D Magazine May 2009
Cover Story
What Drove Jeanmarie Geis to Murder?
She was the perfect North Dallas wife. Then she killed her children and herself.
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Features

DIFFA Dallas Celebrates 20 Years
A look back at two decades of the most fabulous denim and drag queens in Dallas.
By D Magazine

Is Rafael Anchia the Hispanic Obama?
State Representative Rafael Anchia could be governor of Texas within 10 years. If he’s not a U.S. senator by then. Or running for president. Which path, if any, will he choose?
By Eric Celeste

Food and Drink
Review: Coast Global Seafood
Wonder of wonders: a beautiful, sophisticated fine-dining restaurant opens in a Plano shopping center.
By Nancy Nichols

Hank Stuever on Why He Loves Frisco
How an East Coast snarkist went Frisco weirdo and found real life in a mall.
By Hank Stuever

How the Dallas Wealthy Get Divorced
Amid the recession, the moneyed in Dallas look to change the terms of divorce.
By Spencer Michlin

Travel
Napa Valley, California
Spend the weekend in the heart of the wine country with a master sommelier and an etiquette expert.
By Julie Blacklidge Kinzie

Q&A With Anna-Sophia van Zweden
The daughter of the DSO conductor moves to Dallas and finds inspiration.
By Tim Rogers

The Dallas Opera’s Future Without George Steel
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?
By Willard Spiegelman

The Most Expensive City Council Race in Dallas History
The race for the 13th District seat between Brint Ryan and Ann Margolin is the one to watch.
By Zac Crain

Profiles
The Problem With Abstinence Education
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?
By Laura Beil

Tim Rogers Experiments With Alphabiotics
When expired muscle relaxants fail, try quantum physics, performed at Preston Royal Shopping Center, to cure a bad back.
By Tim Rogers

Food and Drink
Eat This Now: Lacquered Chinese Duckling
Chef Sara Johannes Wolfgang Puck’s Five-Sixty cooks up this dish.
By D Magazine

Uncategorized
The Museum of Nature & Science Braces For Its Future
The Museum of Nature & Science shows other cultural institutions how to move into the future. But it’s not there yet.
By Joan Arbery

Uncategorized
Why We Launched D Art Slam
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.
By Wick Allison

Profiles
Meet the Dallas Inventor Who Built a Better Telescope
Tom Noe, a former TI semiconductor engineer, invented the word’s first collapsible reflector telescope.
By Mark Stuertz

Profiles
Diane Izzedin Can Make You Look Good in Leather
The self-taught designer and part-time Dallasite does custom denim and leather for everyone with the figure for it.
By Stephanie Quadri