clip, his reasons amplified by a grinning, thumbs-up William Corgan Jr. In other pickings from the…

William Dembski believes in intelligent design, and who am I to knock him? I used to think there really were Vulcans. Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the intelligent-designer who has everything? Fret not, as Dallas-based Foundation for Thought and Ethics this week unleashes mathematician William Dembski and biologist…

When you’re down in Deep Ellum — and, see, I didn’t say if you’re down in Deep Ellum — you’ll notice the late, great Gypsy Team Room is now decorated with a periodic table. Turns out, it’s for a very good reason and for a very good cause. (Oh, and…

The wingding isn’t till February ’08, but registration closes in a couple of weeks, so act now. If, that is, you’d like to spend a couple of days out at The Ranch of the Lonesome Dove in Southlake, which just looks lovely, y’all. Just look at it — 63 acres…

The fried chicken and scrumptious Latin offerings of Pollo Campero and its Dallas-based American division, Campero USA, are about to become available in Wal-Marts across the country. Given the chain’s rapid growth worldwide — from Ecuador to New York to China and Indonesia — and the abject worship of its…

Courtesy our Friends here, we’re reminded that it’s never too early to start shopping for holiday gifts for that very special Greg Williams fan on your list. I mean, Hanukkah starts in a couple of weeks, so get to it. Perfect for Festivus, if nothing else — because, apparently, some…

And in other Sunday Times reading with local ties, a Dallas man whose “entertainment company had enlisted” several hundred high school girls to perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade had to scramble to find a way to get the girls into the few Broadway shows not shuttered by the…

This is more Andrea Grimes’ bit. But as November 22 is nigh upon us, a company called Avatar Promotions is celebrating by setting up in Second Life a virtual Dealey Plaza as it appeared in August 2007 and as it looked on the Friday John Kennedy was gunned down in…

Four years ago, Cynthia Fitzgerald of Dallas — a former pharmaceutical saleswoman turned health-care equipment purchaser — filed a federal lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, Becton Dickinson, Merck and nearly a dozen more health-care equipment manufacturers. The suit, which was unsealed in 2007, alleges that “improper sales practices, together with…

It’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of next year’s sheriff’s race, since its outcome will likely affect two other prominent Dallas County seats: county judge and district attorney. If the Democratic incumbent, the perpetually embattled Lupe Valdez, wins, then Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, who has received nationwide…