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D Magazine’s 50 Greatest Stories: The Explosion that Forever Changed West, Texas
Next week marks the 11th anniversary of the fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 in the small town of West. For this week's edition, we revisit our story from June of 2013.
Dallas History
D Magazine’s 50 Greatest Stories: The ‘Bareknuckle Journalism’ of Early 1900s Dallas
Without this 1979 story, we likely wouldn't know much about the Dallas Dispatch today.
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D Magazine’s 50 Greatest Stories: A Brief History of Cedar Springs
In 1979, the Old Plantation set the stage for what would come.
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D Magazine’s 50 Greatest Stories: The Tragic End of Architect George Dahl’s Life
Architect George Dahl helped build Dallas. But his final years were marked by turmoil and a legal fight with his family.
Publications
Revisiting the Archives: Real Men of Style Have Always Turned to D Magazine
Just take a look back at our March 1977 issue on "The Beautification of the Dallas Male."
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John ‘Lucky’ Luckadoo Is a Master of the Air
Masters of the Air on Apple TV+ tells the story of the 100th Bomb Group during World War II. John "Lucky" Luckadoo, one of the group's last living members, tells his own story from his longtime home in North Dallas.
Dallas History
For One Night Only, the Kessler Theater Turns Into the Starck Club
The infamous night club in the West End opened its doors 40 years ago. The Kessler Theater is bringing it back to life, briefly.
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D Magazine’s 50 Greatest Stories: The Hockaday School’s Long History in Dallas
Hockaday is 110 years old, and a lot more than its endowment has changed in those years.
Architecture & Design
One Man’s Quest to Uncover the History—and Mystery—of Dallas’ Ju-Nels
A new website is the authoritative source on all things Ju-Nel, the unsung local masterminds of residential mid-century design.
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D Magazine’s 50 Greatest Stories: Heartbroken at the Stoneleigh
"Heartbreak Hotel" captures a very different bar at the Stoneleigh Hotel and a very different Dallas in 1977.