Imagine if someone walked up to you and said:

“I want to give you $100 million to transform our neighborhood, but you have to invest the money so it generates enough cash flow to pay me back.”

That’s essentially the question we posed to two Winnetka Heights residents, architect Stephen … more

Most of the bonds taxpayers hear about, and vote on, are general obligation bonds for cities, counties, school districts and hospital districts in which government entities borrow money to pay for public improvements like street repairs, school construction and library updates. These decisions come before taxpayers in the form of … more

The city’s plans to build a 1,000-room-plus convention center hotel, located at Young Street between Market and Lamar, revolve around two concerns.

First, the city believes we need to upgrade the quality and quantity of trade shows and conventions that visit Dallas. Other top convention cities, including Las Vegas, have … more

1 Modern yet humble approach
When you take a boy from the Mississippi-Delta and educate him under an old-school Modernist, you get an architect with a distinct design sensibility. When architect Bentley Tibbs added a wing to his home, it included a master bath with a palette borrowed from the … more

From a Bishop Arts storefront, Kiestwood resident SCOT HART is changing the way Dallas does arts coverage. He’s the editor of THE Magazine, a new monthly publication focusing on everything from the big-wig art venues to the little guys.

You recently moved from Los Angeles, so how did you wind … more

Each year on Good Friday, it was tradition for City Church to turn its art gallery space into an experiential version of the Stations of the Cross. “It’s an opportunity, in a contemplative way, to walk through the final hours of Jesus’ life and enter into the story of Jesus’ … more

The Southern charm-infused dining room at Hattie’s attracts a brunch crowd dressed in their Sunday best. Executive chef Estevan Galindo greets them with entrées as varied as poached eggs Benedict on crab cakes, and chicken and waffles.

Ultra-cheap wine presents a dilemma. At what point is the wine so cheap that quality doesn’t matter and that it becomes nothing more than an alcohol delivery system, devoid of any pleasure except for the buzz that it provides?

Maria Robledo had spent months renovating her home.

A single mother, she has lived in the home with her two children for the last 12 years. Her home improvement project recently was sidetracked, however, when burglars ransacked her house of $4,600 in valuables.

“It is a really hard time right … more

If we’re going to commit $500 million of taxpayer money on someone’s vision to make Dallas a better place to live and work, who’s to say we need to spend it all Downtown on a taxpayer-owned convention center hotel?

Mind you, this is a question rather than a statement — … more