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  North Texas Is Getting a Trump Store, and We Had Questions

  October 2 at 4 a.m.

  The suburb of Watauga now has something to “boast” about: It has the only Trump store in DFW. Owner Mary Talley has a background in entertainment as an owner and operator of carnival rides; when COVID hit and the State Fair of Texas and other fairs were canceled, she started...

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  Black-Owned Businesses You Can Support in North Texas

  September 22 at 5:10 p.m.

  The COVID-19 pandemic has given the nation a chance to observe, reflect, mobilize and unite to end systemic racism. While there are many ways to get involved with social reform organizations and to plan and prepare for protesting, one significant way to uplift black communities is by shopping locally at...

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  A Record Store in Arlington Digs Through Dallas DJs' Vinyl Collections

  September 21 at 4 a.m.

  A new and used record store, Growl, is blossoming in downtown Arlington along Abrams Street. This retail space has cycled through different phases over the last few years, trying to figure out what it wants to really be when it grows up. With low ceilings, a cement floor, bars on...

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  You Can Now Learn to Vote at Legacy West in Plano

  September 15 at 4 a.m.

  Rock the Vote, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and empowering young people to vote, is coming to Legacy West, the shopping and entertainment district in Plano. Because of COVID-19, young people are more likely missing out on the usual activities and events that schools usually provide. Legacy West’s response to...

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  An Oak Cliff Party Business Adjusts, Selling COVID-19 and Trump Piñatas

  August 13 at 4 a.m.

  Years ago while I watched a show about a crew working in a sewer and heard one of the workers say, “You either gotta laugh or throw up.”  But, there’s another option aside from illness or giving way to the insanity through laughter to survive when confronting a foul mess:...

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  McKinney Finally Gets a Record Store With Female-Owned Red Zeppelin

  August 11 at 4 a.m.

  A few months ago, Katie Scott was standing outside her shop, The Groovy Coop in Downtown McKinney, when she came across the owner of another building on the square. His tenant, he told her, would soon be moving out. It was a long-standing salsa shop, “a staple,” Scott says, that...