D Magazine July 1995

Where We Live and Why

For 42 years, Little Folks School in Pleasant Grove has been helping children grow and learn. Despite the problems spawned by crime, drugs, and prostitution, Eula Mae Sanderson and her family refuse to give up on the kids.

You have to know where to look to find liquor in Dallas. We unlock the secrets of this wet-dry mystery.

Mary Grace and Ted Eubank find creative inspiration in a dramatic Spanish Colonial estate.

The farm roads and byways surrounding Gainesville offer vistas of gently rolling hills and woodlands.

In praise of all those politically incorrect, fattening, mind-rotting things we know we shouldn’t love-but do.

For more than 40 years, Central Expressway has driven commuters crazy. Will the current construction cure the congestion crisis?

Even before the legislature made it legal to carry handguns, affluent North Dallas professionals were scared, angry, and ready to fight back.

He’s on radio and TV. He writes books and was the country’s first columnist-by-fax. And he says that isn’t enough. What makes Skip Bayless run?

Summer’s here. Reawaken your taste buds with fresh fish, grilled scallops, tender mussels, succulent oysters, and a veritable smorgasbord of gifts from the sea.

CRITICS LOVE BIG TOWN AND DREAMBOAT, DOUG SWANSON’S DALLAS-BASED DETECTIVE NOVELS. HIS SECRET: SLOW, STEADY WORK-AND DON’T GIVE UP YOUR DAY JOB.

When two Texas millionaires were convicted of dumping tons of toxic waste, a federal judge ordered them to spend millions on kids and the environment.