By Melanie Mayfield Stan’s Blue Note will heat things up with their “Great Bowls of Fire” 12th annual Chili Cook-off on Sunday, Feb. 18. From 2-6 p.m. the best self-proclaimed chili chefs from around the area will compete for cash prizes and bragging rights to be crowned the best! What makes this event even better […]
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) has launched the second phase of their vinyl seat retrofit program with the piloting of one light rail vehicle and one Dallas Streetcar vehicle that went into regular service beginning Monday, Jan. 22. To provide a cleaner and more comfortable environment for customers, DART replaced almost 34,000 fabric seat cushions […]
By Gordon Shattles Coming off the celebration of its 40th anniversary in 2023, Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) has announced a new partnership with one of North Texas’ most iconic community members — and one of DART’s biggest fans — Ms. Erykah Badu. The new partnership will take place throughout 2024, and it will kick […]
From Staff Reports On January 4, members of East Dallas Networking (EDN) donated $6,000 to five local nonprofits that are working hard to make East Dallas a better place to live, work and play. Among this year’s recipients are: Well Grounded Coffee Community ($2,000), White Rock Center of Hope ($1,650), For the Love of the […]
Dallas 24 Hour Club (The 24) — a nonprofit 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 — received the prestigious Nonprofit of the Year award at the Center for Nonprofit’s Management’s “A […]
By Jeff Smith White Rock Center of Hope (WRCH) announced this week that it received a $63,000 grant from the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) for capacity building through improved Food Pantry infrastructure. NTFB is the primary source of food for WRCH’s Food Pantry and around 500 others across a 13-county region. “Over the last […]
By Deborah Brown The Greater East Dallas Chamber of Commerce recognized the 2023 winners of its annual Business of the Year Awards. The winners were recognized at a luncheon on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at Lakehill Preparatory School Alice and Erle Nye Family Environmental Science Center on the Roger L. Perry Campus. The winners in the […]
By Gordon Shattles The annual Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) “Stuff a Bus” program has returned to help our North Texas residents in need. With the holiday season just around the corner, the Stuff a Bus program will deliver socks and blankets to The Senior Source — as well as new and unwrapped toys and […]
Well Grounded gets well-deserved donation By Nancy Black EDENS and Casa Linda Plaza, in collaboration with the Greater East Dallas Chamber of Commerce and the Live Local committee, created an amazing evening for the community to ring in the holidays. The shopping center transformed into a winter wonderland this past Monday evening for the Casa […]
Celebrating Black artists, businesses and local music, the annual “Christmas Music Under the Dome and Christmas Marketplace” will take place Saturday, Dec. 9, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at the African American Museum, Dallas. The Museum is located at 3536 Grand Ave., Dallas, 75210, in historic Fair Park. The holiday extravaganza will offer visitors a variety […]