Pedestrian's Recent History of Dallas

Formerly the music editor at the Dallas Observer -- and, prior to that, a janitor at an elementary school in West, Texas -- Zac Crain is senior editor of D Magazine. He has written about the explosion in West, Texas; legendary country singer Charley Pride; Tony Dorsett's struggle with life after football; and imaginary meetings with a mosquito and a Pegasus. He also popularized the phrase, "I see you, Big German!" Crain is the author of 2009's Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good Times, and Tragic End of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. He lives in Dallas.