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Frequently asked questions about how the doctors are chosen:How does D Magazine determine which doctors make the list?Best Doctors is a peer-review voting process. We rely on the doctors’ expertise to determine who deserves to be on the list, just like a doctor would recommend a patient to a...
Features
Someone should make a television show based on the life of Dr. Duke Samson. America would love a character like this. He’s 6-foot-2 but seems several inches taller. He embodies his name, Duke, as if one of John Wayne’s characters had grown up to be a doctor. At 69, he walks with the swagger of a...
Features
All Paul Osborne Jr. wanted for his eighth birthday was the Lone Ranger and Abbott and Costello to perform at his party. The Lone Ranger would storm into his parents’ house, a red brick split-level at Farquhar Lane and Devonshire Drive. He’d arrive on horseback, of course, with Tonto at his heels,...
Features
The State Fair of Texas is one of the few independent fairs left, where no single company operates the midway. The broad alley of entertainment is filled by a free market of individually owned rides and games. Our midway is one of the nation’s largest, with space for both toddler rides that look...
Features
The Irving Convention Center is perhaps the ideal venue for a comic book and sci-fi convention. It looks like a Star Wars spacecraft, with its odd, jutting angles, top-heavy presence, and industrial, rust-colored facade. So it’s appropriate—necessary, even—that outside this clunky structure there...
Features
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Fashion
Every month or so, I go to lunch with a friend. He shows up at noon in whatever he wore to work—a...
Restaurant Reviews
Former Gloria’s employee Fernando Santos teamed up with his mother-in-law, Blanca Huesca, to open...
Arts
When Larry McMurtry began moving his vast book collection from Washington, D.C., to North Texas...
Restaurant Reviews
This bustling little Greek restaurant in Richardson looks and feels like a franchise because it...
Pick up a copy of the October 2012 issue to read these and other articles.Bob PhillipsHis Texas...
Restaurant Reviews
This popular Bishop Arts restaurant straddles the line between Lone Star whimsy and kitsch both on...
Arts
In 2009, Kelly Delay was an interactive marketing director for a large law firm. One day, July 1...
Restaurant Reviews
There have been plenty of prospectors who have talked about developing historic downtown Plano...
Nightlife
Texans are not supposed to complain about the heat. Not in the spring, not in the summer, not in...
Entertainment
Bob Kaminski is the founder of the investment firm Kaminski Interests. Along with a small group of...
Politics
At a fundraiser at a home in Highland Park in July, retiring U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison...
Crime
As he walks down a hallway of the Ilume Cedar Springs apartments, manager Joshuah Welch points out...