D Magazine April 1992

Crafts are a family business-a big one-for the Coomer clan.

PEOPLE TRAVEL EVENTS ART DANCE FOOD VIDEO

EDITOR’S NOTE PORTER ANDERSON WILL GET YOUR ATTENTION

An SMU professor tastes a life of hardships in one Russian city.

Lovers of fresh produce, and farmers, benefit from a new plan.

He’s a muckraker for God-and a thorn in the side of Robert Tilton.

Old age was hard enough for Dmitri Vail, a proud but for-gotten artist. Then he met Bernard Dolenz, a lawyer who made his last years a nightmare.

When the Dallas Theater Center named its new artistic director, tongues wagged. Now, on the eve of his arrival In Dallas, Richard Hamburger discusses his new town, his fondness for socially significant stagework and his pursuit of that elusive thing called art.