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Neighborhood bar St. Valentine will soon be serving bar snacks from the delicious corners of Boilermaker and Old East Dallas.St. Valentine's is right around the corner from Jimmy's Food Store, a 57-year-old Italian grocery store that serves some of the best sandwiches in town. The bar is located across from Urbano Cafe and near the 50-year-old Dallasite Dive Bar. (Dallas residents in the area are still mourning the closures of nearby Lao and Vietnamese restaurants, Khao Noodle Shop and Mai's Restaurant, respectively, last year.)St. Valentine's will move to Top Round, a former roast beef restaurant. We were wondering what the…

November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to learn about and celebrate the stories, art, traditions, and achievements of North America's indigenous peoples. Here are some activities that take place throughout his month in Dallas-Fort Worth. Check the website for schedule changes and other updates and visit Go See DFW. To find more events.Urban Indigenous Experiences: An evening of lectures, films and discussionfree – Watch the second season premiere of native americais a four-part Native-directed series that follows Native American innovators in the modern world. Some of the people featured include NASA engineer Aaron Yazzie (Navajo), sustainable architect Henry…

Regional theme park operators Six Flags and Cedar Fair are merging in a deal to create a larger, climate-resilient company headquartered in Charlotte valued at $8 billion.The partnership, announced Thursday before the trading market opened, combines two companies with theme parks and water parks stretching from coast to coast and from the Midwest to the Deep South. Both companies describe this as a “merger of equals.”Once the transaction is completed, Ohio-based Cedar Fair shareholders will own approximately 51.2% of the new company, and Six Flags shareholders will own 48.8%. Cedar Fair CEO Richard Zimmerman will manage the combined company.”The merger…

Diwali is the festival of lights, marking the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, and knowledge over ignorance. It is widely observed in India, but also in places with large Indian-American populations, such as Dallas-Fort Worth. Diwali is primarily a Hindu festival, but it is also celebrated by Jains, Sikhs, and some Buddhists. And people of all backgrounds are welcome at these local events.DFW Diwali Mela at Cotton Bowl StadiumFair Park's nightly festivities include a laser light show and fireworks display, performances by local and Bollywood entertainers, a bazaar with food and other merchandise for sale, carnival rides…

If you feel driving in Dallas can be scary, new numbers show you're right. NBC 5 investigates Dallas' traffic fatality rate was found to be the worst among America's 10 largest cities over a five-year period. NBC 5 investigates An analysis of the most recent five years of available federal highway traffic safety data found that from 2017 to 2021, Dallas averaged about 15 traffic fatalities per 100,000 people. This puts Dallas just above Phoenix as the U.S. city with the highest traffic fatality rate of any city over 2017. 1 million people. Additionally, Dallas' traffic fatality rate is 27%…

[Sources: shutterstock; istockphoto; DI] chris younggeneral managertexas rangers…In January 2023, spoke at the Executive Circle of the Dallas Regional Chamber. Since all of North Texas has been in an uproar. texas rangers won in 2023 world series I won last night, arizona diamondbacks They finished the series 5-0 with only 4 wins and 1 loss. The first World Series victory in the franchise's 63-year history surprised many, but not the general manager. All those years ago in January, he said: The executive circle of the Dallas Regional Chamber said these prophetic words: “As a lifelong Texas Rangers fan, there is…

City of Arlington to hold Texas Rangers World Series Championship Parade in Entertainment District this Friday The City of Arlington invites fans from all over North Texas to celebrate the 2023 World Champion Texas Rangers at the World Series Championship Parade in the Entertainment District on Friday, November 3, 2023. The free event is open to the public. “It's been a 50-year dream for the Texas Rangers to win the World Series,” said Arlington Mayor Jim Ross. “Mayor Tom Vandergriff went to Washington, D.C., and convinced the Washington Senators to become the Texas Rangers and move into what was then…

Behind-the-scenes coverage of JFK's assassination Friends of the City Archives Speaker Event with Darwin Payne Tuesday, November 21st from 6pm to 8pmRidgewood Belcher Recreation Center6818 Fisher Rd, Dallas, TX 75214 Join our friends at the Dallas Municipal Archives in celebrating the publication of journalist and author Darwin Payne's new memoir. This is a special fundraising event presented by our friends at the Dallas Municipal Archives that includes a conversation with the author and an invaluable opportunity to see up-close his original JFK investigation documents and photographs from the Dallas Police Department. will appear. Mr. Payne will also be signing copies…

If you've completed the preparatory work to obtain your real estate license, you may be building a portfolio of clients and working toward your first sale. It may also be the right time to consider taking your career a step further by joining the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) and becoming a REALTOR®. Joining NAR offers many benefits, including increased industry visibility and credibility, access to NAR benefits and benefits, and access to important real estate market data. Becoming a REALTOR® is a simple process that many real estate professionals can participate in, including appraisers, brokers, and agents. This article…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A series of court challenges aim to overturn long-standing real estate industry practices that determine the commissions agents receive and who foots the bill when selling a home. On Tuesday, a federal jury in one of those cases ruled against the National Association of Realtors and several of the nation's largest real estate brokerages for artificially inflating the commissions paid to real estate agents. ordered to pay $1 billion in damages. The class action lawsuit was filed in 2019 on behalf of 500,000 home sellers in Missouri and some border towns. The verdict said the defendants…