Good morning, North Texas,

Have y’all heard about the Meat Fight 1K? It’s not a race, but a food festival meets endurance challenge—if you can eat or drink at more than 10 restaurant stations set up on the course, you get a medal. I also heard something about a brisket slingshot at the starting line. So basically, this is a competition designed for me. 😂 Are you coming?

It’s going down Sunday, May 24, 2-4 p.m. in Northeast Dallas. Tickets are $45, and event proceeds benefit Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis research at UT Southwestern. Want to just see the spectacle? Sign up to be a volunteer. I’ll list this in my Thursday event round-ups over the next couple of weeks, so if you see “Meat Fight,” you’ll know what that means—foodie heaven.

Joi Louviere

Senior Newsletter Editor, Courier DFW

Oak Cliff’s Tenth Street Digital Museum keeps Black history alive

A new digital museum dedicated to Oak Cliff’s Tenth Street Historic District recently launched. (Michael Barera/CC BY-SA 4.0)

By Sam Cohen

The Tenth Street Historic District in Dallas’s Oak Cliff neighborhood holds significance as one of the only intact Freedmen’s Towns—a settlement founded by formerly enslaved individuals—in the country. Over the years, the area has been threatened by the loss of numerous homes. With the demolition of each notable property has come a wave of grief for those who want to preserve Tenth Street’s Black history for generations to come.

This is where the newly launched Tenth Street Digital Museum comes in. Cousins Jourdan Brunson and Tameshia Rudd-Ridge knew they wanted to create an accessible archive detailing the significance of the Freedmen’s Town. They worked with members of the community to gather photographs, documents, and oral histories that tracked the progression of the settlement and its numerous accomplishments.

For those unfamiliar, the Tenth Street Historic District was founded by families who arrived in Texas from Talladega, Alabama via chain migration. The Freemans, Boswells, Smarts, Smiths, Bests, and Penns “built a self-sustaining community with its own churches, schools, businesses, and civic institutions across three connected neighborhoods: Tenth Street, The Heights, and The Bottom,” per the museum’s website.

How they’re building a digital museum + how you can contribute

👀 Gas tax holiday: It might be the only time President Donald Trump and US Senate hopeful James Talarico are on the same page. Talarico has been pushing for a suspension of the federal gas tax amid rising fuel costs. Trump says he agrees. See who wasn’t in support of the 18.4-cents-per-gallon gas tax suspension at first. (Texas Tribune)

🎶 Big win for Dallas band: After entering the competition four years in a row, Dallas musical group Cure for Paranoia has won NPR’s 2026 Tiny Desk Contest. Winners will record a Tiny Desk concert at NPR’s headquarters in Washington, DC, and headline a 10-city tour. Click here to see the video that got them the win. (KERA)

🛋️ DFW’s new Ikea: Ikea will open its newest store in Rockwall today. The doors to this 108,875-square-foot showroom open at 8 a.m. Get more information here. (Furniture World)

The Real Housewives of Dallas ran for five seasons. (Heidi Gutman/Bravo)

Bravo TV is coming to Texas to shoot a show it’s now calling “Secrets, Lies, Texas Wives.” The show will be centered around the Hill Country town of Boerne.

Bravo’s description reads as such: “Centered on a tight-knit circle of glamorous women, this series follows their lives as they raise families, run ranches and farms and manage sparkling social calendars in a town rooted in rodeos and tradition. Behind the polished smiles and Sunday sermons, however, there are intimate relationships and forbidden romances that test loyalties and marriages, jeopardizing the town’s pristine image and proving that perfection is far more complicated than anyone could imagine.”

Would you watch this?

Definitely

Probably not

I’ll update you when more details are released. This will be the first Texas-focused Bravo show since it pulled “The Real Housewives of Dallas” from the air in 2021. (If you ever wondered what happened to RHOD, a D Magazine reporter breaks down her theory here.)