Mavericks’ season ended in the tank

Mavericks’ season ended in the tank

By David Mullen It might be considered Pollyanna to think about the family that went to the Dallas Mavericks games at the American Airlines Center (AAC) versus the Chicago Bulls on April 8 or the San Antonio Spurs on Easter Sunday looking forward to seeing superstars Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving play basketball.   Or […]

Dallas to light up for 45th celebration

Dallas to light up for 45th celebration

Reunion Tower, Dallas’ most iconic landmark, celebrates its 45th birthday on Saturday, April 15. Reunion Tower will mark this milestone with one of its recognizable light shows featuring a pink and teal display. The Dallas skyline will also light up in honor of the 45th birthday and “Reunion Tower Day,” according to a Mayoral Proclamation. […]

Tennis lovers to unite for great cause

Tennis lovers to unite for great cause

The Magdalen House, a nonprofit organization helping women achieve sobriety and sustain recovery from alcoholism at no cost and based on 12-Step spiritual principles, announced this week that Amanda Dickstein, Sloan Looney Dix and Kate Looney Walters (pictured) will serve as co-chairs at this year’s annual Game, Set, Match tennis event. The annual fundraiser is […]

Guests tiptoe through the tulips

Guests tiptoe through the tulips

More than 1,700 people attended the sixth annual Food & Wine Festival at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden on March 23. The event, which was presented by Dallas Southwest Osteopathic Physicians, was held during the height of Dallas Blooms. Guests enjoyed libations and delectable delights while strolling the garden on a perfect spring evening. […]

Center welcomes two giraffe calves

Center welcomes two giraffe calves

By Warren Lewis When there is huge giraffe-related news to be shared, there is simply no better occasion than International Waffle Day, which was on March 25. Why this day? That’s when Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas announced the birth of Waffles, its newest giraffe. Her mother, Snorgie, gave birth on Saturday, […]

Rangers spent offseason becoming relevant

Rangers spent offseason becoming relevant

By David Mullen After two last-place finishes and a fourth-place finish in the last three seasons, Texas Rangers’ billionaire owner Ray Davis had seen enough. It’s as if Davis found the ancient reference attributed to Plautus — “You have to spend money to make money” — and applied it to his baseball team.  In the […]

Steaks weren’t the only thing cooking

Steaks weren’t the only thing cooking

Dallas 24 Hour Club — a nonprofit organization that provides transitional living, support services and essential life skills for homeless alcoholics and addicts so they can embrace long-term sobriety and become contributing and self-supporting members of the community — hosted its monthly Steak Night on Saturday, March 4. Held on the first Saturday of each […]

Easter Bunny on his way to Brumley’s

Easter Bunny on his way to Brumley’s

Spring is in the air, and that means it is time to start planting for spring and summer color and garden veggies. For 33 years Brumley Gardens Nursery has been the number one choice for locally grown plant stock at Brumley Farms in Wills Point, Texas. Brumley’s offers a wide variety of long-time favorites, new […]

Restaurant rebuilds after devastating fire

Restaurant rebuilds after devastating fire

By Blanca Reyes When Norma Rocha Valles saw the devastation the fire left at her beloved restaurant, Casita Tex Mex, she was in utter shock. “I couldn’t believe it. It was like taken from a movie scene,” Rocha Valles said. Around 9 p.m. on Dec. 27, 2020, Rocha Valles told her employees to go home […]

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