Cover Story
When the Nasher Sculpture Center began leaking light in September, director Jeremy Strick didn’t immediately grasp the gravity of the situation. In the lobby near the cash register, just a few small splotches of light splashed across a travertine wall.The leak should have been impossible. The...
Features
Charles Johnson has a knack for finding students in need. During his 15 years as a security worker at North Dallas High School, he has taken in 39 teenagers who had nowhere else to go. He allows them to stay at his Oak Cliff home, where he lives with his mother. He’s a man of simple means who...
Features
The Pin Show wasn’t supposed to be an event this year. Co-founder Julie McCullough Kim was done with it. After producing three of the shows, which highlighted independent designers, she decided they gobbled up too much of her time. But then Bryan Embry, owner of the Ross Akard Gallery, got wind of...
Features
HOW WE DID IT: To compile our list of the best 377 lawyers in Dallas, we asked lawyers with a valid texas bar number to designate their primary area of practice. We then asked them to nominate two lawyers outside their firm and one within their firm in their area of practice, keeping the following...
Features
In a glass skyscraper on Park Avenue in New York, executives offered Onay Payne her dream job. The bosses at her real estate private equity firm wanted Payne to oversee a new $650 million fund, a significant promotion.One catch: the job was in Dallas. What would it be like, Payne wondered, to live...
Features
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. —Henry David Thoreau You don’t have to drive to Arkansas to have a walk in the woods....
Restaurant Reviews
It’s been awhile since I’ve visited this popular seafood-centric restaurant in Addison, and I am...
Restaurant Reviews
With his shaggy beard and dark painter’s cap, Graham Dodds looks out of place in Central 214, the...
Nightlife
It seemed like something should happen. and yet, nothing did. We had our first drink at Toby...
Beauty
Put plainly, I’m a prude. it took years for my friends to convince me that baggy t-shirts and...
Politics
The first time I heard Scott Griggs speak to a crowd, I predicted he’d run for office. The...
Pick up a copy of the May 2012 issue to read these and other articles.Gillian VandersliceThe...
Restaurant Reviews
Veteran Tex-Mex restaurateur Mico Rodriguez is back doing what he does best: turning out...
People
In October 2008, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a story for The New Yorker about late bloomers and the...
Restaurant Reviews
This small, intimate restaurant in North Dallas is one of the most underrated in town. Chef...
Arts
If you apply the thinking of Homegrown Festival founder Joshua Florence to any other industry...
Urbanism
A few weeks ago, I took part in a panel discussion held at the Dallas Center for Architecture,...
