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Study: Reading ‘Maxim’ Makes You A Target For Car Wash Thieves

Andrew McLemore
I love stories about scientific research. Where else can you find painfully obvious facts presented as novel information? I’m talking about headlines like “Study: Eating fast food increases diabetes risk” or &...


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Yeeeeeeeee Hawwwwwwww!

Jeff Prince
It only cost $70 to fill up ol’ Betsy this morning. That’s a saving of $15 compared to earlier this year when gas was closing in on $4 a gallon. I’m going to take my $15 and treat myself to a decadent lunch. H...



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Cowboys Fans, Be Not Proud

ANTHONY MARIANI
What a big win yesterday for the ol’ Cowboys, right? Yee-haw! Squaring off against a dreaded, hated conference rival on that rival’s dreary Yankee-ass home turf with the rest of the season on the line and the Cowboys-hating...


Sea birds fill the skies in "Leviathan."

LSIFF Report (Day 5)

Kristian Lin
The last day of the Lone Star Film Festival began with an extraordinary documentary called Leviathan. Directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, this follows a New England commercial fishing vessel on the North At...



Antonio Frasca and Maurilio Giaffreda in "Caesar Must Die."

LSIFF Report (Day 4)

Kristian Lin
I got a big dose of high culture at LSIFF today, with Shakespeare, free jazz, and opera taking up my movies. Read on: Caesar Must Die is, I must say, the best Shakespeare movie I’ve seen in a while. Part of it is documentary ...


Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in "Silver Linings Playbook."

LSIFF Report (Day 3)

Kristian Lin
Much bigger crowds on Friday than the previous two days for LSIFF. This isn’t to be wondered at, with the weekend beckoning. Even Jayne Mansfield’s Car on opening night didn’t attract a completely full house, but both scr...



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Scam Alert: Dumbass Edition

JIMMY FOWLER
As the holiday shopping season arrives, criminal masterminds are hatching brilliant schemes to separate the good citizens of North Texas from their hard-earned cash. One ingenious ploy that was apparently popular last year in G...


Billy Bob Thornton and Kevin Bacon in "Jayne Mansfield's Car".

LSIFF Report (Days 1-2)

Kristian Lin
Since I’m the only film writer covering this year’s Lone Star International Film Festival for the Weekly this year, I’m posting my coverage of the festival to this site instead of to our usual LSIFF blog. Perhaps this wil...



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Clueless: Pegasus News, TCU 360 Assess Fort Worth’s Indie Scene

ANTHONY MARIANI
The Fort Worth music scene is highly amused. And maybe overreacting a bit. Earlier today, Pegasus News, a Dallas-centric online news outlet, reprinted a story that originally appeared in a recent edition of TCU 360, a student m...


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Cowboys’ Season Still Alive

Anthony Mariani
You can blame Orlando Scandrick for that missed open-field tackle (not easy) and that holding penalty late in the fourth quarter (fatigue-induced) that kept the Atlanta Falcons’ offensive on the field, eating up precious cloc...