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Best of 2020: ‘She Loved Life’
"What emerged was a portrait of a woman who was always there for everyone she loved - and continued to be there, even after her death."
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Best of 2020: For the Love of Flying
Tom Rhodes promise to not take up smoking sent him high above the clouds, and the story our intern Tanika Turner wrote about how that came about is one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Best of 2020: Remembering Wick Allison
People Newspapers and the D Magazine empire lost both a mentor and a fearless leader when Wick Allison died in September.
Day 1 DFW Reimagined
Day 1 DFW benefiting Vogel Alcove has been reimagined this year and includes three ways to celebrate the new year Friday.
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Best of 2020: ‘Be Nice’
Fourth grade is usually when students start really learning the mechanics of writing, but it's no surprise that one particular fourth grader took to writing like it was genetic.
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Best of 2020: ‘How Am I Going to Feed People?’
"This pandemic crisis has brought out so many heroes - people who just saw a need and filled it," we said of this Best of 2020 pick.. "Get Shift Done is one of those efforts that was like capturing much-needed lightning in a very empty bottle, and a time when we needed the light the most."
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Best of 2020: Siblings Didn’t Want to Stay Treeless in Preston Hollow
Like most of Preston Hollow on Oct. 20, Brinley Smith and her brother, Preston, took cover with parents Brian and Crystal Smith as an EF3 tornado wound its way through their neighborhood.
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Best of 2020: Family Vacation to Spain Becomes Adventure in Virus Lockdown
What do you do when you're on vacation - a long planned one - and the whole world goes into lockdown? That's what our intern, Dahlia Faheid, was confronted with in March, and her first-person account is one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Best of 2020: Perspectives From the Porch
When people began sheltering-in-place last March, milestones didn't stop their march across the calendar as weeks turned into months. But throughout the 290 days or so (so far), Erin Schreyer has been documenting families - from their front porches.
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Best of 2020: ‘You Step Up, And You Serve’
Our conversation with Dallas city council member Jennifer Gates about the tornado, the Ebola crisis, and what she sees as the biggest challenges for her district was one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Best of 2020: Images of Prayer, Love, and Support
As the pandemic hit and then began its march across Dallas, there was an outpouring of support for front-line medical workers, and even just neighbors as we all navigated very new terrain.
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Best of 2020: Park Cities People July 2020
The July 2020 issue looked at the Park Cities protests, which were remarkable if nothing else for the fact that the home-grown efforts happened there, explained Gillea Allison, president of D Magazine Partners, of her first pick for Best of 2020.
Voices
Peacefulness on Earth, USA
“And mamma in her’ kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled down for a long winter’s nap…” – from “The Night Before Christmas” by Clement Clarke Moore
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Bumper Crop of Nominations for Best of 2020
Although our stories about the mastermind behind the Trains at NorthPark and a trip to the Lake Austin Spa were our readers' top picks, we'd be remiss if we didn't also point out some of the other work that was nominated.
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Best Of 2020 People’s Pick: Trains at NorthPark Mastermind Creates ‘Magical Little Worlds’
When we asked readers to nominate stories for the People's Pick portion of our look at the best, most intriguing, and/or biggest stories of 2020, this story was nominated four times.
Keeping the Faith
Beneath the wholesome surface of Will Bakke’s low-budget, faith-based movies was a filmmaker eager to explore a wilder side.
Meet Griffin Holtby: Your Friendly Neighborhood Rock Star
If someone pulls up next to you at a red light in Preston Hollow -- cigarette in hand, windows rolled down and blasting rock and roll-- that could be Griffin Holtby.
Coronavirus
Caring For Children During a Pandemic
During a year in which the COVID-19 pandemic placed immense pressure on healthcare systems and put school districts in difficult positions, many healthcare workers and parents have helped their communities navigate the rough new terrain.
That’s why Park Cities People has chosen them as our 2020 Persons of the Year.
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‘She Has Created a Community’
It hasn’t been the easiest year-and-a-half for Thomas Jefferson High School principal Sandi Massey, but many insist she’s the gold standard when it comes to leadership through a crisis.
Brightening Up The Holidays
Drive around the Park Cities at Christmas time and you’ll find plenty of trees adorned with lights.