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The Biggest State Fair Ever May be the Best-Or a Bust

By Brad Bailey | 35 years ago

OCTOBER EVENTS OPENERS

By D Magazine | 35 years ago

PARTING SHOT

By Chris Tucker | 35 years ago Celebs Hype-notize Millions!!! Fergie, Liz, Clint, and Don Threaten Western Civilization!!

PHOTON OPPORTUNITIES

By D Magazine | 35 years ago A TV series and a new line of toys

POLITICS Half Priced, Full of Dreams

By Dan Baldwin | 35 years ago Ken Gjemre is bookish, a Unitarian, a member of the ACLU, and he won’t take money from PACs. He also wants to unseat the most conservative man in the Texas Senate.

PORTRAITS OF A LADY

By D Magazine | 35 years ago Capturing the celluloid sensuality of the femme fatale

PROFILE The Mind Behind Bizarro

By Dennis Holder | 35 years ago Where does Dan Piraro get those weird ideas?

Ragtops

By D Magazine | 35 years ago Driving a convertible is more than one of life’s small pleasures; it’s a chrome-plated statement that you understand the good life and can afford to live it.

RELATIONSHIPS Do Nice Guys Sleep Alone?

By Liz Logan | 35 years ago The perils of dating in the difficult Eighties.

SESQUI SAGAS Pulling the Plug On the Sesqui-A Little Early

By Brad Bailey | 35 years ago

SKI THE ROCKIES!

By Scott McCrea | 35 years ago COLORADO/NEW MEXICO 1986-87 SEASON

STREET TALK

By D Magazine | 35 years ago

STRIKING REVELATIONS

By L.L. | 35 years ago Why I carry a torch for matchbooks

TALES OF THE CITY Fair Game

By John Bloom | 35 years ago When you’re down, throw a party: Uncle Bob Thornton and his incredible Centennial coup.

Nightcrawling at Figaro’s: It makes you want to shout.

By CHRIS TUCKER | 35 years ago

The High-Tech Dash

By P.L. | 35 years ago Wherein the new gee-whiz dashboard is met with a public outcry of "So what?"

THE LIVING (WEST) END

By D Magazine | 35 years ago A new Festival Marketplace to make downtown sing

The Selling Of U.S.A.

By Betsy Thaggard | 35 years ago

THUMB AWARD Money for Motivation

By D Magazine | 35 years ago

TRAVEL Barging Down the Seine

By C.W. Smith | 35 years ago Through seemingly endless French afternoons, we drifted by villages with musical names.

UPDATE

By D Magazine | 35 years ago

West Dallas cops: Riding with the night lords.

By RICHARD WEST | 35 years ago

West End Renaissance

By D Magazine | 35 years ago A few years ago, anyone wandering through the West End Historic Dostrict had every reason to be beset with pangs of loneliness, for white architectoral marvels, stray pigeons and perhaps even a few ghosts abounded, other human beings did not. Tucked away in one end of Dallas’ dowtown business sector, the 30-block area with its rows of turn of the century industrial buildings was still an idea waiting for its time to come.

WINDFALLS Filling A Void

By Dennis Holder | 35 years ago

WINDFALLS It’s Friday The 31st!

By L.N. | 35 years ago

WINDFALLS Shine On, Harvest Moon

By L.N. | 35 years ago

WINDFALLS Sprinkle Those Wrinkles

By L.N. | 35 years ago

WINDFALLS Watch this, MTV!

By Lucie Nelka | 35 years ago

EDITOR’S PAGE

By Ruth Miller Fitzgibbons | 35 years ago Our portrait of Dallas: A daytrip through grit and glitz.

Afghan Freedom Fighters Recover In Dallas Hospitals

By Katherine Dinsdale | 35 years ago

ARTS The Gift

By Skip Hollandsworth | 35 years ago At thirteen, Kristi Curb is a world-class cellist who must balance her love of music with a passion for boys and Swatch watches.

Breakfast Of Champions: The Return of the Power Brokers

By D Magazine | 35 years ago

Bum Bright: “I’ve been broke once. I know what that was like.”

By SKIP HOLLANDSWORTH | 35 years ago

BUSINESS Junk Mail Giants

By Sally Giddens | 35 years ago How two direct-mail wizards made millions - with no money down!!!

Charles Anderson: A city manager with steel-belted self-control.

By DENNIS HOLDER | 35 years ago

CITYSCOPE

By KIT BAUMAN | 35 years ago

Crime and Punishment, Teenage Style

By J. Katherine Durbin | 35 years ago

Dallas and Dr Pepper: The Love Affair Continues

By Sally Giddens | 35 years ago

DALLAS City of Winners THANK YOU, DALLAS

By D Magazine | 35 years ago

Divorce court: They never look at each other.

By JOHN BLOOM | 35 years ago

DMAGZ101986 — 030

By Preston Lerner | 35 years ago The 1987 crop of cars is long on technology and high on style.

EATING AROUND CURRYING FLAVOR

By LIZ LOGAN | 35 years ago

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DALLAS

By D Magazine | 35 years ago

ESSAY The Muse and Margaret Blum

By Tom McClellan | 35 years ago She knew the rules of poker and the rules of poetry: you want knowledge, you pay for it.

From Generation to Generation: A Historical Profile of Dallas’ Oldest Dealerships

By D Magazine | 35 years ago

FROM THE COAST

By D Magazine | 35 years ago

Geared for Competition

By D Magazine | 35 years ago A sneak preview of imports for ’87

HAPPY TRAILS

By D Magazine | 35 years ago New avenues for geared-up bikers

Hard-Edged and High-Powered

By D Magazine | 35 years ago What’s what in the ’87 lineup

HIGHLAND PARK VILLAGE

By Babs Suzanne Harrison | 35 years ago

INSIDER

By D Magazine | 35 years ago

LEGGY ADVICE

By D Magazine | 35 years ago How to wear hose with aplomb

LETTERS

By D Magazine | 35 years ago

Lunch at the Mansion: A barometer of social standing.

By LIZ LOGAN | 35 years ago

NEW GAME IN TOWN

By Liz Logan | 35 years ago Discovering the culinary cachet of axis venison
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