Food + Beverage

State Fair Flavors Worth Every Bite

Twelve Unforgettable Fair Foods Guaranteed To Satisfy Every Texas Craving This Season Article by Cynthia Smoot This year's State Fair of Texas returns with its usual blend of Texas-sized creativity and deep-fried ambition, and 2026 is no exception. From this year's Big Tex Choice Award finalists to time-tested Midway classics, we've combed the fairgrounds to bring you the must-try foods that stand above the rest, so your coupons are spent wisely, and your taste buds are happy. 1.  Rousso’s...

Food + Beverage

State Fair of Texas STAR

The Legacy of This Fourth-Generation Family's Indelible Impact Serves Up Unforgettable State Fair Food Article by David Muscari Sharing a review of last year’s State Fair of Texas favorite written by Dave Muscari, we feature Farm Pac Kitchens and their award winning Brisket and Brew Stuffed Pretzel being served once more this year. As visitors from near and far flock to Fair Park for music, midway rides, football and of course legendary fried creations and other tasty treats. Their food...

Life + Culture

A Legacy of Giving

Volunteer David Osborne Champions The State Fair's Nonprofit Mission, Investing In Scholarships, Youth, And The Future Of Texas. Article by Cynthia Smoot The State Fair of Texas has always been part of David Osborne's life. The Garland, Texas native fondly recalls visits to the annual event—eating delicious fried foods, strolling through the Automobile building and livestock barns, attending the Red River Rivalry, and even riding the Comet Coaster, the iconic wooden roller coaster on the...

Arts + Culture

What A White Cane Makes Possible

Envision's White Cane Day Walk returns to the Dallas Zoo on October 17, with artwork by John Bramblitt. Article by Nathan Smith On October 17, the Dallas Zoo will fill with families, supporters, guide dogs and people carrying white canes for Envision Dallas' White Cane Day Walk. The evening is a fundraiser and a celebration, but the object at its center represents something much larger. For someone navigating vision loss, a white cane can mean mobility, confidence and the ability to decide...

Arts + Culture

Guarding the Lost Angels

Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Seven Angels arrive in Dallas as the Museum of Biblical Art prepares to welcome guests for an October 15 gala among the newly installed works. Article and Photography by Nathan Smith Louis Comfort Tiffany was born into a world already prepared for him. His father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, had founded Tiffany & Co. and built it into one of America's great luxury houses. Wealth, social standing and a place within the family business awaited the younger Tiffany. Instead, he...

Wellness

The Art of Living Well, Longer

Purpose, curiosity and connection can make the years ahead not simply longer, but richer still. Article by Kelly Lindner I’ve been thinking a lot about aging lately. Partly because I’m getting older, and partly because I work in an industry that revolves around caring for and learning from older adults. If I’m being honest, there’s another reason: Every day, I see seniors who have made the decision to live well, longer . The “doddering old timer” of my youth has been replaced by a vibrant...

Arts + Culture

One Night Defying Gravity

Idina Menzel joins the DSO for its September 26 Gala Article by Nathan Smith | Photography by Sylvia Elzafon, and Gittings At the Meyerson, style begins before the first note. On September 26, Idina Menzel joins the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for a black-tie gala where Broadway drama, symphonic scale and pageantry converge. The evening promises spectacle in the hall, electricity onstage and the rare thrill of hearing familiar songs entirely anew. The gala announces itself in layers. First...

Life + Culture

A Child Is Waiting

Cynt Marshall on Preston Hollow, foster care, and the October dinner she chairs. Article by Nathan Smith Cynt Marshall is a longtime Preston Hollow resident, the former chief executive of the Dallas Mavericks, and a sworn Dallas CASA volunteer advocate, board member and past board chair. She and her husband Kenneth adopted two sons and two daughters through the child welfare system. This fall the Marshalls chair Dallas CASA's Champion of Children Award Dinner with Lael and Peter Brodsky. She...

Arts + Culture

Thirty Sheets

A Dallas folding table, 393 water projects, twenty countries, and counting. Article by Bob Hopkins On November 3, 2011, two sisters set up a table outside a Dallas Starbucks with a box of folded paper ornaments and a goal of five hundred dollars. Katherine Adams was five. Isabelle was eight. They had learned, in the way children learn things, all at once and completely, that there were children elsewhere who spent their days carrying water instead of going to school. They sold out that night...

Local Services

A New Standard of Luxury

Private aviation leader Million Air Dallas has flown Dallas’ finest for 40+ years. Article by Kelsey Kosh Forty years ago, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Mary Kay Ash needed a place for business partners to land and be treated with the standard of luxury for which the beauty icon and her brand were known. “The Mary Kay HQ , and then the Million Air Dallas terminal, were placed in Addison with the foresight to know that Addison would soon be a bustling business center for the North Dallas...