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A friend of mine, local artist Zachary Broadhurst, is, like, second only to Davy Rothbart when it comes to finding fascinating things on the ground, in restaurant booths, in books, on signs, wherever. So I wasn’t too surprised to receive a text message containing a photo of something he’d discovered…

I see our pal Adam McGill has provided a link to a track from Norah Jones’ third studio album, Not Too Late, which is due January 30. That Adam is nice that way. And he reminds me I’ve been meaning to post these two items: the video for lead-off single…

In November, I had some fun at the Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s expense when I posted an e-mail she accidentally sent me. I had sent a public information request to her legal advisor Leslie Sweet and copied Valdez on the missivel. In a response that was clearly meant for Sweet, the…

It took Tom Hicks long enough to develop the land around the Ballpark in Arlington — about a decade, more or less, and I do mean less if you’ve seen the unimpressive torn-up parking lots out in Arlington. But you can’t say Hicks is slow on the draw elsewhere –…

When we got up this morning, the last thing we expected to be doing was chasing down the origin of a chair. We’re not gonna go all eBay-crazy here, but here’s yet another item of very local interest worth bidding on: an original Frank Lloyd Wright-designed theater chair from Kalita…

The state o’ Indiana has opted to privatize parts of the its food stamp, Medicaid and welfare programs. Mitch Roob, secretary of the Family and Social Services Administration, put the deal in place: $1.16 billion will be paid over 10 years to outside vendors who will handle jobs previously handled…

While we’re no doubt going to love the Wyly Theare, we’re still partial to Wile E. Coyote. If you’re ever incredibly bored — and, let’s face it, if you’re here it ain’t because you’re living the James Bond lifestyle — you can go here and check up on construction at…

Legendary Dallas architect Herbert M. Greene built Proctor Hall 85 years ago. Today, a California health-care provider’s having it torn down. By the end of the day — hell, by the time you read this, most likely — the 85-year-old Proctor Hall on Haskell Avenue will be no more. “It’s…

In a dark, smoky room echoing with the Euro-pop stylings of girl group T.A.T.U., I look up from my beer to see two hot girls making out. Buxom, blond women really sucking face like they mean it. And in schoolgirl uniforms! But these aren’t the half-assed snogs of girls hoping…

On a sunny September morning in 2005, Preston Hollow Elementary School hosted Bike to School Day. Dozens of grinning children with fair skin played and talked outside in the courtyard, relaxing happily after rides through their North Dallas neighborhood of garish mansions and stately brick homes. Parents shared tea and…

Imagine that sneezing, coughing, fever and just plain achy allover feeling. You know it’s the flu coming on. You want to take some medication and crawl into bed until you feel better. Now imagine that you have no medication nor money to buy it. You don’t have a bed nor…

Road to hell: Buzz is going to let you non-white, non-liberal readers in on a secret of the pasty, lefty tribe. It’s called the “white liberal rule,” a term coined by a friend who went through various machinations to keep his daughter in a high-performing public school that she wasn’t…

Three is supposed to be the magic number, and the third time’s reportedly the charm, so when an asbestos-related wrongful-death lawsuit makes its third turn through the Dallas County courts this year, maybe the verdict will finally stick. The suit, which blames Atlanta-based building materials manufacturer Georgia-Pacific for the 2003…

Stone Cold Out of the frying pan: I found your story “Cold as ICE” (by Matt Pulle, January 4) most disturbing. The whole time I was reading the article I had to remind myself that I was not reading a national tabloid. Mr. Dupree states that he was merely looking…

Rocky Presley’s the artistic director and founder of Life in Deep Ellum, which opens January 20. Speaking of Life in Deep Ellum — well, we were Monday, anyway — they’ve just announced their box office is now open. OK, so their box office is Good Records and any Frontgate Tickets…

This 1920s manse near Fair Park can be yours cheap — if you hurry! Among the other items we found up for grabs on eBay today: a house in South Dallas. It’s on Frazier Street, actually, near Fair Park. And if you want it, you have about 40 minutes to…

Are you still lamenting a New Year’s spent at another lame party, drunkenly arguing with friends over board game rules? Or perhaps you didn’t even make it that far, passing out on the couch some time during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special? Well, next year, make sure to…