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Enjoy Homemade Treats for Hungry Ghosts and Goblins
I’m basically a kid at heart who adores celebrating holidays of all kinds, and that trait comes through at Halloween. I love everything about it – decorating, dressing up (usually in something scary), making a fuss over the little ones who come costumed to our door, and creating fun-to-eat treats.
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Self-Guided Option Best Bet for Touring Boston’s Freedom Trail
It’s October, the prime time to visit New England for fall foliage leaf-peeping.
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Ghosts Haunt Halloweens of Yesteryear
Bring on Halloween, a season when masks aren’t so controversial (usually).
Society
Meet The BFFs That Fed 50,000
It felt like someone unplugged our lives,” recalled a hotel server whose husband was serving as a chef de partie for a well-known Dallas restaurant when the pandemic hit.
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Stir Crazy UP Newcomer Finds Lockdown Relief
A year ago, Dawson Lightfoot sat frustrated in his new University Park home. Then he revived an old hobby.
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SMU Looks to Future With $1.5B Campaign
To re-imagine the role of education and SMU itself in an era of rapid change, the university has launched a $1.5 billion fundraising campaign focused on opportunities created through scholarships, meaningful research and teaching, and its North Texas community.
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Meet Power Lawyer, Film Lover, UP Resident Yvette Ostolaza
When attorney Yvette Ostolaza isn’t in the courtroom, she’s often playing leadership roles in Dallas cultural organizations.
‘I Love Expressing Myself This Way’
Jerzy Kosinski once said, “The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
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Kevin Lee’s Forbidden Phrases: ‘I can’t’ and ‘I don’t know’
Kevin Lee’s journey has taken him from homelessness after a snowstorm while a teenager in Pittsburgh to studying at SMU’s Dedman School of Law.
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Voices
Chick Trip
Sojourns with sassy sorts are like a facelift for my emotions. Post recovery, it’s still me, but better – happier.
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Park Cities Coaching Finds Niche With Aspiring Athletes
As much as Carter Clements enjoyed competing in soccer, tennis, or track as a teenager in Virginia, he had the heart of a coach.
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Faith
WhatsApp? Technology Keeps Ministry Going
As the coronavirus pandemic spread globally and businesses began shifting to remote work or shutting down, whether temporarily or permanently, Orphan Outreach Marketplace took a different approach.
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Society
Cattle Baron’s Ball Co-Chairs ‘Doubling Down’ Against Cancer
After the pandemic scuttled the in-person gala and scooted fundraising online last year, Cattle Baron’s Ball organizers are gearing up for a return to Gilley’s this fall.
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Society
Dallas Zoo Supporters Party With Flamingos at Dallas Galleria
Supporters of the Dallas Zoo gathered at POP! by Snowday inside the Galleria Dallas, where the zoo leaders revealed details for this year’s exciting fundraiser: Return To The Wild: Zoo To Do 2021 on Nov. 6.
Boy Scout Baxter Perry-Miller Creates a Buzz
The name Baxter Perry-Miller is certainly abuzz at Bonton Farms. And it’s not just from the bees he brought there, although that’s certainly part of it.
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Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
I was disheartened by this paper’s reporting of the community’s views on masks in the last edition.
Comings and Goings
Who moved? Who is new? Who closed up shop? We have all the recent business comings and goings for the month of October here.
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Society
“How Am I Doin’? Great!” Dierks Bentley Returns as Headliner Act
Throughout its 48 years, some of country music’s most revered and highly anticipated entertainers have taken the stage at Cattle Baron’s Ball.
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For the Love of Chips, Dallas Mom Launches Ohla! Foods
Don’t miss out on favorite foods such as chips and tortillas because of food sensitivities.
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Holland Roden Keeps Doing Her (Scary) Parts
Holland Roden, a former Hockaday and HPHS student lives in a van, even with her acting career rolling.
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