This is a new opportunity to get the word out about what a stellar city Dallas is and I am delighted to be the Editor for this blog.

About Dallas is My Home:
There is a great deal more going for Dallas than JR Ewing, JFK, Dallas Cowboys and Bar-B-Q.
With dozens of high profile businesses having their headquarters in the area (Southwest Airlines, JC Penney, Blockbuster, FedExKinkos, AMR/American Airlines, EDS, ExxonMobil, BNSF), we are a community that thrives on big business deals.

Some of our core industries include Real Estate, Banking, Insurance, Technology, Medical Research and Transportation.

We are a major airline hub (thanks to Southwest and American being based here) conveniently located to both coasts.

For the most part, our weather is nice though we can experience an average of 2 months that are just too hot in the summer but our winters are usually quite mild. Though, don’t throw caution to the wind because as soon as you do we will have an ice storm as we get far more ice than snow here.

We have great sports and are well represented by the Dallas Cowboys (football), Texas Rangers (baseball), Dallas Mavericks (basketball) and Dallas Stars (hockey).

Dallas is chock full of mirrored buildings so we can bask in our own glory. Shallow and vain perhaps, but it keeps out cosmetic dentists, plastic surgeons and retail stores rolling in money.

In fact, there is more plastic surgery per capita in Dallas than in L.A. The NorthPark Neiman-Marcus sells more cosmetics per square foot than any other department store in the country.

Dallas is also the testing ground for many new restaurant concepts and we have more restaurants per capita than NYC. This may explain why Carlson Worldwide and Brinker are both based here as they are responsible for chains such as TGI Friday’s, Chili’s, Romano’s Macaroni Grill and a whole slew of others.

Dallas/Ft. Worth is also the 6th largest media market in the country. We are also the 6th largest motorcycle owners’ market.

So visit us often and learn more about what makes this major metropolitan city rock. We will delve into the history of Dallas often to hopefully explain some of it’s quirks and what it takes to succeed here.

About Raine:
First, I want to thank all the thousands of visitors that have decended upon this blog in just a few short weeks. Without you, this blog would be like a billboard on a dirt road!

As a 5th generation Dallasite, I probably know more useless trivia about this city than a person has a right to. But, when you want to know how to get from Downtown to Richland College by using only one street, I can answer that (Main Street turns into Columbia Avenue which turns into Abrams Road).

I’m well entrenched in the entertainment world as I spent several industrious years handling tour publicity/media relations for a major record label, co-owned a technology company which allowed me to win the coveted Clarion Award, then segued back into entertainment by having a video/TV/webcast production company.

In the meantime, I have also been the editor of the largest motorcycle magazine in the state of Texas and served on the boards of everything from USA Film Festival, Alliance Francaise to El Centro Internet Publishing Program.

I love Corvettes and Harleys and I am definitely a girl into a high octane lifestyle.

Feel free to give me your feedback and suggestions as we work to make this a stellar blog that entertains, enlightens and informs you.