The Lower Greenville watering hole's throwing an Independence Day bash with $2 Shiners & Lone Stars and an all-you-can-devour-in-15-minutes corndog contest, with a $100 bar tab going to the winner, $50 to 2nd place, and $25 in quarters to 3rd -- because in any contest involving unnatural consumption and fried stuff, the real winner's the laundromat.

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Pushed by Victory/AAC from downtown to Lower Greenville, discount wine shop Stoney's is back to selling mostly highly rated, smaller-brand wines at 30%+ markdowns after an aborted foray into cheeses and kitchen linens -- ah, the mysteries of business.

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The new drinks-in-a-series venture from Ferrari's Italian Villa marks July 4 w/ a killer deal: a medium wood-fired pizza plus three martinis (raspberry red/cloudy lemon white/blueberry blue) all for $15 -- briefly giving post-Lake Grapevine revelers the zip of an Enzo, before they crumple up like Eddie Griffin.

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Partly to benefit the Carter Albrecht Foundation, a local therapist & artisan has started crafting unisex wristwear salvaged from the guitars & basses of local bands like Shibboleth and Chomsky -- whose libertarian-socialist namesake would totally say something profound pertaining to these bracelets.

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