Cover Story
Shakespeare suggested that to put on a show you need only a “green plot” for a stage and a hedge to act as a dressing room. Perhaps. But isn’t it more fun to do so across 68 acres of a $354 million performing arts complex? This month, Dallas marks an important milestone toward the completion...
Features
Before the photo shoot, our deputy art director, David Radabaugh, took the stage and said the following to those assembled in the Wyly Theatre: “A modern Italian on her way to lunch can casually pass the same stones where Pope Leo the Great and Attila the Hun bartered for the fate of Rome. We...
Features
Kevin Lynch picked the site. November 10, 1977, was the urban planning consultant’s day before the Dallas City Council. Lynch’s consulting firm had spent months surveying Dallas, studying the way people moved and interacted with Dallas’ built environment, trying to pinpoint the ideal location...
Features
Architecture can do many things: provide shelter, scrape the sky, make you smile, and make you cringe. It’s the most public art form, the only one we can’t avoid. But architecture can’t perform acts of urban resurrection all alone. Nor can it change the course of history—not even when the...
Features
In the world of fundraising, it’s called “the ask,” the point at which the supplicant, after explaining the worthiness of his cause, puts his request in concrete terms. He asks for a check. Maybe the loftiest appeal in Dallas’ history was made by Bill Lively—though he refuses to take credit...
Features
Editor’s note: This story was first published in D Magazine in May 1982. The city saw itself at the threshold of greatness. In one fell swoop, with two new buildings, we would remake our image and create an arts district unlike any other in the country. Now, nearly 30 years later, here...
Taste
Watch your back, Celebrity Bakery. Here comes The Chocolate Angel, a bakery, cafe, and tearoom....
Pulse
Publishers Note
There is not a doubt in my mind that the $354 million cost of the Dallas Center for the...
Taste
CHEF: Abraham Salum at Salum
1. Cucumber vichyssoise: It starts as a regular leek and potato...
Events
In my grandparents’ house sat a jade horse enthroned on a dais. Cared for like a best in show,...
Taste
For hardcore vegetarians, the high point of 2009 has to be the arrival of Bliss Raw Cafe and...
Arts
At the northern end of the noble allée of trees in the Nasher Sculpture Center’s lovely garden...
Pulse
Q: You’re a busy man. What was the first thing you got involved with?A: After [my wife] Andrea and...
Travel
The late-afternoon August sun dips behind a row of tall pine trees that edge the vineyard at...
Pulse
Six years ago, we thought we dodged a huge bullet. My wife and I had an offer down on a house...
Pulse
Sort of by accident, Texas A&M dropout Tom Kartsotis started a little watch company in...
The Ender
As you might imagine with a project involving an English professor, a woman nicknamed Spider...
Taste
Thai2go earns points for the catchy name alone, but this small Thai spot scores even bigger for...
Taste
It has apparently been decreed that the space on Henderson formerly occupied by Pulcinella shall...
Taste
In the mid-’70s, fine dining in dallas was defined by fabulous French food. Haute cuisine menus...
Travel
WASHINGTON
The state’s only Relais & Chataux property is just minutes from the Blue Bell...
Pulse
You’ve probably noticed more Dallas County constables on the roads these days—especially if...
