Homework

Here’s some of this week’s neighborhood news from around the web:

Sign up for our newsletter

* indicates required

Earlier this week Deep Ellum shut down when Dallas Police and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team of the Dallas Fire-Rescue were called out because of “a suspicious package” left in front of a Uplift campus on Elm, according to the Dallas Morning News.

The Dallas Observer posted a roundup of the best five neighborhoods in Dallas and three East Dallas hotspots were on the list — Lower Greenville, Deep Ellum and Lakewood. Read what they had to say.

Lakewood’s Vietnamese restaurant Mot Hai Ba hired a new chef, according to Dallas Eater. Read about him here.

Five women were mugged in Dallas-area parking lots in the span of three days, and the latest one happened at the Tom Thumb on Lovers. Read about it on the Dallas Morning News crime blog.