If you know a college student interested in someday working in journalismâtell them to stop. Run. Thereâs still time. They donât have to do this to themselves. If that doesnât work, tell them to apply for a spring internship atD Magazine.
The online editorial internshipâthe one with a focus on arts, culture, food, and drinkâis what theyâre going to want to look for, because theyâll get to work with two extremely talented writers and editors, Rosin Saez and Taylor Crumpton. Tell this college student they can even use me as a reference. âMaconâ rhymes with âbacon.â
âď¸Forecast shows clouds and some rain chances Sunday, with highs remaining in the mid-70s throughout the weekend. We'll cool down a little to start next week.
A new documentary on the Discovery+ streaming service tells the story of how accountant Sandy Jenkins embezzled $17 million from Corsicanaâs Collin Street Bakery.
The wonderfully titled Fruitcake Fraud explores the crime as well as its impact on the small town just south of Dallas. (Fruitcake, a dramatic adaptation of the same story with Will Ferrell cast as the lead, appears to still be in pre-production and may or may not be happening.)
The eponymous fruitcake fraud was discovered in 2013. Jenkins was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2015, and took his own life in 2019.
But it all remains fresh for people in Corsicana, filmmaker Celia Aniskovich told Todd Jorgenson.
âThe money isnât what upset them. What upset them was a sense of betrayal,â Aniskovich said. âWhen you trust people and consider people like family, you reason you donât notice is because you never even fathom that someone would do something like that.â
2. Watch a Car Smash Into the Patio at Thunderbird Station
Really lateâor really early, I guessâon Tuesday, a car crashed into the fenced-off patio at Thunderbird Station in Deep Ellum.
With the possible exception of the driver, who fled the scene, no one was hurt. But it was a close call on a stretch of road that sees too many of those.
Thunderbird Station owner Kim Finch says sheâs already asked the city to put up cement poles, reflectors, something that will slow cars coming to a curve on one-way Commerce Street. Finch is still waiting to hear back. She tells Rosin Saez:
âItâs crazy. Itâs scary. We have too many fatalities down there already. I donât want to see anymore. Letâs minimize the fatalities as much as we can,â [Finch] says.
Please drive carefully out there. (And please pressure local officials to invest in safer roads and encourage alternative modes of transportation.)
The billionaire landed the lightly used chopper himself on the big empty plaza in front of the imposing Brutalist fortress that is City Hall. Then there was a press conference with much shaking of hands and fawning and extolling of the virtues of public-private partnerships.
âItâs a tremendous loss in the civil rights movement...The generation of African American leaders in the civil rights movement is rapidly leaving this earth.â
â The Rev. Peter Johnson on Marvin E. Robinson, the Dallas civil rights leader who died Saturday at the age of 86. The Dallas Morning News has the obit.
A big hat is seen at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party at the Dallas Arboretum in this 2013 file photo. Photo by Kristi and Scot Redman
The only thing more Dallas than a billionaire landing a helicopter on an inhospitable and rarely used public plaza for a PR stunt: Big funny hats. The Womenâs Councilâs Mad Hatter Tea is back at the Dallas Arboretum this April. The theme is âDeep in the heart of Texas.â
The school mask mandate carousel goes round again. An appeals court said Gov. Greg Abbottâs ban on school mask mandates can stand for now, and the legal back-and-forth over this thing will continue. Dallas ISD is continuing to require masks, regardless.
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