A proposal by Dallas police to ask victims of a handful of nonviolent crimes to file reports online rather than have officers come to the calls popped up online and as quickly disavowed over the weekend after drawing complaints, including one from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. A draft memo regarding...
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Ken Welker, owner of 13th Floor Booking, has not let the challenges of the year get in his way. With the booking agency, Welker has found that adaptability is the game to play in the fight to keep the live-event industry afloat. Drive-in, virtual, outdoor, socially distant and intimate shows...
Around the time humans started dipping their fingers in ochre and telling stories on cave walls, a group of shamans forged flutes from bone and drums from animal skin. Those shamans were, by definition, healers, and the sounds they made with their flutes and drums were part of the therapeutic...
Although they often write in self-imposed solitude, this month, scribes will have a chance to get ... well ... Zoom together for some all-nighter writing sessions. November is National Novel Writing Month and NaNoWriMoers nationwide will be jotting down 50,000 words before the clock strikes midnight on Nov. 30. “I...
Gov. Greg Abbott may have endorsed her opponent, but state Senate hopeful Shelley Luther is still confident she'll win.
Whether you buy into the schmaltzy notion that punk rock is an “attitude” or ascribe to the more pragmatic conclusion that it is nothing more than just a music genre and subculture, the fact remains that progressive politics have predominantly been at its helm since its ascension in the 1970s...
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As the holidays quickly approach, Dallas County's coronavirus case rate is on the rise.
Many Texans support police reform, but Gov. Greg Abbott's back the blue campaign has proven politically popular.
The city allocated $300,000 to fund the implementation of the program through 2024.
“Awful treatment. We walked in at 3 pm on a Friday, the doors were open so we assumed it was open. The gentlemen who appeared to be a server with long hair came in and very rudely told us that it was closed and continued to wave at us out...
On a balmy evening last November in Tyler, Enus Lewis finally came undone. After dark, Lewis left his mother's house and staggered into oncoming traffic on the busiest road he could find, hoping an oncoming car would kill him. Months of battling a tidal wave of grief had sharpened Lewis'...
As we approach a year of dealing with COVID-19, we can look back on socially distanced birthdays, Halloween and other and sad holiday celebrations. But here’s one holiday we haven’t yet tackled during a historic pandemic, as if it wasn’t already scary and stressful enough: Valentine’s Day. What is a...
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While restaurants usually have to have one parking spot per 100 or 200 square feet of usable space, that’s now not the case for their patio areas, at least for a little while. The Dallas City Council approved a resolution Wednesday temporarily authorizing covered, unenclosed patio areas to to be...
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...
The University of Dallas, a Catholic school, is standing by one of its professors after he wrote a post online that criticized President Joe Biden’s decision to appoint a trans woman, Dr. Rachel Levine, as assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human services. Levine could make history as the...
First, the good news: After several years of steady increases, the number of homeless people living in Dallas and Collin counties fell this year, according to the results of the city's annual homeless census. The bad news is that Dallas' efforts to reach out to some of its most vulnerable...
What’s the point in seeing art in person when one can comfortably see a show through high-res photos, videos, and — especially lately — through a slew of livestreams? Not only are the best shows in the world experienced best in person, but in David Jeremiah’s newest art exhibition, Offerings, at The...
The Dallas Police Department says that there are as many as 2000 street racers in the city on any given weekend. The department has stepped up enforcement, but the city wants to do more.
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In Dallas, communities have been working to clean up their own streets for decades.
In case you haven’t heard, Dallas voted for Joe Biden. So did other major Texas cities, such as Austin, El Paso, San Antonio and Houston. While most of the state was seeing red, Dallas was a little blue puddle in a sea of crimson, an oasis in a red desert,...
Three Dallas ISD schools were celebrated for receiving National Blue Ribbon Scholar awards in a ceremony Thursday.
As infections of the novel coronavirus surge across North Texas and around the state, a majority of Texans now say efforts to control the spread of the virus are going badly, according to a poll released this week. The poll, conducted by the Texas Politics Project at the University of...