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Time capsule home in Lakewood leads this week's 5 hottest Dallas headlines

Custom tile work at the entrance of 7226 Lakewood Blvd. gives a hint to what's within.

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1. Time capsule home with wild tiled bathrooms for sale in Dallas' Lakewood. A rare Dallas real estate find is on the market: A beautiful home designed by famed architect Cliff Hutsell and built in 1932 that's in nearly original condition. Located at 7226 Lakewood Blvd., it's an original Spanish Eclectic time capsule, on a rare double lot on stately Lakewood Boulevard, less than a block west of (and walking distance to) White Rock Lake.

2. New restaurant Nick the Greek with cute backstory makes Dallas-area debut. A new Greek restaurant made its Dallas-area debut August 11 with gyros, souvlaki, and pita sandwiches: Called Nick the Greek, it's a fast-casual chain from California and opened its first DFW-area location in Irving.

3. Celeb Dallas chef invents unique Italian restaurant with authentic pasta. An acclaimed chef is debuting a new Italian restaurant with a truly original approach. Called Miss Pasta, it's from chef Giuliano Matarese and his wife Tiziana Cosentino, and will open in the Shire complex at 3613 Shire Blvd. #100 in Richardson.

4. Sushi restaurant starring ex-Nobu chef to open near Dallas' Knox Street. A promising new sushi restaurant is opening near the Knox Street District this summer: Called Pearl, it's from Chef Shine Tamaoki, and will open at 4640 McKinney Ave. #130.

5. Dallas buyers must earn this much more to afford a starter home in 2023. A new income analysis by online real estate brokerage Redfin has revealed just how much more a potential homeowner needs to make this year to afford a "starter home" in Dallas, a concept that's becoming seemingly less attainable with rising mortgage rates and increased competition among buyers.

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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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