As we wrap up our winter membership drive<\/a>, aiming to raise $30,000 in support, we\u2019re bringing our members, staff and freelancers together for a members-only holiday happy hour.<\/p>\n \nHow to Get an Invite\n<\/p>\n Observer members can join us for complimentary drinks at The Grapevine Bar<\/a>, 2213 Butler St., for happy hour on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n Space is limited, so if you are already a member, watch your email inbox for the RSVP. Not a member? Become one by giving any amount to support our journalism<\/a>, and you\u2019ll get an invite.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis year, make your gift count \u2013 \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOur work is funded by readers like you who make voluntary gifts because they value our work and want to see it continue. Make a contribution today to help us reach our $30,000 goal!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Hang out with our team and raise a glass to local journalism. Editors, staff writers and freelancers will be there, so you can put faces to the names behind our news, reviews, restaurant recommendations and opinions.<\/p>\n About that \u2026 remember its deck the halls, not the person who has made light of the prospect of tearing down City Hall<\/a> or wrote recent, well-read stories about anger at a small school in Oak Cliff<\/a>, a scrap over feral cats<\/a> or, God help us, the Cowboys<\/a>. Not everyone was happy with those stories, but we believe telling them is important for our community, and apparently you do, too. <\/p>\n Your readership and backing are vital to allow us to keep telling them. So, let\u2019s celebrate the season together and get ready for a new year of the sort of journalism we all agree matters to our community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you ever wondered who it is that puts the Dallas Observer together day in and day out?…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":437852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,2879,398,25461,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-437851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-events","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-membership","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115695385604664925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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