Food

• Elephante opens on Maple
• August closings: Twisted Root, Zatar, four Harwood rooms
• Sor Juana opens by the Farmers Market
• Corsaire takes Pizza Testa’s Greenville room
• Bluebonnet and Thyme opens across from AAC
• Salisbury’s Pizza opens in Casa Linda; slices $3.95
• Go Culture Cafe opens near Love Field

Policy

• Council amends the $5.6B budget; straw votes Sept. 2
• November ballot: $900M in public-safety propositions
• Save Dallas City Hall sues over neglect
• ForwardDallas passes 11–4
• DPD takes freeway and NTTA patrols inside the city
• City looks at cutting employee healthcare

Construction

• BofA Plaza must close by Sept. 30 or lose incentives
• Convention Center stays on the current design, 2030
• DISD: J.P. Starks and other bond campuses

Culture

• DMA Late Night Friday; Picasso ceramics at the Meadows
• Butthole Surfers film is a Dallas punk story
• Badu plays a night at home downtown

Opinion

• Lamster: Dallas is a paradox city
• Dallas answers the ‘no culture’ charge
• Readers: moving Pioneer Cemetery would curse downtown
• Siegel: Hinojosa is the mayor Dallas actually needs
• 53 years later, Dallas still owes Santos Rodriguez

Economy

• Dallas 1-bed rent falls 13% to $1,270
• South Dallas gets Shipley and a Forest Theater Starbucks
• City EDC leaves The National after the foreclosure
• $6M housing fund helps $248M in projects

Sports

• Cowboys waive Joe Milton; Howell is Dak’s backup
• Cowboys trade for Broderick Jones at tackle
• DeGrom one-hits the A’s in seven shutout innings
• Mavs and Stars stay at AAC through 2030-31
• FC Dallas rallies twice, draws 3-3 at St. Louis
• Cowboys post the initial 53-man roster
• Mavs buy out Klay Thompson
• TCU falls 15-10 to UNC in Dublin
• Stars drop Pride Night

Places

• Love Field ranks 7th for pickup; DFW last
• City puts $2.7M into Old City Park
• Katy Trail’s $2B effect feeds a 50-mile loop
• 90Ten buys blocks in Bishop Arts and Lower Greenville

Nearby

• Al Biernat’s signs a downtown Fort Worth lease
• Panther City BBQ takes the old La Playa Maya in the Stockyards
• Hiro’s Kitchen opens omakase on Near Southside
• Red: Italian opens under Ruby Rodeo in Denton