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Dallas Cast Reunion Leaves Fans SouthforkedThirty years after Dallas, fans worldwide came, saw and were conquered.By Robert WilonskyThursday, November 20This wasn't supposed to be a story about a catastrophe. This wasn't supposed to be about a gunfight at Southfork Ranch that ends with some poor... More >> -
Texas Mutual Says Thanks, But No Thanks, to State OversightTexas’ leading workers’ comp insurer says we don’t need courts and juries watching over them. Yeah, right.By Margaret DowningThursday, November 13It was June 12, 2000, and Lance Morris, a volunteer firefighter for the small town of Justin, north of Fort Worth, was in a ditch, 8 or 10 feet... More >> -
Plausible DeniabilityBy Margaret DowningThursday, November 13Just how well the workers' comp system is working in Texas remains something of a mystery. While Amy Lee, director of the state's Workers'... More >>
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Doctored DocsBy Margaret DowningThursday, November 13Juan Narvaez was working as a sheetrock framer for Greater Metroplex Interiors near Dallas when he said he injured his back on August 29, 2003,... More >>
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Pole Dancing—Good for the Body, But What About a Woman's Soul?How powerful can a woman be when she's dangling by a leg and touching her "teaser"?By Megan FeldmanThursday, November 06The moment I walk into the Girls Room, I feel out of place. The studio's wide, mirrored space is punctuated by gleaming silver poles that extend... More >>
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Broward - Palm Beach
Residents of a Davie trailer park think their contaminated water made them sick
By Amy Guthrie
Allan Payan lifts a photograph from a shelf inside his singlewide trailer home. The smiling... More >>
Denver
Denver Snowboard Bandits lived for excitement, but the FBI got the final thrill
By Joel Warner
For photos of the Snowboard Bandits in action, go to westword.com/slideshow.
The guy in the... More >>
Houston
The Collector: Mack McCormick's Huge Archive of Culture and Lore
A great American folklorist has spent a life squirreling away bits and pieces of Texas culture. Now time is running out on him and his inventory.
By John Nova Lomax
An evening at Mack McCormick's house in Spring Branch always has the same structure, if vastly... More >>
Kansas City
117 Homicides and Counting
As City Hall tries to fix its Aim4Peace program, the killing continues.
By Peter Rugg
Anti-violence activists pull up to the corner of 27th Street and Benton, cars following as... More >>
Miami
A Stripper, a Mobster, and a Murder
Yep, that's Miami.
By Natalie O'Neill
Hauling a fishing rod and bait, Orlando Maytin and his 12-year-old son trudged through a vacant... More >>
Minneapolis
The Green Institute faces possible foreclosure after 15 years
It was ahead of its time, but now the nonprofit has a looming debt problem
By Beth Walton
ANNIE YOUNG WENT to bed exhausted. For more than 12 years, the large, outspoken woman had been... More >>
Phoenix
Can Maynard James Keenan Put Arizona Wine on the Map?
By Michele Laudig
Early-afternoon sun shines intensely on the sleepy vineyard, where row after row of grape-laden... More >>
San Francisco
Voodoo on the Vine
The origins of the increasingly popular Biodynamic wine are steeped in the occult and bad science.
By Joe Eskenazi
In a remote corner of the Benziger Family Winery, you can just barely hear the tour guide's... More >>
St. Louis
Mistress of Horror: Nobody writes vampire novels the way St. Louis' Laurell K. Hamilton does – and yes, there's lots of sex
By Aimee Levitt
On the warm, moonless night before Halloween, 65 people huddle around a campfire at Eureka's... More >>
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Unfair Park
Just Four More Days Till Criterion Collection Shoots Off That Bottle Rocket
Fri Nov 21, 5:14 PM
So, yeah, right -- anxiously awaiting Tuesday, when Criterion Collection finally makes available that fully loaded Bottle Rocket two-fer that's long overdue. While we're waiting for the package, let's spend a couple of moments with the man who... More >>
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DISD's Confederacy of Jerks Extremely pushy parents—Latino, black and Anglo—must rise up to save DISD from itself
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Columns
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Reserve Fund May Not Protect Taxpayers If Trouble Finds Dallas' Convention Center Hotel Just how safe are taxpayers in the convention center hotel deal? Good question.Thursday, November 20City leaders pushing Dallas to build a convention center hotel have been adamant: Money for the controversial $555 million project will not come... More>>
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Inland Port Foolishness
Thursday, November 20"The Big Stall" by Jim Schutze, November 13 Inland Port Foolishness The only thing worse than a carpetbagger is a convening or collaboration of... More>>
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Party with DISD's Teachers from Abroad
Thursday, November 20Snubbed again: A lot of times people have parties and they get so darned busy, they forget to invite Buzz. Buzz knows how embarrassed they must... More>>
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DISD Trustees May Make Cutbacks in Democratic Process DISD trustees may try to cancel next year's school board election to preserve the status quo and the superintendentThursday, November 20Go ahead and say it. Sometimes you think I make things up. I know you do. I don't blame you. I can't even believe this stuff half the time... More>>
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Inland Port Foolishness
Thursday, November 20
"The Big Stall" by Jim Schutze, November 13
Inland Port Foolishness
The only thing worse than a carpetbagger is a convening or collaboration of... More >>
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