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Brutal heat today with highs in the upper 90s to low 100s and a heat advisory in effect, building to about 105 by Wednesday.
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📅 The best things happening around DFW over the next few days
🔥Fighting Words,This Week's Dallas Debate
⚡ Dallas in 60 seconds - the local stories everyone's talking about
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🗓️ What's Happening these 3 Days
| 🔥 Fighting Words · This Week's Dallas Debate |
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Deep Ellum BBQ Throwdown
Two legendary smokehouses, a few blocks apart, and one very heated group chat. Pick a side.
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| Terry Black's Barbecue Deep Ellum · ★ 4.7 · 13,173 reviews Team Austin Transplant The line wraps the block for a reason. Central Texas brisket so good you'll forgive the wait, and the parking. |
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| Pecan Lodge Deep Ellum · ★ 4.4 · 8,561 reviews Team Deep Ellum OG The pit that put Dallas on the BBQ map. Order the Hot Mess and quietly cancel the rest of your day. |
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There are no wrong answers here. Only wrong opinions. Settle it in the poll below 👇 |
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Be honest: which line are you standing in for 90 minutes and calling it self-care?
We will share the results in the next newsletter.
| ⚡ The Quick Digest |
| Dallas in 60 seconds |
| Caught on Camera |
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🚒 A Southlake officer smashed a window and pulled a driver from a burning car in under 30 seconds Body-camera video shows Cpl. Joshua Swisher reaching the Mercedes on Highway 114 moments before the flames took it.
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| City & Growth |
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🏗️ A $71 million, 296-unit apartment complex just broke ground north of the Fort Worth Stockyards The Exchange will bring studio-to-three-bedroom homes to the Northside as the anchor of a 14.6-acre project with a hotel, shops and restaurants.
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🏙️ Dallas is losing residents, companies and sports teams to its own suburbs With the Stars headed to Plano and AT&T moving its HQ north, a new report asks whether the city that built DFW can hold its core.
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| Weather |
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🥵 North Texas is baking under a triple-digit heat wave that peaks near 105 on Wednesday A high-pressure ridge is locking in the heat and shoving Tropical Storm Bertha toward Louisiana, keeping DFW bone-dry all week.
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| Only in Texas |
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🐓 Deputies seized 181 roosters and $55,000 in cash in a cockfighting raid just east of Dallas A Grand Saline man was arrested after a months-long Van Zandt County investigation turned up birds, paraphernalia and a trailer built to haul them.
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⚾ The Rangers dropped their weekend series to the first-place Braves, falling 8-5 on Sunday Two Atlanta bats did most of the damage after Texas had stolen a wild Saturday win to keep the series close.
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| Beyond Dallas |
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⛽ Texas gas prices are climbing again, with the statewide average now near $3.57 a gallon AAA ties the uptick to global tensions, and analysts expect the climb to hold into next week.
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🇺🇸 A 19-year-old Army private from Carrollton was killed in Jordan The Pentagon on Monday identified Pvt. Isabella Gonzales as one of two U.S. soldiers killed in an Iranian strike on the air base she was helping defend.
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