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S. Holland Murphy

United States

Associate Editor at D Magazine

Articles

  • 3 weeks ago | dmagazine.com | S. Holland Murphy

    If you were a Dallasite with swagger and a bulging back pocket in the 1970s, you probably crossed the threshold of Cutter Bill Western World. Inside, a bombshell in high-waisted jeans would serve you a whiskey and outfit you in an ostrich leather blazer or buckskin bell-bottoms with fringe running from hip to hem.

  • 2 months ago | dmagazine.com | S. Holland Murphy

    In April of 1986, D Magazine readers ate up the scoop of the century: a cover story titled “Madonna Is Moving to Dallas.” Inside, readers learned that the Material Girl had moved with hubby Sean Penn to East Dallas to scout locations for a Desperately Seeking Susan sequel tentatively titled Sun Belt Diva.

  • Mar 19, 2025 | dmagazine.com | S. Holland Murphy

    John Hall interviewed for a sales position at D Magazine in the summer of 1975. After his meeting, sales manager Bernie Kraft and publisher Wick Allison shook the young man’s hand, gave him the job, and walked him outside. They approached a Toyota Celica clunker covered in dents. Allison stopped short. “That’s not your car,” Allison said matter-of-factly. “Yeah, it is,” Hall said. He wasn’t lying. Hall’s ex-wife had kept the nice ride in their recent divorce; he’d gotten the beater.

  • Feb 10, 2025 | dmagazine.com | S. Holland Murphy

    Twenty years ago, D Magazine delved into the meat market on the World Wide Web with the February 2005 cover story, “Point. Click. Date.” The business of internet hookups was by then well established: 61 million singles were looking for romance “with computer processors playing matchmaker,” and Richardson-based Match.com​ was the biggest name in the game, claiming almost a quarter of those users.

  • Feb 6, 2025 | dmagazine.com | S. Holland Murphy

    It all started for me innocently enough. I was just a curious kitten following a strand of yarn. It was the summer of 2022, and I was working my way through my Sunday New York Times when I noticed that an author named Colleen Hoover held not one, not two, but five of the top 10 spots on the paperback fiction bestseller list.

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