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  Claim to Fame: What Are Dallas Suburbs Best Known For?

  May 13 at 4 a.m.

  If you go outside the great state of Texas, and you mention that you’re from Dallas, you’ll probably get one of a few standard reactions. We’re generally known for three things: the Dallas Cowboys, the Dallas TV series and the fact that JFK was shot here. Of course, those of...

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  Dallas Is Building a Great Wall to Keep Out the … Noise

  February 26 at 4 a.m.

  What are we gonna build? “A wall!” Who’s gonna pay for it? “Mexi … er, TxDOT!” Residents in Lake Highlands are getting some long-sought peace and quiet, thanks to the construction of a giant, gaudy wall. Not the one at the heart of President Donald Trump’s controversial national emergency, but...

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  The Best Dallas Restaurants to Take Out-of-Town Visitors

  Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  If you've got friends and family visiting from out of town — or especially out of state — they're gonna want one thing: a taste of Dallas. We may not have dusty, Wild West saloons with horses posted up out front, but there are a number of restaurants where visitors...

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  Things To Do in DFW Airport

  Monday, November 19, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  The holiday season brings good food in large doses, family that are good in small doses and travel that requires  a heavy dose of a narcotic to get through. More than a few of you will shove clothes into bags and beg friends for rides as you make your way...

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  11 Types of People You Meet on the DART

  Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  The Intern in the Big City for the First TimeThere’s a smile on her face, but the white knuckles gripping the bag on her lap give her away. Her head pops up at every stop to make sure she hasn’t missed her stop, not realizing she's on the wrong train...

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  McMansion Hell Is Taking on Dallas' Own McMansions

  Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but affronts to architectural pulchritude live in infamy on Kate Wagner’s blog McMansionhell.com. McMansion Hell highlights a certain type of enormous, aesthetically baffling dwelling constructed across the country in recent decades. Wagner wants to unveil the worst offending home in Texas, her...