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First Look: LaVui Brings Vietnamese Foods to the Medical District

Dallas’ Medical District has a new Vietnamese takeaway spot that specializes in a total reinvention of the spring roll. Housed in a former doughnut shop, LaVui Vietnamese Restaurant is the third business from Thanh Nguyen, who also operates the two Oishii sushi spots in Dallas. At LaVui, the focus is...
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Dallas Chefs Share Recipes for Impossible Foods’ Plant-Based Meat

One effect of the coronavirus has been the occasional shortage of various foods, including ground beef. One result is stores such as Kroger enforcing a limit on how much meat customers can buy. To combat this shortage of beef (or possibly take the opportunity), Impossible Foods has made their plant-based...
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State Fair of Texas Wraps Up Its Pandemic Season

Hopefully, a year from now, we’ll be publishing a slideshow of the festive hullabaloo that was the State Fair of Texas. This year, the folks at the fair have wrapped up a season that succumbed to the coronavirus pandemic and pivoted with a drive-thru experience. For 15 days, fair-goers waited...
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The Story Behind El Porton’s Coffee in East Dallas

There’s a new coffee shop in Casa Linda, just to the west of White Rock Lake. The shotgun layout has some seating for those who brave indoor eating and drinking and a coffee bar before the door to the kitchen. El Porton may feel like just another spot to grab...
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Social Distancing, Paperwork Snafus Shut 4 Restaurants/Bars for the Moment

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has suspended permits for four establishments in Dallas: Shuck N Jive, Alamo Club, Bungalow and High Fives. “These violations represent a very small number of the more than 20,000 licensed businesses inspected by TABC since the beginning of May,” TABC Chairman Kevin J. Lilly said...
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ERCOT: A Policy Failure Through Lack of Imagination

A lack of imagination caused the ERCOT grid failure. No one imagined a weeklong extreme cold spell, despite Hollywood blockbusters imagining extreme weather events and much, much worse. Neither the regulators nor the risk managers across the bulk power system thought much about the 200-page report issued in 2011 that...
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Shootings, Scalpers and Savagery: The Most-Read Music Stories in 2020

We're not going to sugarcoat it: There wasn’t a whole lot going on in music news this year that wasn’t actually bad, sad and sadder news. Music coverage in 2020 consisted largely of pandemic trends, venue updates and obituaries. Some prepandemic stories, however, were reader favorites throughout the year —...