D Magazine October 2015
Features

Publications
Her Dark Places
For a long time, novelist Kathryn Marshall was a step away from stardom and a step ahead of her demons. It hit me hard when she chose to stop running.
By Rod Davis

Nonprofits
5 American Success Stories
For 15 years, the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas has helped thousands of refugees turn a nightmare into a dream.
By Peter Simek

Publications
The Frights of Thrillvania
It’s one of the best haunted parks in the country, thanks to the ever-present ghost of its creator.
By Annie Wiles

Publications
Art Makes Way For Commerce
With downtown real estate booming, di Suvero’s “Proverb” sculpture is returned to the artist.
By Britt E. Stafford

Government
The City’s Most Inept Department
Dallas’ Trinity Watershed Management just keeps the hits coming.

Food and Drink
The Queen of Meat
Alice Laussade invented the funniest, randiest annual event in Dallas. Behold Meat Fight!
By Tim Rogers

Food and Drink
Sip Local at These North Texas Distilleries
The last remnants of Prohibition have been cleared away.
By Nancy Nichols

Crime
Dallas’ War on Jaywalkers
Police records show that a disproportionate percentage of African-Americans — nearly all downtown — get hit with tickets.
By Peter Simek

Education
Why Michael Hinojosa Needs $1.6 Billion
He left DISD amid discord and controversy. Now he’s the superintendent again. And next month voters will decide whether he gets his huge bond package.
By Eric Celeste

Fashion
How Dallas Dresses: Rambo
As Leon Bridges’ photographer, she has been swept up in his celebrity. Along the way, she is bringing vintage back.

Education
How a Teacher Changed This Dallas Doctor’s Life
Her father was a drunk. Her mother was a heroin addict. Somehow Lara Johnson still became the valedictorian of her high school class. But she might never have gone to college if not for a generous proposition.
By Jamie Thompson

Health & Fitness
How a Cyclotron Saves Lives
Until this year, North Texas was the largest metropolitan area in the country without one of these massive, three-story-tall cancer-fighting machines.
By Matt Goodman

Health & Fitness
Albert Black Is a Picture of Health
Not long ago, the civic leader was hooked on pills and struggling to cope with back pain. Now, thanks to holistic medicine, he’s ready to take on his next challenge: southern Dallas.
By Matt Goodman

Food and Drink
Restaurant Review: Uchi
Tyson Cole’s much-anticipated restaurant has finally come to Dallas. It was worth the wait.

Food and Drink
Restaurant Review: Joyce & Gigi’s Kitchen
Modern South American cuisine from family recipes.


Food and Drink
Restaurant Review: Hickory
Kent Rathburn brings his take on a barbecue joint to Plano.

Bar Review
Bar Review: The Grove at Harwood
It’s entirely outdoors, but don’t sweat it. There are snow cones.
By Tara Nieuwesteeg

Crime
An Oral History of Ken Paxton’s Mugshot
How the Texas attorney general readied for his close-up.
By Zac Crain

Publications
Six Degrees of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
How the city’s top musical talent is connected to classical masters.
By Peter Simek