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Home improvement for Dallas hipsters tops 5 most popular stories this week

Editor’s note: Another week has come and gone, and there’s a lot we all probably missed. But we’re looking out for you, kid. Here are the most popular stories from this past week:

1. New concept in Uptown puts Dallas in line with major national food trend. Dallas is about to get the latest buzzy concept in dining: a food hall. Coming in spring 2016, Uptown Urban Market will go into the former Sfuzzi space at the Gables Villa Rosa on Cedar Springs Road.

2. Austin's gourmet Cow Tipping Creamery scoops up cozy Dallas location. Austin's favorite gourmet soft-serve, Cow Tipping Creamery, has found a home in Dallas. The artisanal ice cream company will open a stand inside Good 2 Go Taco.

3. Home Depot for hipsters branches out from Austin to Dallas for second location. It's been called the “Whole Foods of home improvement” and “Home Depot with a green conscience,” and soon Dallas will have one. TreeHouse, a sustainable home improvement store, is opening its first location outside of Austin, at Walnut Hill Lane and 75.

4. Fixer Upper couple opens cutest B&B in Texas — and demand is nuts. If you're keen to stay at the new bed-and-breakfast that Fixer Upper couple Chip and Joanna Gaines just opened in McGregor, Texas, get in line. Actually, you might want to plan far in advance, because their Magnolia website opened on February 10 for reservations and subsequently crashed due to high demand.

5. Lakewood doughnut shop faces same unsavory fate as Dixie House. Another neighborhood favorite in Lakewood Center has been given its walking papers. Donut Paradise, a mom-and-pop doughnut shop at 1961 Abrams Rd., is shutting down on February 29, after failure to come to terms with landlord Lincoln Properties.

Lakewood's Donut Paradise is closing at the end of February.

Photo via Reddit

Lakewood's Donut Paradise is closing at the end of February.

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Dallas police horse injures teen fairgoer at State Fair of Texas

Big Tex and State Fair of Texas at sunset

Photo courtesy of the State Fair of Texas

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A police horse that was startled at the State Fair of Texas injured a fairgoer on October 8.

According to the Dallas Police Department, a mounted police officer was "patrolling Big Tex Circle" around 3 pm when the horse got spooked. The officer attempted to regain control of the animal, but ran through a group of people. a teen male ended up getting trampled and was taken to the hospital.

One witness said that the officer was getting a drink at one of the stands while still mounted. Once he got the drink, the horse sped off and patrol officer was thrown from the horse.

"The cop was getting a drink with the horse and then when he left with the drink in his hand the horse started going crazy and going full speed to a crowd of people," the witness said. "The cop fucked up by getting a drink while on a horse and not having full control. [It] was weird he was not dropping the drink when the horse started going crazy. The cop ended up getting stuck on the saddle and fell off. Then the cop came to the scene and I asked him what happened and he said, I don’t know. I’m trying to figure it out.'"

The Dallas Police Department uses draft horses, a larger breed "developed as working horses," but the bigger question is, why does the Dallas Police Department need to use horses at all, when other tools like Segways exist?

"Stop using animals for intimidation factors and this won’t happen," suggested one commenter. "Isn’t your AR-15, taser, sidearm, pepper spray, and club enough to enforce whatever you think you need to at The Fair? Let the animals be animals."

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