Over at Dallas Cigars on Greenville, they’ve got a special on Gurkha cigars they’re calling the Historical Dallas Series. The specially made Park Cities cigar, for example, is described as “rich and leathery.” The Kessler Park blend is supposed to be “woodsy and toasty.” But, why stop with those neighborhoods? Jump for suggestions for a [...]

An alert FrontBurnervian sends along this image of a DPD cop traversing the switchbacks at the Wyly. Maybe not the most efficient route?

Something’s been rattling around in my head since yesterday. I’m in a sharing mood. Plus, you’ll have an opportunity here to make fun of me. So: Monday night, at 9:57, I was at home doing domestic things, watching TV, drinking wine, etc. My father, who lives out of the country, was in town. We’d spent the [...]

In our March issue, which is on newsstands tomorrow, you’ll see a section called Excellence in Nursing Awards. We asked hospitals, patients, and nurses to fill out a really lengthy nomination form for nurses they thought deserved some recognition. We got 349 nominations. From those nominations, we had a panel narrow the list down to [...]

I once spent a week and a half trapped on a tiny sailboat in the Florida Keys with a bunch of Girl Scouts and a grizzled, tyrannical captain who believed in only two kinds of music: Jimmy Buffett, and more Jimmy Buffett. I tried to sneak in some Savage Garden (side note: I was 12), [...]