East Dallas

It’s My Mansion: Remodeled Cottage-Style House in East Dallas Priced to Sell

By Leah Shafer / November 11, 2016 /

Yes, our North Texas market is hotter than a doorknob in hell with prices rising at a fast pace. But there are homes to be found for under $200K, and that’s what the “It’s My Mansion” occasional column is all about. Today, we’ve discovered a cottage-style house at 3536 Delford Cir., near Shiloh and Ferguson roads…

Dallas Porchfest Celebrates Art and Music in Peak’s Addition Open Air Porches

By Leah Shafer / October 14, 2016 /

This Saturday, celebrate art and music on the open-air porches in Peak’s Addition neighborhood at Dallas Porchfest. From noon until 8 p.m., neighbors, musicians, and artists will roam from porch to porch in the 4700 block of Swiss Avenue in East Dallas, between Carroll and Fitzhugh avenues. Musicians will play at designated times, while other festivities…

Dallas Arboretum Makes Architectural Digest’s Best Botanical Gardens List

By Valerie Jarvie / July 21, 2016 /

Architectural Digest has named the Dallas Arboretum one of  world’s 15  breath-taking gardens to visit this season , including it with such horticultural treasures as the Royal Botanic Gardens in London,  the Gardens of the Palace of Versaille,  Butchart Gardens in British Columbia, the Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Thailand, and  Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny, France. The recognition follows…

Go East Young Millennial: The “Property Brothers” Are Changing Knox Henderson East One Flat at a Time

By Candy Evans / May 12, 2016 /

When Dallas Millennials are looking for their next move AFTER life in Uptown, usually their first post-college pad, they are increasingly looking toward the thriving corridor of Knox-Henderson east of North Central Expressway. The Cancun lifestyle is great, but gets old come 25. And there is activewear everywhere now on East Henderson. This stretch of…

Peep Show: Coop Tour Parades Through East Dallas in Search of Chicks

By Joanna England / April 29, 2016 /

In the 11 years I have lived in East Dallas, I have had chickens for eight of them. When we first started out as urban chicken keepers, the trend was still relatively new, and the places from which you might score chicken feed were still limited. Today you can run down to Gecko Hardware and…