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March 2014, eleven years ago, I started at @d_magazine. And about a month ago, I left to help start a new publication (here in Dallas) that I’ll tell you about later. It’s an honor to have worked with—no hyperbole—some of the most talented people in the business, people who take (and took) the elevator up to the 21st floor of St. Paul Place and try to produce something better than the day, week, month, year before. I had the privilege of working with online teams who were all driven to produce magazine-quality journalism online every day, hard as that is, always trying to find different stories and tell them in different ways and do more than we should have been able to. I got to work on giant projects in print and also figure out how to tell a story in 50 words. Very few people in journalism, local or otherwise, get to experience something like that for so long, alongside coworkers who push you and trust you and thoughtfully edit everything you write from Dr. Death to dozens of transportation and land use and local politics stories that have to be more interesting than the reader probably expects them to be. (Even fewer will get a tip in the form of your coworker being subpoenaed in the mayor’s divorce.) The magazine is on its 51st year, which is an unbelievable feat in an industry so volatile. Not every city has a magazine that devotes the resources, thought, knowledge, passion, and skepticism to help readers better understand where they live. You should subscribe if you don’t already. There are too many people to thank in this box, and hopefully I’ve done so personally over the past few weeks. So I’ll leave with a few things we can all agree on: @zaccrain forever, @d_magazine forever.

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Virginia Savage McAlester and her preservation work are honored this month in the 50th anniversary edition of @d_magazine in its cover story “THE FIFTY MOMENTS THAT MADE MODERN DALLAS” by Zac Crain.

“City Council passes Historic Landmark Preservation Ordinance. March 12, 1973: Dallas is notorious for paving over its past in the name of progress. Just imagine what might have happened if Virginia Savage McAlester (the daughter of a former Dallas mayor and the future author of the best-selling A Field Guide to American Houses) and other concerned citizens hadn’t banded together in September 1972 to form what would become Preservation Dallas. Less than a year after founding the Historic Preservation League, McAlester and her cohort had succeeded in making Swiss Avenue the city’s first historic district.”

We’re thrilled that D MAGAZINE recognizes the inception of Dallas’ preservation movement as one of the city’s most important moments. We certainly agree!

This recognition is bittersweet as the well-loved journalist who wrote the article, @zaccrain, passed suddenly before publication. We send our condolences to his friends and family.

#AFieldGuideToAmericanHouses #VirginiaSavageMcAlester #preservation #houseportrait #curbappeal #oldhouses #dallas #historicdistrict

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Once UpOn
A Time in
Dallas… bts @19productionhouse music @cureforparanoia

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@d_magazine celebrated half a century last week!

Since the first edition in Nov. of 1974 (left), those at ‘D’ have responded to the evolving needs of a fast-growing city and served its readers nothing short of excellence.

Congratulations to Gillea Allison, Christine Perez, and all our friends at D Magazine on 50 years of storytelling, truth-telling, and making Dallas an even better place!

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Don’t miss the @zaccrain Film Fest! A special event one day only at the Texas Theatre on September 15 in memory of Zac (old friend, author and legendary Texas journalist who passed away in July 2024). Two of #zaccrain ‘s favorite movies showing on the beautiful big screen in a double feature: High Fidelity at 4PM then Wonder Boys at 7PM—in 35 millimeter! @texastheatre @d_magazine @ericceleste @jamesfaustdallasfilm

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See you on the other side, man.

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They dedicated “Dottie” to you buddy. It was fuckin’ awesome. “Come tomorrow, I’ll be on my way back home!!”

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CALENDAR // NIGHT & DAY: Celebration of Life for Zac Crain by Jennifer Bovee (@panthercity_jmb)

Did you know local journalist Zac Crain? If not, do yourself a favor and Google him. After his stint as Music Editor and a staff writer at the Dallas Observer, he became an associate editor at American Airlines’ in-flight publication and a senior editor at D Magazine, where he worked until his recent death. He was 50. Crain also authored three books, including Black Tooth Grin, a biography of “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, and even ran for mayor. By all accounts, every writer Crain edited felt he had made their writing exponentially better. (If he could edit me right now, I’m sure this obit would be shorter and much more concise.) At 2pm, the Texas Theatre (231 W Jefferson Blvd, Dallas, 214-948-1546) will host a Celebration of Life for Zac Crain. “Expect live music from local bands that don’t sound like someone standing on a sack of kittens.If you’re inclined, the family points you toward the Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center for donations in Zac’s honor.”

For more info on the DEAC or to donate to their cause, visit DallasEAC.org/donate.

#fortworthweekly #fwweekly #weekly #altweekly #fortworth #news #newspaper #local #supportlocal #tarrant #dfw #ftw #texastheatre #celebrationoflife

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“A round-the-way-girl version of Warren Buffet…”- @zaccrain (Rest in Power) for @d_magazine, featuring @gigiekstrom and @victoria4texas, phographed by @elizabethmarylavin.

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I have been writing this in my head for 10 days. Swipe through to read it. 💔 I will love you forever @zaccrain

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I met @zaccrain sometime in the early 2000s . We were all young journalists working in our big city . Zac was the music editor at the Dallas Observer . I was a staff photographer at the Dallas Morning News. We compared our love for writing and photographing @eisley ; the amazing family band out of Tyler, Texas . When I became a freelancer, we stayed in touch. I occasionally pitched story ideas to him . He always responded. Zac’s eye along with his way of words was unmatched. I felt, in someways, we spoke a similar language , a visual language. I highly recommend purchasing a copy of his photo book , A Pedestrian’s History of Dallas published by @deepvellum . A must for all Dallas history collections.
Zac, Sigh. Last weeks news of your untimely passing makes zero sense.
I made this crappy photograph at Herreras( thank you @gracevroom ), I think, maybe in 200ish. Zac is wearing my FredFlare censor bar shades , shot on my Polaroid. Dallas lost a historian. I lost an old friend. My heart goes out to Isaac and Nikki , all of his friends , @d_magazine coworkers and readers. #zaccrain #zaccrainformayor

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