2015 January Lakewood

CURTAIN CALL

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January 28

Presented by the Ann and Jack Graves Charitable Foundation

Lincoln Wallen

Chief Technology O cer, DreamWorks

LINCOLN WALLEN is the chief technology o cer for DreamWorks Animation, where he is responsible for providing strategic technology vision and leadership. Under his leadership, DreamWorks Animation was named to MIT Technology Review’s “50 Most Innovative Companies” list.

April 8

Presented by Ericsson

Hugh Herr

MIT Media Lab

Biomechatronics Program Head

HUGH HERR is responsible for advances in bionic limbs that o er new hope to people with physical disabilities.

Time magazine called him the “Leader of the Bionic Age” because of his work in the emerging field of biomechatronics, a technology that marries human physiology with electromechanics.

Visit utdallas.edu/lectureseries

March 4

Presented by State Farm

John Maeda

Design Partner, Kleiner Perkins

Past President, Rhode Island School of Design

JOHN MAEDA has worked for more than a decade to integrate technology, education and the arts into a 21st-century synthesis of creativity and innovation. He believes art and design are poised to transform our economy in this century as science and technology did in the last.

April 28

Presented by the Ann and Jack Graves Charitable Foundation

Tony & Jonna Mendez

Author of Argo and both former CIA Chief of Disguise

TONY and JONNA MENDEZ are former CIA o cers whose lives have been featured in books, TV documentaries and the Oscar-winning film Argo Tony Mendez engineered the 1980 rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Iran in an operation that inspired the movie. Jonna Mendez worked as a technical operations o cer with a specialty in clandestine photography.

Hosted by UT Dallas’ Arts and Technology (ATEC) program, the series features speakers from a wide range of backgrounds in science, technology and art. They will present public lectures on topics aimed at exploring the evolving relationships among art, technology, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences.

The iconic tower of the Lakewood Theater: Photo on cover and above by Danny Fulgencio

Fit for a queen

ROAD RULES

It has been awhile since Mrs. Hanson administered my in-car driver’s test, and I remember all too well the various vehicle pirouettes I performed to enjoy all of the benefits associated with having a driver’s license.

What I recall was pretty straightforward stuff. The left lane is for passing. Come to a complete stop at stop signs and stop lights. Yield to pedestrians and cyclists.

And by sticking to the rules, I’ve stayed out of vehicular trouble, for the most part. There was the time I was rear-ended on Central, but that wasn’t my fault. And the time I was T-boned by a semi-truck, but that wasn’t my fault. And that period of three months when I was tapped from behind hard enough at stop lights to warrant thousand-dollar bumper repair bills each time (again, not my fault).

But I’m starting to feel queasy about what the rules are any more, particularly on Dallas streets.

For example, on a two-lane thoroughfare in the city, the rules say slower traffic should remain in the right lane. But the rules don’t account for the tremendously poor condition of many lanes on the right side of Dallas streets; those lanes typically slope a bit to the right to facilitate drainage, and they’ve been so poorly maintained over the years that if you drive the speed limit in the lane, you’re likely to feel like a downhill skier on a mogul course, jumping up and down and right and left.

So here’s my question: If I avoid the horribly pock-marked lane to the right

by driving the speed limit in the left lane, what am I legally required to do when a big vehicle is breathing down my neck wanting to pass? (They don’t want to be in the right lane, either.) Driving the speed limit in the right lane will virtually destroy the bottom of my car, so what am I to do — yield to the jerk behind me or continue obeying the speed limit while protecting my vehicle investment, all the time hoping the guy’s road rage doesn’t include a weapon?

And what about all of those manhole covers that, for some reason, are an inch or so below the pavement right in the path of my tires? Is it legally OK to bob and weave in heavy traffic along the street avoiding these landmines, or do I need to slow to a crawl to protect my car even though I know that will incur the wrath of other drivers who have places to go?

Same with signaling my intent to turn right or left — do I still need to do that, or has being transparent about my intent gone the way of typewriters and disco music?

I know texting and driving is bad (although still not illegal), but what about texting, driving and putting on makeup? Is that something I can call 911 about?

And if I see a lapdog with its paws on the steering wheel, is that something I should be concerned about, or should I just assume the dog is acting as an extra set of eyes for potholes, manhole covers and uneven pavement?

You see what I mean? Driving in Dallas is a lot more complicated these days, and I’m just not sure whether I should spend as much time yielding to others as I used to, or whether I should be using Grand Theft Auto video game strategy to send a message to fellow drivers that I’m no patsy on the street?

I don’t think Mrs. Hanson would know the answers, either.

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Navigating the mean streets of Dallas is more confusing and treacherous than ever

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“Bravo! An appropriate record of Mother Nature’s revenge on the organizers for taking her beloved ‘White Rock Lake’ out of the name (and, I predict, ultimately out of the course entirely).” —Lakewoody on “The 2013 Dallas Marathon (that wasn’t)”

“The reports are late, the data is limited and filters are clearly in place to hide data from the public. For example, in my neighborhood it was thanks to a social media site that we found out a shooting had occurred (no police involved). DPD labeled it burglary of a vacant house … no mention of guns going off.”

—Deep_Sigh on “Online police reports less transparent”

“We finally have people in the administration and on the board who ‘get’ East Dallas/Lakewood. It’s di cult to explain to outsiders.” —WWW MOM on Angela Hunt’s column, “DISD’s success in Lakewood creates a new kind of conundrum for parents,” from our December issue

“My heart hurts to think of that glorious Lakewood interior being gutted. I wish I had the money to do something about this.”

— FlightyTwilighty on “Lakewood Theater owner: Iconic tower ‘a great asset to us’ ” (Read more on page 32)

Breast friends

The Maddox Shop began fitting bras for double mastectomy patients before newspapers would even print the words “breast cancer.”

“My grandmother had a radical surgery, and she came here to be fitted,” says assistant manager Kathy Holland. “That was in the early ’70s.”

The Casa Linda establishment was the first store in Dallas to employ board-certified mastectomy fitters. For 80 years, it has been the go-

Store manager Candace Kennemer: Photos by Rasy Ran

to shop for women who need custom-fit bras.

“The custom fitting is imperative,” Holland says. “You can’t get this online. A lot of times the doctors don’t tell women what to expect, so they come to us looking for us to educate them and help them through it.”

The original owner — Peggy Maddox, who died in 1980 at age 103 — initially ran the shop from her home, creating custom-fit back braces and undergarments for polio patients. She moved into the Medical Arts Building in Downtown in 1934 during the Great Depression. The shop later moved to Oak Lawn and eventually to Casa Linda Plaza, where it has operated since 1961 — longer than any other business in the shopping center. The current location is at the southwest corner across from Natural Grocers.

“It has endured all the other retailers that have come and gone,” says Holland, who has been working at Maddox since 1967.

She remembers going to the hospital to measure polio patients for their surgical braces. Doctors began referring their patients who had undergone mastectomies and reconstructive breast surgery and needed custom-fit bras. That became one of the shop’s specialties, and it still receives recommendations from businesses and doctors’ offices all over the city.

The Maddox Shop also provides bras made for wedding gowns or nursing, and carries up to a size N. And for decades, local moms have been bringing their daughters into the shop to buy their first bra a bra made to fit perfectly and look amazing.

“I hear people say all the time, ‘I can’t wait to get home and take my bra off.’ I don’t ever think that,” says co-owner Jessica Snyder. She and her father bought The Maddox Shop from Peggy’s daughter-in-law Doris in the 1980s.

Snyder says it was a lifesaver for her as a teenager, knowing she could go somewhere for a secure bra that wasn’t “beige and industrial.”

“We sell the snot out of those gorgeous fashion bras,” she says. —Brittany Nunn

Business (and neighborhood) savvy

They’ve spent almost a year gaining momentum, and now they want you to know who they are.

The Lowest Greenville Collective is a

business association, but those involved insist it’s more than that.

“The old associations were more focused on how to get more people down

here,” says Sammy Mandell, owner of Greenville Avenue Pizza Company. “This is more focused on community engagement and relationship building.”

The leadership team of the Lowest Greenville Collective: Photo by Jacque Manaugh

Jessica Burnham, who has played a huge part in creating the collective, says it “exists to capture the unified voice of the businesses on Lowest Greenville from Belmont to Ross and to open up communication from the businesses to the surrounding neighborhoods and with the city at large.”

The mission sometimes catches people off guard, Burnham says, because some neighbors believe the collective was created as a way for the businesses to band together against the neighborhoods. But Burnham insists the businesses on Lowest Greenville consider themselves to be a part of the neighborhood.

“That’s the goal, and that has always been the goal since the first meeting,” Burnham says.

Burnham began talking with business owners on Lowest Greenville a couple of years ago, after the street had undergone a major renovation. They began by nailing down the main objectives — cleanliness, traffic, safety and business collaboration.

“I think it was easy to point out things that could be done that would be more easily done as a group,” explains Lindsay Dyer of Blind Butcher.

After team building from within, the collective began reaching out. In 2014, Greenville Avenue Pizza Company hosted Slices for Supplies to raise money and supplies for Ignacio Zaragoza Elementary, and HG Sply Co. partnered with East Dallas-based nonprofit Interfaith Housing Coalition to create a garden. The Truck Yard hosted a day of community-wide trash pickup.

The collective hosted a fall festival in November, and Burnham is working to organize a 52 Weeks of Giving initiative or 12 Months of Giving — whichever happens first.

“What I see for this year is something that people are going to take note of,” says Elias Pope, the owner of HG Sply Co. and Social Mechanics. “This is how businesses — especially in a neighborhood setting — should interact.”—Brittany Nunn

“This is more focused on community engagement and relationship building.”

Frank Campagna: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

To the wall

Frank Campagna takes a drag on his cigarette as he paces behind the counter of the Kettle Art Gallery in Deep Ellum. The walls of the gallery are bare between shows, which almost seems ironic, considering painting walls is kind of Campagna’s thing.

If you live in Dallas, you know this Little Forest Hills neighbor. Or at least you know his work. Since the early 1980s, he has painted and repainted the walls of Deep Ellum with hundreds of murals.

“I was an artist, and I had a friend who told me, ‘Frank, to hell with trying to get your stuff in a gallery. Just throw your stuff up on a wall and people will see it,’” Campagna says.

So that’s exactly what he did.

Today if you see a mural in Deep Ellum or anywhere in Dallas, for that matter — there’s a good chance Campagna painted it. He’s painted almost 1,000.

He also operated a small art studio in the ’80s on Main Street called Studio D, where he hosted bands on the weekends.

“After like three weeks of booking bands, I had the Dead Kennedys calling me and the Butthole Surfers showing up on a regular basis,” Campagna says. “I’d hire an off-duty cop, and we’d have 300500 people in the space. Nothing was happening down here at the time, so we could get away with it.”

He stuck it out in Deep Ellum during the early 2000s, when the nightlife all but disappeared. He opened the Kettle Art Gallery in 2005 to help “bring the neighborhood back” to the vibrant nightlife it had seen in the ’90s.

“It’s bouncing back strong,” Campagna says about Deep Ellum today.

And opening the Kettle was important to him because he wanted “to let artists know that there’s a place for them,” he explains — especially the up-and-comers.

“They’re not lost dogs,” he says. “They can find friends and fellowship here.”

—Brittany Nunn

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Out & About

January 2015

Jan. 24

Hands-on art for kids

East Dallas kiddos can join art educator Amy Hofland from 10 a.m.-noon to explore creative and engaging visual arts projects using diverse media and techniques. Ages 5-12.

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Cathedral, 5100 Ross, Room 208, cathedralartsdallas.org, 214.887.6552, free

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DEC. 31

NYE at Granada Theater

Join Dallas-based indie-rockers Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights, along with Nikki Lane and The Texas Gentlemen, for a New Year’s Eve bash at the Granada Theater. Doors open at 8 p.m. Preorder tickets online.

Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville, granadatheater.com, 214.824.9933, general admission $24, VIP $80

THROUGH JAN. 4

Circus extravaganza

Ring in the New Year with a circus featuring an international cast of acrobats, aerialists, hand balancers, jugglers, clowns and more. Produced by the Lone Star Circus.

Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman, dct.org, 214.978.0110, $20-$46

THROUGH JAN. 31

‘Levitas’

Seventeen photographers in the “Levitas: A Photographic Investigation of Weightlessness” exhibition were asked to create a photographic image that best captures their ideas of lightness, zero g-forces, defiance of gravity, airiness, levity and ethereality.

Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther, 214.670.8749, bathhousecultural.com, free

THROUGH JAN. 31

‘The Art of Nature’

The Bath House Cultural Center presents a mixed-media art exhibition that features recent works by Silvia Thornton and Anne Neal. The works in this exhibition show what happens when an artist’s inspiration is applied to gifts from nature and earth.

Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther, 214.670.8749, bathhousecultural.com, free

Jan. 19

‘Slippery Slope’

Join East Dallas neighbor Nicole Stewart and her Oral Fixation crew as they narrate personal stories centered on the theme “Slippery Slope.” Show starts at 8 p.m. Wyly Theater, 2400 Flora, oralfixationshow.com, $25

JAN. 2-25

Murder mystery

Support East Dallas neighbor Kurt Kleinmann and enjoy a “living black and white murder mystery” with Pegasus Theatre at the Eisemann Center in Richardson. Kleinmann is the artistic director for “Another Murder, Another Show!” which mimics the style of an old-timey movie.

Eisemann Center, 2351 Performance Dr., Richardson, eisemanncenter. com, 972.744.4650, $22

Jan. 23-Feb. 22

‘Skippyjon Jones’

Skippyjon Jones is a rambunctious Siamese kitten with big ears and an even bigger imagination. When his loving but exasperated mother puts Skippyjon in time-out, he starts to daydream. His imagination takes him far, far away to Mexico, where he pretends that he is a swashbuckling Chihuahua named Skippito Friskito. Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman, dct.org, 214.740.0051,

$15-$28

JAN. 27

Rec center reveal

Join Ferguson Road Initiative for the White Rock Hills Recreation Center design presentation, where the feasibility study and master plan will be revealed. The meeting will be from 6-9 p.m. at the Dallas Arboretum. Enter via the main gate.

Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland, fergusonroad.org, entry and parking are free

Delicious

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TIP: FOR A VEGETARIAN TACO, TRY THE RAJAS CON QUESO (GREEN BELL PEPPERS SAUTÉED WITH ONION AND MOZZARELLA).

Owner

Fernando Barrera used to drive 30 minutes to his favorite taquería, but since opening one of his own last September, he’s staying in town. The restaurateur has already gained a following at his other restaurant, Latin Deli, on nearby Abrams. But Barrera says he always dreamed of opening a taquería. With plenty of places to grab tacos around the neighborhood, he knew his shop needed to be di erent. “Here, it’s simple. I focus completely on the food; everything else comes together after that,” he says. “It takes a little bit longer, but everything is made from scratch.” The homemade tortillas alone are worth the wait. Taco fillings, topped with diced onion and cilantro, range from marinated skirt steak and pastor (grilled pork marinated with onions and pineapples) to traditional Mexican taco-stand menu choices such as tripa (crunchy fried small intestine) and cabeza (beef cheek). Barrera says that his original chorizo (sausage) taco recipe was missing something, so he added chopped Peruvian-style pork, resulting in a nice smoky flavor. “People call me a chef, but I call myself a recipe follower,” he says. “Then I just add my touch.” —Whitney Thompson

Marinated chicken. Photo by Rasy Ran

Best Gift Shop IN

LAKEWOOD - EAST DALLAS

VOTE ONCE A DAY, NOVEMBER 1ST UNTIL NOVEMBER 21ST. The votes are in: Advocate readers have named The T Shop (1911 Abrams Parkway, Suite 102) as the best gift shop in the neighborhood.

Lakewood resident Lori Trent first opened the Trent Shop inside an Uptown jewelry store belonging to her husband, designer Matthew Trent. Regulars quickly dubbed the gift mecca the “T Shop” for the monogrammed tags adorning its candles, handmade jewelry, cards and home decor. But change was coming for the T shop. Matthew’s jewelry store was slated to relocate to Highland Park. Fearing the gift shop wouldn’t work in the new space, Lori held a private sale at her home to shed inventory.

What happened next came as a surprise.

“It turned out to be one of the most successful days in T Shop history,” she says. “We all looked at each other and said, ‘This just might work in Lakewood.’ ”

In 2009, the T Shop opened in the Lakewood shopping center. Lori also added flowers to the mix — even though she was new to floral arranging and had to learn fast.

“We needed a neighborhood florist,” she says. “As soon as we opened, people were

asking us for wedding arrangements.”

These days, Lori says, potted plants are popular sellers. Hosting events at home is also a growing trend, she says.

“The T Shop is just loaded with a quirky mix of seasonal knickknacks and treats for entertaining.” —Whitney Thompson

Runner up: The Corner Market

Third Place: Tallulah Belle

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A casual neighborhood hangout-where sports, burgers and beer reign supreme! Sit back and relax with great food and enjoy one of our 18 beers on tap. Our kitchen is open late and we’ll save you a seat!

The Pour House

Bring your Super Bowl Party to The Pour House. Pre-Super Bowl pizza specials from My Family’s Pizza and drink specials starting at 2pm. Catering also available.

T Shop: Photo by James Coreas

EAT CLEAN IN 2015

As we ring in the New Year, many of us look for a new start, whether it’s de-cluttering the house or adopting a healthier lifestyle. You can achieve both by cleaning out your pantry and swapping processed junk for whole foods. Here are six ingredients to kickstart a year of clean eating.

1. ALMOND FLOUR

If you are taking a break from grains or just want a replacement every now and then, almond flour is the perfect substitute for traditional flour. It adds good nutrients and a mild nut flavor to your recipe.

2. WHOLE ALMONDS

If almond flour is good for you, so is its source. Keep the pantry stocked with whole, unsalted almonds for a variety of protein-packed recipes.

3. COCONUT OIL

Coconut oil replaces any high-heat cooking oil and has many health benefits. This oil is one of the most versatile and can be used in baking as a dairy-free butter replacement.

4. COCONUT FLOUR

Used in small amounts but full of fiber, protein and healthy fat, coconut flour is a perfect substitute for wheat flours.

5. COCONUT MILK

Creamy and full of flavor, coconut milk can be added to smoothies, soups and sauces. It also can replace milk or cream in baking. This ingredient is one of the best to have in your pantry.

6. COCONUT SUGAR

A simple and easy baking substitute, coconut sugar looks more like brown sugar but can replace all sugar for baking. It adds an earthy flavor boost to any dessert that you want to lighten up.

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DEATH, be not PROUD

Is saving the Lakewood Theater worth the trouble?

Story by Brittany Nunn and Keri Mitchell

Photos by Danny Fulgencio

Lakewood has plenty of old churches, but not one that most everyone attends. The Lakewood Country club, established in 1912, predates most of the neighborhood’s homes, but membership is exclusive.

Neighbors have walked the halls of Woodrow Wilson High School since 1928, making it the logical connection between past, present and future generations.

But in terms of a neighborhood symbol, the obvious choice is the Lakewood Theater, and not just because of its emblematic 100foot neon-lit tower.

“Nothing else represents Lakewood’s commercial history like that theater,” says East Dallas architect and preservationist Norman Alston. “In its time, the Lakewood Theater served the purpose for past generations as the one place everyone went, the place where people went out to see people and be seen.

“More than any other building in Lakewood, it embodies the history of the neighborhood.”

The question is what it’s worth — to neighbors, to the theater’s owners, to the City of Dallas — to preserve that history.

Karl Hoblitzelle spared no expense on the theater’s art deco design when he constructed the theater in 1938 at the tail end of the Great Depression. At the time, glamorous movie theaters peppered Dallas, and the Lakewood has outlasted most of its singlescreen counterparts.

The tower’s neon lights have gone dark twice since it opened due to market shifts. But more than seven decades and four owners later, the theater has remained, essentially, a theater.

That is likely to change after this month, however. The current tenant’s lease is up at the end of January, and the theater’s owners have indicated a strong possibility that it will be carved up into two or three spaces to accommodate dining or retail tenants.

Craig Kinney, part of the Willingham -Rutledge partnership that purchased the southwest strip of the Lakewood shopping center in 2007, says the owners “would absolutely do nothing on that tower or change the exterior. That’s one of the reasons we bought it. It’s a great asset to us. Everybody knows the Lakewood Theater.”

Opposite page: Silhouette of the Lakewood Theater tower; Above: One of the two Art Deco statues that flank the stage

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Peopleknowthetower,certainly. It’s been the subject of hundreds of photographs, sketches and paintings, and has graced dozens of posters, T-shirts, co ee cups, magnets and the like. A Lego depiction of the tower made by fourth-graders at Lakewood Elementary was the top art sale at November’s Lakewood Home Festival auction party $6,500.

The theater’s interior, however, is less familiar. Kinney says the owners are talking to a couple of theater groups, but it’s “probably a long shot at this point,” he says.

And its fate rests entirely in the hands of Kinney and the other owners.

A CAUSE LOOKING FOR A LEADER

If the theater’s owners wanted to demolish the building or turn it into lofts, they could. It has no protection, either in the City of Dallas zoning document that governs the property or in terms of historical or landmark designation.

When the Advocate published this news Nov. 7 on our online news site (advocatemag. com) and Facebook page, the story went viral throughout the neighborhood. That same day, neighbor Krista Chalkley created a “Save the Lakewood Theater” Facebook page to garner support for its preservation. Within hours, the page received thousands

of “likes” from neighbors — more than 2,700 in a single weekend, and more than 5,300 at last count.

Page administrators pointed out that the theater is still in use and makes a profit, and they described the owner’s decision to repurpose the space as “heartbreaking” because it is “a part of history” and “still making many memories within its walls.” They asked neighbors to share their favorite memories of the Lakewood Theater on the page, and more than 100 people obliged.

“I spent almost every Saturday at the Lakewood,” remembers Jan Lee. “I’m talking in the late ’50s. It was safe to be dropped o

Then and now: The mural and mirrored ceiling in the lobby, below, looks virtually unchanged since photo at right was taken in 1976. Karl Hoblitzelle, founder of Interstate Theaters, spared no expense on the Lakewood Theater’s design, which featured the bold Art Deco style typical of the era. (Photo at right from the collections of the Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library.)

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Much has changed in 76 years, but the theater has stayed essentially the same

1930s 1950s 1970s 1980s

The Lakewood Theater was built in 1938 at the tail end of the Great Depression.

The theater’s original owner, Karl Hoblitzelle, was the founder of Interstate Theaters and had previously built the Majestic Theaters in downtown Dallas, Fort Worth and Waco in the early 1900s. He built the Lakewood Theater as neighborhood theater where family-friendly films would be shown.

When announcing the opening ceremony on Oct. 27, 1938, the Dallas Morning News lauded the theater’s cutting edge RCA sound equipment, the first air-conditioning system for a theater in Dallas, and the upholstered auditorium seating. It reported the tower “rises 100 feet and carries 7,000 watts of power for illumination.” The 1,100-seat theater cost $125,000 to build.

The opening bill was “Love Finds Andy Hardy” featuring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, which launched the theater into several years of success.

The advent of the television in the ’50s translated to the theater showing double features of “B” grade movies by the ’60s. Matinees were well attended by neighborhood children, but adult attendance was at a critical low.

Multi-screen theaters introduced in the ’70s made a single-screen movie house like the Lakewood difficult to keep afloat. In 1973 Interstate Theaters sold the Lakewood Theater to Sam Chernoff, who turned it into Dallas’ first “dollar house” in an effort to boost attendance. His plan worked — for a while.

In 1975 the theater grossed $10,000 with a 7-day run of “Earthquake” — a surprising sum for a dollar house. This caught the attention of distributors and exhibitors, and spurred other movie theaters in Dallas to make the conversion to dollar houses.

In 1983 Chernoff decided not to renew his lease. After 45 years of operation, the theater closed after a showing of “The Last Picture Show.”

After the theater closed, the Historic Preservation League, now Preservation Dallas, hosted “A Taste of Lakewood” in the theater parking lot and collected signatures to save the movie house.

Dines and Kraft, who owned the southwest section of the Lakewood Shopping Center where the theater sits, was well into remodeling efforts when Abrams was rerouted around the shopping center (rather than through it), bringing new business to the Lakewood area.

Businessman B.B. Barr decided to restore the theater in 1984 and poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the project. He and his wife, Jo, became known as the “Lakewood Theater Life-savers” who were committed to retaining the integrity of the original design. The theater began showing firstrun features, which were eagerly supported by the community. In 1988 the theater celebrated its 50th anniversary with more than 2,000 guests in attendance.

1990s 2000s

The success lasted for several years, but once again competition was too much for the theater. It closed in 1993 with a showing of “The Last Picture Show” on Oct. 31.

Mark Miranda and Jim Christon purchased the theater in 1994. They initially planned to turn it into retail and restaurant space but wound up changing course. They instead leased it to Keith McKeague, who began booking parties, events, community meetings and concerts.

Willingham-Rutledge bought the southwest section of the Lakewood Shopping Center in 2007. The current theater manager, Wayne Roden, continues to feature movies, community events and shows, including Viva Dallas Burlesque performances and the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Both groups will have to find new venues come February.

Sources: East Dallas historian Jeanette Howeth Crumpler, co-author of “The Lakewood Starwalk” with James H. Davis; Dallas Morning News historical archives

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with a couple of friends and see two movies, cartoons in between, then a very short news reel.”

During intermission the theater gave out door prizes based on ticket numbers, Lee says, which included parakeets in cages or goldfish in a small glass bowl.

Laurie Kidder recalls her first job as a

candy girl at the theater “wearing a red and white striped pinafore.”

“The purple, red and green iconic neon tower is like a beacon representing my home base in Dallas,” she says. “I loved the heavy red curtains, art deco interiors, the big swirling carpets, Disney murals and, of course, the feeling of belonging in this won-

derful theater.”

But the momentum from the Facebook page lasted less than a week. We reached out to Chalkley several times but were unable to connect with her. On Nov. 12, five days after the page launched, an administrator commented, “Right now we are focused on the legal work involved, as it needs to be initiated quickly if we are to save the theater at all.”

And that was the final word from the “Save the Lakewood Theater” Facebook page. People continued to “like” the page and ask about the progress of preservation e orts, but questions went unanswered.

District 14 Councilman Philip Kingston says he has received a couple of concerned emails regarding the theater, but no volunteers for the legal legwork needed to halt significant changes to the structure.

“No one is taking the lead on this,” he says. “People are concerned, and rightly so, but no one is taking any real action.”

At any point, the City of Dallas could get involved and slow the process through a moratorium, which could legally prohibit the owners from being able to acquire a building permit for 30 days. Kingston continues to say he’s ready and willing to help in whatever way possible, but he won’t lead the charge.

“It’s going to take a real community effort,” he says.

THE MYTH OF HISTORICAL PROTECTION

Historical buildings are complicated. Perhaps no one in our neighborhood knows this better than Norman Alston, who for the last few years has steered his architecture firm toward addressing such structures. He received several awards in the early 2000s for the restoration of the Sears building, now known as the South Side on Lamar, and his most recent triumph was the circa-1931 U.S. Post O ce and Courthouse building downtown, where he now o ces.

But these types of restorations don’t happen without painstaking e ort, and economic growth can be a threat.

“Downtown Lakewood has been its own little thing for some time now, without a lot of development pressure to do anything else there,” Alston says. “That’s changing.”

Believing that the Lakewood Theater, shopping center and other old neighbor-

hood buildings are protected is a “common misunderstanding” and “completely not true,” Alston says.

The truth, he says, is that very little in our neighborhood is protected except some homes and churches. “And East Dallas is much better than the rest of the city,” he says.

It’s not too late for the Lakewood Theater to be designated a historic landmark by the city, which would protect its exterior. But at press time, despite the social media outcry, no one had initiated this process via the Landmark Commission, says Mark Doty, who works with historic preservation in the city.

Plus, the support of the owners would be fairly crucial to achieve such a designation, Doty says, because the process includes not only ensuring the preservation of the structure but also meeting the owner’s needs.

Kinney says Willingham-Rutledge may be open to this, but not yet.

“Until I know what my tenant is, I don’t know where I am,” Kinney says.

As he has stated, however, the owners intend to maintain the theater’s exterior, regardless of landmark designation. This assertation quickly followed the news of the structure’s vulnerability, and may have quelled the urgency in e orts to preserve the theater.

Alston argues, however, that the tower and marquee are not the only parts of the theater that should be protected.

The memories that were made at the Lakewood Theater happened inside the building, Alston says. For some, it was a first job, a first date, a first kiss. In its early years, the theater was host not only to Hollywood films but also to ladies’ book

“People are concerned, and rightly so, but no one is taking any real action.”

reviews, Woodrow Wilson High School graduation parties and even private birthday parties. After a fire destroyed the Lakewood Methodist Church sanctuary in January 1960, the congregation worshipped at the theater until it could be restored.

“The building is part of the urban fabric,”

Alston says. “If you’re looking at a history of things that happened there, it involved the entire building. If you just save a piece of it, is that any di erent than taking a picture?”

Retaining the exterior but overhauling the interior is not preservation, Alston says it’s a “façade-ectomy.”

“The idea of preserving only the tower is not preserving it at all,” Alston says. “Seeing just the tower would just remind you of what you’ve lost.”

Alston readily admits that he “drinks the purple Kool-Aid of preservation.” He has served two terms as a city landmark com-

Top left: The Lakewood Shopping Center structures haven’t changed much since the’40s and ‘50s, but its tenants have — except for the Lakewood Theater. (Interstate Theatre Collection photo from the collections of the Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library.) Top right: Lobby doors leading into the theater; Above: A disco ball reflects light onto the theater’s ceiling.

missioner, spent the last 20-plus years chairing historic-district task forces (currently Peak’s Suburban), and overseen the restoration of several historical homes and buildings, and he sits on the Preservation Dallas preservation issues task force. His views are at the extreme end of the preservation spectrum and also, as it appears in the case of the Lakewood Theater, in the minority.

Alston says he won’t be taking the lead to preserve the theater. He has too many other projects on his plate, plus he wants to give younger generations a chance to take up these kinds of issues. Old buildings are too often seen as a concern of old people, he says.

“If you’re ever going to have a history, you can’t tear it all down,” Alston says. “We’re so entrepreneurial here [in Dallas], and that’s good, but ‘old is bad and new is good’ … I think that way of thinking is dated.”

A NUMBERS GAME

Landmark and historical designations are something of a “stick” for developers, Alston says, but there are “carrots,” too. Major federal and state tax credits that amount to 45 percent of restoration costs incentivize the owners of historical buildings to preserve them, both inside and out.

“There’s a detailed list of things you can and cannot do” to secure these credits, Alston says. For example, the owners most likely would be required to protect any murals left on the walls, as well as windows, doors and other period features.

Alston says it would be di cult to preserve the integrity of the Lakewood Theater enough to qualify for the credits and still repurpose it as anything other than a theatertype use. But, in his opinion, that’s basically the point.

“It’s a physical remnant of another time,” he says. “Some things can be changed, but how do you keep that thread of history running through your community? The Lakewood Theater is the main strand of that thread.”

Limiting the structure to a theater, however, is the very reason Kinney says Willingham -Rutledge wouldn’t be interested in pursuing the tax credits.

“If the theater didn‘t make it in three years, then we’d be in the soup,” Kinney says.

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aters in Dallas have managed to find a sustainable operation. The Texas Theatre in Oak Cli operates as both a movie theater and event venue. Also in Oak Cli , the longabandoned Kessler Theater has been operating as a concert venue since 2009.

Alston and other preservationists point to these theaters as the ideal modern re-use of a historical theater. But reality, as it tends to be, is more complicated.

In East Dallas, Mike Schoder bought the historic Granada Theater on Greenville Avenue 10 years ago and is responsible for the success behind its current operation as a concert venue. Although he thinks it’s a shame to see another historic theater bite the dust, he says running a 1930s, singlescreen theater tucked away in the middle of a neighborhood is as hard as it sounds.

“It takes so much e ort to have something like the Granada or the Lakewood and make it profitable,” he says. “It’s just nonstop. There’s a lot of competition in the market.”

Dallas has “as many music venues as it can support,” in his opinion. Plus, “trying to pack it out and get 700 people, where do you park them all?” he questions. “It’s a tough little area there.”

Converting it back to a movie theater would be just as tough, if not tougher, says Barak Epstein with the Texas Theatre. The only way the Texas stays afloat is by also booking concerts, comedy and live performances, and renting out the theater for events, he says.

Epstein figures the owners of the Lakewood Theater are probably trying to increase the space’s use.

“Unfortunately, it may mean breaking it up,” Epstein says. “I think ultimately there is a happy medium that could come about if the building owner and the prospective tenants come to a reasonable agreement on a lease that would increase the viability of the theater as a movie theater, venue, bar, etc. — as well as give a boost to the surrounding tenants and the neighborhood.”

A number of retaurants have expressed interest in the theater space, Kinney says, and the owners are talking to two theater groups as well, one of which might purchase the theater.

“If either one commits, we’re going to try to do one of those deals,” he says. “It’s much easier, and we think it’s good for Lakewood.”

The group interested in purchasing might

also be interested in historical preservation, he says. But the theater deals may not pan out, and even if they do, the restaurants may be able to o er higher rent, which Kinney says would likely sway the owners.

As unromantic as it sounds, Schoder says, the future of the Lakewood Theater is a numbers game.

“It’s sad, but it’s reality,” he says. “I’m sure the neighborhood would hate to see it go, but it would probably be better used as a couple of restaurants, because it hasn’t been used in so long as much of anything. I’ve probably only seen four shows there since I moved here in ’86, and I’m a show fiend.”

AN ‘OUTSIDE’ PERSPECTIVE

The Lakewood hasn’t operated solely as a movie theater since 1993 — the last time it went dark. It reopened in ’94 as more of an event space as well as a concert venue.

These days, it’s more of a stage theater than a movie theater, but it does show the occasional documentary or classic. Its mainstay monthly bookings are Viva Dallas Burlesque and the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Concerts have been few and far between lately, save for the annual holiday performances last month from neighbors Ricki Derek, Kelly Brown and Polyphonic Spree frontman Tim DeLaughter.

Longtime neighbor Gerry Worrall believes the reason the Lakewood has lasted this long

A dancer in third position guides theater-goers up the stairs to the balcony.

“probably has more to do with management than it has to do with luck. These guys have done a pretty creative job in terms of the different types of uses it has had.”

Worrall, an architect, owns the DienerMills building across the street from the Lakewood Theater at the center of the Lakewood Shopping Center; Worrall’s building once housed the Lakewood Branch Library. The building is named for Paul Diener and Cecil Mills, who bought the building when it was scheduled for destruction in the ’80s.

“There were several buildings in the community on the chopping block or in need of some care, and their desire was to make sure that it remained and that it was useful longterm,” he says of Diener and Mills.

Worrall shares the perspective of his building’s namesakes when it comes to the Lakewood Theater. He saw movies there over the years, and even temporarily attended church there with his grandparents, members of Lakewood Methodist.

He isn’t among those hoping the Lakewood will return to its roots as a movie theater, however.

“It’s a quaint idea, but it’s a thing of the past,” Worrall says.

Nor does Worrall think the neighborhood should stand in the way of progress, so to speak.

“What I would hate to see are enough restrictions put on the site so the owner can’t make a viable business operate there,” he says. “We could end up with a vacant shell there that would be anything but positive for the neighborhood.”

Like most neighbors, Worrall values the character of the theater’s exterior and thinks retaining it is important. But trying to dictate the process of what happens inside may jeopardize the outside, he says.

“If we go down and try to create a bunch of barriers, I think long-term, we’re asking for some trouble,” Worrall says.

Flexibility and opportunity for the owners are what Worrall wants, even though that may well result in the Lakewood dropping “theater” from its name. Worrall’s perspective is di erent from that of Alston, who believes commercial success and preservation success can go hand in hand.

“They’re not incompatible,” Alston says. “If you want to do it, it can be done.”

Where there’s a will there’s a way, in other

words. Other than a few lone voices, however, and some flash-in-the-pan social media indignation, there doesn’t appear to be a will not among neighbors, not from the owners and not on the part of the city.

“It’s at an age now, and has gone through enough recycles, that it needs some new capital behind it,” Worrall says of the Lakewood Theater.

“Certainly, there are a variety of possibilities.”

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Top: Lakewood Theater as seen at night in 2013

Above: Detail of the Art Nouveau molding above the Lakewood Theater bar

STEPHEN KING once advised aspiring writers, “Kill your darlings, kill your darlings — even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart — kill your darlings.” What did popular culture’s most prolific horror writer mean by that? That good storytelling often requires nixing superfluous parts, no matter how much the author loves them. Each month when we publish the Advocate magazine, photos and anecdotes we adore are often left scattered about the figurative cutting-room floor. Please allow us to indulge our egocentric little hearts as we share the more fascinating photos and tidbits from 2014 that almost lost their lives in the interest of brevity and limited page space.

SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM OCTOBER

While shooting photos of activity on Lowest Greenville for a story on the avenue’s recent development changes, our photographer snapped the photo on the previous page of an ice cream truck that sometimes appears on Lowest Greenville at night. A couple that had just gotten married, shown at left, also happened to be walking by. The ice cream truck, called Mr. Sugar Rush, is owned by Evan Patterson, who graduated in 2007 from Texas Wesleyan University with a business management degree. After opening and closing three stores, he sold his car, plus his washer and dryer, and bought an ice cream truck, he says. For the first couple of years, he didn’t take it very seriously. “This year I tried to involve myself as a food truck,” he says. He put LED lights on the truck and tried to get a spot at The Truck Yard, but it doesn’t allow dessert trucks on its lot (Carnival Barker’s Ice Creams operates out of the window there). While driving around the area, Patterson accidentally learned that some of the people coming out of bars really like ice cream. He began making nightly visits to Lower Greenville and other entertainment-oriented parts of Dallas. “By me getting rejected by Truck Yard, it turned into me becoming the ice cream man of Lowest Greenville, Uptown and Deep Ellum. I became kind of an amenity.”

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What’s happening to that poor goat? Although it looks like these four fellows — (left to right) David Brumbalow, Brian Bain, Kurt Riddlesperger and David Faber — are preparing for a goat sacrifice, they’re actually just getting pumped up for the Goat Run at Flag Pole Hill. The goat looks decidedly less excited, but we’re hoping he understands it was all for a good cause, to raise money for the nonprofits Seed Effect and Empower Sudan, which benefit the war- and famine-affected South Sudan region of Africa. After human-only 5K and 10K races, the top 10 fund-raisers won the opportunity to race with goats on four-man teams.

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THE DUDE OCTOBER

When Ebola was reported in East Dallas, people around the city — scratch that, the nation — panicked. But not this guy. This guy laughs in the face of Ebola. During an informational meeting about the deadly virus at the Lakewood Theater, he was cool as could be — sunglasses, brightly patterned shirt, longneck bottle and all. Our photographer wasn’t able to get the name of the attendee after snapping this photo, and our efforts to find his name by plastering the photo all over Facebook were unsuccessful. The mystery is half the fun, so we dubbed him The Dude of Lakewood instead, for his striking resemblance to Jeff Bridges’ iconic character in “The Big Lebowski.”

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The Dallas Arboretum is one of the city’s seven “signature parks,” and one of three that requires an admission fee (the others being the Dallas Zoo and Fair Park venues). Because admission costs up to $15 per ticket, however, not all Dallasites can a ord to visit this park of theirs, so the Dallas Arboretum donates 15,000 free passes to the city’s park department to help provide access to the gardens.

The problem is, most people don’t know that. Two-thirds of those free passes went unused in 2014.

“Part of the concern expressed by several board members was the lack of awareness,” says Gerry Worrall, park board member for the White Rock area.

Last month, the board approved the Arboretum’s request to increase its parking fee from $10 to $15, now in e ect. The added revenue — about $580,000 a year — will help the Arboretum pay o the private loan

that allowed it to fund the new $30-million parking garage on Garland Road without taxpayer money.

The price hike won’t a ect those with Arboretum memberships, since parking is included. It’s everyone else who’ll have to pay up. Worrall supported the increase and believes it’s a fair trade.

“The Arboretum is an incredible driver in our community,” he says. “I think that in an e ort to keep them financially viable, it’s important that we help them do that.”

To alleviate concerns over the gardens becoming too expensive for lower-income families, Arboretum o cials agreed to boost the number of annual free tickets, including free parking, to 25,000.

The free tickets are distributed equally among all the city’s recreation centers. Individuals — low-income or not — can walk in and grab up to four tickets at a time. Arboretum sta say they will design posters this

The new Dallas Arboretum parking garage on Garland Road

year to better advertise the deal at rec centers, but communicating the message generally has been up to the park department.

“We want to make the Arboretum accessible, and we hope that the park department will be able to distribute these free tickets to as many people as possible,” says John Armstrong, the Arboretum’s vice president of property development.

The Arboretum has other ways of accommodating visitors who can’t a ord the fees, particularly through educational programs. More than 11,000 economically disadvantaged students received free science programming last year. The Arboretum also has allocated $21,000 in bus stipends for the coming year to help with transportation costs for low-income students on field trips.

The new parking garage was critical to accommodate the increased attendance expected in the coming years. A feasibility study for the garage in 2012 revealed some important details about the Arboretum’s plans for growth and suggested, even then, raising the parking fee to help pay for the

costly garage, which includes an underground tunnel. According to the study, by 2018 even the garage will not be enough, which is why the Arboretum has continued looking at other properties along Garland Road.

The price increase was inevitable, but the now $15 parking fee on top of the $15 admission fee fuels the perception by some that the Arboretum is elitist, pricing out those who can’t a ord it. East Dallas Councilman Philip Kingston criticized the park board’s decision via Facebook, saying, “I love the Arboretum, but if it’s going to be subsidized by the taxpayers, it needs to be accessible to the taxpayers.” His park board appointee, Paul Sims, voted against the increase.

The city entered a public-private partnership with the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Society (DABS) in 1982 allowing the gardens to operate on city-owned land and receive an annual stipend to help with overhead costs — roughly 1.5 percent of the Arboretum’s $17.6 million budget last year, according to Arboretum board chairman

Brian Shivers.

The Arboretum devotes a section of its website to discounts. For example, if you buy a parking pass online in advance, it costs only $8. And this month, Jan. 5-31, admission drops to $5 during a promotion.

The website does not mention that free tickets are available at rec centers.

In the park department, there is no universal push to inform the public about free access to the gardens. Public relations manager Andrea Hawkins says it’s up to the sta at each rec center. Each of the 15 park board members also receives 50 free passes a year to distribute as they please.

Worrall says the lack of awareness is “easily remedied.” Funding for these types of marketing e orts, often lost during economic downturns, could be built back into the park department budget.

“Now is the time to make that a priority,” he says. “In the meantime, it’s up to the park board member to be aware of what’s available. Certainly, it behooves the Arboretum to make sure people know about it.”

REAL-TALK RADIO

Neighbor Jeff Whittington reveals the magic of KERA’s ‘Anything’ show — both on and off air

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“Information,” Maya Angelou once said, “helps you to see that you’re not alone.” Certainly, in our world of Google and Siri, there’s no shortage of information. Have a question? Search for it. Curiously enough, though, not everyone goes the high-tech route. Tune in to KERA 90.1 at noon on Fridays, and you’ll see.

The popular “Anything You Ever Wanted to Know” show, hosted by neighbor Jeff Whittington, is an audience-driven questionand-answer forum that some might say reflects our fundamental need to connect with another human being. Unlike search engines, we humans can react and respond and laugh. Throw in an affable, infinitely patient host and the thrill (for most of us) of being on the radio — being “famous” for a minute or two — and you have the perfect recipe for a show.

Whittington, a resident of the Caruth Terrace neighborhood, has fielded questions on the program since 2005, the year original host and creator Glenn Mitchell died. Mitchell’s first show in this format was happenstance: The scheduled guest on his talk show was a no-show, so Mitchell threw open the phones to any and all questions. Listeners loved it, and it soon became part of the station’s lineup, with the tagline “All Questions Answered, All Knowledge Revealed.”

And indeed, you’re bound to learn a thing or two if you listen in. Whittington, as host, claims no expertise, leaving it to “The Smartest Audience in Radio” to offer answers to incoming questions. “In the last few weeks,” Whittington says, “we’ve had questions about where to get an antique sausage grinder restored, where to take beginner knitting classes, and someone asked for a brief explanation of E=mc2 — part of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity.” (Note to self: check archived podcasts for answers.)

Listeners always step up, eager to help. On a recent Friday, Philip in Irving wondered about recycling foam; Cathy in Allen suggested a location. Richard in Fort Worth

needed repairs for a thrift-store trumpet; Brandon, Kelly and Mary (from different cities) knew of repair shops. Caleb from Arlington, an Iraq war veteran, was desperate to retrieve photos and videos of his deployment from a crashed hard drive “so I can get some Army nostalgia back in my life”; almost immediately, Mark in Dallas, a data recovery specialist, called in with an offer to personally help David regain his precious military memories.

Whittington sets the tone, one of community and inclusion. A recent caller, Bill in Fort Worth, explained he had just moved to Texas and was searching for good used oak furniture. Instead of rushing the call, Whittington

asked where he had moved from. Wisconsin was the answer, and the two engaged in a short but friendly comparison of the obvious weather differences. Whittington ended their chat with a “Welcome,” and Bill said he loved the show: “Keep it up!”

“I’ve had a number of jobs at the station over the years,” says Whittington, “but being able to talk every week with engaged public radio listeners about almost anything that comes up is even more of a thrill — especially when I can get them to share a story about why their question is important or about the history behind their answers.” He adds, “In our age of instant gratification and ever-faster access to information, there’s something

Jeff Whittington: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

a little old-timey about this show and just talking with people for an hour.”

The “Anything” show gets its fair share of quirky queries — a recent discussion of fox urine for pest control comes to mind — and most questions make it on the show. But calls are indeed screened, and some are deemed inappropriate for the air. Whittington recalls a fellow who emailed the question “How do you fix a broken heart?” Whittington says that for questions such as these, with no easy answer, he reaches out personally, offering as much encouragement and support as he can.

Another memorable call came from a woman whose brother had died the previous year. To hear his voice, the family had been paying the monthly cell phone bill just so they could call his number and hear his message. The family sought to transfer the brother’s voicemail greeting onto a CD. “This was a really simple thing to do, so we just did it for her ourselves,” Whittington says. “She sent three homemade pies to the staff as a thank-you.” When was the last time you sent a pie to Google?

Imagine: Real live people helping each other, learning from each other, offering advice. “It’s a constant education,” Whittington reflects, “from information about bee removal to where to get railroad ties in Fort Worth. We’ve learned why fire hydrants need to be opened from time to time and about different kinds of radar units at DFW airport. I’ve also learned that people still need each other. We’re often alone at our desks, in our cars or at our computers but radio can still bring people together.”

Patti Vinson is a guest writer who has lived in East Dallas for 15 years. She’s written for the Advocate and Real Simple magazine, and has taught college writing. She is a frequent flier at Lakewood branch library and enjoys haunting neighborhood estate sales with husband Jonathan and children, Claire (13) and Will (10). The family often can be found hanging out at White Rock Lake Dog Park with Dexter, a probable JackWeenie.

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BUSINESS BUZZ

The lowdown on what’s up with neighborhood businesses

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Fresh Market opens

The anchor of the new Arboretum Village shopping center at Gaston-GarlandEast Grand opened Dec. 3. Rather than cutting a ribbon, The Fresh Market cracked a large wheel of Parmesan to make it official. The Fresh Market is entering a market full of competitors, with even more watching and waiting, so what distinguishes it from the growing pack? When we asked a spokeswoman to whittle it down to three aspects, here’s what she told us: 1) Its employees: The company prides itself on hiring people to not just stock shelves and handle food counters but also engage with customers — answering questions, making suggestions and learning people’s names. 2) Beef ground fresh every day, and sold only that day: Any ground beef that doesn’t sell is given to restaurants or donated to food banks. 3) An ample produce section: The newest Fresh Market in Dallas is 15,000 square feet, which is smaller than its 24,000-square-foot prototype. This means that every department is a little more compact, and this was most notable in the bulk section. The fresh fruits and veggies, however, make up about one-fourth of the Dallas store, and the selection did seem to rival other, larger stores in the neighborhood.

Fresh Market

7331 Gaston

Corner of Skillman and Mockingbird

Developer Moran Capital LLC has purchased some property at the northeast corner of Skillman and Mockingbird where two gas stations once operated, but at this point Moran isn’t sure what it plans to do with it, says partner JD Robertson. For a while, Moran also was eyeing the apartment complex right next door, the Wilshire on Mockingbird. The company hoped to buy the complex and get a zoning change from residential to commercial, according to nearby neighbor Magda Girgis. In the last couple of months, Moran has met with nearby neighbors at least three times. Girgis was present at all the neighborhood meetings, and she says Moran faced opposition from neighbors for a zoning change for the apartment com-

plex, although some neighbors were interested in working with Moran. “There were some neighbors who were in support of the idea,” she explains, “and then there was a group of us who opposed it — not necessarily because of the business that was involved but because of losing the residential area.” The group that supported the zoning change hoped working with Moran would give them more say on what Moran could or would build on the corner, Girgis says, especially since Moran already owns the commercial property where the gas stations were located. But she says most of the neighbors would rather see the property

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where the apartments are located kept as residential. After meeting with neighbors, Moran recently withdrew its application for a zoning change, according to Councilman Philip Kingston. Robertson declined to comment as to whether Moran is still interested in purchasing the apartment complex.

Moran Capital LLC

214.520.9000

LAKEWOOD.ADVOCATEMAG.COM/BIZ

1 Old Chicago Pizza and Tap Room is open at Mockingbird Station at 5319 E. Mockingbird at the northwest corner of the center in the former Vapiano space. 2 La Popular Tamale House will close its location at 5004 Columbia and begin operating out of it Peak & Elm Cocina Y Bar at 132 N. Peak at the corner of Peak and Elm. 3 Mathnasium, an international math tutoring center, recently opened a location at 7324 Gaston across the street from Arboretum Village.

4 The Village Salons Lakewood has signed on with Lincoln Property Co. to open in March in Arboretum Village shopping center at 7331 Gaston. 5 Construction is complete, shelves are stocked and Elliott’s Hardware is now open at 5940 Casa Linda Plaza next door to Chili’s. 6 Construction has started on a new business in Casa Linda Plaza. The Joint: The Chiropractic Place is ‘coming soon’ at 9440 Garland, next door to Lover’s Pizza & Pasta. 7 Pet Supplies Plus opened a location on Nov. 20 at 1704 Greenville at the Ross intersection in the building that once housed Centennial before it briefly became a Cheers Spirits and Liquors. 8 Spa 810 is opening a location on Upper Greenville in February right next door to the new Starbucks at 4924 Greenville. 9 A new sports bar 504 Bar & Grill is coming to Lowest Greenville where New Big Wong used to be at 2121 Greenville. The owner of Dodie’s is behind the concept.

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CLAIRE’S CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL

8202 Boedeker Dr., / (214) 368-4047 / clairesdayschool.com At CCDS, we encourage a child’s sense of exploration and discovery in a loving, nurturing, and safe environment. We offer a parent’s day out program with a play-based curriculum fostering socialization, motor skill development, and an introduction to academics for children aged 4mo – 3yrs. Our preschool for children aged 3-5 further develops these skills, along with a more focused approach to pre-math and prereading. At CCDS, we have developed our own science, math, and reading enrichment classes to ensure kindergarten preparedness for every child. We make learning fun!

HIGHLANDER SCHOOL

9120 Plano Rd. Dallas / 214.348.3220 / www.highlanderschool.com

Founded in 1966, Highlander School offers an enriched curriculum in a positive, Christian-based environment. Small class sizes help teachers understand the individual learning styles of each student. Give us a call for more information.

THE KESSLER SCHOOL

Pre K – 6th Grade / 1215 Turner Ave, Dallas TX 75208 / 214-942-2220 / www. thekesserschool.com The Kessler School offers an innovative academic environment that gives students a solid foundation, confidence, and a love of learning. Located just minutes from downtown Dallas; The Kessler School’s mission is to “educate the whole child,” and provides an individualized approach to teaching – meeting the student where their needs are. Students are educated socially through community time, physically through daily PE, academically through a wellrounded curriculum, and spiritually through a fostering of awareness and individual growth.

LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Leading to Success. 2720 Hillside Dr., Dallas 75214 / 214.826.2931 / lakehillprep. org Kindergarten through Grade 12 - Lakehill Preparatory School takes the word preparatory in its name very seriously. Throughout a student’s academic career, Lakehill builds an educational program that achieves its goal of enabling graduates to attend the finest, most rigorous universities of choice. Lakehill combines a robust, college-preparatory curriculum with opportunities for personal growth, individual enrichment, and community involvement. From kindergarten through high school, every Lakehill student is encouraged to strive, challenged to succeed, and inspired to excel.

SPANISH HOUSE

4411 Skillman 214-826-4410 / 5740 Prospect 214-826-6350 / DallasSpanishHouse.com

Spanish Immersion School serving ages 3 month - Adults. We offer nursery, preschool, elementary and adult programs at two Lakewood locations. Degreed, nativeSpanish speaking teachers in an “all-Spanish” immersion environment. Call for a tour today!

ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

1420 Old Gate Ln. Dallas / 214.321.2897 / stbernardccs.org St. Bernard of Clairvaux School has educated children in Forest Hills, Casa Linda and White Rock neighborhoods since 1948. We encourage each student to develop an inquisitive mind, strong moral character and a love of learning that lasts a lifetime. The experienced teaching staff is dedicated to academic excellence with a challenging curriculum and individual attention. We offer affordable tuition, PK through 8th grade, wireless slate technology, extracurricular activities, and after-school care. Please call to schedule a tour.

ST. CHRISTOPHER’S MONTESSORI SCHOOL

7900 Lovers Ln. / 214.363.9391 stchristophersmontessori.com St. Christopher’s Montessori School has been serving families in the DFW area for over a quarter of a century. We are affiliated with the American Montessori Society and our teachers are certified Montessori instructors. Additionally our staff has obtained other complimentary educational degrees and certifications, including having a registered nurse on staff. Our bright and attractive environment, and highly qualified staff, ensures your child will grow and develop in an educationally sound, AMS certified loving program. Now Enrolling.

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

848 Harter Rd., Dallas 75218 / 214.328.9131 / stjohnsschool.org

Founded in 1953, St. John’s is an independent, co-educational day school for Pre-K through Grade 8. With a tradition for academic excellence, St. John’s programs include a challenging curriculum in a Christian environment along with instruction in the visual and performing arts, Spanish, German, French, and opportunities for athletics and community service.St. John’s goal for its students is to develop a love for learning, service to others, and leadership grounded in love, humility, and wisdom. Accredited by ISAS, SAES, and the Texas Education Agency.

THE WINSTON SCHOOL

5707 Royal Lane Dallas, Tx 75229 / 214691-6950 / www.winston-school.org If your bright child struggles with things like Attention and Concentration, Executive Functioning and Dyslexia, The Winston School may be able to help. The Winston School has a robust academic program which prepares a student for college while at the same time developing the whole child. We understand bright children who learn differently and recognize their unique gifts and talents. Celebrating and validating these assets with our students enables them to discover who they are, and empowers them to be consistently successful. The Winston School brings hope for today and a road map for tomorrow. School Preview: January 11th from 2-4 p.m.

WHITE ROCK NORTH SCHOOL

9727 White Rock Trail Dallas / 214.348.7410 / WhiteRockNorthSchool.com

6 Weeks through 6th Grade. Our accelerated curriculum provides opportunity for intellectual and physical development in a loving and nurturing environment. Character-building and civic responsibility are stressed. Facilities include indoor swimming pool, skating rink, updated playground, and state-of-the-art technology lab. Kids Club on the Corner provides meaningful after-school experiences. Summer Camp offers field trips, swimming, and a balance of indoor and outdoor activities designed around fun-filled themes. Accredited by SACS. Call for a tour of the campus.

ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL

6121 E. Lovers Ln. Dallas / 214.363.1630 / ziondallas. org Toddler care thru 8th Grade. Serving Dallas for over 58 years offering a quality education in a Christ-centered learning environment. Degreed educators minister to the academic, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of students and their families. Before and after school programs, Extended Care, Parents Day Out, athletics, fine arts, integrated technology, Spanish, outdoor education, Accelerated Reader, advanced math placement, and student government. Accredited by National Lutheran School & Texas District Accreditation Commissions and TANS. Contact Principal Jeff Thorman.

of our 200,000+ readers with average income of $146,750 want more info about private schools.

BAPTIST

LAKESIDE BAPTIST / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425

Worship — 8:30 am Classic & 11:00 am Contemporary

Pastor Jeff Donnell / www.lbcdallas.com

PARK CITIES BAPTIST CHURCH / 3933 Northwest Pky / pcbc.org

All services & Bible Study 9:15 & 10:45. Trad. & Blended (Sanctuary),

Contemporary (Great Hall), Amigos de Dios (Gym) / 214.860.1500

PRESTONWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH / “A Church to Call Home”

Sundays: Bible Fellowship (all ages) 9:15 am /Service Time 11:00 am

12123 Hillcrest Road / 972.820.5000 / prestonwood.org

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

Pastor George A. Mason Ph.D. / Worship 8:30 & 11:00am

Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / THE TABLE Worship 9:30 am

Worship 8:30 & 10:50 am / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

LUTHERAN

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

Sunday School for all ages 9:00 am / Worship Service 10:30 am

Pastor Rich Pounds / CentralLutheran.org / 214.327.2222

FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

METHODIST

LAKE HIGHLANDS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com

Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee

Worship: 8:30 am & 10:50 am Traditional / 10:50 am Contemporary

RIDGEWOOD PARK UMC / 6445 E. Lovers Lane / 214.369.9259

Sunday Worship: 9:30 am Traditional and 11:35 am Contemporary

Sunday School: 10:30 am / Rev. Ann Willet / ridgewoodparkchurch.org

WHITE ROCK UNITED METHODIST / www.wrumc.org

1450 Oldgate Lane / 214.324.3661

Sunday Worship 10:50 am / Rev. Mitchell Boone

PRESBYTERIAN

NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr.

214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Welcomes you to Worship

8:30 & 11:00 am / Church School 9:35 am / Childcare provided.

ST. ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN / Skillman & Monticello

Rev. Rob Leischner. / www.standrewsdallas.org

214.821.9989 / Sunday School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am

UNITY

UNITY OF DALLAS / A Positive Path for Spiritual Living

6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230 / 972.233.7106 / UnityDallas.org

10:30 am Sunday - Celebration Worship Service

UNITY ON GREENVILLE / Your soul is welcome here!

3425 Greenville Ave. / 214.826.5683 / www.dallasunity.org

Sunday Service 11:00 am and Book Study 9:30 am

VIRTUAL REALITIES

‘Third places’ fight for their lives in the digital age

He’s talking about libraries, but an allusion to church is so easy you don’t have to be a preacher to make it.

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The unnamed speaker is the photographic subject of one of my favorite social media contributors. Being from The Big Apple myself, I am drawn to the almost daily postings of the anonymous photojournalist and social commentator who gives us Humans of New York on Instagram and Facebook. A recent photo featured a man who works at the New York Public Library. He was asked about the future of libraries in a digital age:

“I don’t think the library is threatened. Circulation of physical books has never been higher. But I wouldn’t even agree they are in the book business. They are in the information sharing business.”

He goes on to talk about how libraries have gone digital and share information now over the Internet. But when the question was put more bluntly about libraries becoming obsolete, this caught my attention: “Libraries provide a kind of third space that is neither home nor work, where people can come together to do thinking work. There will always be that need.”

Libraries, churches, civic clubs and nonprofit organizations are among what sociologists call the “mediating institutions” of society. They are safety zones that clear space for people to gather for good purposes. They buffer tensions between the individual and the state. They are humanizing communities that warm people from the impersonal cold of secular life. And they are fighting for their lives in a virtual age.

Churches (including faith communities of all kinds) hear and feel the critique of irrelevance and obsolescence. Faith and faithfulness are more now a cultural cu-

riosity than a cultural assumption. This may be unprecedented in human history. Religion in one form or another has always provided the aspirational balloon and the intellectual tether of every civilization (save Communism, which couldn’t be saved, maybe in part because of its spiritual emptiness).

Libraries are closing, even as they are adapting. Public funding cuts undercut their mission and undermine our community character. Charitable giving to churches is down, too, even as church benevolence work is spiking everywhere. Churches are meeting human need outside their own walls, as the social safety net is sagging. They are people with portable faith who move among us, leaving breadcrumbs on the path to God.

Yet even within their walls, churches, like libraries, provide physical and psychic space for people to come together to do “thinking work.” There will indeed always be a need for that, because that is how we are made. We are social beings who need each other. We are spiritual beings who need God. When those twin aspects of our being come together, we move toward the wholeness we were created for.

Our library man mentioned one other thing: “This is especially important to immigrants, because you don’t have to prove anything to get a library card.”

Love that. Churches aim to be those kinds of communities too. At our worst, we put up invisible signs that say, “Keep Out.” But at our best, our signs match our ideals: “All Welcome.” And that’s because God is always more interested in where you are going than where you have been.

New Year’s resolutions anyone? There’s a library and a church nearby eager to welcome you.

George Mason is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church. The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and by the neighborhood business people and churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

Community

The “YMCA connection,” a quarter-mile path between the Santa Fe Trail and what is now the Arboretum Village, is scheduled to be completed by May of next year. The city is paying $2.45 million, from 2006 and 2012 bond funds, for that project and a 2-mile extension of the SoPac Trail between Mockingbird and Royal. Dallas County is paying for the other half of those $4.9 million projects and is responsible for designing and building them. Construction on the SoPac Trail extension is expected to begin October 2015 and to be completed a year later. When it is complete in a couple of years, the trail eventually will connect to the Katy Trail.

In November, Dallas business leaders played at Bent Tree Country Club to help homeless families through the East Dallas-based organization Interfaith Housing Coalition. Interfaith is the only Dallas agency that works exclusively to serve working poor families who find themselves homeless. Interfaith provides transitional housing and transformative programs in order to take them off the streets and help transition them into new lives of hope. More than 26 Dallas-area businesses joined in on Interfaith’s effort, led by board chair Brian Hegi of Prophet Equity and developmental chair Tyler Beeson of US Trust.

People

After 7 years serving the uninsured and underinsured in Dallas, Healing Hands Ministries has hired a new medical director. Dr. Chris Berry has years of experience working in “safety net” clinics in Dallas. He lives in Lakewood with his wife and two children.

In early December Casa Linda Estates Neighborhood Association (CLENA) lit up its neighborhood with luminaries as part of a fundraiser. The fundraiser, dubbed Casa Linda Lights, benefited East Dallas firefighter Jeff Patterson, who was seriously injured in a house fire in early May. Patterson received 3rd degree burns on 45 percent of his body and was in ICU for 110 days before being released for rehab. He returned home to his family in September, but he has undergone 23 surgeries and will probably go through a couple more, says Casa Linda Estates neighbor Veronica Long. While Patterson was hospitalized, his wife was diagnosed with cancer and underwent chemo, radiation treatments and surgery. She is now cancer-free. Casa Linda Lights raised money through the purchase of luminaries. CLENA sent out flyers to Casa Linda Estates, asking neighbors to sponsor the project by buying a set of 10 luminaries. What didn’t go toward material went directly to the Patterson family.

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Rehab guest

“Following my hip surgery, my doctor suggested rehab and I told him, ‘I want to go to Fowler.’ ” Norma Worrall, Fowler

Top-notch teachers

Make-up party

Three East Dallas neighbors and Lakewood Elementary parents

— Yvonne Hager, Sergio Ortega and Natasha Khan own LURE Salon on McKinney Avenue, where they hosted a hair and makeup party for the Lakewood moms who were on their way to the Pearls and Prohibition Auction Party for the 38th annual Lakewood Home Festival. Lakewood mom Erin Harrison participated.

Six neighborhood teachers were honored recently at the East Dallas Chamber of Commerce’s annual education luncheon. Chamber chairwoman Darlene Ellison (from left) helped honor Jeannot (“Johnny”) Jonte Boucher, Mata Montessori; Katie Wendorf, St. Thomas Aquinas; Dana Czapski, Gaston Middle School; Jamie Thorne, Lakehill Preparatory School; Madeline Schnurr, St. Thomas Aquinas; Denise Tucker, Woodrow Wilson High School; and DISD school board member Dan Micciche. (Photo courtesy of Gigi Ekstrom with Lakehill.) SUBMIT

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Cheerleaders for charity

The Woodrow JV Cheerleaders decided this year that instead of purchasing homecoming garters they wanted to donate that money to someplace within our community. They presented a $400 check to The Ebby House at the Juliette Fowler Homes Inc., which helps young women who have aged out of the foster care system. (Left to right) Cat Wilson, Callie Turner, Jessica Gunter, Maribelle Narvarez, Sloane Stabenow, Raevyn Mongaras, Madison McStay, Karina Ramirez, Caludia Edgeworth, Chloe Mabry, Sinclair Petters, Audrey Blumenstock, Emma Gill, Abriana Garea and Ebby House director Kristen Mazza.

Texas artist

Texas artist Guinn Powell, who lives in the Junius Heights neighborhood, hosted the exhibit, “Imagine: A Retrospective of Artwork,” at Lakewood Library in November. The exhibit featured 21 pieces by Powell, including works from his Cotton Field series.

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The Victims: Hypnotic Donuts, Golden Glazed and Method: Ca eination & Fare

The Crime: Criminal mischief and burglary

Date: Nov. 20

Time: Early morning

Someone really wanted some doughnuts in the wee hours of the morning on Nov. 20. At 3 a.m. the general manager of Hypnotic Donuts, Joshua Griffin, received a call from his employees saying someone had smashed the glass of the front door of the shop at 9007 Garland. The suspect wasn’t able to break through the laminated glass, and nothing was stolen. Police filed the incident as criminal mischief. Down the road at 10201 Garland, the front door of Golden Glazed doughnut shop had similar damage. Nothing was stolen there either, and the incident was also filed as criminal mischief. In Old East Dallas, Method: Caffeination & Fare at 1623 N. Hall didn’t (pardon the pun) fare so well. When Method’s owner Louie Corwin checked the store at midnight, all was quiet. But at 6 a.m., when his employees arrived to open the coffee shop, they found the glass on the door had been smashed with a rock, leaving a gaping hole. The rock was on the floor near the back of the store. The suspect took $209 from the cash register, but nothing else was stolen. Police filed the incident as a burglary. The internet at Method was down that night, which had disarmed the alarm, Corwin explains. He has since upgraded to a security system that doesn’t depend on the internet.

—Brittany Nunn

FAGD - Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry 8940 Garland Rd., Ste. 200, Dallas, TX 75218 214.321.6441

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| CRIME

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| 20

Date in November when three East Dallas businesses owners found their doors damaged upon arrival 3 a.m.

Time when general manger Joshua Griffin received a call from his employees saying the glass on the front door of Hypnotic Donuts had been broken

$209 Amount of money stolen from Method: Caffeination & Fare

SOURCE Dallas Police Department

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THE CITY’S ART OF MISDIRECTION

Don’t be fooled by the crafty ‘charrettes’ for the Trinity Toll Road — your voice won’t matter

COMMENT. Visit lakewood.advocatemag.com and search Last Word to tell us what you think.

Ten years ago, I had never heard the word “charrette.” Had you asked me what it meant, I would have guessed “a jaunty French hat” or “a very tiny chair.”

My first experience with the term was at Dallas City Hall. It was a decade ago, when I was first running for Dallas City Council, and the city was in the initial stages of creating a comprehensive land-use plan to define Dallas’ future growth. The city held a series of meetings to gather public input. Only these weren’t public meetings. They were charrettes.

I soon learned that the difference between public meetings and charrettes was defined by the level of preschool craftiness involved. If you sat in a chair the whole time listening to a presentation, you were most likely at a public meeting.

But if the experience was interactive, if you got to walk around to different “stations” and draw on big white boards and play with glue sticks and colored dots and maps, well, then, you have been charretted upon.

In 2005, I attended more than half a dozen charrettes for the comprehensive plan and it was inspiring to see residents from across the city enthusiastically drawing and cutting and pasting and dreaming about the future of our city.

Nearly a year into my first term, the final draft of the comprehensive plan was presented to City Council for approval. I read all 454 pages. None of the smart, thoughtful input from residents had been incorporated. It was city staff’s plan from cover to cover, and not a neighborhood-friendly one, at that.

I was incensed. All those meetings, those fancy “charrettes,” had been a sham designed to exploit residents’ reasonable expectation that their voices mattered, when in fact, they did not. In the end, only Councilmember Mitchell Rasansky and I opposed staff’s plan.

In the intervening years, I have seen this same exercise play out again and again. The public is asked to give input, then their opinions are ignored, city staff does what it had planned to do all along, and the so-called public process is lauded. It’s shameless political theater.

That same chicanery is playing out yet again as Mayor Mike Rawlings and former City Manager Mary Suhm sense that public sentiment is turning against the Trinity Toll Road. They need something to distract the public long enough to get their version of the road approved by the federal government early next year. Their solution is to bring in high-priced consultants to “re-imagine” the Trinity Toll Road.

And, yes, there will be charrettes.

Even if you don’t give a fig about the toll road, this brazen deception should concern you. The dirty little secret, the one that Suhm and Rawlings hope you don’t catch onto, is this: The design

of the toll road can’t be changed at this point without starting the lengthy federal review process all over again. Very detailed engineering plans have been submitted to the federal government for approval, and the feds have confirmed that the city must adhere to those plans. The only question at this point is what shade of lipstick to put on that pig.

So the consultants, the charrettes, the solemn reconsideration, it’s all political theater designed to distract Dallasites while the city moves forward with its plan to build a massive toll road in the Trinity floodway.

The city will keep going back to this playbook for decisions large and small until something changes at 1500 Marilla Street. There are six open City Council seats up for election this May. It’s a remarkable opportunity to change the course of this city and elect a council that will do more than just pretend to listen.

My hope is that residents have grown tired of charrettes. That they will put away the colorful markers and set down the glue sticks and head to the ballot box. That they will set their sights on the keys to City Hall.

Editor’s note: Due to an editing error in last month’s column, “DISD’s success in Lakewood creates a new kind of conundrum for parents,” the first sentence included a grammatical mistake that did not appear in the author’s original document. The Advocate regrets the error.

Angela Hunt is a neighborhood resident and former Dallas City Councilwoman in East Dallas. She writes a monthly opinion column about neighborhood issues. Her opinions are not necessarily those of the Advocate or its management. Send comments and ideas to her at 6301 Gaston, Suite 820, Dallas 75214; FAX to 214.823.8866; or email ahunt@advocatemag.com.

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