CORONAVIRUS
Coronavirus Tracker: All the numbers you need to know
Hi! Welcome to the Advocate coronavirus tracker created with partner Hi George. Graphs are [...]
La Calle Doce closes temporarily due to COVID-19 case
If there is one restaurant that can bring all of Oak Cliff together, it [...]
Public golf courses, tennis courts reopen Friday in Dallas
Photo of Stevens Park Golf Course by Advocate staff The City of Dallas [...]
As a small business ourselves, the Advocate knows that neighborhood small businesses are hurting. We’re helping for the duration of the crisis by building a directory and hosting ads for businesses that need help the most.
Trinity Groves restaurants to reopen Friday while many local spots stay to-go
Courtesy of Sketches of Spain Which local [...]
Where to find curriculum for your Dallas ISD student all in one place
Run a meeting on Zoom, fix everyone's lunch, and figure [...]
Journalist grieves his father from a thousand miles away
Photo courtesy of Rick Holter Rick Holter had [...]
Postcard from the Pandemic: Amber and Jonathan rushed their March wedding
They decided to get married on March 20 at the Oak Cliff courthouse by Justice of the Peace Judge Juan Jasso.
Do a standing ovation for coronavirus frontline workers Thursday at 7 p.m.
Here’s a date for Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m.: [...]
Oak Cliff, Cedar Crest among areas most at risk for COVID-19
UT Health People in southern Dallas are [...]
Postcard from the Pandemic: This food bank employee works on the front lines
About 70% of the people receiving aid from the North Texas Food Bank have never needed help with food before.
Time cover features Oak Cliff school cafeteria manager
A Dallas ISD food and nutrition services worker is front-and-center on the cover of Time magazine today.
Coronavirus hits black, Hispanic communities harder
Dallas County reported its data on race and coronavirus, with an asterisk noting that it is incomplete.
Dallas receives a C grading for social distancing, according to cell phone data
Well, at least we're passing. Human mobility data company Unacast [...]
Dallas parks closed Easter weekend to prevent coronavirus spread
Families won't be spending Easter weekend in Dallas parks. On [...]
Marcel Market and La Reunion coffee make a pantry dream team
While some temporarily closed retail shops, galleries and salons are boarded up for security, many food-based businesses are hanging on through the economic shutdown.
Nursing home with 30 cases of COVID-19 has record of bad care
The Oak Cliff nursing home where at least 30 people contracted COVID-19 has a long list of health-code and safety violations.
How many cases of COVID-19 are there in Oak Cliff?
The Dallas County Health Department recently began reporting COVID-19 cases by zip code, but the numbers aren't exact.
Oak Cliff treasure Emma Rodgers reads bedtime stories
The Bishop Arts Theatre Center launched "Storytime at Bedtime," a series of YouTube videos wherein members of the theater's board of trustees, former summer camp students and parents read children's books.
No, Seventh Street won’t be closed for a temporary park
The news came Friday that Dallas County was considering [...]
Landlord gives small businesses three months free rent at Sylvan Thirty
Restaurant tenants at Sylvan Thirty won't have to pay rent for April, May or June.
Postcard from a pandemic: Marisol lost her job after 22 years
Marisol Valdez worked for a company that plans corporate travel, and Tuesday was her last day.
500 Stevens Park Elementary families receive food boxes from Brighter Bites and Fresh Point
A Dallas-based food provider teamed up with nonprofit Brighter Bites to provide boxes of fresh food to 500 families whose kids attend Stevens Park Elementary.
Methodist medical staff turns conference room into PPE sewing lab
Nurses and medical staff at Methodist Dallas Medical Center turned a conference room into a sewing workshop to make personal protective equipment.
COVID crisis won’t be over ’til summer and more insights from chamber update
Coronavirus is going to hit hard in the next two-to-three [...]
Better Block produces face masks for hospitals
Oak Cliff-based Better Block is known for its work [...]
Pink Pedi pivots to hand sanitizer, mask-making, gives to Baylor medical staff
Nail salon workers are among those out of a [...]
Eno’s makes it easy to ‘Help Your Neighbor’
Along with your order, the restaurant's website offers the option to send any of five menu items to a their nonprofit of the week.
Neighborhood favorite Nova to close temporarily, gives away food
Nova will be closed after to-go dinner service Wednesday.
