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Restaurant closures and mysterious deaths lead 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. Sudden restaurant closures give Dallas diners the summer blues. There's a whoosh in the Dallas dining scene as two local restaurants face sudden shutters. Good Eats closes on July 17, after 22 years at Turtle Creek Village. Meanwhile, Becks Prime, the Houston-based burger chain, is closing its Greenville Avenue location on June 30.

2. Investigation into mysterious death of Dammion Heard takes dramatic turn. The family of Dammion Heard is clinging to new hope in the ongoing investigation surrounding the mysterious death of their 20-year-old son. A former Texas State Champion Wrestler at Fossil Ridge High School in Keller, Heard was found dead on April 2 near Gunnison, Colorado, where he was attending college.

3. The official guide to the biggest and brightest 4th of July events in Dallas-Fort Worth. Though there were plenty of options for viewing colorful explosions on Independence Day, our list only included the biggest and brightest. Most of the events were free, some cost a nominal amount, but all of them guaranteed grand entertainment, both in the sky and on the ground.

4. Pair of Dallas restaurants recognized as top neighborhood spots in U.S. According to OpenTable, Dallas is home to two of the nation's neighborhood gems, restaurants favored by their communities for making diners feel special time and time again.

5. Where to eat in Dallas right now: 10 best restaurants for hot potatoes. Every restaurant should make potatoes the center of its world. And Dallas restaurants have been squarely behind that idea, be it Snuffer's cheese fries or Tillman's Roadhouse signature trio of fries. For our July chapter of where to eat, we single out some of the best state-of-the-art potato dishes in Dallas.

San Salvaje has one of the best potato dishes in Dallas.

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San Salvaje has one of the best potato dishes in Dallas.

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Taylor Sheridan pens 'darkly funny' book about how to survive prison

Yellowstone Season 5 premiere, Taylor Sheridan

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Taylor Sheridan and wife, Nicole, at the Yellowstone Season 5 premiere in Fort Worth.

In the same week that Taylor Sheridan announced he's setting his new series Frisco King in DFW comes news that he's written his first book. The Oscar-nominated screenplay writer and Yellowstone co-creator has written about crime and violence so often that he decided to work on a book about an ordeal he has never endured: life behind bars.

Simon & Schuster announced Sheridan's How to Not Die in Prison, a “darkly funny survival guide” to a maximum-security facility, will come out June 23. Sheridan is a best screenplay nominee for the 2016 crime drama Hell or High Water, and has overseen such TV series as Yellowstone, Tulsa King, and Mayor of Kingstown.

“You might wonder what in the world gives me the knowledge or wisdom to write a survival guide to prison,” Sheridan writes in the book’s introduction, according to Simon & Schuster. “Well, I’ll tell you — absolutely nothing. I’ve never been to prison. But, like every man, I’ve certainly wondered how I would survive if circumstances ever put me there. That morbid curiosity sent me on a journey to understand the politics and dangers of prison.”

Sheridan did receive some firsthand input. His co-author is Tom Nelson, who spent more than a decade in prison.

Taylor Sheridan, How not to die in prison Taylor Sheridan's first book will be released in June 2026.Photo courtesy of Amazon.com

“Hey, one of us has written hit TV shows and Academy Award-nominated movies, and the other has spent much of his adult life behind bars in medium and maximum-security prisons,” Nelson said in a statement. “If that’s what makes for good wisdom and entertainment, I’ll take it.”

Sheridan is an honorary Fort Worthian who attended Pascal High School. He lives on a ranch near Weatherford with his wife, Nicole and often films his shows around Fort Worth - including 1883, and currently Landman, and Lioness.

Bolstered by Sheridan's presence, Fort Worth has made the list of top cities for filmmakers in recent years.

Sheridan's other film credits include writing and directing the Angelina Jolie thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead and the Western thriller Wind River, starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen. Last fall, Paramount Pictures and Activision announced that Sheridan and Hell or High Water collaborator Peter Berg are working on an adaptation of the blockbuster video game franchise Call of Duty.

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Stephanie Allmon Merry contributed to this story.

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