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Good Reads

Your Summer Reading List: Violated

By Sanderia Faye | 1 day ago It's the next installment of D Magazine's 2019 Summer Microfiction. You are at the jail, again.

Good Reads

Your Summer Reading List: Shorty

By Joaquín Zihuatanejo | 2 days ago In this installment of D Magazine's 2019 Summer Microfiction, there are casualties of war everywhere.

Local News

Since 2014, Dallas Averages One Shooting Per Day

By Shawn Shinneman | 2 days ago We analyzed data on every shooting in the city over the last five years. The toll of gun violence in Dallas is staggering, particularly among the black community.

Good Reads

Your Summer Reading List: The Watch

By Julia Heaberlin | 3 days ago In this installment of D Magazine's 2019 Summer Microfiction, you're wondering why she wears a man's watch.

Good Reads

Your Summer Reading List: Into a Blue-White Sky

By Blake Kimzey | 4 days ago It’s the next installment of D Magazine’s 2019 Summer Microfiction. Granny’s out front with a cigarette and the weedeater.

Shopping

Five Caftans to Complete Your Summer Wardrobe

By Elaine Raffel | 4 days ago These flattering options go effortlessly from pool to party.

Good Reads

Your Summer Reading List: A Common Thing

By Latoya Watkins | 5 days ago In this installment of D Magazine's 2019 summer microfiction, you're dodging shopping carts and microaggressions.

Books

Five Dallas Book Clubs We Wish We Could Join

By Shelby Hartness | 5 days ago We wouldn’t want to be a member of any club that would have us. These won’t.

Fashion

How Rida Mandavia’s ‘Fusion Fashion’ Helped Her Find Her Voice

By Samar Warsi | 1 week ago Her “pop-up shop” is one of the only online boutiques to recycle South Asian fashion.

Good Reads

Your Summer Reading List: The Drip Drip Drip

By Brooks Egerton | 1 week ago It's the fourth installment of D Magazine's 2019 summer microfiction series. Is that blood?

Architecture & Design

The Movement to Chronicle Modern Texas Architecture

By Zac Crain | 1 week ago modTEXAS wants to make Dallas' relationship with preservation Instagram official.

Real Estate

What You Can Get for $2 Million in Dallas

By Kathy Wise | 1 week ago A selection of high-dollar homes across the city. Plus: three options for if money really isn't an object.

Religion

A Grand Attempt to Disrupt Church

By Mark Dent | 1 week ago Missional Wisdom Foundation still wants people to gather—but for coffee or yoga or maybe even beekeeping.

Good Reads

Your Summer Reading List: Munger

By Will Clarke | 1 week ago In this installment of D Magazine's 2019 summer microfiction series, you're sorting through life at an estate sale.

Beauty

Dallas Nail Salons and Trends to Try This Summer

By Ryan Conner and Cassidy Najarian | 1 week ago You’re in good hands with these cozy, elevated interiors and non-toxic treatments.

Humor

More Thoughts on That Gun-Toting White Rock Cyclist

By Eric Celeste and Tim Rogers | 1 week ago And maybe a few other things.

Real Estate

How to Argue Down the Value of Your Home

By Bartholomew J. Cheetham | 1 week ago When your house is worth a few million, it pays to tell the appraisal district just how shabby the joint really is.

Games

How Bingo Nearly Ruined My Life

By Roberto José Andrade Franco | 1 week ago My mom taught me how to play the game. I’m lucky I survived.

Good Reads

Your Summer Reading List: Beatrice

By Harry Hunsicker | 2 weeks ago In today's installment of D Magazine's 2019 summer microfiction series, you're armed with a revolver and a candy tin of bullets.

Fashion

Meet the Sunflowerman, an Influencer With an Old Soul

By Sarah Bennett | 2 weeks ago Stylish illustrator Matthew Miller is trying to develop North Texas’ fashion identify.

Real Estate

What You Can Get for $1 Million in Dallas

By Kathy Wise | 2 weeks ago Prices are moving on up all over town. See how far your money goes in various Dallas neighborhoods.

Good Reads

Your Summer Reading List: Maclura Pomifera

By Joe Milazzo | 2 weeks ago In our first installment of D Magazine's 2019 summer microfiction series, you're chasing cars and memories to avoid going nowhere.

Real Estate

Everything You Wanted to Know About Granny Flats But Were Afraid to Ask

By Shawn Shinneman | 2 weeks ago The law in Dallas has changed. But be careful before you start building.

Sports

An Ode to the Glorious Oddballs Who Played Dallas’ Sunset Golf Center

By Curt Sampson | 2 weeks ago Far as anyone knows, it was the first integrated golf course in North Texas. And it was never boring.

Real Estate

In Dallas’ ‘Outer Ring’, Real Estate Deals Abound

By Joseph Guinto | 2 weeks ago Cheaper houses are blooming on the exurban prairie. But for how long?

Restaurants

José Finds the Perfect Pairing in the Park Cities

By Eve Hill-Agnus | 2 weeks ago Two years after José opened, new chef Anastasia Quiñones-Pittman has brought all the pieces into place.

Real Estate

What You Can Get for $500,000 in Dallas

By Kathy Wise | 2 weeks ago See how much house you can buy for a half-mil. Plus, check comparisons in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Phoenix.

Dessert

10 of Dallas’ Most Decadent Ice Cream Confections

By Elaine Raffel | 2 weeks ago Mini waffle cone flights, rose cones, and Instagrammable, cereal-centric creations. Ice cream has changed, but we’re not complaining.

Real Estate

How to Ditch Your Car in Dallas

By Christine Perez | 2 weeks ago My Prius ended up totaled. Rather than replace it, I learned to love living—and walking and riding the trolley—in the big city.

Shopping

Three Sweet-Smelling Shops to Visit This Summer

By Ryan Conner | 2 weeks ago They’re heaven scent.

Arts & Entertainment

Why Dallas Is Missing Out on Crucial Funding for the Arts

By Peter Simek | 2 weeks ago We lag behind other big cities—in Texas and everywhere else—when it comes to winning grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. There's an easy fix.

Real Estate

The Bulldozers Are Coming to Your Neighborhood

By Matt Goodman | 3 weeks ago Homes are being torn down in neighborhoods all over Dallas. How does that change the city?

Restaurant Review

In Beverley’s, Dallas Gets an Updated Take on the Classic Bistro

By Eve Hill-Agnus | 3 weeks ago It's exactly what we've been longing for.

Personalities

Catching Up With Matt Barr, DFW Native and Star of a New CBS Series

By Tim Rogers | 3 weeks ago Before he became Danny McNamara on Blood & Treasure, Barr was just your average Thai food-serving Allen High teen.

Visual Arts

Don’t Call the Latino Arts Project a Museum

By Alex Temblador | 3 weeks ago That might give you the wrong idea.

Real Estate

The Dallas Real Estate Market Has Cooled Off. Don’t Panic.

By Joseph Guinto | 3 weeks ago Can you say “reversion to the norm”?

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