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Carpetbagger: Dallas Extends Unconventional Welcome to Critic Mark Lamster

Carpetbagger: Dallas Extends Unconventional Welcome to Critic Mark Lamster

Mark Lamster. (Courtesy Dallas Morning News)

“New York City?!? Get a rope.” That sums up the feelings of some North Texans upon learning the origin and reading the prejudices of the Dallas Morning News’ new architecture critic, Mark Lamster. The Brooklyn-based scribbler—who also happens to be a professor in the architecture school of the University of Texas at Arlington—recently tweeted a love letter he received from one such offended reader. “You’re a carpetbagger reporter with no knowledge of—or sensitivity to—Dallas, our suburbs, or our incorporated cities and towns,” it said. To which Lamster replied, “Thanks!”


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