Opinion

Santa Doesn’t Play Around in the Park Cities, Apparently

By Bethany Erickson / December 22, 2017 /

Ooof — the things we get messaged or emailed to us. Like this picture of an inflatable Santa, for instance. If the measure of a good day, as Ice Cube explains, is not having to use your AK, then this Kris Kringle in University Park is having a pretty bad Christmas Eve Eve Eve. This photo…

And Now, the Hard Work of Righting Dallas’ Racial Wrongs Actually Begins

By Bethany Erickson / October 1, 2017 /

This may cost me some kind of journalistic cool kids card, but I’m not sure if I care. I mean, I’ve been known to refuse to move with the herd on other occasions as well.  I agree with Bernadette Nutall. “Until we start changing some policies that affect African-Americans and Latinos,” Nutall said at Thursday…

Unattractive Oaklawn Townhouses For Sale Again

By Jon Anderson / April 8, 2016 /

The Sorano, inconveniently built in 2008 on the eve of the real estate bubble, is located at 4111 Rawlins St. in Oaklawn. Looking like it’s been hosed-down in orange buttercream, it’s curb appeal hampers what would have been an appealing development. Coming online as the recession was gaining steam wasn’t the best of christenings. Originally…

What The Hell is Wrong With Dallas?

By Candy Evans / February 27, 2011 /

In my latest contribution for Joel Kotkin’s The New Geography, I say Texas owes a whole lot to it’s growing immigrant population! The numbers are in and Texas grew more than any other state in the union in the last census report. But the biggest loser of them all seems to be Dallas. While Texas…