He’s an unchanging bit of history in a city where change is constant. who spent years atop Dallas’ tallest building, visible to passing airplane pilots. Red is also a Dallas icon, the symbol of the old Magnolia Oil Co. He is a brand-aware consumer who enjoys dropping Benjamins, but also a yogi able to clear his mind as fast as he closes his eyelids. Red is a rock star, able to jump a line at The Bomb Factory using his local cred, but chill enough to enjoy a night of bowling with friends. Only something with divine power could lead our photographer Kathy Tran and her partner Daniel Rockey on Red’s exhausting tour of Dallas. But he swears he’s Pegasus, and we believe him. Granted, our judgment isn’t at its best at 2 a.m., and we admit he does look a bit like a guy in a red horse suit with dubious wings attached. At least that’s what he told us when he called us one morning just after closing time at the bars and offered to be the Observer’s official mascot for this year’s issue. In fact, he’s Pegasus, the winged horsey offspring of Poseidon. The animal galloping through this year’s Best of Dallas® issue is named Red.
