Shelby Skrhak
Shelby is Associate Editor of CandysDirt.com, where she writes and produces the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.
Getmyboat, which bills itself as the AirBnB of boats, recently tracked the top 10 most popular cities for boating in Texas. The platform found six of its 10 most popular boating destinations are found in North Texas. Getmyboat connects people with boat rental and charter services. With over 150,000 listings across 184 countries, Getmyboat says…
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CandysDirt.com’s podcast Dallas Dirt is seeing exponential growth as the number of YouTube viewers and audio downloads hit more milestones in March. The podcast is available on both YouTube as a video show and Apple Podcasts, Spotify, et al as an audio show. Now, I promise I’m not whipping out the spreadsheets to show you…
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You might say that Forward Dallas, the City of Dallas’s comprehensive land use plan, has fallen victim to a curse of bad timing. When a controversial — yet hypothetical — zoning idea overlapped a news cycle with the city’s comprehensive Forward Dallas plan, it seems the issues got conflated, says Andrea Gilles, the interim Director…
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Parks may seem like a luxury, but what value do city parks bring? In this episode of Dallas Dirt, Dallas City Hall Editor April Towery asks Rudy Karimi, the District 14 Parks and Recreation Board member for the City of Dallas, that question on the heels of a massive $345 million bond package proposed to…
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If you live in Dallas, you may not know about the ForwardDallas land use plan, but you’ve probably heard the rumor about that “zoning thing that will allow apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.” On this episode of the Dallas Dirt podcast, we bust that myth and several others about this city planning initiative, and trace…
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