Brian Reinhart Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, United States

Writing restaurant reviews, features, interviews, news, recommendations, blog posts, and more.

Irving, Texas

Daily management of community college website (SharePoint CMS), blog (WordPress), emergency messaging in inclement weather and pandemic, and, from 2014-16, Twitter account. Writing press releases and feature articles on faculty, students, programs, and events; writing new content and building new websites for departments and programs. Proofreading, editing all printed marketing materials for North Lake, Mountain View campuses. Managing internal communications, including mass emails, intranet, event calendar; training other departments on intranet and email; wrote collegewide email platform user manual.October 2012-January 2020: North Lake CollegeJanuary-June 2020: served as Web Editor for both North Lake and Mountain View Colleges, with additional assignments for other offices in the systemJune 2020-present: Dallas College (the seven Dallas community colleges merged)

Texas Monthly: freelance writer, 2020-22Dallas Morning News: arts and music writer, 2019-21Dallas Observer: arts and culture writer, very occasional news writer, 2016-2022Hardball Times and FanGraphs: baseball essays, 2015-2018MusicWeb International: 500+ classical CD reviews and interviews, 2009-2017; managed Twitter account, 2011-14

Dallas, Tx

Food writer from 2015; promoted to critic May 2016. Over 150 formal reviews published. Submitting two to three reviews monthly; writing longform cover features, short blog posts, and lists; conducting investigative journalism; creating annual “Top 100 Dallas Restaurants”. Organizing freelancers for special projects, such as “Hidden Gems Week” and “Best of Dallas”; managing photography assignments for each formal review• “He doesn’t just write about food; he’s a moral compass for the city.” – D Magazine, 2019 (selected as Best Critic in Dallas)

San Antonio, Texas Area

Edited, fact-checked, proofread, and managed version control for confidential high-stakes standardized testing.

Oversaw staff of 30+ student writers; edited hundreds of articles for publication; prepared articles online in WordPress CMS; reported on web traffic through Google Analytics; served as lead writer, with dozens of published articles and columns.

Master Of Research (Mres), Early Modern Studies

Unique master's degree program combining elements of English studies, languages, philosophy, and history, with a special focus on archival.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English, History

Activities and Societies: Rice Thresher (student newspaper), Rice Standard (student magazine)Taught accredited course: "Introduction.