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According to the current mentality, the order of things is founded on “nothing”. Rather, an order of things simply does not exist. “Nothing” sustains...

Just a few months after opening its Dallas hub, could Neiman Marcus merge with Saks Fifth Avenue?

Karl Hoblitzelle: Oct. 22, 1879–March 8, 1967

Ray Charles' South Dallas bungalow, a red-light district named Frogtown, the 'Coney Island' of Oak Cliff, and more secrets from the city's past.

How Ebby Halliday, Mary Kay Ash, Caroline Rose Hunt, and other powerful leaders shaped our city.

We had a busy year in 2021. Here are our editors’ favorite stories from the year, each of which will show you a little more about the city we call home.

In an excerpt from her new book, Jerrie Marcus Smith recounts how her visionary great-aunt launched a defining Dallas brand.

Although Carrie Marcus Neiman was too often overshadowed by the men in her life, this exhibit and a new book are telling her story.

The most obvious legacies from the past at Hockaday are the Memorial Rooms — the Great Hall, the Memorial Dining Room, and a small library room — antique-furnished shrines from the Greenville Avenue campus now encased in the ultra-modem Welch Road structure. The rooms were not used much by students when I was there. Teas were held in the Great Hall, and the student council was allowed lunch in the dining room once a week, but the rooms had an off-limits museum quality that discouraged curli...

Madison, the first week of April, 1961 Close Close Close Madison, the first week of April, 1961. As the municipal election of 1961 approached, no one expected Mayor Ivan Nestingen to be a candidate. The 39-year-old attorney and former state representative was certainly popular enough to coast to victory — first elected in a special election in 1956, elected to a full two-year term in 1957 by a 3–1 margin, he was reelected without opposition in 1959. And now he’s riding high as the cha...