Hopefully, a year from now, we’ll be publishing a slideshow of the festive hullabaloo that was the State Fair of Texas. This year, the folks at the fair have wrapped up a season that succumbed to the coronavirus pandemic and pivoted with a drive-thru experience. For 15 days, fair-goers waited...
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Brave Little Howl didn’t know exactly what they were getting into on that chilly night on White Rock Lake, last December on Friday the 13th. Travis Wright, host of I’m a Fan of… podcast, had asked the indie-folk band to play a small concert to a select group of diehard...
It’s not a municipality of vampires, at least we don’t think so, but a lone town in North Texas is clinging to the darkness. “It’s kind of a dark area, not a lot of development, not yet,” says Gordon Meredith, North Texas regional manager for the Texas chapter of the...
Thanks to the design of the American healthcare system and Texas' failure to expand access to Medicaid, the results of a new Kaiser Family Foundation study into COVID-19's effects on access to health insurance aren't surprising. It doesn't make them any less of a crisis or Texas Sen. John Cornyn's...
The longer time goes on, the more the convention center feels like a jail to the boys.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has suspended permits for four establishments in Dallas: Shuck N Jive, Alamo Club, Bungalow and High Fives. “These violations represent a very small number of the more than 20,000 licensed businesses inspected by TABC since the beginning of May,” TABC Chairman Kevin J. Lilly said...
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Neco Bonham and his attorney say Richardson Police used excessive force during a 2018 traffic stop, the reasons for which were totally bogus.
There’s a new coffee shop in Casa Linda, just to the west of White Rock Lake. The shotgun layout has some seating for those who brave indoor eating and drinking and a coffee bar before the door to the kitchen. El Porton may feel like just another spot to grab...
In its Dec. 9 meeting, the Dallas City Council approved a pilot program, Street Seats, which will allow for private or public parklet options and the use of up to two curbside parking spaces. "This approval is Dallas’ semipermanent parklet seating solution that includes options for restaurants and retail establishments...
For many people who love eating at restaurants, now is the most confusing time since they were closed to indoor dining last year. We embraced curbside pickup and takeout for what feels like forever, and now, we're being urged to start dining out again. By dining out, I mean dining...
Some say the Dallas Police Department needs to respond quicker to street racing calls to deal with the recent spike in these activities in Dallas. Mike Mata, Dallas Police Association president, has a simpler solution: Take their cars.
A Dallas activist said they saw an uptick in Patriot Front propaganda going up in the city after the riot at the Capitol last month.
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During the premiere episode of season 5 of The Real Housewives of Dallas, which aired New Year's Eve night, Stephanie Hollman greets Brandi Redmond at Redmond's house with a big hug. "This is a corona-free zone," Hollman says during a confessional. "We're filming a TV show. We've been tested, like,...
The shelter-in-place order that started in March pretty much brought Dallas' comedy community to a standstill. If there's no audience, there's no show, right? Comics and comedy groups have really had to step up their MacGyver-like resourcefulness to set up virtual shows during the pandemic. The results are some truly...
A lack of imagination caused the ERCOT grid failure. No one imagined a weeklong extreme cold spell, despite Hollywood blockbusters imagining extreme weather events and much, much worse. Neither the regulators nor the risk managers across the bulk power system thought much about the 200-page report issued in 2011 that...
The Four Day Weekend comedy theater opened in 2018 in Lowest Greenville but hasn't had a traditional show on its stage in 14 months.
We're not going to sugarcoat it: There wasn’t a whole lot going on in music news this year that wasn’t actually bad, sad and sadder news. Music coverage in 2020 consisted largely of pandemic trends, venue updates and obituaries. Some prepandemic stories, however, were reader favorites throughout the year —...
In 2013, the Arlington Police Department began experimenting with a then-novel way of looking at crime. With money from a National Institute of Justice grant and in partnership with academic criminologists, Arlington used Risk Terrain Modeling, a data analysis tool, to combine existing crime reports with geographic information in hope...
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About five years ago, Remedy, chef Danyele McPherson’s Greenville Avenue joint that harnessed nostalgia like fireworks, debuted an unforgettable cheeseburger. Three years ago, it came up for air at Standard Service in Heath. It had cheddar at some point, a, frankly unacceptable modification for McPherson, now culinary director for 80|20 Hospitality: "American is...
Some people tend to look back longingly at the “good old days,” back when America was, they say, “great,” with a romantic, revisionist, and white gaze. It hasn’t been great for everyone, and clearly still isn’t, as made evident by months of protests in 2020 declaring that Black lives matter...
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The $2 trillion CARES Act, which established the Paycheck Protection Program. A new report shows how it hasn't all gone as planned.