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Clearly, one of the big issues on Dallasites’ minds these days has to be the renaming of Industrial Boulevard. According to the DMN, the city’s Trinity River committee has been busily working to solicit names from Dallas residents, sorting through more than 500 suggestions to whittle the list down to … more

The woman already had a front-row seat, and no one else around her saw fit to jump up and start dancing around.

But as she rose halfway out of her chair, I saw her look sheepishly to the left, and then to the right, as if trying to find … more

I have a running joke with my wife (at least I think it’s a joke): When I suggest trying a restaurant she hasn’t heard of and doesn’t show any interest in visiting, I tell her that “the people who run the Mansion own it”, as if that information alone somehow … more

The radio talk show host blubbered on the other day about how this country is going to hell in a handbasket because we don’t have real leaders anymore.

He offered up a few examples of people he said weren’t afraid to take a stance — Truman, F.D.R., Reagan — leaders … more

A few years ago while visiting my parents, my mother asked me what I thought was a rather odd question:

“Would you like to drive over and take a look at our tombstone?”

Until then, I didn’t know a tombstone was on their shopping list. Sure they were in their … more

FIND THE CRIME

The City of … more

Dallas has launched an interactive mapping feature on its website that lets residents track different types of crime in their neighborhoods. Want to know how many homes were burglarized near you? Go to http//maps.dallascityhall.com/index.asp?mo=CrimesOnMap, start by clicking on "Return to Main Layers List"

Though she’d grown up drawing — “horses and rabbits and … well, mostly horses and rabbits,” she laughs now — Cecy Turner had never given serious thought to becoming a full-time artist.

Not long after graduating from college, she went to visit a friend in … more

Nashville
. As she

When I first moved to Dallas 25 years ago, I wondered how someone who grew up near a small town in Minnesota would adapt to living in a big city like

Dallas
.

Here, there are more people at the Galleria or NorthPark at any given moment than live … more

Chances are you’ve heard of Lucie Bellew. She founded the North Dallas Neighborhood Alliance in 1981, serving as its president for two terms that decade. Now, years later, she’s back at the helm. Bellew lives in The Highlands neighborhood with her husband, Dick. They raised three children — Richard, Mary … more

Eric Silverman grew accustomed to living in a suitcase. He had spent almost half his life on the road.

As a competitive youth hockey player growing up in West Nyack, N.Y., he moved to… more

Sioux City, Iowa
, at 16 to play junior hockey. From there his career took