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For its first foray outside New York, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy has turned its gaze on North Texas, where the show's "Fab Five" stylists will remake a Plano cowboy, a Fort Worth nursing-home worker – and an entire fraternity. But why Dallas and not Los Angeles, Chicago or Miami? "Let's start with the cowboys," interior designer Thom Filicia said Tuesday as he scouted locations around town. Producers for the Bravo cable show say they were looking for a city that would look and feel different from New York. In Dallas, they found wide-open spaces and a place with its own sensibility. But what really struck executive producer David Metzler is how polite everyone acts. "That Southern charm kind of thing – everybody's so warm," he said from his Los Angeles office. "Once we started sending scouts down there, whether it was store owners or straight guys or people who worked for the Dallas Film Commission, everybody was so inviting of the idea it felt like it was the perfect place." The three episodes will be shot over the next three weeks and air early next year. The production kicks off with a private reception tonight at the downtown Neiman Marcus. Some lucky Greeks – the names of the fraternity and campus are under wraps – are among the straight guys who will benefit. They will have their main room redone by Mr. Filicia, along with a new look for their rush chairman. Though the Fab Five just arrived this week, they have already been spotted out on the town. Monday night they ate at Sambuca in Uptown, followed by drinks at JR's Bar and Grill in Oak Lawn. And they've been making the rounds at various shops – including clothing maven Carson Kressley's trips to the NorthPark Neiman Marcus and the Polo Ralph Lauren boutique in Highland Park Village. Pier 1 spokesman Filicia, meanwhile, was signing books Tuesday night at the chain's Dallas Parkway store.
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