Year: 2024
I can’t shake the loss of the Rose Lloyd/ Edwin Cox mansion. Some deep introspection and a few heartfelt discussions with the best minds on preservation brought me enlightenment. It’s not simply the loss of a magnificent Beaux-Arts mansion. It’s the inevitable loss of a story that impacts our history, culture, architecture, and the very…
Dallas Dirt Host Candy Evans engages with Elizabeth Beck, District 9 Fort Worth City Council representative, and Wes Hoblit, managing director of the Fort Worth Master Plan office. The discussion highlights Fort Worth’s burgeoning real estate market, the impact of the DFW airport, the challenges of urban planning, responding to rapid population growth, and the…
This cool Lake Highlands contemporary was built in 1977 by famed Dallas architect Mark Shekter, whose influence is seen and felt in pockets all around Dallas, especially Lake Highlands and Oak Lawn. We’ve fallen in love with his homes before, and this one is no exception, and you’ll see why it is this week’s Highlight…
Is the phrase “Day of Reckoning” too much for a ForwardDallas headline, an astute CandysDirt.com editor asked herself. The Collins Dictionary defines the expression as “a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.” Yep, that tracks. That day of…
“I’d like to do a song of great social and political import. It goes something like this: Oh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?I drive a Subaru and I must make amendsWorked hard all my life, and drive an unbelievably uncomfortable carOh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?” Okay, okay, I…
