{"id":441951,"date":"2026-09-20T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441951\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:48:11","slug":"global-trade-takes-to-north-texas-in-this-weeks-business-datebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441951\/","title":{"rendered":"Global trade takes to North Texas in this week&#8217;s business datebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, Sept. 23<\/p>\n<p>Half Price Books\u2019 flagship store is hosting a banned books panel, featuring HPB President Kathy Doyle Thomas, Laney Hawes of the Texas Freedom to Read Project, Brinda Shah of Authors Against Book Bans, and Sheria Smith, federal education lawyer and former fifth grade teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Sept. 24<\/p>\n<p>The Taiwan External Trade Development Council brings back Taiwan Expo USA for the third year to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas. The event promotes trade with the Asian island nation and featured themes include AI manufacturing, future mobility and smart health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Federal Reserve hosts the \u201cVISTAS from Texas: Economic Outlook and Prospects for the USMCA Review\u201d conference, a look back at the North American trade deal signed by President Donald Trump in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Regional Chamber and Halperin Park play host to a community connections event where local leaders will discuss community-driven revitalization efforts, cross-sector collaboration and the role green spaces can play.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas-based Rave Restaurant Group, owner of Pie Five and Pizza Inn, reports earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, Sept. 25<\/p>\n<p>Superstar music producer, podcaster and Selena Gomez\u2019 husband Benny Blanco will talk about his book F*ck Failure at Tastee Ice in Grand Prairie. He\u2019s known for working on hit songs such as \u201cMoves Like Jagger\u201d by Maroon 5, \u201cLove Yourself\u201d by Justin Bieber and \u201cCalifornia Gurls\u201d by Katy Perry. Tickets through Interabang Books are required. And yes, the pop-up is being held at Tastee Ice, the shaved ice stand.<\/p>\n<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster will talk about his book Welcome to Paradox City, his chronicle of Dallas\u2019 architectural and social history. He\u2019ll speak at Interabang Books.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Sept. 26<\/p>\n<p>The weekend brings the Oddities and Curiosities Expo to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas, including various classes on taxidermy (opossums, raccoons and mythical\u00a0ratalopes) and entomology (scorpions and sunset moths).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, Sept. 23 Half Price Books\u2019 flagship store is hosting a banned books panel, featuring HPB President Kathy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-441951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}