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Graduation Caps Year of Heartache for Thomas Jefferson Seniors

Eduardo Flores was looking forward to next. He was looking forward to getting his cap and gown and sitting in a roomful of his friends, hearing his name called, walking across the stage and getting his diploma. He was looking forward to having proud family members take his picture. Flores,...
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Perot Museum Announces Layoffs of 168 Employees

Local kids these days have looked forward to many a required field trip to the Perot Museum. The massive six-story institution in downtown Dallas is a tourist mainstay with cutting-edge technology that allows visitors to feel the shaking grounds of an earthquake or try to outrun a dinosaur. But without...
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A Guide to Online and Appointment-Only Art Exhibitions in Dallas

Although we won’t be seeing any packed art galleries any time soon and the Dallas Art Fair has been recently canceled, there are still plenty of ways to feast your eyes on contemporary art this coming season. With options for viewing exhibitions online, in person by appointment, or both, here...
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The Summer Films That Made Us Think This Year

Among the major effects of COVID-19 on the larger cultural world was the erasure of the summer movie season. Since the mid-1970s when blockbusters like Jaws and Star Wars first took off, the summer months have become the time when studios release many of their most profitable releases. The past...
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Texas Democrats Again Optimistic Texas Will Turn Blue

Thursday, Texas Democratic Party officials were featured on Pod Save America, a progressive political podcast. The show’s co-host opened with a familiar question: Is this the year Texas turns blue? Manny Garcia, the party’s executive director, answered without hesitating. “Hell yes,” he said. He would say that naturally, and 2020...
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Dallas Bar Owners File Lawsuit Against Abbott

Texans could soon grab a freshly poured pint from their favorite watering hole. Wednesday, several club owners filed a lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott that demanded the state’s bars be allowed to reopen. Brandon Hays is joining the suit on behalf of his Dallas establishments The Whippersnapper, Tiny Victories and...
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Dallas Shuts Down Playgrounds, Golf Courses, Tennis Centers

Starting at 9 p.m. Tuesday, all city-owned playgrounds, golf courses and tennis centers will close to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Dallas, Mayor Eric Johnson announced Tuesday. The city's open park space and trails will remain open. Public health officials say that getting some fresh air in the...
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7 Dallas Takeout Meals That Make Perfect Picnics

At last: It’s picnic weather again. I’ve been reacquainting myself with the joy of a good picnic this year since it gets me out of the house without encountering crowds, putting waitstaff at risk or getting grumpy about people wearing their masks incorrectly. Picnics have a way of making a...
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Eight Days Later, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Rolls Back More Restrictions

It looks like we're just going to go for it. Tuesday afternoon, after a week that included Texas' highest ever COVID-19 death total and Dallas County's five highest reports of novel coronavirus infections, Gov. Greg Abbott announced plans to reopen even more of the state's businesses. Under new orders from...
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North Texas Bar Owners Continue to Fight Back Against Abbott, TABC

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission slapped 18 club owners with suspensions after they participated in Freedom Fest, Saturday’s statewide bar protest that aimed to challenge the governor’s latest pandemic shutdown order. Organizer Chris Polone, who owns The Rail Club Live in Fort Worth, said he's also under the gun. This week,...
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Fixing History: Fighting For Black Inclusion in the Education System

Marvin Dulaney says he came out of high school as one of the victims of the American education system. "It did not teach me one thing about any African or African-American person who had ever done anything in history," he says. But Dulaney says the miseducation of Americans about the African-American...