D Magazine March 1993

The Phantom of the Opera is the most sumptuous feast ever served to the American audience.

He was a wide receiver for the Cowboys, and then he wrote North Dallas Forty. Now he has a 16-year-old son who sees the team and the sport very differently than he did.

A SHOPPER’S GUIDE TO THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.
When it conies to food, Dallas is like one big supermarket, its aisles stretching out across the city, through individual neighborhoods and into the suburbs, its shelves stocked with vegetarian tamales, thyme pies, crawfish ravioli, sashimi, free-range chicken, Black Forest ham, ancho chilies and fresh baguettes. It’s a dazzling cornucopia, a palatable explosion of flavors, textures and fragrances, mingled with the differing tastes of dozens of gastronomic adven

TWENTY YEARS AGO THE WROTE “UP AGAINST THE WALL, REDNECK MOTHER,” A HONKY-TONK ANTHEM OF THE OUTLAW MUSIC SCENE. THE LOST HIGHWAY ALMOST TOOK HIM DOWN, BUT HE’S BACK WITH A NEW GRIP ON LIFE AND A NEW RECORD.

I like old. New suburbs, to me, are like Space Station Alpha.