Cover Story
Dr. Richard Snyder, cardiologist and one of the Best Doctors in Dallas 2009.photography by Dan SellersHow We Did It To compile our list of the Best Personal Doctors in Dallas, D Magazine mailed a letter to more than 4,800 local doctors, encouraging them to visit dmagazine.com to cast their votes...
Features
You can learn much about a person’s character by the way he or she treats animals. It’s not the only method you should use, of course, but it is a good litmus test. That’s why Top Dogs and Their Pets—which collects striking black-and-white photographs of 90 notable names and their animal...
Features
Stacey Alcala is slender, energetic, and glowing with enthusiasm. The Frisco mother of two is a dancer, and she exercises three to five times a week. She watches her diet. She’s careful not to consume too much salt or fat, and she regularly eats organic food.She looks, according to all outward...
Features
His office window tops out just above the sidewalk, sinking down from there, several feet below street level. It lets in only a hazy light, never really bright, not exactly dark. Wingtips, kitten heels, and sneakers pass by above—Capitol Hill’s mix of tourists and public servants walking past,...
Features
It felt like fate, the events that led Leanne Siri to work for Dallas Fire-Rescue. She was about to snorkel off Grand Cayman during a Caribbean cruise three years ago when she got word that her 20-year-old son, an engineering college student, had crashed his Camaro. The fire chief of...
Education
On a stack of unpacked boxes in his sliver of a new office at SMU, professor Jeffrey Talley...
Wine
Dr. Clay and Brenda Cockerell are passionate about Texas, travel, food, and wine. Both born in...
Taste
Many years from now, Dallas restaurateurs will look back at the dining drought of 2009 like Okies...
Pulse
One day in April of last year, four-year police veteran Jose Alarcon and his partner, Capt....
Arts
In the early 1990s, Paris, Texas—like many towns in our state—was defined by high school...
Taste
When Oishii first opened in 2004, it was an unassuming, BYOB place serving sushi and a long list...
Pulse
photography: Suhm by Randal Ford, Leppert by Dan Sellers, Bennett by Elizabeth Lavin, P. Diddy...
Ender
When you get to be my age, every birthday is a milestone. This last one, especially, I felt...
Pulse
Q: You are among what surely must be very few people to have a prison-turned-death chamber named...
Style
When Kim Dawson opened the first modeling agency in Dallas, in 1959, it wasn’t exactly a bustling...
Events
Film footage from the 1920s often shows ornate marquees streaming with colorful lights...
Taste
CHEF: Blythe Beck at Central 2141. The steak: Center-cut Koberib-eye, pounded thin,...
Publishers Note
In The Last Hurrah, one of the great classics of American politics, Edwin O’Connor writes a...
Taste
Parigi is a bona fide neighborhood restaurant in a city that has few. It’s a small, chic,...
Travel
ALTERNATIVE ITALY: Most travelers are more attracted to Rome’s history, Florence’s art and...
Scene
We don’t like the rain. in fact, when it rains, staying inside with a bottle of Merlot and a DVD...
Taste
In June 2008, when we first reviewed the then-shiny-and-new Bolla, we were disappointed by...
Pulse
For 12 years, I lived on Travis Street, between Cafe Madrid and Mort Meyerson’s Power...
