Dallas

A Happy Fourth of July House & Spouse: Sister’s Dying Wish, How the Home Held it All Together

By Candy Evans / July 4, 2014 /

When I was very young, I had a favorite aunt and uncle who told great people stories when they visited. But one story troubled me — it was about a young couple, friends of theirs, who had been deeply in love but the wife had died tragically after only five years of marriage. The widower…

Is D.R. Horton Being a Good Neighbor at Bryan Place? We Think Not So Much

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2014 /

A reader alerts us to the building  DR Horton is doing a less than stellar job of corporate responsibility at their Bryan Place development called “Exall Townhomes”.

Brandon McCarthy’s Uptown Loft Will Give You a 360 Degree View of Friday’s Fireworks Display

By Candy Evans / July 2, 2014 /

Whoa, this is one of those units that deserves the “O” word. Or maybe I should say, the “A” word. This is the Uptown loft of Arizona Diamondback right-handed pitcher Brandon McCarthy and his wife, Amanda. And the agent, darling Nancy Dunning at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s, is not using broker babble when she says “one…

Occupy Texas: This Lakewood Tuscan Villa Gets Top Billing in Film Now Shooting in Dallas

By Candy Evans / July 2, 2014 /

Remember the Lakewood Home Festival? One of the coolest homes on the tour belonged to Shannon Kincaid and Allen Stringer, she being the artist whose paintings have been snapped up by Oprah Winfrey, among others. Her husband, Allen, is an ObGyn at Baylor. We told you how much we loved that home back when we…

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…