Dana Rubin
Stories
Until I house-sat there last year, I thought I knew rarefied Highland Park. To my surprise, it was much more fragile and defensive than it had seemed.
The biggest brouhaha in Dallas isn’t about taxes, potholes, or garbage collection. It’s about seventy bronze steers.
Trade with Mexico has made this onetime border pit stop Texas’ fastest-growing city.
The boss of American Airlines is mad as hell at cut-rate competitors, selfish unions, and ignorant government regulators—and he’s not going to take it anymore.
In Chiapas—Mexico’s wildes state—you can find cowboys, Indians, and ancient cities in the mist.
Mother Nature made it impossible to grow azaleas in Dallas’ alkaline soil—unless you mulch with money.
A look back at Roe v. Wade on its twentieth anniversary—and at the key players in Texas who made it happen.
Flamboyant philanthropist Wendy Reves showered her hometown with money for a makeover—but she wanted to run the show.
From longtime locals to environmentalists, everyone has an opinion about the future of Caddo Lake—but the issues they’re debating are as murky as the lake itself.
As a bitter family feud drags on, Electra Waggoner Biggs if fighting to keep her fortune—and her ranch—intact.
The face of Dallas’ most eclectic neighborhood changes every day, but its appeal remains familiar—and it keeps getting stronger.
When millionaire tennis star Martina Navratilova and her lover went to court, it was the lawyers who won.
Carol Collins thought her ex-husband had been killed in Vietnam—until a mysterious photograph reopened old wounds and threw her life into turmoil.
An Alabama Klansman posing as a folksy Texas novelist almost pulled off the literary hoax of the century.