Five stories that have North Texas talking: Dallas鈥� bookstore opens soon; Cornyn and Cruz don鈥檛 agree on health care; new stats support an old adage: DART needs work; and more.
Anticipation for Dallas鈥� new independent bookstore has been building for nearly six months, but there鈥檚 finally a hard date set for soft opening on July 1.
will reside at 10720 Preston Road at Royal Lane, a location that general manager said 鈥渋s kind of a literary sweet spot in Dallas,鈥� when the news was .
Interabang hopes to provide relevant selections and a community that鈥檚 鈥渇undamental to every great independent bookstore's experience," Ellis told the .
For real, y'all. We'll be open on July 1!
— Interabang Books (@interabangbooks)
Interabang could round out the city鈥檚 current literary landscape. Dallas has several chains like Half Price Books and a couple of hybrid or niche bookstores like The Wild Detectives in Oak Cliff and Deep Vellum Books.
Interabang already has a few events lined up and thousands of books ready for the shelves. A grand opening is slated for Sept. 11. [The Dallas Morning News, 四虎影院]
We just need some books....
— Interabang Books (@interabangbooks)
- Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on the Senate GOP's long-awaited plan to overhaul the American health care system. [Texas Tribune]
- The fired Balch Springs police officer after shooting Jordan Edwards now in an unrelated incident. [四虎影院]
- Based on how Dallas public transit ranks in a , Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze鈥檚 concludes: 鈥淚f DART were a horse, we'd shoot it.鈥� [Dallas Observer]
- Magical creatures 鈥� read: sculptures 鈥� can be found all over Dallas. . [GuideLive]
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Note: Nancy Perot, one of the owners of Interabang Books, is a member of .
