This weekend the city of Dallas unveiled its attempt at implementing a mass vaccination and officials subsequently issued apologies for the mess that ensued. Tuesday when the Dallas County Commissioners Court convened for their biweekly meeting, more details were offered on what went wrong, including an explanation for the hour-long…
Yonkers Pizza Co. in Preston Center opened late last year as a place where owner Tony Avezzano, son of Dallas Cowboys’ late special teams coach Joe Avezzano, could share his family’s Italian recipes. He signed a lease for this space in fall 2019 and finally opened the doors a full…
Until life on the streets took him in, Jesus Monge says, he was a quiet kid who did well in school in Pleasant Grove and made friends easily. He remembers being an avid learner, bilingual in reading and writing. He won a few spelling bees, something he’s still proud of…
The upscale deep-fried corn dog business is expanding into Preston Center. After opening their first restaurant in northwest Dallas about a year ago, the mother-daughter duo of Vickie Fletcher, who worked at the State Fair of Texas overseeing the sale of millions of corn dogs since the 1980s, and Jace…
Last week when Dallas City Council member Chad West set up a vaccine registration drive outside a barbershop along Jefferson Avenue, several vendors showed up to peddle their goods. One was Chamoyitas Picositas, the brainchild of Esmeralda Sanchez, a Mesquite native who started this small business as a way to…
In case you needed an excuse to explore butter-rich layers of perfectly crisp yet succulently soft dough smushed into thin sheets then rolled a quarter-moon shape, National Croissant Day is this Saturday, Jan. 30. And what a city to live in to celebrate pastries. Our cup runneth over with chefs…
Did you have to read that headline seven times? Yeah, us too. We tried to fit “Dak Prescott” into it as well, but had to cut our losses somewhere. Irving-based 7-Eleven is getting into the short-term rental business. On Monday, they announced a Game-All-Night Experience through Airbnb that allows a…
A Tiki lounge called Swizzle recently opened on Lowest Greenville, a refreshing splash of tropical bliss in a city with an at-times desert ambiance. On a recent Friday night the spot was modestly busy, which is a good sign during a pandemic. An eager host carefully appointed seats in the…
There’s a slow trickle of vaccines that Dallas County’s commissioners are, in part, responsible for administering to a county of over 2.6 million people. Last week the county took the lead in opening a mega vaccine center at Fair Park, getting it up and running in a mere four days…
Tables are already set up with stacks of cookies and wee little Girl Scouts hiding behind them, honing their sales skills and testing your gullibility. Despite the pandemic, they’re still out at some regular spots, but there are some online options and delivery. Asking Facebook is the best bet on…
Multiple registration sites, mixed messages, broken promises and lack of outreach have created frustration with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. One significant contributor to the confusion came two weeks ago when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott opened the floodgates to Phase 1B, catching county health departments off guard. Abbott read a report…
“Awful treatment. We walked in at 3 pm on a Friday, the doors were open so we assumed it was open. The gentlemen who appeared to be a server with long hair came in and very rudely told us that it was closed and continued to wave at us out…
Saturday marked an all-time high for new cases of COVID-19 in Dallas County. For the first time, positive cases breached 3,000, raising the new daily average to 2,104. About 23% of all emergency room visits are COVID-19 related. UTSouthwestern’s COVID tracking model released on Jan. 7 accurately projected this spike, and…
Seven years ago a question was posed on Reddit, “What’s your idea of a perfect day?” The top answer, by an account that has since been deleted, was “Wake up next to someone you love, spend the day exploring the outdoors, spend the evening drinking with friends, fall asleep next…
On Tuesday, as many Americans waited for Georgians to finish casting ballots to decide which party will control the U.S. Senate, Pizza Inn Brandon Solano, released a statement via PRNewswire calling for election reform. “Widespread concerns over fraud demand commonsense changes to rebuild unity and confidence,” reads the subheadline of…
Confused by the vaccine rollout? Good, then you’re right on track. On Tuesday morning the Dallas County Commissioners Court convened for their first meeting of the year and discussed vaccinations, where we are now, how we got here and the path forward. As usual for the past nine months, the…
Kelly Ball, owner of Leila Bakery and Cafe, started selling her from-scratch baked goods at farmers markets in 2013 to much fanfare. Her pastry passion soon budded into a full-fledged business, and last fall, despite the pandemic, she opened her first storefront in East Dallas. While her hand-pressed pie crusts…
As we tiptoe wide-eyed into 2021 with trepidation, we could all use some good luck. The most common go-to in Texas is a pot of black-eyed peas, but it turns out those odd, greenish-grey oblong orbs are imposters: black-eyed peas aren’t even peas, rather beans. With an eye toward truth…
I write this with a bit of hesitation. A fear of exposing a secret. No, not that TEN at Sylvan Thirty has some of the best ramen in the city, or that their playlist is spot-on or the chefs’ total indifference if you decide to dance for just a hot…
Anyone who has ever taught knows — or maybe dreads — the hush that falls over the room when a student calls out a teacher. For educators, the few seconds between the challenge and response rolls in slow motion, etched in memory, for better or worse, forever. For Adam Bazaldua,…
Last week, just as some of North Texas’ front-line healthcare workers got their first dose of relief via Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, their jobs got increasingly taxing. The number of hospital beds they’re tending are either filled to capacity or precariously close to it. A New York Times tracking tool shows that…
Remember those fascinating cake-cutting videos? Not the wine glass one, but the one where it looked like a real object, say a shoe, then a knife enters stage left and cuts through a two-layered cake? Synapses in your brain go off like fireworks trying to process it all. Is everything…
