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  Failing Grade: Dallas Policies Protect the City’s Filthiest Restaurants from Health Inspectors

  Brian Reinhart | May 29 at 4 a.m.

  On Aug. 18, 2016, the Lakewood location of Mi Cocina, a popular upscale Tex-Mex chain, faced one particularly unhappy visitor: a Dallas health inspector. The food safety report filed that day graded Mi Cocina at 60 points out of 100. The details...

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  North Texas Becomes America’s Top Destination for Laotian Food

  Brian Reinhart | May 22 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas’ next culinary revolution began in a quiet specialty grocery store in Irving, a small shop where boxes of imported foods line the metal shelving all the way up to the ceiling. Here, in 2004, a woman named Boonmie Phennara fired up a Bunsen...

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  The Big Picture: From Dallas to Hollywood, David Lowery and Daniel Hart Score Success

  Eva Raggio | April 17 at 4 a.m.

  “This is a David Lowery production,” says a 7-year-old Lowery at the end of Poltergeist, his short film shot with a home camera. It starred his little brother in a sheet and showed promise even then. Now 38, Lowery is still proud of that first...

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  Death Row Case in Dallas County Puts Hypnosis on Trial as "Junk Science"

  Christian McPhate | March 27 at 4 a.m.

  Charles “Big Charlie” Flores and Richard Childs were searching for money when they slid under the garage door of a one-story brick home on Bergen Street. The Black family had built it in the early 1960s when the one-block neighborhood of Farmers...

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  Cure or Kill: Dallasites Do Battle for Kratom, an Herbal Substitute for Narcotics the Feds May Ban

  Christina Hughes | March 6 at 4 a.m.

  "CBD Kratom" reads the large sign over Dafna Reva's storefront on Central Expressway's frontage road. Just south of trendy Knox Street, it sits beside a Marble Slab Creamery, two doors down from a Potbelly Sandwich Shop and around the corner from...

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  Caught in the Mill: Pain Doctors Say They're POWs in the War on Opioids

  Christian McPhate | February 20 at 4 a.m.

  Dr. Daniel Maynard was the first red flag in Dallas. Called by some a “kindhearted doctor,” he handed out cash to hungry people and pills to chronic pain sufferers. The Associated Press wrote in a June 2003 story that the 57-year-old doctor...