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Despite his restaurant being closed due to the effects of the pandemic, Chef Luke Rogers says “I feel like there's a great calling on my life. God's been blessing me like crazy. I've had so many great opportunities after Savor closed.”
The artist has lived in Dallas for about four weeks but has spent the past few years traveling back and forth from her hometown of Georgetown to Dallas for recording sessions and performances. She grew up on the sounds of 112, Ginuwine and Jagged Edge, and music has always been a part of xbValentine’s life. But she didn’t start writing or producing music until she was about 15 years old. “I had friends that made music when we were in high school,” she says. “I dabbled in it a little bit with them, and it slowly kind of led into finally getting into the studio and making music of my...
Even before the pandemic, the service industry was in need of reform. As restaurants begin to open to full capacity, owners and managers are having trouble finding servers, bartenders and other key players. With stimulus packages and unemployment checks, furloughed workers of the service industry were practically guaranteed biweekly payments of a set amount. Many workers found it allowed them to pursue other job opportunities, and even better, not have their livelihoods depend on customer tips. Callie Dee is one of Dallas’ most sought-out artist managers, but before the pandemic, she was a...
A Dallas man named Zig (last names are withheld for privacy) says he was in a "throuple" with two men in 2018 after realizing his brain was "more wired" toward polyamory two years earlier. He was already in a relationship with one of the men before the couple invited in a third. The triad only lasted three months, and Zig eventually married the man with whom he was in a relationship first, but Zig says he learned one of the key factors for making a poly relationship work is also essential for monogamous relationships: communication. “If you cannot communicate how you're feeling and what you...
DART Student Art Contest Celebrates Local Young Artists Everyday Heroes Ride DART Collin Chon, a 5th grade student at Greenhill School in Addison, was this year’s Best of Show winner. Collin’s artwork, based on this year’s theme “Everyday Heroes Ride DART,” was selected from 688 entries from students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Heroes come in many forms and this year’s art contest gave young artists the chance to salute the hometown heroes that have kept our community going during the pandemic – everyday people that have made a positive impact in the lives of others. ...