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EDITOR’S note

By D Magazine |

WHAT A JOY IT IS TO PRESENT Dallas with a magazine that proudly bears its name on the masthead once again, The original city magazine named D, founded in 1974, has been absent since June of last year, Response to a new city magazine-also named D-tells us that Dallasites have missed their monthly meeting place. So beginning with this premiere issue, we have a way to get to know the city and each other again-through new eyes.

In essence, we believe Dallas is intriguing and important to Texas, to the nation, and to the world. What we do in this magazine, then, is aimed at discovering, defining, and revealing what makes us that way. Watch for the spirit and vibrancy of Dallas to leap off our pages. After all, why have a city magazine unless it exudes “Dallas” at every turn?

We’ll talk each month about some of the most talked-about facets of our city’s personality-which leads us to the choice of Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman for our first cover, and the piece on our professional sports teams as the cover story. As writer Russ Pate observes, Dallas’ sports teams-especially the Cowboys-are the city’s signature, our calling card, our raison d’être.

What better faces than Stauhach’s and Aikman’s to have on the magazine that becomes Dallas’ calling card in so many places? D, The Magazine of Dallas…and proud of it.

Enjoy your first issue!



BETH WILBINS, EDITOR, D

CONTRIBUTORS



Author, columnist and radio host RUSS PATE looks at 20 years of Dallas professional sports for D in the cover story, “City of Champions.” Formerly editor of Adweek Southwest, Pate has authored six sports-related home videos and three hooks. Though he focuses on spectator sports this month, golf is his first love. He says he’s a 10 handicap golfer, hut fans say he’s a scratch golf writer.



Readers of the earlier D will recognize the investigative work of former senior writer Glenna Whitley, who contributes “Lovers and Other Suspects” to the debut issue of the new D. Whitley now writes for such magazines as Redbook, Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly and Town & Country, and we welcome her back to these pages. She lives in Dallas with her husband and two children.



Free-lance writer and fashion producer CONNIE HARVEY-MILES began her retail fashion career as a store model for Nei-man Marcus, Houston Galleria. She worked in public relations for Sanger Har-ris/Foley’s and Bloomingdales, Dallas, and was most recently Director of the 5th Avenue Club for Saks Fifth Avenue. Harvey-Miles lives in Dallas with her husband. Ken, a designer.



Dallas writer KlRK DOOLEY was the first summer intern for the original D staff 20 years ago. He is currently editor/pubiislier of Homesick Texan, associate editor of Dallas Mavericks Press and executive editor of The Insider. His weekly Texas travel column, “Walts Across Texas,” is syndicated in 13 newspapers statewide.



JIM SCHUTZE is a Dallas author and screenwriter. His recent books include Preacher’s Girl (also an NBC movie starring Elizabeth Montgomery) and Sleeping, Beauty and the Firebird, due later this year (both published by William Morrow and Sons, New York). Schutze’s movie projects include Blown Out, in development at Touchstone Pictures, My Heart As A Stow-away, and Suburban Gang Queen, both at New Line Pictures.



Katie Award winner and fourth-generation Dallasite LAUREL ORNISH is a freelance writer and former broadcast journalist. Her voice is familiar to local radio audiences as an announcer, interviewer, and documentary producer, most recently with WRR-FM. She reminisces with Ron Chapman and Steve Ivy this month in “Portraits.”



DERRO EVANS, consulting editor for D, has taught nonfiction writing at Southern Methodist University for more than 20 years. He is currently a contributing editor at Veranda magazine. Evans visits with Dallas Stars luminaries Jim and Denise Lites this month in “At Home.”



D Restaurant Editor Barbara Gibbons is the Dallas-based author of nationally syndicated healthy cooking column, “The Slim Gourmet,” and 17 cookbooks, including two Tastemaker Award winners and a Best-Seller, The 35+ Diet. Her food and travel articles and photographs appear in such national magazines as Family Circle, Modem Maturity, and Mademoi-selle. Barbara’s partner in cuisine is her husband, Jerry.



DANNY TURNER, whose work is seen in many magazines, including Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Health, American Way, and Texas Monthy, contributes portraits of Steve Ivy and Ron Chapman to the first issue of D. His career as a free-lance photographer took hold after he was graduated from East Texas State University with degrees in photography and journalism.



Interior photographer IRA MONTGOMERY shoots fabulous rooms for local, regional, and national publications, including the home of Jim and Denise Lites for D this month. Montgomery is working on three prospective books: one about Elvis, one on African hotels, and the other on elegant entertaining.



A former Dallas Times Herald and Houston Post photographe]-, Andy Hanson published his first photo-of a cotton picker in South Texas-in his hometown newspaper, Falfurrus Facts. From cotton picker to “high cotton,” Hanson most enjoys celebrity and society subjects, and you’ll see them in Benefetes and Celebrity Picks.

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