Cover Story
We last rated the best steakhouses in 2001. Al Biernat’s had been open only for three years. Nick & Sam’s, just two. A decade ago, the average price of a filet in Dallas hovered around $25. This time out, the average was about $43. In all, I spent $5,808.70 eating at the 20 steakhouses we...
Features
On a recent trip to the Tyler Museum of Art, to lecture at the opening of his latest show, Dallas sculptor George Tobolowsky drives south on Central Expressway and fiddles with the radio. He drives a lowered Chevrolet pickup. The bed is gouged and dented in 100 places. When he parks it in front of...
Features
Michelle Lamont always wanted to be a mother. After months of trying without success, she went to fertility doctor Lowell Ku to find some answers. A body cavity scan showed that Lamont had a conjunculated tumor on one of her ovaries. She would have to undergo a surgery that might shatter her...
Features
It has all the trappings of a classic American tale: wild success, abject failure, and the hope of wild success again. In 1996, a ragtag group of Dallas video game developers releases Duke Nukem 3D, a first-person shooter that helps define the genre, as it sells 3.5 million copies and makes its...
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Restaurant Reviews
Historic downtown Plano scores another destination restaurant, this time sleek, upscale Zanata,...
People
Q: Your movie is a comedy about two black families from opposite ends of the socioeconomic...
Restaurant Reviews
The midlife crisis in the neighboring booth is drunk, famously drunk, the kind of drunk that would...
Restaurant Reviews
After spending a Sunday afternoon at the Dallas World Aquarium, my hungry family stumbled next...
Politics
When people tell me we need a third political party in America, I tell them they are wrong. What...
Restaurant Reviews
Even a true Texan might find it hard to swallow The Ranch’s yee-haw! trappings at first:...
Nightlife
My grandmother was born just before Prohibition and came of age during the years without alcohol....
Features
How does D Magazine determine which doctors make the list?Best Doctors is a peer-review voting...
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The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the ClarkOn view at the Kimbell Art Museum...
Politics
Sitting in a center booth at the original Pancake House on Lemmon Avenue, Sarah Dodd is the first...
Urbanism
Sometime next year, Belo Garden will open to the public. Situated on Griffin between Main and...
Education
My new Boss keeps Godzilla posters, statues, and other memorabilia in his office. This quaint...
Urbanism
The door opens, and two Mexican kids stand there, a boy and a girl, maybe 7 or 8, each holding a...
Pick up a copy of the May 2011 issue to read these and other articles.The One-Party NationWhy I...
