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Editor's note: There's so much that's beautiful, funny, smart and informative on the Internet. Problem is, there's also a bunch of garbage. Here's the best of the web right now:

1. Musicians read mean tweets about themselves on Jimmy Kimmel. Jason Aldean got the worst of it, and he deserves it. He deserves all the hate. Where is your neck, Jason?!

2. Tinder is starting to charge people for unlimited swipes. It'll work because Tinder is addicting as hell, but if it doesn't, bathroom breaks will probably drop by five to seven minutes across the board.

3. The Mountain from Game of Thrones broke a 1,000-year-old weightlifting record. True story: I saw Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson at a bar in Austin the other weekend. He is terrifyingly huge, but his smile is on par with The Rock's in term of wattage. I wanted to hug him.

4. Dallas' own Laken Litman is recapping The Bachelor episodes for USA Today this season. There was no rose ceremony this week, and one of the girls had a panic attack. This was after she told the bachelor about the time her husband died due to heart failure. People, that is insane.

5. Pitchers and catchers report in a little more than two weeks, so Will Leitch looked at every MLB team's three biggest rivals. The Rangers' rivals are pretty spot on, and if Texas and Houston can figure out their teams this season, it could be dynamic.

Tinder is charging for unlimited swipes. These people might have to put their phones down.

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Tinder is charging for unlimited swipes. These people might have to put their phones down.

This Week's Hot Headlines

Round of restaurant closures leads Dallas' most-read stories this week

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Editor's note: Recent and impending restaurant closures, along with department stores downsizing, lead the top Dallas news of the week. But there is also an exciting update for fans of supermarket chain H-E-B, which finally has plans for a store in Dallas proper. Read our most popular stories of the week below, then find our guide to Martin Luther King Jr. Day events around DFW here.

1. Some surprising names in this list of Dallas restaurant closures. The end of one year and beginning of another often provokes soul-searching and some closing of doors. That's definitely the case in the Dallas restaurant world, with a rash of closings that have taken place in recent weeks. These six restaurants have either just closed or are about to.

2. Macy's and Kohl's to shutter these Dallas-Fort Worth stores in 2025. A major department store name is contracting its presence in Dallas-Fort Worth: Macy's is planning on closing five of its locations throughout DFW by the end of April in 2025. Macy's is not alone: Clothing retailer Kohl's will also be shuttering 27 underperforming stores by April 2025, including its North Dallas location.

Macy's Macy's and Kohl's are shuttering stores in early 2025. Courtesy photo

3. Dallas Fire Rescue deploys firefighting posse to Los Angeles. On January 11, Dallas sent a firefighting posse to Los Angeles, where multiple ongoing fires have burned tens of thousands of acres near the border of Los Angeles and Ventura counties since January 7.

4. Supermarket chain H-E-B acquires site for its first store in Dallas. Dallas is finally in line to get an H-E-B. According to a release, the Texas supermarket chain has purchased property in Dallas: a 10-acre site at the southeast corner of Hillcrest Road and LBJ Freeway.

5. New Dallas coffee shop opens with good coffee — and great hair. A new coffee shop with some serious styling has opened near downtown Dallas: Called Common Good, it's located at 1619 N. Hall St., right off Ross Avenue, in what was previously a retail outlet for Rakkasan Tea Company, who left the space in mid-2024.

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