There's a new internet dating study that ranks U.S. cities in order of superficiality. In effort to determine whose rivers flow most shallowly, the site, whatsyourprice.com, weighed the amount of time each area's singles spend hovering over individual dating profiles before clicking ahead. According to it, Dallas singles are fairly vapid, coming in at 10th place. Houston's are worse, repping a strong third.

The numbers were culled from Google Analytics and paired with geographical information, then ranked. The idea here is that Salt Lake City singles -- who spend 7.2 seconds per page -- are only concerned with physical appearance, while someone who lurks for 36 seconds is a deep soul who reads French poetry. In Dallas, we blow 13.7 seconds per profile.

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Is it still "camping" if it's next door to a Cheesecake Factory?

With her vampires put to eternal rest, Twilight author Stephenie Meyer was able to dabble deeper into other science fiction avenues.

In her book-turned-movie The Host, she invades the realm of alien body snatching and sets the stage for Earth's invasion. There, a lone resistance group remains, pocketed away from the Dune-eyed population, until one of its surviving few, Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan), gets the touched-by-an-angel treatment. Drama ensues.

The big-screen adaptation gets released by Open Road Films on March 29, and to hype the thing, Meyer is traveling the country in support of her 2008 fiction release and its movie guide companion edition. For added photo bait, she's bringing two of the film's young stars, Jake Abel and Max Irons with her.

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I rarely chime in when it comes to happenings at Central Track, the side-scrolling music and culture web site, but yesterday the site did something so appalling that I'm putting my morning on hold to work through it.

There's a newish event in Dallas called Naked Girls Reading, and yes, it is much like the title implies. A panel of ladies craft a night of literature around a theme, then they read selections in the buff.

Initially, I assumed the worst. I worried that this would be a flesh-for-fee event, and we'd see vapidity, derobed. So I investigated, as all should do when questioning validity, and I couldn't have been more incorrect. From the moment Friday night's show began I realized that Naked Girls Reading is an absurdist piece of performance art, and within that context, the nudity is bizarrely fascinating.

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Dallas, we're proud of you for calling cabs on New Year's Eve, because I've got to say: this city got blacked-out drunk. We had no business attempting to stand for prolonged periods, much less driving.

Since we don't remember much of the night, it occurred to us that the cabbies would need to fill in the blanks. And since items left behind seems like a solid measuring rod for an evening's success, we asked our local booze chariots how reckless we were, exactly.

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That fad started in the tunnels of New York back in 2001, under the x-ray spec guidance of Improv Forever, an NYC-based "prank collective." Since then No Pants Subway Ride has gotten huge. More than 50 cities now join in the pranking mission, droppin' drawers in solidarity.

Dallas, refusing to be left out of the nudity magic, is also in the mix. On January 13, 2013, area residents will de-robe, from the waist down, on DART. Specifics to location aren't posted just yet, but you can join up -- or protect yourself from visual leg cheese -- by visiting the event's Facebook page.

Remember when flash mobs were vibrant movements staged so that others would see the wonder and magic possible in everyday life? That was short-lived.

"Wonder" and "magic" aren't drunk enough rallying points for most of us, case in point: this flash mob training video, leaked by Santa Rampage.

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Photo by Dan Busta

He never saw it coming.

Fine people of Dallas, pull up a chair. Don't worry, most of you aren't in trouble.

We need to have a discussion about full transparency during a public Q&A. It isn't a talk I like having, but after Tuesday night's unfortunate incident at Texas Theatre, it seems that sliding a library brochure under the door of your bedroom will not suffice. Not this time, anyway.

Things started great. My best friend and I went to see the Found Magazine tour, which over the years has grown into a sort of tradition for us. Our friendship has spanned three cities, and so we've listened to Davy Rothbart (Found's founder and regular This American Life contributor), read treasures from discarded scraps of paper in South Florida, Austin and now Dallas.

But it wasn't until Dallas that shit got crazy. Go ahead, sew that last sentence on a pillow.

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A loyal reader sent in this photo, restoring our faith in the nation's need for print media.

When Dallas Contemporary first contacted the Trinity Groves boys, asking if they'd consider letting Fairey dress up the empty walls of some West Dallas locations, the vision wasn't fully realized. "My partners had no idea who Shepard Fairey was," said Larry "Butch" MacGregor, who owns the property along with Phil Romano and Stuart Fitts. "The only reason I knew was because I had seen the movie Exit Through The Gift Shop."

Still, the group took a chance on a world famous, unknown kid.

See also:
- Hofmann Hot Dogs To Open Restaurant in Trinity Groves.
- Shepard Fairey Caught in the Act

Three buildings were lent for the project, all from Trinity Groves' richly growing collection of investment properties, which will eventually form "a cool fresh place for people to go to," according to Megan Lucas, the company's Chief Marketing Operator. But getting to that "cool fresh place" isn't without sacrifice. This week we saw the first Shepard Fairey mural fall in order to accommodate the new Hofmann's Hot Dogs, a '50s-style diner where folks will be able to dress their wieners with a variety of toppings.

The building at 340 Singleton needed windows added -- not to meet code criteria, but to provide a view of the bridge and let a little light in, and that required hacking into the artwork. Still, Butch says it hurt to see it go. "We hated to lose it, believe me, we loved it, but we knew probably at some point it would happen, and sure enough it did."

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Even a heinous, unlovable spinster like Jennifer Aniston can find a man to overlook her obvious flaws and help shape her into a complete human being again. Thus last weekend's collective sigh of relief at the report of Aniston and beau Justin Theroux's impending nuptials, which detonated a virtual arms race with the contentiously procreative Jolie-Pitts.

But poor Aniston needs our help. And Dallas knows a thing or two about throwing an elegant hitchin.' We just love these totally outrageous local wedding trends, and since Aniston clearly needs all the help she can get, here are some of our favorites.

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