D Magazine June 2003

This month’s contributing writers and photographers.

Once relegated to casual weekend wear, blue jeans now stand proudly on a fashion pedestal.

We love a bargain as much as you do. Check out our top picks for best buys on a budget.

Readers talk back about real estate, elementary schools, and the Dallas CVB.

My wife and I, in a weekly drawing, choose a restaurant for our “date night.” For fun, I throw in a couple of whammies, which explains why we recently had a date at Hooters. Now I’m not sure we’re still exclusive.

We are vain. And proud of it. New techniques and technologies flood the beauty market daily, making it easier to fight gravity, wrinkles, and receding hairlines on our lunch hours. D Magazine sent experts across Dallas to

Publisher and editor-in-chief Wick Allison pays tribute to our former advertising director, publisher, president—and valued friend.

Darwin Deason founded Affiliated Computer Services and built it into a Fortune 500 Company. Today he’s worth about $500 million. But now an employee claims that Deason enjoyed his riches at the expense of shareholders—and the IRS.

Is Rick Perry the new Herbert Hoover?

Rookie Rep. Dan Branch and his long future in politics, the return of the silent movie, the Dixie Chicks get neologistical, Q&A with dog painter Michael McWillie, model/rodeo star Fallon Taylor, a frequent-flyer shower, Kelly Clarkson Watch, The List, and

For more than 10 years, Grapevine resident Tie Sosnowski has procured statues of deposed dictators for real estate mogul Harlan Crow’s private garden. The sanctuary has become a sort of elephant graveyard of 20th-century tyrants, and, as of press time, So

Like graffiti, rampant dog droppings can indicate a city in decline. In Dallas, however, they just indicate a city that hasn’t grown up yet. Our city girl explores how we handle our pets and what it says about our urban maturity.

Current CBS analyst and Dallas resident David Feherty played pro golf for 21 years. In this excerpt from his new book, Somewhere in Ireland a Village is Missing an Idiot, he recalls the day he realized it was time to give up golf in favor of Botany

We know that beauty is subjective. So when we set out to find the most beautiful people in town, we deferred to you, the reader. We accepted hundreds of entries, which we pared down to 50 contestants. The finalists were then posted on our web site so you,

We think the best way to beat the heat is to get out there and enjoy it. (A nice mister never hurt, either.) From Addison to Uptown, we scouted the city for the best patios in town. Whether you’re looking for a place to share a beer with a buddy or a tren

Experience old-world charm and urban sophistication in Montreal.