Cheryl Hall

Dallas

Business Columnist at The Dallas Morning News

Business columnist for @dallasnews

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Media Culture CEO was hellbent on beating cancer while building her company

Mar 28, 2025 | thebrunswicknews.com | Cheryl Hall

By Cheryl Hall, The Dallas Morning News The past six years have been challenging, invigorating - and oddly - joy-filled for Christena Garduno. The advertising executive bought out her former partner, renamed and relaunched the agency and battled a misdiagnosed and highly aggressive form of cancer while navigating the global pandemic.
Pete Schenkel, Dallas businessman, philanthropist, civic leader dies at 89

Nov 27, 2024 | nbcdfw.com | Cheryl Hall

Pete Schenkel, Dallas' consummate businessman, philanthropist, civic leader and lifelong milkman, died early Wednesday morning at his Highland Park home from natural causes while in hospice. Schenkel was best known publicly for preventing the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma from uprooting their fabled Red River Rivalry football game from the Cotton Bowl during the State Fair of Texas in the late '90s.
Neiman Marcus purchase by Saks parent creates high anxiety in Dallas fashion world

Jul 6, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Cheryl Hall

Neiman Marcus is the essence of Dallas’ fashion psyche. Carrie Marcus Neiman, her husband Al Neiman, and her brother Herbert Marcus opened the first Neiman Marcus in downtown in 1907, and the business was an instant success — winning the hearts of Dallasites who wanted more than ordering goods from the Sears Roebuck catalog. Why This Story MattersNeiman Marcus was founded in downtown Dallas in 1907 and has been a luxury fashion leader worldwide ever since.
Ramsey Jabbour, founder of Dallas’ Competitive Camera,s dies at 72

Jul 1, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Cheryl Hall

Ramsey Jabbour, founder of Competitive Cameras, died last weekend from complications of cancer. He was 72. Competitive Cameras is one of the largest camera specialty retailers in the United States. Located in a nondescript retail strip on Irving Boulevard near downtown Dallas, the store has customers from around the country.
Building BoomerJack’s: Brent Tipps goes from day laborer to restaurant magnate

Jun 26, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Cheryl Hall

Brent Tipps is about to plunk down a half-million bucks overhauling his original Sidecar Social that he opened in Addison five years ago. He’s moving the live stage to front-and-center so that a 36-foot wall of TV screens acts as a backdrop. He’s adding an upstairs bar, two lounge areas and two private rooms with glass walls, replacing booths and seating — and, yes, improving the bathrooms.
Mavs governor Patrick Dumont looking for ‘heartbeat of the city’ with Finals run closing

Jun 14, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Cheryl Hall

It was clear that Patrick Dumont wanted to put his best Dallas Mavericks face forward at his first official local media event Friday afternoon. About a dozen broadcast, sports and business reporters were invited to talk with Dumont, governor of the Mavs organization, in a series of sessions at the team’s practice facility near American Airlines Center, ahead of game 4 of the NBA Finals.
50 years with Colleen Barrett, Southwest Airlines’ Culture Queen

May 23, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Cheryl Hall

The path to Colleen Barrett’s munificent heart wasn’t by sending her flowers. The 79-year-old president emeritus of Southwest Airlines who died earlier this month was highly allergic to them. AdvertisementIt’s the kind of thing you learn about a cherished friend over five decades. AdvertisementOur careers ran on parallel trajectories — although hers had significantly more impact than mine. Aviation NewsStay prepared. Receive the latest airlines news, delivered straight to your inbox.
Southwest Airlines’ ‘heart and soul’ Colleen Barrett dies at 79

May 9, 2024 | nbcdfw.com | Cheryl Hall |Alexandra Skores

Colleen Barrett, president emeritus of Southwest Airlines, has died, the company announced Thursday. Barrett, 79, was considered the prime force behind the Dallas-based carrier’s “LUV culture” and was instrumental in the company’s founding and the early strategies that the carrier still uses today.
Southwest Airlines’ ‘heart and soul’ Colleen Barrett dies at 79

May 9, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Cheryl Hall |Alexandra Skores

Colleen Barrett, president emeritus of Southwest Airlines, has died, the company announced Thursday. Barrett, 79, was considered the prime force behind the Dallas-based carrier’s LUV culture and was instrumental in the company’s founding and the early strategies that the carrier still uses today.
Karaoke and a coin toss were the Thais that bound Asian Mint couple

Apr 30, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Cheryl Hall

Most people in Dallas didn’t know much about Thai food 20 years ago when Nikky Phinyawatana and her husband, Tan Noisiri, opened their first Asian Mint in a strip center across from Medical City Dallas on Forest Lane. Phinyawatana, then 27, had been a high school boarder at Hockaday, Dallas’ private girls’ prep school known for producing top students. She learned the ropes of entrepreneurship and marketing at Babson College outside of Boston.