Most 2017 Dallas Public Improvement Bond Money Unspent

NBC DFW Local News 1/19 12:38P Ken Kalthoff

More than half the $1 billion Dallas voters approved for public improvements in a 2017 bond referendum has gone unspent according to a briefing presented to the Dallas City Council Wednesday. The Dallas City Manager originally promised to execute...

Forget the Cowboys. The Heck With the Texans. Root for the Local Legends in the NFL Playoffs.

Texas Monthly 1/19 4:37A Richard Justice

Now that the Dallas Cowboys have made their traditional hasty retreat from the NFL playoffs, we can turn our attention to something near and dear to the hearts of millions of our friends and...

America’s Girls, Episode 8: Making the Dream

Texas Monthly 1/18 1:00A Sarah Hepola

Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google. Read the transcript below. Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts When I was little, I would always say, I...

New Cold Food Storage Expected to Bring Tenfold Increase in Food Distribution

NBC DFW Local News 1/17 4:02P Candace Sweat

On this MLK day, a couple of Dallas organizations in South Dallas partnered to address an issue Dr. King spoke of often. A new community cold food storage is now operating in an unlikely place, and it will more than quadruple the organizations’...

‘Hadestown' Stop in Dallas is a Homecoming for Will Mann

NBC DFW Local News 1/15 2:00A Kimberly Richard

Will Mann, a cast member of Hadestown , is looking forward to walking his dog through the Dallas Arts District when the national tour of Tony Award-winning musical stops in Dallas. It’s just one of...

Reaction From Dallas Community Over Superintendent Resignation

NBC DFW Local News 1/13 12:29P Ken Kalthoff

As he announced his resignation, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa won praise Thursday from community leaders who worked with him. The leaders said the district must choose another strong superintendent to keep...

Can the Cowboys Make It Back to the NFC Title Game for the First Time in 25 Years?

Texas Monthly 1/13 7:59A Richard Justice

If you re looking for a reason to believe this season s Cowboys will fare better in the NFL playoffs than every other Dallas squad that made the postseason in the past quarter century, then Micah...

Inside the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ Decades-long Fight for Fair Pay

Texas Monthly 1/13 5:54A Sarah Hepola

Stories in this article are featured in episode five of our podcast America s Girls. You can dive deeper into the stories from the show in our Pocket collection. Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify...

In Memoriam: a Neighborhood Taqueria

Texas Monthly 1/13 3:00A José R. Ralat

In the summer of 2014, I spent most of my Friday evenings at the Dallas speakeasy taqueria, Dos Primos Tacos. The operation, run out of a residential Oak Cliff backyard, specialized in tacos de...

This Dallas Mansion Is a Dream Home—But for Whom?

Texas Monthly 1/13 2:00A Madeleine Aggeler

According to Mattel Inc., one of the country s premier purveyors of aspirational lifestyle content, a dream house (or rather Dreamhouse(tm)) includes the following: an elevator, a two-story slide from...

Southwest’s New Skipper Buckles Up

Texas Monthly 1/12 5:00A Joseph Guinto

Bob Jordan s career at Southwest Airlines began with a hangover. Several hangovers, actually. Back in 1987, a 27-year-old Jordan arrived at Southwest s Dallas Love Field headquarters to interview for...

Drive-by shooting kills young girl sleeping in south Dallas home

DFW Scanner 1/11 4:21P dfwscanner

The Dallas Police Department is investigating a fatal shooting that occurred overnight in the South Dallas neighborhood. At 2:24am Tuesday morning, Dallas police officers responded to a shooting in the 3200 block of Reynolds Avenue. Paramedics...

Greg Abbott’s GOP Challengers Debated Without Him on Monday—and Gave Him Hell

Texas Monthly 1/11 10:27A Ben Rowen

The best horror-movie directors hold that the ideal way to create terror is to never show the audience the boogeyman, or to do so only sparingly. Our current political reality, in the telling of the...

South Dallas County is getting 1.6 million square feet of industrial development

Dallas Business Journal 1/11 6:35A Plamedie Ifasso

The two-building development will be called CORE45, a nod to its proximity to the interstate.

America’s Girls, Episode 7: All-American Sexy Girls

Texas Monthly 1/11 1:00A Sarah Hepola

Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google. Read the transcript below. Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts I know that there s this culture and this...