A little more than 21 hours after polls closed in Dallas County, Texas' last major outstanding election result finally came in: Long-serving Dallas state Senator Royce West finished second with 14.5% of the vote in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary, advancing to a May runoff with former Air Force helicopter...
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One factor keeping people in Dallas from getting better medical treatment is how complicated it is to navigate the health care system, particularly in neighborhoods that are home to the city's neediest populations, Parkland Hospital executives told a City Council committee Monday. Supporting new mothers immediately after they give birth...
Texas' mandatory end-of-year tests are canceled this year, but state education officials have come up with a way for parents to make their kids take them anyway. The Texas Education Agency is rolling out an optional online end-of-year test that school districts and parents across the state can use to...
Frank Mendez, a Corpus Christi actor and one-time Dallas resident, died on Sunday. He was 57. Mendez is best remembered for a memorable scene in the 1997 biopic Selena, as the character credited as “Second Cholo.” During a scene from the film, when the singer’s bus gets stuck on the...
The Dallas County Elections Department has received more than $15 million in a grant from the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) to help with critical resources in the upcoming general election. The CTCL is a nonprofit that provides funding to local election offices across the country. Before the pandemic,...
Live Nation Entertainment is organizing the first of what they hope to be many concerts that comply with social distancing protocols, Bloomberg reports. Travis McCready, vocalist of Americana band Bishop Gunn, will be Patient Zero for this new experiment, which will take place on May 15 at Fort Smith, Arkansas...
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Last week, Dallas County Health and Human Services reported its fourth West Nile-related death of the 2020 season and its tenth human case.
Consuming commercial media comes second nature to Americans. It's a language we speak fluently, learned through osmosis, tailored around illusive data and marketing schemes designed to hit us right where it matters: in our primal need to hoard goods. Nationwide, the entertainment industry employs over 400,000 people a year, and...
The Environmental Protection Agency has promised to test soil in neighborhoods bordering a southern Dallas Superfund site in an effort to address community concerns about the presence of heavy metals. The announcement came at a community meeting Thursday, when the EPA presented the results of an initial report showing heightened...
Although consuming CBD (cannabidiol) is ever more popular for a number of health benefits and is now federally legal, it will never replace Delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or Delta-9 THC, in the hearts and minds of stoners. But, Delta-9 THC, which gives cannabis its "high," has a cousin. Meet Delta-8 THC, a cannabinoid...
A moviegoer who checks the digital signage at their local theater and sees showtimes for The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, and Back to the Future may believe that they actually took a trip in Doc Brown’s DeLorean. Why, they may wonder, are three of the biggest films of 1985 making...
For more than three decades, Dallas group Absu has carved a space in the industry as a quintessential black metal band, but this reign came to an abrupt end in January when the band announced its dissolution on Facebook. "After meager deliberation and zero remorse, I have decided to dissolve...
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It's June 30, 4:12 p.m. CST. We call Loners Club via Zoom. “Can you hear me? Can you see me?” she says. "Perfect. So, what were you saying?” I answer. “Man, to be honest, I think I forgot," she says. "Oh wait, no I didn’t. We were talking about who...
Concertgoers near and wide know Denton to have one of the most thriving and nurturing music scenes around, and Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios has been at the core of it since it first opened its doors in 1998. This year was expected to be no different for the venue in...
Wednesday, CNN reported that authorities charged a white 17-year-old with homicide after he allegedly shot three Black Lives Matter protesters, killing two, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Now, local activists fear that the same could happen closer to home. Every Sunday, a progressive grassroots organization in Gainesville protests for the removal of the town’s...
Love in the Time of Cholera (El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera) is a novel by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, one that has been said to show that “the extraordinary is contained in the ordinary.” Though it may not be a romance, Amor Y Queso — a...
Making any sort of comprehensive pop culture list is bound to be controversial no matter what. At the end of the day, it's a matter of opinion and is completely subjective, but that will never stop people from complaining about their personal favorites missing the cut or claiming that the...
“One bite takes you home,” promises the slogan of Oak Cliff Cookie Co., a cookie pop-up run out of the home of chef Juan Moreno. In Moreno’s case, home takes him back to Michoacán, Mexico, and his first experience in the kitchen at 7 years old in his grandfather’s restaurant...
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National pandemic adviser Scott Atlas, who does not have a background in epidemiology, is pushing for the White House to implement a “herd immunity” strategy to combat the coronavirus, The Washington Post reported Monday. Advocates for herd immunity, whereby a population becomes naturally immune to a disease via unchecked spread,...
It took Dallas almost two years to get the results of the police staffing study it commissioned from KPMG, one of the world's biggest auditing firms. Judging from what DPD brass told members of the City Council on Monday, actually making any hay from the study's conclusions is going to...
Last week, Dallas Police Department announced it would start enforcing a juvenile curfew following a recent increase in crime, including street racing.
If you’re living in Dallas and have a sweet tooth, you’ve probably tasted some of chef Diana Zamora’s creations. Over the years, the Northwest Dallas resident has built an impressive resume: In the past year, she has been the pastry chef at Nosh Bistro and the self-proclaimed “doughnut queen” at...