D Magazine July 2019
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Good Reads
Your Summer Reading List: Maclura Pomifera
In our first installment of D Magazine‘s 2019 summer microfiction series, you’re chasing cars and memories to avoid going nowhere.
By Joe Milazzo
Good Reads
Your Summer Reading List: Beatrice
In today’s installment of D Magazine‘s 2019 summer microfiction series, you’re armed with a revolver and a candy tin of bullets.
By Harry Hunsicker
Good Reads
Your Summer Reading List: Munger
In this installment of D Magazine‘s 2019 summer microfiction series, you’re sorting through life at an estate sale.
By Will Clarke
Good Reads
Your Summer Reading List: The Drip Drip Drip
It’s the fourth installment of D Magazine‘s 2019 summer microfiction series. Is that blood?
By Brooks Egerton
Good Reads
Your Summer Reading List: A Common Thing
In this installment of D Magazine‘s 2019 summer microfiction, you’re dodging shopping carts and microaggressions.
By Latoya Watkins
Good Reads
Your Summer Reading List: Into a Blue-White Sky
It’s the next installment of D Magazine’s 2019 Summer Microfiction. Granny’s out front with a cigarette and the weedeater.
By Blake Kimzey
Good Reads
Your Summer Reading List: The Watch
In this installment of D Magazine‘s 2019 Summer Microfiction, you’re wondering why she wears a man’s watch.
By Julia Heaberlin
Good Reads
Your Summer Reading List: Shorty
In this installment of D Magazine‘s 2019 Summer Microfiction, there are casualties of war everywhere.
Good Reads
Your Summer Reading List: Violated
It’s the next installment of D Magazine‘s 2019 Summer Microfiction. You are at the jail, again.
By Sanderia Faye
Good Reads
Your Summer Reading List: The Time My Grandfather Met Bob Hope
In this installment of D Magazine‘s 2019 Summer Microfiction, you are outside the old Hilton Inn.
By Samantha Mabry
Good Reads
Another Summer With More Microfiction From Dallas Authors
Short stories from 10 local authors explore the dark shadows cast by the July sun.
By Assorted Authors
Publications
Don’t Call the Latino Arts Project a Museum
That might give you the wrong idea.
By Alex Temblador
Business
Catching Up With Matt Barr, DFW Native and Star of a New CBS Series
Before he became Danny McNamara on Blood & Treasure, Barr was just your average Thai food-serving Allen High teen.
By Tim Rogers
Architecture & Design
The Movement to Chronicle Modern Texas Architecture
modTEXAS wants to make Dallas’ relationship with preservation Instagram official.
By Zac Crain
Local News
Since 2014, Dallas Averages One Shooting Per Day
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.
By Shawn Shinneman
Books
Five Dallas Book Clubs We Wish We Could Join
We wouldn’t want to be a member of any club that would have us. These won’t.
By Shelby Hartness
Fashion
Meet the Sunflowerman, an Influencer With an Old Soul
Stylish illustrator Matthew Miller is trying to develop North Texas’ fashion identify.
By Sarah Bennett
Beauty
Dallas Nail Salons and Trends to Try This Summer
You’re in good hands with these cozy, elevated interiors and non-toxic treatments.
Publications
Five Caftans to Complete Your Summer Wardrobe
These flattering options go effortlessly from pool to party.
By Elaine Raffel
Fashion
How Rida Mandavia’s ‘Fusion Fashion’ Helped Her Find Her Voice
Her “pop-up shop” is one of the only online boutiques to recycle South Asian fashion.
By Samar Warsi
Publications
In Beverley’s, Dallas Gets an Updated Take on the Classic Bistro
It’s exactly what we’ve been longing for.
Publications
José Finds the Perfect Pairing in the Park Cities
Two years after José opened, new chef Anastasia Quiñones-Pittman has brought all the pieces into place.
Publications
10 of Dallas’ Most Decadent Ice Cream Confections
Mini waffle cone flights, rose cones, and Instagrammable, cereal-centric creations. Ice cream has changed, but we’re not complaining.
By Elaine Raffel
Publications
A Grand Attempt to Disrupt Church
Missional Wisdom Foundation still wants people to gather—but for coffee or yoga or maybe even beekeeping.
By Mark Dent
Arts & Entertainment
Why Dallas Is Missing Out on Crucial Funding for the Arts
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.
By Peter Simek
Commercial Real Estate
The Dallas Real Estate Market Has Cooled Off. Don’t Panic.
Can you say “reversion to the norm”?
By Joseph Guinto
Commercial Real Estate
What You Can Get for $500,000 in Dallas
See how much house you can buy for a half-mil. Plus, check comparisons in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Phoenix.
By Kathy Wise
Commercial Real Estate
What You Can Get for $1 Million in Dallas
Prices are moving on up all over town. See how far your money goes in various Dallas neighborhoods.
By Kathy Wise
Commercial Real Estate
What You Can Get for $2 Million in Dallas
A selection of high-dollar homes across the city. Plus: three options for if money really isn’t an object.
By Kathy Wise
Commercial Real Estate
The Bulldozers Are Coming to Your Neighborhood
Homes are being torn down in neighborhoods all over Dallas. How does that change the city?
By Matt Goodman
Commercial Real Estate
How to Ditch Your Car in Dallas
My Prius ended up totaled. Rather than replace it, I learned to love living—and walking and riding the trolley—in the big city.
Commercial Real Estate
In Dallas’ ‘Outer Ring’, Real Estate Deals Abound
Cheaper houses are blooming on the exurban prairie. But for how long?
By Joseph Guinto
Commercial Real Estate
Everything You Wanted to Know About Granny Flats But Were Afraid to Ask
The law in Dallas has changed. But be careful before you start building.
By Shawn Shinneman
Commercial Real Estate
How to Argue Down the Value of Your Home
When your house is worth a few million, it pays to tell the appraisal district just how shabby the joint really is.
By Bartholomew J. Cheetham
Publications
An Ode to the Glorious Oddballs Who Played Dallas’ Sunset Golf Center
Far as anyone knows, it was the first integrated golf course in North Texas. And it was never boring.
By Curt Sampson