These twin cities, separated by 30 miles of suburbs, may be the oddest couple of all in a state of odd couples. Dallas is glitzy and ritzy, a swelling, modernistic business metropolis whose inhabitants go to bed early and to church on Sunday. Fort Worth, sneered at as Cowtown by its neighbors, lives …
North Texas's two biggest cities, Dallas and Fort Worth, are often referred to as DFW -- or, in a term that could only have been devised by so-called marketing geniuses, the Metroplex -- as though they were closely intertwined twin cities. While unrelenting development has filled the flat land …
Known to locals as simply Big D, this North Texas upstart doesn't lack for confidence. The indoctrination starts early. I grew up in North Dallas, and the refrain that all school kids had to parrot was from a little ditty that went Big D, little a, double-l, a-s. Dallasites, like most Texans who are …