A Dallas Banker’s Million-Dollar Quest to Solve a Math Problem

Andrew Beal isn’t your typical banker. For starters, he’s a lot richer. He’s No. 43 on Forbes’ list of the country’s richest people, worth an estimated $8.5 billion. And he’s always been less interested in conspicuous displays of wealth than in things like rockets, poker strategy and mathematical theory. His…

Here Are the Dallas Stars’ New Uniforms

The anticipation building in advance of the official unveiling of the Dallas Stars’ new look was dulled somewhat when the logo was accidentally (or maybe on purpose) leaked on the team’s smartphone app. The club did a better job with the updated jerseys, keeping those updated jerseys under wraps until…

Dallas Now Has a Bike Score, and It Sucks

Walk Score became a thing almost as soon as the company first began rating the pedestrian-friendliness of cities and neighborhoods in 2007. By now, it’s so firmly established that it’s worked its way into the vernacular of real estate and urban planning. Zillow, for example, includes a walk score for…

Zynga Is Shuttering Its Dallas Office

In late 2010, the social gaming company Zynga was on a buying spree. Riding high on the success of FarmVille, the San Francisco-based startup was snatching up smaller rivals across the country, including Dallas’ Bonfire Studios some three months after the firm released the not-at-all derivative We Farm. But there’s…