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1 year, 8 months ago

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Concrete Blonde doing TX tour with stop at Granada on Oct 28

Any time you get to see Johnette Napolitano perform live, take the opportunity. The woman is amazing and the band as a whole is as good as they have ever been.

1 year, 8 months ago

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Concrete Blonde doing TX tour with stop at Granada on Oct 28

Any time you get to see Johnette Napolitano perform live, take the opportunity. The woman is amazing and the band as a whole is as good as they have ever been.

1 year, 10 months ago

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Former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert has most to spend in Senate race

Sorry, you couldn't complete your term of office in the City of Dallas. You don't get my vote.

1 year, 10 months ago

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Dole's so-called food truck stops in downtown Dallas Tuesday and Wednesday

Just out of curiousity Teresa, why don't you care for Food Trucks? From the advent of the Treat Truck in NYC I have thought the idea was creative and gives a great opportunity to do something out of the ordinary and really stand out without having to do the high cost Dallas Restaurant scene. I don't really see a downside besides the occassional traffic issues in parking lots and on roadsides. Its not like the roach coaches haven't been doing the same thing for years. I'm just curious,

2 years, 1 month ago

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UPDATED: Big Tex is losing his shirt

I thought it was a great choice! He'll be Styling!

2 years, 1 month ago

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UPDATEDx2: Metro Diner on Gaston Ave in Dallas is closed

Whenever I think 24 hour Diner this one always came to mind. The non-chain, non-big name fry-ups are just a dying breed. Goodbye one more late night Deep Ellum after spot.

2 years, 1 month ago

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UPDATED photo gallery: Original Gloria's closes for good, reopens down the street

Its a damn shame to lose the original location. It was the one location where I didnt feel like I needed to dress up or be one of the "Special" people in Dallas. I swear the food was the best at that location as well.

2 years, 9 months ago

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Gloria's (Fairview)

I still love the Davis location in Oak Cliff best and always will. It feels much more true and much less upscale Dallas. I'd rather go for the food and the service than the decor and the dancing.

2 years, 9 months ago

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Fuddrucker's makes list of 10 Worst Restaurant Names

Jessi - Pay no attention to the Nay Sayers - The Cheese Fries Rock!! (And the location on lower Greenville is Haunted - Always makes for good dinner conversation!)

3 years, 6 months ago

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National Trust for Historic Preservation names Dallas Grand Hotel one of America's most endangered places

I was downtown last night and saw lights on and paper on the windows of the bottom floor of the Grand. There are permits displayed and a big sign saying not hiring. Anyone know what the activity going on is? Is this hotel renovation or is this something related to other projects around it?

This article from 2008 says the biggest thing holding back renovation was parking. We now have the underground parking in the area. Will that make the change?

3 years, 6 months ago

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Inside Edition goes after Cheaters

I can tell you for absolute and certain that when the show started there were times when actors were used to keep the show interesting. An aquaintance of mine, formerly in aquatic military service made extra cash doing episodes. That being said I worked with not one but two cheaters in the last few years, one of whom his wife accused him of having a social disease when he was caught with someone who wasnt his wife. It made his working life a bit of a spectacle. Lets face it, the show is cheesy at best but when the only other choice is an infomercial at 3am, its worth watching just to see if you can name the exact location of the bust (Apartments, bars, restaurants)

3 years, 6 months ago

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Hosam "Sam" Smadi pleads "not guilty" in Fountain Place bombing attempt

All your missing is Chris Hanson (Can you have a seat over there please?). The question is, would this guy have done it if the FBI hadnt set him up? Do you really want to find out? How would you feel about a smoking crater in downtown Dallas? Bottom line if he has the selective morals that would allow him to push the (Fake)plunger - I really dont want him on the street. What you do with him is up to someone else (Above my pay grade?(Thanks Prez!)

3 years, 6 months ago

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A female Burmese cat is missing in the Fort Worth area

Ummmm - Is this proof that its a slow news day??? (I love pets but wow) Do we have a picture??

3 years, 8 months ago

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North Texas Tollway Authority hikes are official as of September 1

"Raising rates is always a difficult decision to make, especially during an economic downturn. However, it is necessary to raise rates to maintain a financially viable system of roadways so that we can continue to deliver important mobility projects to the North Texas region," said NTTA Executive Director Allen Clemson.

Your totally and absolutely full of S@@t Mr. Clemson and I wish there was a nice way to make the NTTA realize that they need us, not that we need them. However asking the self absorbed people of North Texas to not use the Tollway for a day would likely be about as popular as asking them not to speed. Thats just not going to happen. So I will continue to wage my one man war and drive all those slow roads...

3 years, 8 months ago

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UPDATED: Theater at Highland Park Village in Dallas to be taken over by Landmark

The last movie I saw there was American Gangester and I was charmed by the theater. I think it would be great to have one more independant type theater around town and this is the perfect location!

3 years, 8 months ago

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Fort Worth ISD gets serious about banning cellphones for students

Amen Travis - Help the payphone companies and install a bank of payphones in the cafateria like we had.

3 years, 8 months ago

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New Texas law says kids up to age 8 must ride in car seats

I'm sure this is a wonderful idea. However before we put this into effect can we start prosecuting or at the very least ticketing and fining the mothers of rugrats currently running free through the cars.

If you truly want to make some cash - forget the DUI checkstops and the seat belt health checks, just sit at any red light and watch the carloads of toddlers scurrying from window to window in cars through out the metroplex.

For the sake of the next generation, at the very least do what my mother did and scream till that childs little bottom is cemented into the seat and belted in (I believe it was - "This car isnt moving until your seat belt is on and you better not move until we arrive!")

3 years, 9 months ago

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Governor Rick Perry still doesn't think Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison will run against him

Is there no one in Texas who really might have an interest in running the greatest state in the Union?? Are we like Lott in search of just one honest & just man because I fear that neither of the candidates currently running will truly keep the best interests of the Texas Citizen in mind. Rick Perry has proven time and time again he won't. And since Kay is really basically an enigma - I'm not sure that she will hold any of our wishes in high esteem (She didn't when she represented us in Washington.)

3 years, 9 months ago

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Sweet Tomatoes wins "best buffet" just as it's set to arrive in Dallas

The quote “Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity – Frank Lloyd Wright” adorns the main dining wall of the Addison location of Sweet Tomatoes. This always has struck me as a very strange statement in this restaurant. While yes indeed there is dining, the gods honest truth is there is nothing here artistic, nor is there a architectural aspect that you might expect from a place that would hold Frank Lloyd Wright in their esteem. The building as well as the decor is very Ikea-esque. Functional and light.

Sweet Tomatoes is a salad bar. Advertising the freshest of fruits and vegetables (...24hours after being harvested from the ground.) and all salads, soups, chili's, and bread products made from scratch daily.

Like other Salad Bar chains (Souper & Salad), the restaurant attempts to show its flair not in the number of vegetable options or numbers of dressings but instead in the specialty items like the eight daily soup choices, and their kitchen favorites section.

Not unlike competitor Golden Corral, you find breakfast choices before noon. (Get in before 11 on Sundays to beat the after church crowd)

The breakfast fare is sparse with a serving of scrambled eggs and the oatmeal as well as cold cereals in the main salad lines but they also offer Focaccia's (Breakfast Pizzas) and an egg or zucchini Fritatta (An egg souffle) None of the choices is truly standout except maybe a breakfast pasta dish that they do come up with thats rather tasty.

Unlike local Dallas favorites Cafe Brazil, the major low point of the breakfast experience is the coffee. Coffee is served in one of three pump thermos bottles, one is decaf and neither of the other two is generally full or well watched (You almost have to request someone to make another thermos). The flavors are not adventurous, the scents are not aromatic and tempting as coffee might be to draw the crowd, and worst of all, their cups are very small. I know, not everyone is a coffee drinker, but lets face it, early Sunday morning, more than not your crowd will be focusing on a pick me up after Pastor Pete's long and thoughtful sermon.

My one major plus for this restaurant is the same thing I think about attending a Texas Rangers game. It's a great place to people watch! Within feet of me right now is an Octogenarian couple, very sweet and complimentary with each other. They have been slowly eating and chatting for the last hour (without a trace of the arguing that I normally find with my own parents), two old southern ladies, one with a big floppy gardening hat who have been extolling the virtues of what they find tasty with mouths full and happily vocal, an Asian American family with three children below the age of 5 who have eaten without a word (Not something you normally find with children) and a table of church going parents and grandparents (They stopped and said grace) with their prime focus on their newest grandchild, a month or two old and protectively watched over a first time mother and ex-frat boy husband. (He didn't say grace). You also have the half dressed, the badly dressed, the badly hung over, and those who not unlike me, crept directly from slumber, unable to find a brush (I did shave).

All said, Sweet Tomatoes is not a standout among the brunch fare of Dallas, but it is a great place to sit and watch a true subsection of life pass by.

3 years, 9 months ago

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Movie review: District 9

Agreed AnnMarie - My brain was pretty happy about it (I thought it was a great movie!)

3 years, 9 months ago

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KERA acquires 91.7 FM for new public radio music station

I'm a man of the cloth myself - Universal Life Church of Modesto California since 1995. :)

3 years, 9 months ago

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Whitesnake cancels, the Judas Priest must go on at Nokia Thursday

Judas Priest was a great show back in the 80's. Can Rob still hit those high notes??

3 years, 9 months ago

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UPDATED: Burleson student's suspension over profanity on MySpace is overturned

GOOD FOR THEM!! My best friends daughter has things on her Myspace page that would shock a prostitute. What would happen if someone stepped up and taught these kids to have some self respect. (yes a parent should be doing it but obviously isnt). Maybe the next generation wouldnt be drinking, cursing, sexing, piercing, and tattooing themselves before they reach 18.

(Boy am I going to get some nasty mail but in the end, I just want our kids to grow up with some self respect and I dont see it. (No I dont have my own kids))

3 years, 9 months ago

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