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Holidays 2019
Welcome to our annual celebration of this most joyous season. I’m not kidding. The holidays are a great time to lose your cynical self,...
Adoption Option
The puke paralyzed me.
I had resituated my 20-month-old into a standing position atop my lap to soothe him, dear lord, to quiet him for...
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Trickle Down
Nonprofits rely on the kindness of strangers, particularly during the holiday season. Those kindnesses continue locally even as donations have fallen nationwide. Seems the...
Music
Santa’s Sack Stacked with Tracks
Now that the fat former dinosaur has been carved, the Cowboys have lost in embarrassing fashion, and the Mad Max-ian wars for retail discount...
The Ghost of Concerts Future
It is now officially the holiday season, and the exhortations to buy local are undoubtedly zigging and zagging across your social media feeds like...
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Passed Down
We at the Weekly typically eschew schmaltz, but even we, the city’s metaphorical middle finger, can’t help luxuriating in the glow of the holiday...
How to Talk to Your Racist Uncle
By the time you read this, you’re hopefully on the verge of a tryptophan-induced power nap as another Cowboys three-and-out fails to keep your...
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Last Call
Low-Key Vibes Only
In high school, I attended precisely three house parties. Though many have classified me as a social butterfly, I wasn’t aloof enough to be...
Blotch
Sports Rush: Why Troy Aikman Stays United
When was the first time you became aware there was such a thing as a charity? I think the organization that first brought the...
Toast & Jam with Barry Corbin
Texas actor Barry Corbin has worked alongside Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Charlie Sheen, John Travolta, and many others during his long career on stage...
Sports Rush: TCU Game Truly A Classic
Raegan Pebley’s TCU women’s basketball team sits undefeated through the first six games of her 16th season as a head coach. Pebley is only...
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Waves: Crests and Troughs
This Christmas season is just lousy with good movies that find the depth and breadth of human life in the story of one family....
Aeronauts: Up Where We Belong
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones teamed up once before in The Theory of Everything, for which he won an Oscar and she got a...
Holiday Movie Preview
We have to start this piece with Netflix. The streaming company has major awards contenders out this season that we may not have the...
Film Shorts
