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Once upon a time, a homecoming mum was just a flower with a bow. Now it’s practically an engineering project. Our interactive builder lets you see just how far Texas school spirit can go. https://t.co/aAqGdQyAeE

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Meet the Dallas 500: Shaina Drummond, Dallas County Medical Society. Uncover Dr. Drummond’s inspiration to pursue skiing in her 40s, her hopes for the future of healthcare, and why she values collaboration. https://t.co/4W7ujFcrAC

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Bavette, Kansas City strip, and more less-famous steak cuts worth trying in Dallas. And where to order them. https://t.co/IYuw1JIloD

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We do not foresee the Mavericks being very good this season, at least from a results standpoint. Nearly two years removed from the Luka Doncic trade, they remain in transit, still shuttling between Doncic’s era and Cooper Flagg’s. Most of the holdovers don’t fit Flagg’s future. Most of the newcomers can’t help him in the present. These are not the ingredients of a winning basketball team.⁠
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None of this should dissuade you from watching. In fact, the Mavericks have given us more cause to pay attention. We are about to watch this franchise understand itself in real time. https://t.co/zYfXIR5toZ

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Good morning. The Dallas Mavericks play basketball tonight. I wrote about this season and how you find joy in it: by studying the individuals and treating them more like a novel than a basketball team.

Let's basketball.

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Cooper Flagg is great. Kyrie Irving is back. But the fun, and purpose, of the new season will be learning about everyone round them. Here's why the Mavericks are in their discovery era. @mikelikessports https://t.co/qWh8pQMIiA

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East Dock, a transformed former ice factory in Oak Cliff, has become a new hub for small locally owned businesses. Here are the indie restaurants, bakeries, and bars getting a fresh start near the Dallas Zoo. https://t.co/Xz4tUc2H0x

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Sneak a peek inside the 50th Annual Lakewood Home Tour’s 8 striking stops. The 50th installment of the beloved home tour returns this November. https://t.co/x7TNgoIc6c

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Matt Duchene leaves giant shoes to fill in Stars lineup. @mikelikessports and @machinesports discuss the impact of his absence. https://t.co/2FZoOnQG1k

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The Perot Museum of Nature and Science has revealed plans to double its exhibition space—by replacing four acres of surface-level parking and plaza space—as part of its $185 million capital campaign.⁠
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The new outdoor area will add installations, experiments, and landscapes to attract an estimated 400,000 additional guests per year. The project will break ground in early 2027 and open to the public in late 2028.⁠
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The outdoor experience will be 60,000 square feet with about 25 large-scale exhibitions and 40 features, including wind gusts, building water pressure, and a spiraling tornado. Other experiences will include a cloud maze, a lightning-and-thunder pavilion, and a giant water vortex. There will also be landscaping with shade trees, native plants, a pollinator habitat, and water features. https://t.co/IwwUE2w2X2

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It’s been a minute since the elevated 1.4 mile highway separating downtown and Deep Ellum bubbled up to the top of the news cycle, but a new memo from the Texas Department of Transportation provides a bit of an update.⁠
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To recap: In 2023, the Dallas City Council signed on to a TxDOT plan to replace the highway with a trenched highway roughly 65 feet deep and 10 lanes across at its widest. Existing streets will fly over the highway, and there is the potential for around 10 acres of decking that could hold commercial development or parks. (But the city would have to pay for that.) This “hybrid” plan to convert the highway from an elevated one to a canyon was recommended by the state agency despite a longtime grassroots effort to remove the highway altogether and replace it with a boulevard and reconfigured surface streets.⁠
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In a memo TxDOT district engineer Ceason Clemons says that work continues on the project’s design. Clemons says that last year the environmental phase was completed, and the agency “continues to conduct engineering investigations” and study drainage and structural design. The estimated cost of the project is $1.65 billion, with the agency’s 2027 program identifying $685 million in funding so far, with another $225 million of bridge replacement funds also committed to the project. That does leave about $740 million in funding still up in the air. “TxDOT will continue to explore funding opportunities through the annual UTP update, as well as grant applications,” Clemons concluded. https://t.co/dr4SSMOyzo

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D Magazine writer Caitlin Clark isn’t exactly a travel rube. She enjoys a swanky hotel and revels in airport lounge access from time to time. But still, the PS Terminal at DFW Airport felt over the top. Like a new level of bougieness had been unlocked. From the “White Lotus”-style welcome to a semiprivate TSA and Le Labo-stocked showers, she desperately attempts to find a flaw in the fanciest way to fly commercial in Texas. (Hint: It was hard.) https://t.co/pxQiF4K6iG

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Here is how to enjoy local arts, music, culture, food, fitness, and more all week long in Dallas. https://t.co/QCzuX7zdLx

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Four petition drives are collecting signatures for measures that could appear on the May 2027 ballot. Here’s who’s behind them, what they want, and what to know before you sign. https://t.co/QpERsXo0xO

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Chef Julian Rodarte has always been second in command: to his father Beto, to notorious restaurateur Phil Romano, to the spectacle at Cosm, and now to the namesake owner of Dee Lincoln Prime in Frisco. Before that, he slept in his car between long shifts at Fearing's. What has he learned from all those mentors, and what solo opportunity is he waiting for? We sat down with the chef to find out. ⁠
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“Twenty-one-year-old Julian would probably ask, ‘Why aren’t you working harder?’. But 32-year-old Julian tells 21-year-old Julian to be patient, take his time, and fail as fast as he can because that’s what’s going to help him grow.” https://t.co/0KfG7UiIl9

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Perot Museum thinks outside its walls with $155 million expansion. Part of a $185 million capital campaign, the new outdoor area will double the museum’s exhibition space and is expected to draw an additional 400,000 visitors per year. https://t.co/IFflMKFOHL

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About 20 years later, there's a new Henderson Avenue revival happening. We're taking stock of where the street's portfolio of shops and restaurants currently stands. https://t.co/27vc9kKSOV

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Photographer Jason Janik documents the people, traditions, excitement, and well-earned naps of the Fair throughout its three-week run. https://t.co/K44R9KUqKT

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.@mikelikessports and @machinesports ask @bobbykaralla: Have the Mavs recovered as a franchise?

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Mavs season tips off Wednesday—@mikelikessports will have fresh words the day of—and the roster is now set, in fairly bummer-ific fashion: after 12 seasons and 763 games, Dwight Powell is no a longer a Dallas Maverick. This was always the most likely outcome, given that the team is rebuilding and Powell is a 35-year-old wearing every bit of his age. He didn’t sign a contract until just before training camp, and Dallas would have had to cut a player on a guaranteed contract to keep him around.

But like he always had, Powell made the most of his minutes, enough to spark a brushfire of debate over whether the team should cut promising second-year center Moussa Cisse to keep him around. If that sounds short-sighted, that’s because it would have been. So the organization will move on without Powell, who played the fifth-most games in franchise history and ranks inside the Mavs’ top 10 in field goal percentage, offensive rebounds, and blocks.

The numbers don’t do him justice, though. Powell was a vibes guy, and the best of those vibes were experienced by the men who suited up alongside him every night. He provided a lot of dirty work and thankless leadership over the years. Here is a farewell to Dwight Powell. https://t.co/V5BTV6pw5W