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Sexual Healing
For Florida's sole remaining sex surrogate, love is a many splintered thing.
By Michael J. Mooney
City Pages
Your Friendly Neighborhood War Profiteer
It's not just giant companies cashing in on America's defense industry.
By Jeff Severns Guntzel
The Pitch
Supersizing Sonic
How a throwaway idea at the Barkley ad agency became the "Sonic Guys."
By Justin Kendall
Houston Press
Temples of Tex-Mex
A diner's guide to Texas's oldest Mexican restaurants.
By Robb Walsh
Breaking News from The Strib: Conservatives Don't Like Taxes
New Strib metro columnist Katherine Kersten grabs readers with riveting think tank prose
Beth Hawkins
Published on June 01, 2005
* Longtime Strib staffers with vibrant, context-rich, culturally relevant stories to tell rarely get 1,000 words (one reason that even when the place attracts real talent, we hardly ever see vibrant, context-rich, culturally relevant stories).
* Memo to Anders Gyllenhaal and the high-concept team: If you are redesigning the modern newspaper to seem less like the musings of liberal pointy-heads and more like the currency of regular ol' folks, it's probably best to avoid the master's thesis approach.
* Poor Katherine, her author photo looks like Margaret Hamilton ("I'll get you, my pretty!") after a visit to Cheri Pierson Yecke's hairdresser.
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