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Restaurant : Jimmy’s Food Store
I was browsing D Magazine’s What You Must Do in Dallas http://www3.dmagazine.com/content/must-do-dallas and stumbled upon a local favorite. Now Jimmy’s is legendary — the most heralded Italian market in all of Dallas. It provides food to local restaurants, among them, Italian eatery Urbano Café next door. There are many Dallasites who swear Jimmy’s is the [...]
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Movie : Water for Elephants

Based on the acclaimed bestseller, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS presents an unexpected romance in a uniquely compelling setting. Veterinary school student Jacob meets and falls in love with Marlena, a star performer in a circus of a bygone era. They discover beauty amidst the world of the Big Top, and come together through their compassion for [...]
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Restaurant : Good 2 Go Taco

Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare opened their unusual Good 2 Go Taco at Green Spot Market and Fuels, Bruce Bagelman’s eco-chic biofuel station in Lake Highlands. Already it’s a huge hit. These are nothing like the tacos in a down-home Mexican taqueria, but they’re wonderful all the same, in combos like pulled pork with blue [...]
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Movie : Of Gods And Men

Directed by eminent filmmaker Xavier Beauvois (LE PETIT LIEUTENANT), OF GODS AND MEN was France’s intensely moving submission and nominee for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards. In 1996 the kidnapping and murder of seven French monks was one of the culminating points of the violence and atrocities in Algeria resulting from the [...]
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Restaurant : Saint Ann

Imagine knocking the scratchy PA system and all of those pesky chalkboards out of your elementary school and adding a minimalist bar, Big Sur-style natural-wood details, and a garden patio with enough lighted trees to keep even a third-grader enchanted. Congratulations, you have just mind-melded with the folks behind Saint Ann, the circa-1927 elementary school [...]
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Gadget : TikTok & LunaTik

If you want to buy one now, you will have to wait until they begin manufacturing more, but if were one of the lucky investors for this new product (our own Patrick Bukowitz) you received a complementary kit already. Keep an eye out for this up and coming company in the next few months. For [...]
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Restaurant : Komali

Chef and Owner Abraham Salum offers a fresh new look into the cuisine of his native Mexico with Komali. The restaurant takes its name from the native Aztec word for an open fire griddle used by the people of Mexico to prepare tortillas and toast cacao beans for coffee. Chef Salum’s vision for Komali is [...]
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Restaurant : Times Ten Cellars

Times Ten is exactly what you think it is: a cozy neighborhood wine bar run by friendly people. What’s nice is that you can have drinks there, but order food from outside. You can order from restaurants around there (Scalini’s, Cantina Laredo, Bangkok Inn, Cafe Izmir, Whole Foods, etc.) and eat it inside Times Ten. [...]
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Book : JFK and the Unspeakable

Despite a treasure-trove of new information having emerged over the last forty-six years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable questions. There are others who cling to the Lee Harvey Oswald “lone-nut” explanation proffered by the Warren Commission. Both groups agree, however, that whatever the [...]
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