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Best of 2020: Remarkable Women
We started the year with a new goal - to feature a remarkable woman in every issue this year.
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Best of 2020: ‘Everything Worthwhile Isn’t Easy’
As the nation reacted to the death of George Floyd during an encounter with police in Minneapolis, one Black mother took to the keyboard to discuss her feelings about helping her family navigate the world.
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Best of 2020: Park Cities’ All-Girls Boy Scout Troop
Intern Dahlia Faheid talked to the girls who opted to join the Boy Scouts, now called Scouts BSA, after the organization began accepting girls in February 2019.
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2020 Hindsight: At Last, 2021
“The vaccine is coming. The vaccine is coming!” Such comes the battle cry of 2021, so take that coronavirus.
40th Anniversary
In the Beginning…Dream Launched People Newspapers 40 Years Ago
It’s hard to believe that 40 years ago, a handful of 20-something-year-olds came together with enough maturity and initiative to create Park Cities People.
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Best of 2020: Highland Park Goes Hollywood
When we began talking with summer intern Morgan Pryor about a potential story featuring her cousin, it turned into a first-person narrative about a young Highland Park native who had just gotten her first lead role in Hollywood.
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Best of 2020: ‘Give Them a Little Bit of Hope’
The signs on Tibbs and Pemberton were a welcome surprise for the neighborhood, seemingly popping up overnight.
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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.
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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