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  The Wild Detectives Launches Live Music Series and Sets a COVID-Safe Example

  September 22 at 4 a.m.

  Most venues are trying their best, and some are even doing it right. Still, the words “COVID safety and precautions” have become the new “thoughts and prayers”; they may be filled with good intentions, but the practical results amount to a placebo effect at best. Any weekend drive-by glance around...

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  Author and Motivational Speaker Michael Taylor Says Black Men Are Not an 'Endangered Species'

  September 9 at 4 a.m.

  One early morning in 1974, Michael Taylor, a 14-year-old Black kid growing up in the inner-city projects of Corpus Christi, was walking to school when he heard an argument between two adults in the garage of a bike shop that drew him closer to the conversation. The argument was between...

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  The Dallas-Set Novel City of Hate Tells a Timely Story of Haves and Have-Nots

  July 9 at 4 a.m.

  When author Tim Miller reads back his writing, he hears the booming voice of his father, a Pentecostal preacher. Those kinds of preachers speak while they breathe, Miller explains, and their sermons are filled with intense fervor and conviction. The Dallas-based writer, now 49, was never a preacher himself, but...

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  North Texas Influencers Want To Make Reading Cool Again

  July 6 at 4 a.m.

  Is it just us, or has the content quality of Instagram significantly declined since the pandemic started? Let’s be honest, we know all our daily screen time reports are skyrocketing, but what are we even looking at on Instagram? It’s not like people are still posting many vacation photos or...

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  The 7 Best Books by Texas Authors You Should Check Out Now That You Have Time to Read

  March 17 at 4 a.m.

  With COVID-19 being the headlining blip on everyone’s radar and social distancing becoming the new normal, people are most likely going to be hanging around the house quite a bit. Between school closures, business closures and all cultural institutions on lockdown, day-to-day life may get pretty boring. The bad news...

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  Wanted in America: A New Book Collects Fort Worth ‘Wanted’ Posters

  February 28 at 4 a.m.

  Pickpockets, prostitutes, robbers and vagrants fill the pages of a recent book by TCU Press, the publishing house at Texas Christian University. While they may sound straight from the pages of a Charles Dickens novel, the cast of characters in Wanted in America: Posters Collected by the Fort Worth Police...