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  Dallas County Extends Shelter-In-Place Order Through May 20

  April 3 at 12:55 p.m.

  The long haul is getting longer. Friday morning, Dallas County Commissioners voted to extend the county's Public Health Emergency until May 20. That means all residents of the county will continue to shelter in place for at least the next six weeks, barring intervention from Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins...

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  Good to Go: Old Favorite Cowboy Chicken Shows Us How Takeout Should Be Done

  April 3 at 4 a.m.

  Forcing yourself to get your food only to-go can make you look back a bit. At least, it has for me since I recently ordered something I frequently got in college: Cowboy Chicken. It still holds up. The quick-serve restaurant has been around since 1981, and while we’re focusing on...

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  A Fast-Food Drive-Thru Ranking (in Case You’re Doing More of That Now)

  April 3 at 4 a.m.

  Soon our current pressures will kick out the last leg of this doomed society, and the only thing any of us will eat is what we can hunt on the debris-strewn plains. But for now drive-thru service is still available. I eat at fast-food drive-thrus a lot, so I’ve prepared...

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  How to Take Out: A Guide By Someone Doing a Lot of It

  April 3 at 4 a.m.

  I'll start with a disclaimer: I'm not a doctor. I have no expert knowledge about the coronavirus or COVID-19, the illness that results from it. But I am someone eating takeout every day at this point (it's my job now, after all), exploring as many tips as possible on how...

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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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  Dallas Considering Turning 2 Streets Into Parks as Lockdown Continues

  April 3 at 4 a.m.

  There's one really attractive exception to Dallas' stay-at-home order. Sure, it lets you get out and shop for essentials and go get takeout, but that stuff's banal. The big thing, the "Get Out of Jail Free" card, is the county and city orders' exception for those seeking outdoor exercise, either...