D Magazine May 2009

Wonder of wonders: a beautiful, sophisticated fine-dining restaurant opens in a Plano shopping center.

How an East Coast snarkist went Frisco weirdo and found real life in a mall.

Amid the recession, the moneyed in Dallas look to change the terms of divorce.

Spend the weekend in the heart of the wine country with a master sommelier and an etiquette expert.

The daughter of the DSO conductor moves to Dallas and finds inspiration.

The Dallas Opera has big plans for its smaller new home. But it also has no manager-director and an uncertain economy to deal with. What does the future hold?

The race for the 13th District seat between Brint Ryan and Ann Margolin is the one to watch.

In theory, abstinence is fail proof. But Texas spends the most on abstinence while achieving one of the highest teen birth rates in the country. What does that mean for Plano-based Aim for Success, the country’s biggest promoter of chastity?

When expired muscle relaxants fail, try quantum physics, performed at Preston Royal Shopping Center, to cure a bad back.

Chef Sara Johannes Wolfgang Puck’s Five-Sixty cooks up this dish.

The Museum of Nature & Science shows other cultural institutions how to move into the future. But it’s not there yet.

Art Party and Affair of the Art

The Dallas art scene is vibrant, messy, and surprising. It is also largely propelled by people you’ve never heard of. But not for long.

Tom Noe, a former TI semiconductor engineer, invented the word’s first collapsible reflector telescope.

The self-taught designer and part-time Dallasite does custom denim and leather for everyone with the figure for it.