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  House Arrest: Former Inmates Give Us Their Best Advice to Get Through the Lockdown

  April 3 at 4 a.m.

  The stay-at-home life isn't exactly like jail. We can take walks, shop online, call whomever we want, have conjugal visits, Netflix until our brains fry and watch real prisoners on the screen, who have it much worse. No matter how necessary, complying with the stay-at-home order feels like a very...

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  Safe Travels: A Dallas Travel Blogger Gives Us Virtual Travel Recommendations

  April 1 at 4 a.m.

  In 2017, Jessica Serna started the travel blog My Curly Adventures after returning from a monthslong trip to Spain, where she hopped around the old continent in search of its best food and fashion. Serna is used to staying close by; she’s big on Texas road trips, where she seeks...

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  Texans Stranded at the Top of the World by Coronavirus

  March 31 at 4 a.m.

  Texas signpainter Sean Starr and his Jennifer Baker are still stuck in Nepal after a trip that coincided with Coronavirus and international border closing.

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  The Way We Were: The Best Reality Shows Based in Dallas

  March 30 at 4 a.m.

  While actual reality seems doomed to hell, we are all stuck at home binging on reality shows (like that trainwreck Love Is Blind) and true-crime documentaries like Tiger King. But what about shows that take you back specifically to Dallas? You know, that city we used to know and love...

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  Dylan Released a Song About the JFK Assassination, and We Have Deep Questions

  March 27 at 5:36 p.m.

  Bob Dylan is a music superstar and pop culture icon, a symbol of intellectual progress and a counterculture hero. But, above all, he's a Nobel Prize-winning wordsmith. His message of civil rights activism and philosophical poetry have been essential to American culture since he first emerged as a Woody Guthrie-...

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  The Best Coronavirus Social Media Posts From North Texans This Week

  March 27 at 4 a.m.

  Even though we desperately want to stay away from bad news, we also need the internet more than ever. Luckily, there is more to social media than "we're all gonna die" or "this is all a hoax" posts, and North Texans had some particularly uplifting, funny and clever things to...