
Cover Story
The lousy economy has been tough on real estate. High unemployment and tight credit have driven down sales volume and prices. This is especially true with second houses on lakes. A discretionary market doesn’t boom when no one has discretionary income. But then there’s the other side of the...
Features
How does D Magazine determine which lawyers make the list?Best Lawyers is a peer-review voting process. We rely on the lawyers’ expertise to determine who deserves to be on the list. This year, we mailed a letter to 8,800 local lawyers from our online directory, inviting them to vote using an...
Features
Dallas’ most well-known female attorney didn’t start out practicing law. Lisa Blue Baron began her professional life as a teacher and counseling psychologist. The latter led to work as a jury consultant and forensic psychologist, which, in turn, prompted her to go to law school. She graduated from...
Features
The bride wore white. The groom wore prison whites.The wedding took place in Houston, although the 32-year-old groom, Randy Halprin, was 76 miles away in West Livingston at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, which houses Texas’ death row inmates. Randy had been held there since 2003, when he was...
Restaurant Reviews
No forks. Use this as an excuse to get more familiar with your brisket on a primal level rather...
In the last 13 years, I’ve lived in six states. Both my husband’s career and mine require that we...
Nightlife
A friend of mine walked into the Lakewood Landing the other night so filled with confidence and...
Restaurant Reviews
Scratch another notch into the win column for Monica Greene (Monica’s Aca y Alla, Ciudad). After...
Restaurant Reviews
When I first walked into The Cedars Social, I felt like I was having an acid flashback to my...
People
The last time restaurant consultant Michael Costa was making news, it was for jumping over the...
Shopping
First, I am not a snap-in kind of gal. neither were my kids, thank you, when they were snap-in...
Urbanism
Over the years, portable classrooms have sprung up on campuses across the Dallas Independent...
Fashion
left to right: Zimmermann bikini $205/Shopbop.com; Lee Angel necklace $290/Neiman Marcus...
Restaurant Reviews
Italian food is meant to be enjoyed with a view, even if the scene outside the window is a small,...
Pick up a copy of the June 2011 issue to read these and other articles.
Kira Plastinina
The...
Health
One year ago, Hanna Raskin moved from Asheville, North Carolina, to Dallas to become the Dallas...