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U-S-A! U-S-A! These Awesome Patios Would be Perfect Spots For Watching Today’s World Cup Match vs. Belgium

By Joanna England / July 1, 2014 /

I think pretty much all of America is checking out at 2 p.m. today. That’s when the U.S. Men’s National Team faces Belgium in the knockout round of the FIFA World Cup. If you’re not enjoying the action in Brazil, then picture yourself in one of these amazing backyards with a cool beer in hand…

Tuesday Two Hundred: Home For a Hip Family in Casa Linda Forest

By Joanna England / July 1, 2014 /

Maryam and Jacob Salassi have such a fantastic little home in Casa Linda Forest. Their adorable abode, the perfect home for the two creative Millennials and their sweet little girl — Maryam is a blogger, photographer, and owner of Pouf: A Blowout Salon, Jacob is a software engineer and cyclist, and Margaux, 3, is just…

Do We Demonize the Suburbs? Sad, Because That’s Where the Immigrants Are in North Texas

By Candy Evans / July 1, 2014 /

Really thoughtful piece by Jacqueline Floyd, who lives in “a peaceful Denton County suburb”, in Sunday’s Dallas Morning News. She says that after all of last week’s Rah Rah Urbanism activity — you know the New Cities Summit and the U.S. Conference of Mayors — that there is a looking-down-the-nose at suburban dwellers element going on. Kind…

Water, Water … Nowhere? Texas is Nearing Critical Conditions For Water, But Will We Reach California-Level Drought?

By Joanna England / June 30, 2014 /

The latest issue of Governing magazine has a story that all Texans should read, and then read again. The story’s title is self-explanatory — “Drought-Plagued Regions Struggle to Conserve Water and Make Money” — an issue with which much of North and West Texas are intimately familiar.

How To Remove Graffiti 101 If a House is Struck Before a Showing, & Don’t Clean Up After Rolling With Fire

By Candy Evans / June 30, 2014 /

As we reported late yesterday, Oak Lawn’s Legacy of Love Monument, Cathedral of Hope, plus other buildings were vandalized by nasty graffiti early Sunday morning including the building that houses The Dallas Observer, the building that houses D Magazine (no!)  and even the Dallas Morning News. Yesterday a few power cleaning companies volunteered to clean…