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Eric Celeste

Eric Celeste

Eric Celeste is the former managing editor of D Magazine. Since graduating SMU in 1990, he has worked at, in chronological order, the Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, The Met, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, DFW Lifestyles, Microsoft Sidewalk, back to the Star-Telegram, Dallas Observer, American Way, Southwest Spirit, Celeste Media, D Magazine, D Custom, 3 Treatments Media and Creative Loafing Atlanta. He is a writer, editor, consultant, drinker and gambler who lives in downtown Dallas.

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Let's hold off calling Dallas city manager Mary Suhm an urban planning genius

By Eric Celeste

05.16.13 | 11:31 am

Make no mistake: Mary Suhm was a great city manager. How could she not be? To her, dreaming of and funding greatness — those big, gaudy set pieces upon the stage ...


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Highland Park ISD tries to convince students to drink less — and good for them

By Eric Celeste

05.14.13 | 1:19 pm

I didn’t drink in high school. Well, okay, I drank that one time. We had a party at my house one night when I was a junior in high ...


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DISD supporters need to figure out how to get ahead of a story. Plus: Gatsby!

By Eric Celeste

05.10.13 | 1:32 pm

It’s time for the frickin’ Friday 5, that day of the week when we all stand up and say we’re not going to take it anymore! And then ...


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Obama in Austin offers perfect contrast to Cruz in Wackjob, USA

By Eric Celeste

05.09.13 | 2:25 pm

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about something that local curmudgeologists Jim Schutze and Jeff Siegel mentioned on Schutz’s radio show this week: how people in power still ...


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If Mike Miles leaves, we still have to deal with the Dallas ISD board, folks

By Eric Celeste

05.07.13 | 11:58 am

A few months ago, a longtime DISD employee was expressing her frustration to a North Dallas power broker. She felt like the good work being done at many Dallas schools ...


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Why do I have to wait for history to tell me what the Bush Center is full of?

By Eric Celeste

04.25.13 | 9:29 am

I don’t have a problem that we’re dedicating the George W. Bush Presidential Center today. SMU benefits. We get a cool new library, museum and archive. Who is ...


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Why it's okay Bush Presidential Center is an homage to mediocrity. (Because, clarity!)

By Eric Celeste

04.23.13 | 11:14 am

Dallas is all atwitter about Thursday’s opening of the $250 million George W. Bush Presidential Center. Five living presidents will be on hand. Luncheons will be had, money will ...


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Horrific explosion in West, Texas, shows how we feel impact of tragedy through social media

By Eric Celeste

04.18.13 | 9:39 am

It’s astonishing how much there is to sum up this morning, and how awful the lead story is. If you live outside of Texas, you may not know how ...


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Even from a distance, Boston Marathon bombing offers no lesson other than people are brave

By Eric Celeste

04.16.13 | 9:39 am

I have very little to add to the accounts of the Boston Marathon bombings, but it also feels weird and silly to write about anything else, as this column’s ...


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Ted Cruz may be a liar, but at least he's ineffective. Plus: Skeeters!

By Eric Celeste

04.12.13 | 10:07 am

It’s time for the Friday 5, that day of the week when I get to gripe about Ted Cruz, city council members and overpaid CEOs in the same column ...


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DISD superintendent Mike Miles is right and wrong in wanting to fire principals

By Eric Celeste

04.09.13 | 9:55 am

There are times when the daily newspaper is very good at telling you things you should know but do not. That usually involves lengthy investigations (example: the past few years ...


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Trinity River toll road folks want you to help us ignore the toll road. Plus: Mesquite!

By Eric Celeste

04.04.13 | 9:55 am

When I was in college at SMU, I was on the school newspaper staff. It was a great education, one that taught me many valuable lessons — especially about how to ...


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Why Texas is wrong about drones. Plus: Cruz in 2016!

By Eric Celeste

04.02.13 | 1:31 pm

If hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing, and it never dies, then fear is its evil twin. It’s a terrible thing, maybe the worst thing, but ...


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Why I don't celebrate First Baptist, Robert Jeffress or the temple of intolerance. Plus: FGCU!

By Eric Celeste

03.29.13 | 9:05 am

It’s time for the Friday 5, that day of the week where I fear there won’t be enough knee-jerk opinions to make a 500-word column, until I read ...


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My comment on Dallas Morning News commenters: Racial insight, LOL! Plus: Dez!

By Eric Celeste

03.28.13 | 9:47 am

I’m not big on website comments from readers. I used to think they were an integral part of the new media landscape, a place where the mainstream media member ...


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Why John Wiley Price and Dallas Morning News are to blame for Parkland CEO search

By Eric Celeste

03.26.13 | 9:21 am

I’m fairly torn on Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. Actually, I always feel that way about him — at once annoyed at whatever in-front-of-camera stunt he’s pulling and ...


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Memo to Gordon Keith: I got paid $XX to write this column about you

By Eric Celeste

03.15.13 | 9:08 am

It’s the Friday 5, that time of the week when I try to summarize my favorite stories of the day without ruining lifelong friendships. Harder than you’d think ...


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Thank goodness Ted Cruz dumbed down and started acting like himself again. Plus: Growth!

By Eric Celeste

03.14.13 | 11:57 am

Omigosh, you guys! I was so worried! Shaken to my core. Remember last week, when our state’s preeminent gasbag, Sen. Ted Cruz, went and did something sensible? When he ...


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A Dallas Olympic 2024 bid would be good for Fair Park and nothing else. Plus: Young Bush!

By Eric Celeste

03.12.13 | 9:52 am

I feel like I need to be upfront about the fact this column is going to borrow liberally from a Twitter conversation I had yesterday with the great Patrick Kennedy ...


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Mayor Mike Rawlings figured out how to not be useless. How will he use that power? Plus: Drones!

By Eric Celeste

03.08.13 | 9:34 am

It’s the Friday 5, that special day of the week when a conceit I came up with in hopes of making this column easier to pen actually makes writing ...


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