D Magazine April 2003

We, like you, are slaves to fashion. Which is why these eight people caught our eye. In this year’s tribute to spring fashion in Dallas, we bring you the people who make our fair city a more stylish place to live. From a gallery owner to a budding chanteu

Most restaurateurs would give a limb for one successful spot in Dallas. Royce Ring and Russell Hayward had two: Tom Tom Noodle House and Club Nikita in the red-hot West Village. So why did these partners—and longtime friends—call it quits?

Check out our favorite digs for gardening gear.

Readers talk back about Wright Sigmund, the Catholic bishop, why we live here, and patriotic duty.

The most complete physical available to mankind, at the Baylor Executive Edge, begins with a nap and ends with a whimper. Just make sure they have peanut butter for your smoothie.

Why Dallas is a city that doesn’t work—and how to fix it.

Come back kid T. Boone Pickens, the gayest show on cable, Dr. Phil comes out clean, an unbelievable babe, Kelly Clarkson watch, and more.

We dug through the collection of the Dallas Historical Society in Fair Park’s Hall of State and uncovered relics from Dallas’ past. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

From stinking rich to sort of rich: one man laments having to downgrade to Johnny Walker Black.

Finding the best elementary schools in town is no easy task. So we enlisted the help of Just for the Kids, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education in schools across Texas. Using their unique system, we identified which sch

Savor the American West experience at the Hideout in Wyoming.

The Dallas convention business is headed for catastrophe, thanks to a slow economy, an unmanaged center, a moralistic mayor, and a lap dance or two—conditions, some say, for a Perfect Storm.

A quarter of a million dollars may not stretch as far as it used to. But it certainly goes further when you’re buying a house in, say, Frisco, than if you’re planning to settle down in Preston Hollow. And, with all the rumors ci