Candy Evans

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

Messing With the US Flag: Do These Plano Teens Need a Good, Sound Spanking?

By Candy Evans / October 22, 2013 /

Also wanted to alert you to a story by Eric Nicholson of the Dallas Observer, that gives us some insight into how bratty SOME kids in Plano are. Not all the kids in Plano — there are many fine teens out there, of course, but these young hoodlums need a good kick in the rear,…

Help This Person! Artist Needs a Giant Exterior Wall in Dallas for a Giant JFK Mural, Stat

By Candy Evans / October 22, 2013 /

Like history? Dallas-born artist, Sam Welty, loves it and is seeking a wall, any wall in Dallas. It doesn’t matter where, it just has to be a giant exterior wall where he can paint a giant mural of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The wall would be one in a series of murals Welty has painted on…

Monday Morning Millionaire: A Masterpiece of Modern Design in the Best Possible Location

By Candy Evans / October 21, 2013 /

There is that one aspect of great design that every homeowner hopes to achieve: timelessness. Who wants their home, like their shoulders, to be defined by the fad of an era? Not me. I am stuttering over the “t” word here (turrets. There, I said it.) or the low slung rooflines of the ’60s and…

Finally: A Dallas Morning News Reporter Says Something Nice About Museum Tower

By Candy Evans / October 21, 2013 /

Real Estate agent Scott Deakins’ Golden Retriever Heath looking at Museum Tower “It’s a damn, fine building!” Yes, MetroTex Forecast 2014 was Friday, and I don’t think one contract was written across town as half the North Texas real estate community was at the Renaissance Hotel listening to Dr. Jim Gaines, Phil Crone, Tom Woliver,…

Food, Fabrics, Fab Booze & Chateaux: Join Rusty Arena & Timothy Corrigan at ID Collection Tuesday PM

By Candy Evans / October 21, 2013 /

As you know, The fabulous ID Collection has joined the CandysDirt family on our designer page, because we love designers (Blue Sky Living, Bernadette Schaeffler, Margaret Chambers, Jason Lenox) and even our fanciest real estate would be bare-ass naked without them! So we are kind of psyched to tell you about a partee this Tuesday…