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Spring blooms

At North Haven Gardens’ annual Rose Weekend, the experienced staff ensures you pick out the perfect roses

From a lush, striking peachorange ‘Rosie the Riveter’ to a classic red ‘Legends’ hybrid tea rose, North Haven Gardens’ Rose Weekend features a bloom for everyone. With more than 100 varieties, you’ll find a wide selection of roses in all shapes and colors.

A tradition for over 68 years, NHG’s Rose Weekend has been instrumental in keeping Dallas rose gardens vibrant.

Originally, this popular weekend event was held in October. In those days, original rosarian Ira Duncan and founder Ralph Pinkus trekked to the Tyler rose fields, selecting the rose varieties that would be displayed instore for customers to browse. Bareroot canes were brought in after orders were placed. North Haven Gardens grew the shrubs over the winter in recycled food cans, and customers returned in March to pick up their shrubs.

By the mid-1970s, commercial rose growing in the U.S. was largely centered in California, but today, North Haven Gardens continues the tradition of bringing in several thousand bare root roses each winter to grow out for the next spring. Bare rootstock comes from several reputable wholesale rose growers from around the country, says

general manager Cody Hoya. Rose bushes typically start trickling into the nursery just as the holiday season is in full swing.

Now the last full weekend of March, North Haven Gardens sells an average of 1,000 roses during Rose Weekend — almost one-third of NHG’s yearly rose sales. It’s one of a handful of Texas nurseries that features fan-favorite David Austin English Roses.

The best way to select the perfect rose for your garden?

“Visit North Haven Gardens during Rose Weekend. Our garden advisors are ready and waiting to help select the best rose for you and your garden,” Hoya says.

Rose Weekend: March 25-26, 2023, 9am-6pm (opening 8am on Saturday)

ON THE COVER Beauty inside and out

At North Haven Gardens, enthusiasts can find a large variety of roses, attend classes such as Chic Home Plant Care, How Not to Kill Your Indoor Houseplant and “Swap and Sips” – opportunities for interested parties to trade cuttings and seeds with others.

Front cover The Poet’s Wife Roses (yellow) offers a wonderfully rich fragrance with a hint of lemon, which becomes sweeter and stronger with age. Image courtesy of David Austin Roses.

Left page: A ‘Benjamin Britten,’ bred by Davis Austin Roses, is a shrub known for its highly saturated color. Image courtesy of David Austin Roses.

Right Page : Rosarian Ira Duncan with the canned roses in front in 1959. An ad for Rose Weekend from 1967. Images courtesy of North Haven Gardens.

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SADDLING UP

Country singer Granger Smith is recovering from grief on and off the screen

Interview by RAVEN JORDAN

Before Lake Highlands graduate Granger Smith became a country star performing shows across the nation, he was singing in our neighborhood.

Though he’d been releasing albums since 1999, first with Waiting on Forever , the album that brought him national recognition was Remington and the single “Backroad Song” in 2016. Over the years, he’s cultivated a devoted fan base dubbed Yee Yee Nation.

His other titles include podcast host, iHeart Radio host and something of a comedian with his alter ego, Earl Dibbles Jr. And the list doesn’t end there.

After receiving a script from director Vickie Bronaugh that kind of “fell in my lap,” Smith decided to try his hand at acting. The singer’s film debut happened last year in the holiday movie Moonrise in the lead role of Will Brown. He also lent his songwriting skills to the film’s soundtrack.

Moonrise is about a country singer whose grief after his wife’s death sidetracks his career and causes him to push away his teen daughter, Ellie (Piper Clurman). Brown learns to live again once a horse trainer (Sonya Balmores) arrives to teach his daughter how to ride the same horse his wife died riding.

TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MOONRISE AND HOW IT WAS AS A FILM DEBUT.

I didn’t really seek it out. I didn’t really try to go to find this movie script. They were looking for a country singer to fill this role, because the movie is about a country singer. So that’s how it got to my

desk. Although I’d never acted before, I thought I really liked the story, read the whole script. It was just random that I read the script, and I actually liked it. I’d called back my brother, Tyler (my manager) and I was like, “I think I’m gonna do it; I’m gonna try this out.”

HO W MANY SONGS DID YOU WRITE FOR THE FILM, AND WAS IT ANY DIFFERENT THAN WRITING FOR AN ALBUM?

I wrote 12 songs for it. And it was very different from writing a normal album because I was writing to specific moments, whether it was to a title or a place in the film. The director would say, “Hey, I’ve got this moment right here, this segment, this transition, this montage. Can you run a song for this?” So, I was able to specifically write to a moment in time, which is easier than writing to no idea at all, 10 o’clock in the morning cup of coffee, try to write a song. It’s much harder to do that, though I enjoyed the process.

DID PLAYING WILL BROWN TEACH YOU ANYTHING ABOUT YOURSELF?

It taught me that acting is hard, that memorization is key to being on set. I needed to memorize my own lines and the other characters’ lines and be able to have that kind of interaction. I had to memorize to the point of believing what I was saying. And that forced me to really become Will Brown. I’d go back to my Airbnb after the daily shoot. Sometimes I would think, “Man, I’m a little sad, depressed. Why? Oh, it’s not because of me. It’s because of this character

who’s currently depressed.”

DID YOU CHANNEL SOME OF YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE LOSING YOUR SON, RIVER, INTO PLAYING THE CHARACTER AND GRIEVING YOUR WIFE AS WILL BROWN?

I’m certainly acquainted with grief. I thought that maybe that would be the case, and even the director and I talked about that, but my wife Amber plays my deceased wife in the film. It seemed to be impactful emotionally for me if I put myself in the character of Will Brown and thought about losing my Amber. That scenario helped me specifically in the scenes more than drawing on my own life experiences. That would have been a little obscure for me to try to relate losing a child to losing a wife in the film.

WHAT WERE YOUR FAMILY’S REACTIONS TO THE FILM?

I was kind of worried about my kids and what they would think. My daughter, when I first started showing her rough cuts of it, she really was interested

in watching it. So that gave me hope that maybe my other kids or my other people would like the film itself because my daughter’s a big critic.

WOULD YOU WANT TO PLAY ANY ROLES IN FUTURE MOVIES OR SERIES?

If it was the right one, if it was the right script. I accepted this one because I just really liked the story, and I don’t think I’d be able to say that about everything. Yeah, I’m not going to start pursuing an acting career.

Interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. Moonrise was released Dec. 15 on Pure Flix and will be available to stream in other formats in the coming months.

Photos by Lance Catania, provided by Pure Flix, AFFIRM Films.

A Beautiful Life

RODERICK MACELWAIN LISTENED TO AND ADVISED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF WHITE ROCK LAKE VISITORS

One of two men famous for delivering free advice at White Rock Lake for 20-something years, Roderick MacElwain, died Jan. 15 following what his family and friends say was a heroic battle with cancer.

Though he’s best known around here for his kindness, wit and sage wisdom offered from lakeside lawn chairs, MacElwain led an altruistic and adventurous existence long before the day in 1996 when he and his buddy Neal Caldwell pitched their “Free Advice” sign

at Jackson Point.

“Roderick impacted the lives of virtually every person he encountered, often profoundly,” his friend Nathan Crow says.

Because of his unique approach to life, MacElwain embraced a grim diagnosis, which he received

Story by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by FAY STOUT

in 2017, that most would find devastating.

“For Roderick and his wife Lisa, their experience with his cancer was not so much a battle against the disease, but more an invitation to open their hearts, to love life and to love others,” Crow, with input from other loved ones, wrote in his friend’s obituary. “Despite the pain and challenge of his illness, Roderick would often say that cancer was the ‘best thing that ever happened to him,’ because it affirmed the importance of God and close relationships with family and friends.”

A Miami native, MacElwain spent summers with his grandmother in Minnesota where he developed a love of the outdoors and adventure.

He moved to California’s Bay Area during high school, played a little football and graduated from Berkeley before embarking on a promising business career in New York.

But while still in his 20s, according to his friends, he had a profound spiritual awakening and set out on a cross-country journey.

“Without money, food, a change of clothes or even a passport, and with a self-imposed rule that he would not beg or ask anyone for help, Roderick left home to see where and how far his faith, grit and wits might take him,” Crow wrote, based on acquaintances’ memories. “He would often refer to his trip around the world as a formative experience, and he would share countless tales — both harrowing and heartwarming — of his travels through several continents.”

Once he settled in Dallas, MacElwain’s remarkable intuition and logical problem-solving skills made him a sought-after freelance business consultant.

But this was “a man of unique

and constantly evolving interests,” his friend says, a guy who did a stint as a taxi driver in 1970s Miami primarily out of curiosity about human nature.

He didn’t care about money, lived modestly by choice and, for many of his adult years, drove around in a 1960s Volkswagen Bug.

He periodically pursued interests in dream analysis, race walking and improvisational singing, “always marching to his own drum,” Crow says.

FREE ADVICE

Almost every Sunday, weather permitting, Caldwell and MacElwain set up on a picnic blanket close to T.P. Hill, inviting passersby to sit and chat. They shared a desire to become better communicators, MacElwain told the Advocate in 2004, adding that the first hour and a half was “horrendously uncomfortable.”

Caldwell recalls people yelling at them to “get a job” and a general mistrust at the outset of “the experiment.”

But on the other side of intense awkwardness was a giddy sense of possibility and wonder, he says.

“At the end of the day, we were laughing so much. It was such great fun,” Caldwell says. “That is the best word to describe it. Fun in a challenging way, not just entertainment.”

As anyone who frequented White Rock Lake in the past 20 years knows, the Free Advice Guys became a fixture.

“We were consistent and stubborn,” Caldwell says.

Those close to them guess the pair advised tens of thousands of people.

Although most who went to Free Advice were strangers, many became repeat visitors. Some became

lifelong friends, Caldwell says.

People were drawn to MacElwain’s ability to listen, understand and guide them, he says.

“He can show you your gifts, your qualities and your bad qualities,” Caldwell says. “He believed if you identify and focus on the good qualities, you can propel your life forward easier and more clearly.”

As MacElwain told the Advocate , sometimes they just listened.

“A lot of times we’ve helped people not by having an answer or an interesting way of looking at it, but just by letting them talk and being as supportive and neutral as possible. Many times, you can just see them open up and realize things. And we really didn’t do anything, but just be decent, respectful human beings.”

The Free Advice experiment and friendship with MacElwain had an enormous positive effect on Caldwell, who tells the Advocate he is back to offering free advice, now Sundays at Turtle Creek Park.

Everyone who met MacElwain — via Free Advice or elsewhere — remembered the experience, his friend Nathan Crow says.

“Simultaneously traditional but iconoclastic, passionate but incisive, caring but brutally honest, a conversation with Roderick was

We were consistent and stubborn.

like no other,” he notes.

KEEPING AND SHARING THE FAITH

Friends say MacElwain remained a spiritual person throughout his life.

During his illness, he embraced his Christian faith and more openly shared it with those around him. He was non-denominational and had no interest in imposing his beliefs on others, they add.

At the time of his diagnosis, doctors told MacElwain he had approximately six months to live, but as his wife Lisa puts it, “Roderick took on cancer in a way that was both Herculean and quintessentially his own.”

A vegan committed to a healthy lifestyle, he pursued conventional and alternative treatments for his illness, a combination to which family and friends attribute the extension of life.

While the final days were challenging, his family shares, MacElwain continued to communicate his experiences to help others struggling with cancer.

“Roderick’s friends and family were in awe of his strength and resolve in the face of cancer, while his physicians were stunned by his remarkable survival for nearly six years following his initial diagnosis,” Lisa says.

Roderick died surrounded by loved ones and is survived by wife Lisa Oglesby Rocha, sister Eva Narten, niece Michelle MacElwain Leon and great nephew Jorge Taño Leon, as well as countless spiritual family members and close friends.

A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. March 4 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 848 Harter Road. A celebration of Roderick MacElwain’s life will follow.

In lieu of flowers, those wishing to honor MacElwain’s memory are encouraged to do two things: First, do a kind, loving act for someone else. Second, ask themselves how they can live their life in the way that is truest to their innermost self.

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BRUNO’S FRUTERIA COMBINES CULTURES IN EVERY BITE

Story by ARIEL WALLACE |

by KATHY TRAN

A LITTLE BIT OF THIS. A LITTLE BIT OF THAT

The smell of freshly blended fruit, Tajín seasoning and freshly baked Latin American pastries captures you as soon as you walk into Bruno’s Fruteria, Dallas’ first Cuban, Mexican and Caribbean fusion fruteria.

Since opening September 2022, Bruno’s Fruteria has committed itself to giving customers a multicultural Latin experience, with its food, music and decor.

Owner Ernesto Velez, who also owns Casa Linda’s Havana Cafe, opened the fruteria for his son. He hopes this restaurant will teach 12-year-old Bruno how to run a business.

“It was his idea to do a fruteria,” Velez says.

Like Bruno, the menu is a fusion of cultures. Veldez was inspired by his son to mix the two cultures together as a concept for the restaurant.

“He is Cuban and his mom is Mexican,” Velez says. “Most of this business is Mexican. Mexicans have always started this concept, so we are trying to do something different, like a Cuban-Mexican mix.”

Although there’s a heavy Cuban-Mexican influence

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Bruno’s Fruteria ice cream flavors are bubble gum, pistachio, mango and strawberry.

on the menu, it also includes a variety of food staples from Latin American cuisines, homemade artisan ice cream and boba. The Tropical Boba drink utilizes Caribbean fruits and flavors in the traditionally Taiwanese drink.

Whether he’s deciding which Mexican-Mayan masks are displayed on the walls or choosing menu items, Bruno is very involved in developing the concept. One of the menu items Bruno created is called “Bruno’s Nachos.”

“Bruno’s Nachos” includes ground beef cooked Cuban style, with nacho cheese, black beans, pico de gallo and jalapeños.

“He loves food just like me,

his father,” Velez says.

Some of the crowd pleasers include the Cuban puff pastries with fruit filling, beef and cheese empanadas, homemade Mexican ice cream and the Chamoy Tajín Mango Smoothie — the perfect mix of sweet and spicy.

“People love it. Everyone loves it,” Velez says. “They like what they order and they come back. We already have customers that come by every day. The UPS guys come in every day during their shifts.”

Velez emphasized the importance of having such a culturally rich restaurant in Lake Highlands.

“This is a new thing for the

community. There is no other Cuban-Caribbean-Mexican fusion fruteria like this in Dallas,” Velez says. “I want people to bring their kids after school to grab ice cream or boba. I want people to appreciate it and come enjoy it.”

Fruterias are a seasonal business, but Bruno’s Fruteria is open seven days a week, year-round. They get a spike in customers when the weather is warmer.

“Once we get into April, when the weather gets better, the business will pop out,” Velez says. “And I love that for us.”

Taro, strawberry and matcha boba drinks from Bruno’s Fruteria.

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A fan favorite at Bruno’s Fruteria is the Chamoy Tajín Mango Smoothie.

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climb the walls at Movement. Find the perfect toy and a secret passage at Camp or take a dip at Elmer’s Swim School. Move to any space!

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Grab a friend and visit the Hill Courtyard to play cornhole & ping pong

coffee Break recharge with coffee or tea, iced or hot at houndstooth

Dining at the hill

Bellagreen Poke works

Choose one of our great dining Options and spend some time in your space

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From Pilates to HIIT Training, this corner will make you love working up a sweat Pop &chill grab a fruit paleta at pop factory and go directly to the courtyard

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Kid & Family Focused

Depending on your child’s age the fun starts with a class at Elmer’s Swim School or climbing at Movement for older kids. All that activity works up an appetite for lunch at Hat Creek Burger Company or Luna Grill. After class check out toys and more at CAMP — be sure to ask about the secret room. Head over to the hill Courtyard to play an outdoor lawn game like corn hole or ping pong. Cool off with a chocolate covered Vanilla Dulce de Leche paleta from Pop Factory.

Girls’ Day

Meet your gal pals at Clean Juice for a smoothie or Acai bowl before hitting a class at Shine Hot Pilates + Sculpt. Reward your hard work with a massage at Hiatus Spa Grab lunch at Poke Works or Hello Dumpling. Finish the day in style with a mani/pedi at Rose Couture Nail Bar and a matcha or coffee at Houndstooth.

Fitness Focused Fathers

Before your HIIT workout at D1 or F-45 grab a clean breakfast at Clean Juice Check your health at SynergenX or schedule a B12 Injection. Relax and spruce up with a cut at Boardroom Salon. Finish your day with a hearty meal (or a manly salad) at Taco Deli or Soul Bird

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PARTIES

Story

by ALYSSA HIGH | Photography by JULIA CARTWRIGHT

perhaps Katie Fuerst was born an artisan.

Her parents are both artisans themselves, and she was always surrounded by the art world in some way or another. The Preston Hollow Elementary alumna attended high schools all over Dallas, but her first art teacher at PHES was who sparked her interest in art. She attended college at Texas Tech University before realizing that art was her passion and transferred to the University of North Texas to get her BFA in Art History.

After college, Fuerst returned to the neighborhood and worked for a paint-yourown-pottery studio in Preston Center, where she learned the tricks of the trade. One day, a customer came in requesting to do a party at her own house, and the manager informed her that they didn’t travel to people’s homes for the parties. Fuerst followed the woman to her car and asked when she needed the party ready, and within two weeks, Fuerst had her own ceramics painting party. She promptly quit and got to work on her own.

“I walked in and gave my two weeks’ notice and bought a kiln. She was my first client,

but it just kind of mushroomed from there,” Fuerst says. “I would take breaks every once in a while because I had young kids, but even if I went to someone’s house for a playdate, I always brought ceramics.”

Fuerst continued her business for nearly 30 years, painting countless ornaments, plates, cups and anything else Fuerst could make out of clay.

“A lot of my friends have their kid’s footprints on plates around their house and stuff,” Fuerst says. “There’s always just something that I love about immortalizing something on clay that is going to be special for years to come.”

You don’t have to be an artist to enjoy the classes, Fuerst says. In fact, many of her clients come into the parties with the notion that they’re going to paint their ceramics in all one color because they don’t have the confidence to paint something more.

“I walk them through and say ‘No, I want you to dream up what you want this to look like, and I will help you get there,’” she says. “I have story after story of having so much fun painting where they get it back and go, ‘No way; there’s no way I painted this.’ And

NEIGHBOR KATIE FUERST MAKES EVERYONE AN ARTIST WITH POTTERY PAINT

I just love that because I know the medium so well that I can break it down and tell you exactly how to get there.”

For Fuerst, painting parties and ceramics are about more than just the piece; it’s about entertaining.

“I love how the take-home kits, even if I am not there, it’s a party,” Fuerst says. “They’ve invited friends over and they’ve set the table nicely, and when I drop it back off to them, it’s just something unique that they’ve created.”

Fuerst previously sold ceramics in JoJo Mommy and Highland Park Scots Shop. Now, Fuerst mostly sells off of her website, where she is able to sell take-home kits, schedule paint parties, and sell her own ceramic creations.

She is working on a spring line called Spring Has Sprung with items like small food-safe vessels and a bedside collection of cups. She aims to have a new line every season, with ornaments returning in the fall.

In addition to ceramics, Fuerst painted a mural in Oak Cliff in 2021 entitled “Dallas Postcard” and is open to doing more, wherever creative direction takes her. She currently does paint parties in Preston Hollow, Lake Highlands and other neighborhoods in central Dallas.

Katie Fuerst hosts a painting party at her house.

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THRIFTING MIGHT MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE, SO HERE’S HOW TO DO IT IN LAKE HIGHLANDS

Story by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB Photography by LAUREN ALLEN

From the exterior of its humble headquarters on Garland Road, White Rock Center of Hope might not appear to be an enterprise on the cutting edge of conscientious consumerism and fashion trends. But doors under that generic-looking “Thrift Shop” signage lead to an impressive operation.

Neatly distributed rows of clothing, a curated selection of furniture and accessories and a front-and-center “boutique” area stocked with higher-end inventory meet a shopper’s eye, which might land on a set of silver, studded, six-inch platform Gianni Bini heels or something equally splendid.

“We've been doing a lot to try to refresh our merchandising and marketing, to make sure the store is welcoming,” Executive Director Greg Smith says. “We always have fresh sales. You’ll see our floors have been cleaned, and they’re nice and sparkly.”

The staff says that if they don’t have what you need, or want, today, chances are they will have it next week. “We have a lot of churn, which is great,” Smith says.

Dallas is a good place in general for thrifting, according to a 2022 study by the research team at Lawn Love. Our city ranks No. 12 on their list of 200, coming in just behind a few other Texas metros — Houston, San Antonio and Austin. That’s based on the number of secondhand retailers and an analysis

of thrift- and consignment-related Google searches in the area.

June Park, a professor at Oklahoma State University’s Department of Design, Housing and Merchandising, commenting on the study, explains the benefits of shopping for used items.

“Needless to say, it is good for the environment as you are closing the loop by reusing material goods,” she says. “It is also a good way to support your community because many thrift stores are locally based, small businesses, and a sizable portion of their earnings goes to charity.”

In 2021, secondhand clothing purchases displaced about one billion purchases of new clothing, according to the report, which is important, because, according to the research, while some new apparel is sourced from sustainable, or even recycled, resources, the fashion industry is still one of the most polluting, due to fast fashion, in which companies make clothing cheaply and speedily to keep up

consignment vs thrift

In consignment shops , clients turn over their goods to the shop for a specific time and receive part of the profits if and when the items are sold. In thrift stores , donated items stay in stock until they are sold, and the person who donated the items does not receive any money in exchange for them.

up in landfills,” note the study’s authors.

The thrift store at White Rock Center of Hope supports programs that assist families from ZIP codes 75238, 75218, 75214, 75228 and 75223.

Donations come in through the west side of the building, behind the retail store, where volunteers accept items Monday-Saturday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Aside from old-school electronics and items that “have been loved so much they have nothing left to give,” Smith says they will accept almost anything.

The 16,000-square-foot building includes ample space for volunteers to sort, count and organize those contributions.

Some will go to “clothing closet,” in an adjacent area, where enrolled families can choose outfits free of charge four times a year. The center distributes some 81,000 such items each year and also shares with other local charities, Smith says.

clients take home complete outfits), it partners with North Texas Food Bank for its grocery pantry, it and provides a number of additional resources.

“Almost all of the labor at the thrift shop is volunteer,” Smith says. “That means every dollar at the store is benefitting people in the neighborhood.”

Since Smith joined the foundation 18 months ago, he has focused on expanding programming.

“Once people are stabilized, oftentimes they still need some help to figure out how to not need to come back again,” Smith says.

He points to a room that has been cleared to make way for a classroom where he says volunteers and social workers will teach useful skills such as financial literacy.

White Rock Center of Hope checks all the feel-goodshopping boxes, but it is not the only place in the neighborhood for resale, vintage and other second hand treasure.

Super Thrift 11411 E. Northwest Highway

Patient perusers are often rewarded with fab finds, but they might have to work for them. Rows of clothing options for men women and children, plus luggage, hats, sunglasses, shoes, partially spent bottles of perfume, belts, ties, shoes, linens, minor furniture and kitchen and household items — there is a ton of inventory, but shoppers say it’s well organized and clean.

Fahra Mitchell of Lochwood, who frequents the Northwest Highway reseller, recommends going once a month or so.

“I do find that if I go too often, I hardly get anything, which would indicate that they don't have a good turnover compared to some other stores.” she says.

Before you go, check for coupons on sites such as fivestars. com, where Super Thrift sometimes posts “5% off your entire purchase” (or similar) deals.

Super Thrift is open daily 9 a.m.-9 p.m., and they accept clothing donations during those hours. Please don’t bring mattresses or large furniture, says one staffer reached by phone. Just come to the cashier or call ahead and someone will come to your car and help you.

Plato’s Closet 8430 Abrams

Y2K-era trucker hats and low-rise jeans for trendy Gen Zs, an assortment of sunglasses and bags for Mom and Dad — there might be something here for everyone in the family, but it mostly appeals to tweens, teens and 20-somethings.

Plato’s Closet, which relocated from Medallion Center about 10 years ago, is pricier than the typical thrift store. Clothing is intentionally priced, meaning a T from The Gap is going to be cheap, while designer jeans might be $20 or more, which is still significantly more affordable than buying new.

Gently used clothing can be resold to Plato’s. But it’s not the place to unload that unwanted, unsorted bag of threads. Always call ahead, 214.342.2204, to see what they are taking — generally, on-trend, name-brand clothing, shoes and purses in good condition. According to Plato’s Closet marketing, making one pair of jeans uses 2,000 gallons of water, one reason to consider buying denim secondhand.

FASHIONPHILE NorthPark Center

On the third floor of NorthPark Center, FASHIONPHILE offers an ultra-luxurious resale experience for snappy shoppers.

Authenticity is guaranteed thanks to a rigorous screening process, and personal shoppers are available to help customers find their bespoke “preloved” Birkin bag or Cartier bracelet. (According to promotional materials, buying those items secondhand saves 914.8 pounds of carbon dioxide and 2,040 gallons of water or 1,455 pounds of carbon and 654 gallons of water, respectively.)

For example, a Louis Vuitton Epi leather purse that retails at more than $2,100 costs about $1,200 at FASHIONPHILE. And when you are ready to trade that in for a fresher look, FASHIONPHILE will buy back most accessories at a percentage of the purchase price, up to 75%, provided it is still in good shape. Drop in or visit the website fashionphile.com for details on selling or to shop the current stock.

Anonymously Yours 9310 Forest Lane

This consignment store specializing in bridal and formal wear stocks both new and lovingly used gowns from designer names including Jovani, Maggie Sottero and Justin Alexander as well as veils, hair jewels or other accessories for the bride and her party. Find prom dresses and frocks for other formal occasions too.

Anonymously Yours also carries closeout and sample gowns, often brand new, and offers them at used prices, says shop owner Rene Bankston, who has been selling wedding gowns on consignment for more than 30 years.

For those who wish to consign items, she accepts articles ranging from casual to matrimonial in sizes 0-44. Quick-moving items include fine jewelry in nine to 24 karat gold, sterling silver and designer purses. Consignments are accepted weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and require a minimum of eight acceptable current style items. Call 214.341.4618 to schedule an appointment.

THIS WOMAN-OWNED CBD STORE WANTS TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE

Story

Awell-lit, open suite with honey-colored chandeliers. Products labeled and arranged neatly and displayed along the walls. A sitting area with a luxe green couch and cozy area rug. This is not a gift shop or a fashion boutique. This is a CBD store.

CBD House of Healing is located right in the thick of Lake Highlands. Owner Summer

PRUITT

Hanson, a career nurse, is trying to change the narrative on CBD use in our neighborhood and Texas.

“I had used cannabis previously to manage stress and anxiety,” Hanson says. “But I didn’t really have a grasp on CBD.”

Hanson credits her time as a registered nurse leading to a deeper understanding of the product.

“It took me acknowledging

that I had used cannabis therapeutically to realize I can bring this to other people,” she says. “In my head, I thought I was just using it for fun, not knowing that it was really medicine.”

In 2019, Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 1325, making the sale of hemp products legal statewide. Texans took advantage overnight, creating their own distribution shops wherever there was room.

by SIMON

| Photography by JULIA CARTWRIGHT

Hemp legalization in Texas isn’t quite as enabling as places like California or Colorado, which have full marijuana legalization. Hemp and marijuana plants are types of the same species of cannabis plant. The difference lies in the plant’s percentage of THC, the element that induces a “high” in its user.

A hemp plant contains 0.3% or less THC, an amount deemed suitable for Texans under current legislation. Marijuana plants contain 0.3% or more THC, which remains illegal to possess in Texas.

CBD is a popular medicinal element of the hemp plant that can be extracted and put into oils, gummies or pills.

Right on the heels of the new legislation, Texans become accustomed to a wide variety of options in the CBD market. Still, the industry remains a taboo with poor reputation to some who have yet to adjust to a changing medicinal and recreational landscape.

Hanson’s friend and business partner, Brittany Lane, created the House of Healing brand two years prior in Abilene, Texas. After Hanson’s own revelation with the product, she jumped on the opportunity to open a second location in her neck of the woods.

“Brittany wanted to change the aesthetic of her shop to differentiate herself from other places where you can buy CBD,” Hanson says. “Neither one of our shops look like a typical hemp shop.”

Inside the shop, there’s a colorful display of their products, offering medicinal, recreational and cosmetic benefits.

The store’s top wellness products usually come as a liquid tincture extract that can be added to drinks or gummies.

Shelves are stocked with CBD, Delta 8, Delta 9 and Delta 10 gummies in different flavors, along with CBD oil and tablets. Other edible items include CBD lollipops and whole-bean coffee.

There’s also a full line of CBD skin care products in white and gold packaging, including anti-aging moisturizer and facial scrubs, whipped shave butter and whipped foam facial cleanser.

On one wall, House of Healing has its bud bar, where customers can purchase flowers by the gram.

There’s even a tincture extract designed for pets.

“They are not just another smoke shop or pop-up neon green sign store trying to make a buck.” says Justin, a regular customer at

House of Healing who decline the use of his last name. “I had seen so many other ‘alternative medical marijuana’ and CBD shops; however, they appear untrustworthy or fly-by-night.”

As such, the manner in which House Of Healing chooses to aesthetically represent CBD and their brand is very intentional. Results can be found in their number of regular customers, well-produced social media videos and even the subtle influence to destigmatize hemp products and culture across Texas.

“I’m a registered nurse; I’m a young woman; I’m a mom; I’m not a degenerate, and I use these products every day,” she says.

As successful as House of Healing might be, nothing is more meaningful to Hanson than being on the forefront of a change in Lake Highlands and Texas.

“If I can be the face of something that people previously considered wrong, it’s important I represent the brand as best I can,” Hanson says.

Summer Hanson, a career nurse, is trying to change the narrative on CBD.

A Dreamer’s Guide

RISD STAFF MEMBER BY DAY, CLASSICAL PIANIST BY NIGHT

Story by SIMON PRUITT | Photography by JULIA CARTWRIGHT

Bobby Orozco has a second life. During the day, he’s a beloved Richardson ISD staff member, recently shifting roles from attendance clerk to maintenance. He’s warm, engaging and kind to the students he’s seen grow up since middle school.

When the schools close down for the day, Orozco moonlights as one of Dallas’ premier classical pianists, with five original composition albums to date. His work is entirely instrumental.

“I much prefer to convey my music to the audience without words,”

he says. “Music without words gives me the job as the musician to convey the music as I perform it.”

Despite decades of training under his belt, Orozco still recalls the rush of composing his own music for the first time.

“I poked around on a few impromptu ideas on the piano but they never had any structure or form,” he says. “I didn't begin to score them out until my second year in college and would anxiously bring my piano scores to my college music teachers. I never got much of a response from them but I loved

having that blank manuscript paper and filling it up.”

Orozco’s composition creates a finely tuned dreamlike atmosphere, with performances that often feature a second fine art element on stage. The dreamy tone is not unintentional; Orozco released Dreamers in 2021 and has songs called “Dreamboat Dancer,” “Can You Tell I’ve Been Dreaming” and “A Dreamer’s Guide To Slowly Dying.”

“I've put myself in the seat of the audience and I find it to be aesthetically easy on the eye and ear

to listen to a room get filled with sound and a blank canvas literally come to life,” he says. “I've always wanted to fill the performance space up with dancers, painters or even spoken word poetry.”

Each show is booked and promoted by Orozco himself, usually at small, intimate venues such as YAM Dallas.

“Being a solo pianist doesn't come with a built-in crowd like playing in a band at breweries and dive bars,” he says. “So it's been quite the endeavor renting venues and hoping people buy tickets.”

That said, Orozco knows a thing or two about Texan dive bar revivals. He’s played drums and bass for DFW’s deep country outfit The Driftin’ Outlaw Band for over a decade. Though a musical left turn, Orozco takes inspiration from his work with the band to help promote his solo piano tracks.

“I’m not in a community of people that do what I do with piano so I’m pretty heavily influenced in building my career as a pianist the same way I see bands build their following.”

Orozco doesn’t just stand out for his talent; his two full tattoo sleeves have become part of his branding since he began his career.

“My first tattoo was a small treble clef on my arm that I got after a failed piano audition in 2006,” Orozco says. “It’s probably unusual to see a pianist covered like me but I don’t feel that it has anything to do with my artistic expression. It’s just something I’ve been into with or without music.”

As he continues to build on his catalog, Orozco looks to his past to predict his future.

“I’ve been an untraditional pianist playing untraditional venues for a while now,” he says.

“If I get the listener to feel anything at all, I've done my job and they've done theirs.”

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