2020 October Lakewood

LAKEWOOD/EAST DALLAS

WEDDING WONDERS

OCTOBER 2 0 2 0

ESPN’S IAN FITZSIMMONS

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A D V O C AT E M A G . C O M

MIRACLE FISHING

PENDING

3625 POTOMAC | $2,675,000 4 Bed | 5.1 Bath | 2 Liv | 5,256 SF Mary Poss - 214-738-0777

NEW LISTING

4000 HANOVER | $1,595,000

3 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 Living | 3,845 SF Mary Poss - 214-738-0777

5247 MILLER | $949,000

4 Bed | 4 Bath | 2 Liv | 3,960 SF Carolyn Black - 214-692-0000 NEW LISTING

7306 AZALEA | $875,000 3 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Liv | 2,856 SF Brown-Qualls & Schrickel Group 214-801-1795

234 STONEWALL | SOLD

9524 FIELDCREST | $599,900

6859 SOUTHRIDGE | SOLD

6249 SUDBURY | SOLD

4210 CAMDEN | SOLD 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Car | 1,581 SF Jay Forrester - 469-867-7302

3 Bed 2 Bath | 2 Liv | 2 Din | 1,986 SF Jay Forrester - 469-867-7302

4 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Liv | 2,952 SF Mary Poss - 214-738-0777

3 Bed | 2 Bath | 1,475 SF Alison O’Hallaron - 214-228-9013

4 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2,517 SF Mary Rinne - 214-552-6735

NEW LISTING

1906 LA CROIX | SOLD

3 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 1,653 SF Peter Loudis - 214-215-4269

LAKEWOOD | LAKE HIGHLANDS | 214-826-0316

5310 MERRIMAC | $445,000

3 Bed | 2 Bath | 1643 SF | TUDOR Linda Biggerstaff - 214-803-1560

PRESTON CENTER | 214-692-0000

518 BLAIR | SOLD 2 Bed | 1 Bath | 1,391 SF Jay Forrester - 469-867-7302 EBBY’S LITTLE WHITE HOUSE | 214-210-1500

9747 VAN DYKE | SOLD 4 Bed | 4 Bath | 2 Din | 2 Car | 3,534 SF Steve Cairns - 972-740-2517

2027 EUCLID | $879,000 3 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Liv | 3,952 SF Mary Poss - 214-738-0777

NEW LISTING

6254 BERWYN | $575,000 4 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Liv | 2,518 SF Patty Collins - 214-862-5524

5802 WORTH | $549,000

3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Din | 2,299 SF Dybvad, Phelps, Sinnott Group 214-536-8786

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Let’s get moving 4226 SOMERVILLE | $479,999 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 1,738 SF Peter Loudis - 214-215-4269

6711 SANTA MARIA | SOLD 4 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Liv | 2 Den | 2,025 SF Dybvad, Phelps, Sinnott Group 214-536-8786

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NEW LISTING

7404 CORONADO | $415,000 2 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Liv | 2,115 SF Jessica Wantz - 713-299-1546

3805 HAWICK | SOLD

3 Bed | 2 Bath | 1,823 SF Jessica Wantz - 713-299-1546 Equal Housing Opportunity

CONTENTS OCTOBER 2020 VOL.27 NO.10

UP FRONT 16 Radiohead Meet ESPN Radio’s Ian Fitzsimmons 20 The Hargroves Brought together by film 24 Dugg Burger Simple done exceptional

FEATURES 26 Marriage makeover Four unusual weddings 36 Book club Antiracist reading

Neighbor Ian Fitzsimmons hosts a national radio show from his Lakewood home. Read the story on page 16. Photography by Danny Fulgencio

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At Bella Vista, we work with you to create a home with the features, space and design elements that will delight the ones who spend the most time there – you and your family. This is where you live

Build a home that impresses someone important – you.

your life – playing, working and relaxing. And each time you look around your home, we want you to think, “Wow. What a great place!” If it also happens to be the envy of your friends and neighbors, well – that’s okay too.

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1234 Street Address-$000,000 NameKucharski Here 000.000.0000 5419 Monticello Ave. / $669,000 / Robert / 214.356.5802

1234 Street Address-$000,000 NameKucharski Here 000.000.0000 5746 Monticello Ave. / $485,000 / Robert / 214.356.5802

1234 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000

1234 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000

1234Claremont Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000 8017 Dr. / $350,000 / Bart Thrasher / 469.583.4819

1234 Name Here/ 214.450.8285 000.000.0000 763Street Peavy Address-$000,000 Rd. / SOLD / Brandon Stewart

1234 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000

1234 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000

1234 Street Address-$000,000 Here 000.000.0000 4908 Junius St. / SOLD / BartName Thrasher / 469.583.4819

1234 Address-$000,000 Name Here/ 000.000.0000 9840Street Coldwater Cir. / SOLD / David Collier 214.536.8517

1234 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000

1234 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000

1234 Address-$000,000 Name Here/ 000.000.0000 531Street Brookhurst Dr. / SOLD / David Collier 214.536.8517

1234931 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000 Bridget Ln. / SOLD / David Collier / 214.536.8517

1234 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000

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Elm & Good’s menu features rabbit paté, pozole rojo and schnitzel.

Photography courtesy of Elm & Good

Coming and Going [+] A Belgian bar, Meyboom Brasserie, selling beer, frites and

Liège waffles will open in the former San Francisco Rose on Lower Greenville. An opening date has not been released. [+] Dahlia Bar & Bistro will open at 3300 Ross Ave. in the

space formerly occupied by Ross & Hall. The building is under construction and will debut in fall 2020.

designer: Audrey Love

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[+] Chef Graham Dodds is bringing farmhouse fare to Deep

A guer rilla ar t installation in a defunct photo booth near the Lakewood Texaco.

Ellum. His new concept Elm & Good is open inside the Pittman Hotel.

[-] On Rotation Small Batch Brewery & Taproom plans to

relocate to the Braniff Centre after five years in Lakewood. The new location is scheduled for completion in 2021. [+] Arizona-based Cheba Hut opened Sept. 21 in Deep Ellum. It

offers marijuana-themed sandwiches and cocktails.

Photography by Danny Fulgencio

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FR E S H FO R

Fall

6934 Hammond Avenue | $899,000 SOLD - Represented Buyer

ALAN SMITH

5239 Bonita Avenue | $829,900 PENDING

TIM SCHUTZE

214.914.1343 | alan.smith@alliebeth.com

214.507.6699 | tim.schutze@alliebeth.com

711 Cordova Street | $569,000

2235 Forest Hollow Park | $549,900

JOE KACYNSKI

SUSIE THOMPSON

214.850.7195 | joe.kacynski@alliebeth.com

214.354.8866 | susie.thompson@alliebeth.com

5429 Victor Street | $515,900 SOLD

7319 Rutgers Drive | $439,000

MARSUE WILLIAMS

214.762.2108 | marsue.williams@alliebeth.com

alliebethallman | 214.521.7355 | alliebeth.com

TYLER JOHNSON

214.544.5987 | tyler.johnson@alliebeth.com

GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY Two Dallas officers went beyond the call of duty to help a woman fleeing domestic violence. Reneeshia McIntyre and Delia Pesina were responding to a call at an Old East Dallas apartment when they met the mother of six.

McIntyre and Pesina collected donations from fellow officers and the community and purchased mattresses, cribs, a sofa, dining room table and more than $250 worth of groceries.

BY THE NUMBERS

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I wanted to scream out the window every time something happened. It’s a hard conversation to have, but we have to push through that uncomfortable feeling.

WHAT WE SPEND ANNUALLY ON CAMPING

$869,000

ON MOTORIZED CAMPERS

$1.6 million ON TRAILERS AND ATTACHABLE CAMPERS

$291,000 ON GPS DEVICES

— LAKEWOOD NEIGHBOR JEANNE SEGREST Read more about the Multicultural Women’s Book Group in “Starting the Next Chapter” on page 36.

$1 million ON HUNTING AND FISHING EQUIPMENT

Source: U.S. Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics based on ZIP codes 75204, 75206, 75214, 75218, 75223 and 75228.

Numbers are derived from 2010 U.S. Census data with projections to be accurate as of Jan. 1, 2017.

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NEW CONSTRUCTION 5722 Palo Pinto Avenue | SOLD

ESTABLISHED RESIDENCE 718 Nesbitt Drive | SOLD

CONTEMPORARY

4417 Somerville Avenue | Private Sale*

TOP PRODUCER

ALLIE BETH ALLMAN & ASSOCIATES LAKEWOOD OFFICE

SIGNIFICANT SALES 5922 Richmond Avenue* 5343 Ellsworth Avenue* 626 Valencia Street* 6808 Southridge Drive* 5622 Worth Street 4506 St. Landry Drive

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6702 Kenwood • $1,399,000

6629 Sondra • $1,150,000

6010 Belmont • $1,100,000

6903 Wildgrove • $725,000

JacksonSells knows the neighborhood Recently Sold: 6716 Blue Valley 7012 Casa Loma represented buyer

6971 Kenwood represented buyer 6354 Velasco

7136 Cornelia

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4412 Hyer

3945 Dalgreen

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PROFILE THESE ARE THE PEOPLE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

L I V E F ROM L A K E WOOD ESPN Radio host Ian Fitzsimmons broadcasts nationally from his home 

Interview by JAIME DUNAWAY-SEALE | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

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THE 2020 MOMENTUM CONTINUES ...

NO. 1 IN EAST DALLAS 91 HOMES SOLD IN 2020 $78.5M SOLD IN 2020

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Nancy Johnson 214.674.3840 Alex Marler 214.883.1149 Amy Malooley 214.773.5570 nancyjohnsongroup.com

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SPN Radio host Ian Fitzsimmons was interviewing Charles Barkley when he heard his daughters yelling, “Dad! Dad! Dad!” They’d seen a creepy, crawling creature downstairs. “Mom was gone, and I’m waving my hands and screaming,” Fitzsimmons says. “It completely hijacked the conversation. Chuck was like, ‘Put them on the air.’ We’re friends, but if it had been a formal interview, we would have had problems.” The incident occurred pre-pandemic, before interrupted work calls became an accepted part of life. By the time the coronavirus hit, the Fitzsimmons household had already established a method to keep the kids from crashing any more interviews — an “On Air” sign outside his studio. “It was a game-changer,” Fitzsimmons says. “If it’s not on, all hell breaks loose. If the light is on, you could hear a mouse fart.” Since 2014, Fitzsimmons has worked out of his Lakewood home, where he records his weeknight show, “Freddie & Fitzsimmons.”

ESPN has tried convincing the University of Alabama graduate to move to headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, but his family has roots in Dallas and is involved with several charitable organizations, such as the Exchange Club of East Dallas. “Family is here,” Fitzsimmons says, “and you can’t put a price tag on family.”

You’ve worked from home for years. How was it different during the pandemic?

Everyone was home with me. That was the biggest change. My youngest daughter had a great line. Two months into quarantine she said, “Twenty years from now when history teachers teach about COVID, the adults are going to say it was a hard time, but us kids are going to say we kind of dug it. I’ve never spent so much time with my family or did so much with my parents.”

What’s college football going to look like this year?

It’s going to be different. You’re seeing it already. One guy is owed a big apology, and that’s Kirk Herbstreit. He was on my show on what was supposed to be the Opening Day of baseball. He comes on the air and throws a curveball. He says, “I don’t think we’re having football this year.” This is back in late March, and you had people coast to coast just bashing him. Nineteen times he said, “I pray I’m wrong.”

He was the first one to say it and damn if he wasn’t right.

“It’s the beauty and power of sports from a little house in Lakewood.”

Tell me about growing up in New Orleans.

My mom raised thoroughbred horses. Growing up on that farm was the greatest life lesson. We were mucking stables by the time we were 4. We mowed every blade of grass. Living in Lakewood, it’s comical that I’m out there edging and cutting grass. A guy pulled up and asked, “Do you have a card?” I’m like, “I live here. I’m cutting my grass.” He looked at me bewildered like, “You cut your own grass?” Why would you pay someone to do something you can do yourself ?

Have you always loved sports?

When [my brothers and I] came out of the womb, we were throwing a football or baseball. As a kid going to Saints games, [my brother and I] put bags on our heads when they were the Aints. My mom knocked the shit out of me. She said, “We are never embarrassed to pull for our team.” I’m trying to hold back tears while my brother october 2020

Why are sports important right now?

After Katrina, the New Orleans Saints brought us back.

They went to the NFC Championship and lost, but it gave us something we didn’t have before. It’s a word called “hope.”

That’s what sports does. It gives you an escape.

What is your favorite sports memory?

Watching my daughters play. I’ve never been more nervous in my entire life.

Also broadcasting my first national championship.

Do you have any other positive takeaways from this year?

The only good thing that’s come from 2020 is the social justice movement. It’s been beneficial and enlightening knowing that I have a forum where a lot of people are listening, and I have to be responsible with my words.

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is laughing. My mom loves the Saints and wherever my brother coaches. He coached for the Lions, and one year, they played the Saints. My mom was like, “We know what’s happening in November. This is the one time we can root against the Saints.” My older brother was like, “To hell with that.” He pulled against his own brother.

How did you get involved in the Exchange Club?

I got involved through Mike Looney. To put a smile on a kid’s face is one of the most gratifying things you can do. I was the emcee at the fundraiser a few years ago. I had an emergency appendectomy just days before, but Eric Nadel was the guest speaker. I was like, “I ain’t missing it.” I had a momentary lapse when I was emcee for Laura Bush. I said, “This event can’t start until every butt is in a seat.” I was like, “Ian, this is the first lady, not Dabo Swinney.”

I look over, and she’s laughing. I mouthed, “I’m sorry.”

The Exchange Club’s mission is to help public school children.

Why is that important to you?

If people send their kids to neighborhood schools, they will continue to get even better. My kids will go to J.L. Long and Woodrow. By the time my youngest daughter has graduated from Woodrow, my goal is to have a stadium. The Saints donate the turf from the Superdome to a local high school every year. Hey, Jerry [Jones], instead of throwing the field away, rip it up and give it to a local high school. At the top of the list should be one where there have been two Heisman Trophy winners.

Any final thoughts?

This is an unbelievable job. I pinch myself sometimes. Calling the national championship. Watching a friend coach. Watching my daughter make a diving save or a game-winning hit. It’s the beauty and power of sports from a little house in Lakewood.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

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T H E P OW E R of T H E R I G H T PA RT N E R

Kelley Theriot McMahon • 214.563.5986 Lauren Valek Farris • 469.867.1734 Laura Frazure • 214.356.6255 Avery McGregor • 404.783.9658 Melissa Garvey • 214.502.6264

The East Dallas Experts

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Neighbors Miles and Emily Hargrove met on the set of “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.”

PROOF OF LIFE A father’s kidnapping as told through the 1994 video diaries of his son EAST DALLAS NEIGHBOR MILES HARGROVE never set out to create a documentary when his father was kidnapped by guerilla fighters in Colombia. Several months into hostage negotiations, he realized the circumstances were too remarkable not to document. He knew his dad would want to see it someday.

So Miles picked up a camera and recorded events on cassette tapes over the next year as his family paid ransoms and worked with federal agents to secure the release of his father.

Filming became a coping mechanism.

Now, Miles has turned the footage into the documentary “Miracle Fishing” to probe

the family’s traumatic experience more than 25 years later.

“Miracle Fishing” was supposed to debut in April at the Tribeca Film Festival, but the event was canceled because of the coronavirus. Since then, it has premiered virtually at a number of film festivals, including AFI Docs, Sidewalk Film Festival and Monmouth Film Festival, where it won best featured documentary.

“It’s weird to relive the worst year of your life over and over,” Miles says. “It’s emotionally draining. There were so many times in the years leading to the final push when I doubted whether I could complete it. It’s been great to step back and go, ‘Wow,

a year or two ago, you weren’t in this place.’

I have to be proud of that accomplishment.”

Miles’ father, agricultural journalist Tom Hargrove, was captured Sept. 23, 1994, by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Guerillas had set up a makeshift roadblock in the Colombian countryside in the hopes of catching someone valuable. The practice is known as “pesca milagrosa,” or miracle fishing, which inspired the name of the film.

In a ransom letter, guerillas demanded $6 million or else Tom would be executed.

Miles, a sophomore at Texas Christian University at the time, flew to Colombia, where his parents had lived for three years.

Story by JAIME DUNAWAY-SEALE | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

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Left: A diary Tom kept during captivity. Right: The Sony Video8 camera Miles used to record his family’s experience.

the next five years.

His home videos show how family friends and colleagues kept the faith to rescue Tom. The community helped raise two ransom The couple met outside the Shrieking Shack and developed a payments: one of $181,000 and one of $203,000. Shortly after friendship over the next several months. When filming wrapped, the second payment, Tom was released after 11 months.

Miles went back home before returning for the fourth film. That’s The group has pledged not to watch the film until they can when the magic happened. do so together.

They kept their relationship a secret at first and enjoyed “Had I been thinking like I do now, it would have been shot London together without baggage before telling the crew. It was a fun and exciting time before two years of overseas, longso differently,” Miles says. “It’s shot with amateur footage. I hope distance dating. Miles proposed at the top of Reunion Tower, that makes it compelling to people because nothing is contrived and the two married in 2007 in Big Sur, California. or set up. I was embarrassed by how amateur it all was, but “Harry Potter truly changed my life,” Emily says. “I wouldn’t revisiting it years later, the graininess of the footage is like a look. have met Miles. It was hard work, but it was a magical time.

It’s like a time capsule of faded jeans and massive cell phones.”

I never once took it for granted. I was Miles had hoped to make the documentary eternally grateful I had that opportunity. sooner, but it took time to find investors to It changed the trajectory of my life.” finance the project. Then in three subsequent If it weren’t for Miles, Emily would not years, the stock market crashed, leading to the Great Recession, and both of his parents have come back to Dallas. Before they met, died. He couldn’t bear to look at the footage, she had visited only once before for a public so he put it away for years before picking it relations conference at the Hilton Anatole.

“The most tragic things can up again in 2017.

They left the hotel only once to drive by lead to the greatest things.”

In the decade before resuming “Miracle the old Texas School Book Depository, where President John F. Kennedy was Fishing,” Miles focused on gaining experience assassinated. in the film industry. After graduating with a degree in radio, TV and film, the Abilene “I thought it was the most terrible place native moved to Dallas and worked on the I had ever been,” she says. set of “Walker, Texas Ranger.” He paid his But Miles showed her a side of Dallas dues as a prop assistant and utility sound that can’t be seen from the freeway. They technician until getting his big break. In 2000, he helped produce walked around White Rock Lake, got drinks at cool neighborhood “The Making of Proof of Life,” an inside look into the movie bars and visited filming locations that Miles remembered from inspired by his father’s capture. The movie starred Meg Ryan “Walker, Texas Ranger.” and Russell Crowe.

Emily misses the green hills of Yorkshire, but their house That led to more behind-the-scenes projects for “Miss near Norbuck Park reminds her of home. It’s located next to Congeniality,” “Van Helsing” and “Fast & Furious.” a network of rarely used trails, and on rainy days, she and the In 2003, he was hired as a behind-the-scenes cameraman for kids — a second-grader at Hexter Elementary and a sixth-grader “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” When the mysterious at Talented and Gifted — love to explore the woods.

“The most tragic things can lead to the greatest things,” Texan arrived on set, his future bride, Emily, took notice.

Miles says. “The kidnapping, as horrible as it was, happened, The Brit had joined the crew on the previous film as a personal and life goes on. There was a film inspired by my dad’s diary, assistant to Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger. and I did the behind-the-scenes making of that film. That led Emily’s sister taught Watson in kindergarten and knew producers were looking for someone to mentor the young actress. Emily me to Harry Potter, and that led me to where I am now, sitting got along well with Watson and was hired to work with her for next to Emily in Dallas.” october 2020 lakewood.advocatemag.com

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SPOT THE LEOPARD GECKO Zane Buresh wanted a pet snake, but his mom didn’t have the stomach to feed it live mice. If he couldn’t have a snake, a leopard gecko was the next best thing.

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DINING FOOD IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Dugg’s build-your-own menu has more than 20 options to customize a meal.

SIMPLE INGREDIENTS DONE RIGHT DUGG BURGER USES SIMPLICITY AND LOCALITY TO BECOME A DALLAS STAPLE “SIMPL E DONE E XCEP TIONAL” is the mantra Scott Terraciano-Spence and his business partners Jeff Braunstein and Martin Hennessy used to create Dugg Burger.

After working in the corporate restaurant industry for years, they cultivated their own restaurant and came up with Dugg Burger, a build-your-own, go-down-the-line style of building a burger.

The family friendly joint offers options for everyone.

“Even though our menu is simple, we have something for burger and chicken lovers, salad eaters, gluten-free dieters and vegetarians,” Spence says. “We even have chalk available for kids to draw with on our brick wall.”

The restaurant hones in on simplicity by doing a few things very well.

Customers start by choosing a brioche bun or a bowl of mixed greens. Next comes the protein: beef, crispy or grilled chicken or a portabella mushroom. Next, customers can choose from five types of cheese and more than 15 condiments and vegetables.

The restaurant offers a unique no mayo chili-lime slaw

and a custom Dugg Sauce. It is a Thousand Island base mixed with roasted garlic, capers and shallots.

“One of our employees once described it as being ‘more like Ten Thousand Island dressing’ when he had it the first time,” Spence says.

The name Dugg comes from the unique aspect of the burger. The top of each bun is “dugg” out, so all the toppings stay on the burger. Dugg uses the leftover bun to make its homemade bread pudding.

The first location opened in Casa Linda in 2015.

“We’ve had great success with our original unit in Casa Linda,” Spence says. “We’ve become ‘the neighborhood place’ there and felt that Preston Hollow offered the same opportunity.”

Spence opened a second location in Preston Hollow Village amid the coronavirus pandemic. It’s been challenging to spread the word about the new restaurant, but Dugg modified its system to cater to customers despite restrictions.

“We retooled the operation to focus on delivering food

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to people’s cars so they could minimize their contact with the outside world,” Spence says. “And of course, we have become maniacally focused on sanitation and safety.”

The restaurant is locally owned and operated and strives to be neighbors in its business areas. The eatery is also a local business supporter.

“We rotate our beer, but right now, we offer Dallas Blonde, Mosaic IPA, Blood & Honey, Shiner Bock and Local Buzz,” Spence

says. “We also buy wine from a local producer, Times Ten Cellars.

Other local products we buy are our buns from Empire Bakery and ice cream from Henry’s that goes in our hand-spun shakes.”

As for future locations around Dallas: “Nothing on the horizon, but we always have our eyes open for the next Dugg,” Spence says.

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LOVE IN THE LAKEWOOD THEATER he wedding of Tamara Woodchek had all the glitz and glam of a Hollywood red-carpet event. In 2001, she and her husband tied the knot in a movie-themed wedding at the historic Lakewood Theater, where they celebrated their first Valentine’s Day together.

“When we got engaged, we knew we weren’t going

The Lakewood Theater was able to convert its auditorium into a reception hall by placing tables over the unmovable chairs. Photography courtesy of Tamara Woodchek

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“ The “ The to get married in a church,” she says. “I love musicals and old movies. We thought we’d check it out, and we had our ceremony and reception there.”

Guests arrived with their tickets on a red carpet, where the bride’s sister interviewed them as they passed movie posters of the couple hanging in the windows. The interviews were streamed on the movie screen as guests found their seats in the theater, where every other row was covered with a long table.

The ceremony started with a short movie that introduced the wedding party, who walked down the aisle as an onstage band performed songs from movies.

Woodchek entered to the wedding march from “The Sound of Music.”

“I had a hard time finding a dress,” Woodchek says. “I thought about a red ‘Gone with the Wind’ dress, but I couldn’t go through with it.”

The reception was complete with cakes that looked like film reels.

Today, the couple lives near White Rock Lake and has a painting of the theater in their home. When the seats were removed from the theater in 2015 to abate asbestos, the pair grabbed two that they plan to restore and keep as a memento from their special day.

“It’s nice to have something nearby to remember that experience,” Woodchek says. “A lot of people tell me it’s one of the funnest weddings they’ve ever been to. It’s something different they hadn’t done before.”

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BACKYARD BLISS our years ago, Julie Mandrell married her husband, Patrick, in an intimate backyard wedding at their 100-year-old airplane bungalow in Lakewood Heights.

“We wanted something that was intimate, and we wanted to use our own home and be surrounded by our things,” she says. “The idea of being in a venue didn’t seem very personable.”

The couple left the reception in a 1972 Pontiac Firebird.

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The DIY wedding was decorated primarily with the couple’s meaningful items — photographs from when they first met, a decorative plate, a ship painting by Patrick’s grandfather and antique bottles from his grandmother’s farm in Greenville.

Other decorations, such as three antique doors, were salvaged from bulky trash and repurposed as the bar or an entry table topped with party favors.

Casa View neighbor Jayme Ditto drew the invitations, which included elements representing Mandrell’s dad, brother and other loved ones who had died.

For the ceremony, the bride was escorted by her uncle as she walked through the gate to the backyard. The couple married in front of their shed adorned with ivy and flowers.

“I ordered my dress online. It was the first one I looked at,” Mandrell says. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt as beautiful in my entire life as I did that day.”

The crowd of 50 close family and friends celebrated into the night with food provided by the Easy Slider food truck and coconut sour cream cake that Mandrell made herself using her grandmother’s recipe.

The newlyweds, who met in 1992 at the University of North Texas, left the reception under a tunnel of sparklers. They peeled out in their 1972 Pontiac Firebird, drove around the block and came back to party some more.

“It was the best day of my life,” Mandrell says. “It was so much fun. Everyone who came said it was the best wedding they’d ever been to.”

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A HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL WEDDING essica Lopez is brewing a Halloween-themed wedding with her boo this October at Edison’s in the Cedars. The haunting holiday is the couple’s favorite, but it also has spiritual significance as part of the Day of the Dead celebration, which starts Oct. 31 and ends Nov. 2.

“Halloween has a special place in my heart because of my culture,” Lopez says. “It is basically when we are the closest to our relatives who have passed. We always wished they’d be here for our wedding.”

The couple plans to mix traditional, spiritual elements associated with Day of the Dead with the more commercial parts of Halloween.The bridal cake will be topped with skeletons and decorated with marigolds — the Day of the Dead flower that guides spirits to their altars with a strong scent and vibrant color — while the groom’s cake will depict the mask of Jason from “Friday the 13th.”

“I want to make it festive, but it’s also a wedding,” Lopez says. “I’m not going to throw fake blood anywhere.”

The bride-to-be is making her own centerpieces out of toilet paper and paper towel rolls, which she covers with black spray paint to create a dripping-candle effect. Thick spider webs will surround the base, and glowing red candles will be lit at the top. The use of fall colors, such as burgundy, dark red and black, will add to the gothic atmosphere.

Other decorations include lanterns, manzanita tree branches with hanging votive candles and plenty of decorative skulls.

The pair, who met on Match.com in 2014, are asking guests to wear themed masks and costumes.

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For years, Pam Fields has worked tirelessly through her nonprofit to bring diverse individuals together through programs and events designed to encourage cross-cultural understanding.

But keeping the fight against racism can be exhausting, and she needed an outlet to share her struggles and experiences without the burden of leadership.

She found allies in the Multicultural Women’s Book Group.

East Dallas neighbor Jean McAulay and Oak Cliff resident Shannon Cerise started the group in 2017 after attending the Questions of Color panel hosted by The Dallas Morning News following the killing of five police officers at a Black Lives Matter march in 2016. After hearing people of color share their experiences at the event, they sat in the parking lot thinking, “We lead such segregated lives.”

They wanted to continue the conversation. As members of the Dallas

Institute of Humanities and Culture, where the panel discussion occurred, they utilized the organization’s email list and social media channels to recruit new members throughout Dallas.

The group is open to anyone, regardless of race, age, religion or sexual orientation, but membership is restricted to women.

“We don’t have anything against men, but we feel women, most often, are the community builders,” McAulay says. “They forge relationships with neighbors.”

Each meeting starts with an icebreaker activity, followed by a poem and book discussion. The group started with “American Dervish,” which tells the story of a Pakistani-American boy who struggles with his identity and religion while growing up in the Midwest. Other books have delved into race, white privilege, immigration and politics.

The books generate conversation about difficult social issues that sometimes cause

perspectives to clash. The first discussion of Robin DiAngelo’s controversial book “White Fragility” was so contentious, members had to pause and regroup for a second discussion at a later date.

Ground rules for respectful participation keep most meetings civil, however. Members are asked to practice the pause if the conversation becomes tense or emotional and to assume the best in each other. If someone says something insensitive, members are encouraged to teach without reprimanding.

“I’m developing muscles about how to talk about race, not just understand it,” Cerise says. “I don’t think it’s ever going to be easy, but I’m finding words and language to go along with it.”

Yet reading and discussing books aren’t the sole purpose of the group. It was never meant to be an intellectual pursuit, McAulay says. It’s about building relationships that create real community change. Ladies meet regularly outside of book club to go bowling or attend lectures.

“The more cross-cultural relationships we build, the better we understand, the more our hearts and minds are transformed and we can be advocates for each other,” Fields says.

Membership is intentionally kept small. When new women want to join, McAulay and Cerise connect those people and help them establish their own book groups. A second chapter that meets at Southern Methodist University formed about a year ago, and a third chapter started in Lakewood in August.

Interest in the Multicultural Women’s Book Group grew after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in late May. His slaying ignited a racial reckoning and spawned mass protests across the country.

“Especially among white women, we saw a strong interest in learning more,” McAulay says. “We can be amazingly clueless on issues of race and the experiences of people of color in whitedominant culture. The protests and the murder of George Floyd brought that to the fore. The next step is, ‘How do I make this better?’”

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“For a long time, I had been feeling tension like, ‘Why are we not talking about this?’” Segrest says. “I wanted to scream out the window every time something happened. It’s a hard conversation to have, but we have to push through that uncomfortable feeling.”

St. John’s Episcopal mom Tunisia Blanca says she wanted to join the book club after Floyd’s death to share her experiences as a Black woman.

“I couldn’t believe as a country we had gotten to a place where people stood around and watched and did nothing,” Blanca says. “I never considered myself an activist, but I thought of myself as someone who spoke up about what’s wrong. I thought, ‘I’ve got to do more.’ I want to lend my voice and give my perspective.”

Everyone in the group serves as an active participant by volunteering to bring snacks, selecting the books or leading discussion. Discussions focus on listening and learning from personal experiences, not trying to change opinions.

Engaging in the experiences of others is the best way to recognize personal biases and advocate for systemic change, members say.

The women put their money where their mouths are. After reading “Just Mercy,” the story of a lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative to defend the unjustly accused, they collected money and sent a donation to the organization.

“I’m just happy for the new group,” Segrest says. “I want it to keep spreading. This isn’t the only answer to racism, but it’s one thing we do.”

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

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Can you be spiritual and not vote?

Voting is a civic duty. Is it also a spiritual imperative?

ROYAL LANE BAPTIST CHURCH / 6707 Royal Lane / 214.361.2809 Christian Education 9:45 a.m. / Worship Service 10:55 a.m.

Pastor - Rev. Dr. Michael L. Gregg / www.royallane.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

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Sunday School 9:30 am / Worship 8:30 am - Chapel 10:50 am - Sanctuary / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

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arly voting begins this month and culminates on Election Day, Nov. 3.

In the 2016 general election, only six out of 10 eligible voters cast ballots, and COVID-19 could have a dampening effect on turnout. Texas is one of seven states that has rejected expansion of voting by mail for those concerned about exposure to the virus.

No one doubts that one person — one vote — is at the heart of democracy. To vote is to participate in an exercise that extends our democratic republic. But does faith add additional burden to vote in civil elections?

Cantor Shoshana Brown rightly writes: “As far as Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Hinduism go, none of these faiths have sacred scriptures that explicitly address the issue of voting — for the simple reason that all these faiths sprung up and developed in places and eras when people tended to be ruled by monarchs, emperors or other leaders who were not selected by the people at large.”

The Constitution permits every citizen to vote, and the Bill of Rights ensures religious liberty. Perpetuating our historic experiment in freedom has religious implications even if our sacred texts lack explicit mandates about executing that democratic right.

Still, we can extrapolate from biblical texts. While Jews and Christians in different ways have understood themselves throughout history as resident aliens in the world, seeking their true homeland in the age to come, both texts and contexts have urged political participation.

While in captivity in Babylon, Israel was enjoined to “seek the welfare of the

city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare, you will find your welfare.”

Likewise, Christians were commanded to “pray for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.”

No perfect kings or people in high positions have ever existed, so faithful Americans shouldn’t claim conscientious objection to voting. We have always had only sinners on the ballot. If I were running for office, I would have holy reticence about voting for myself given what I know about my character. Even so-called value voters who rush to the polls to cast ballots for people they enthusiastically support should recognize that their candidates are only human and can never deliver on all they have promised.

One principle pervades all religious traditions: Love your neighbor as yourself. That means faith-based voting shouldn’t focus on self-interest or group interest. It should attend to what is good for all, crossing strata of race, religion class and culture.

In the end, we will have no one but ourselves to blame for the country or community we get if we fail to vote (assuming no foreign intervention). See you at the polls.

GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons and host of the “Good God” podcast. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

EMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH /corner of Peak & San Jacinto/English Worship 10:00 am/Sunday School 11:00am-Noon/Spanish Worship 12:15pm/ church.emanueldallas.org CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

A Welcoming and Affirming Church / Rev. K.M. Truhan Sunday School 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am / CentralLutheran.org FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA) / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane

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By MITA HAVLICK

The masked heroes among us You don’t have to be Wonder Woman to save lives

I

don’t know about everybody else, but I am officially done with this pandemic.

D.O.N.E. This whole shelter-in-place, social distancing, online school thing is not good for a travel-obsessed, extroverted mom who wants her children out of the house.

Although perennially staying at home, not putting my arms around a friend and seeing my kids 24/7 are challenges, it’s the mask wearing that I find the most cumbersome. In addition to not being good for my skin, I find it difficult to breathe, often feeling claustrophobic. The biggest challenge is recognizing people when I do venture out. I truly hope I am never a secret witness to a heinous crime because there is no way I would be able to recognize anyone in a lineup.

Put a face mask on the suspect, and the bad guy is for sure getting away.

T h e w o m e n i n my f a m i l y a r e generationally klutzy. The mask, which blocks my downward peripheral vision, has not helped and has resulted in tripping even more than usual on our crappy sidewalks and streets. Sadly, my mom and daughter have experienced the same fate.

On the plus side, I was able to find a comfortable mask that fits my child-sized face. I take solace that my face mask hides my nose — an insecurity I’ve had since I was a child. I can pretend I was blessed with a perfect Roman proboscis and go forth in public, unencumbered by diffidence.

Perhaps the biggest benefit of all is that I know I’m saving lives. I’m not suggesting I’m Wonder Woman or Elastigirl, but who doesn’t have a slight hero complex?

I appreciate the efforts of others to save lives as well. I will walk happily into any establishment that demands I wear a mask or else entry will be forbidden.

Accepting something that gives me huge discomfort comes from the fact that I don’t think it is my God-given right to not wear a face mask.

“Perhaps the biggest benefit of all is that I know I’m saving lives. I’m not suggesting I’m Wonder Woman or Elastigirl, but who doesn’t have a slight hero complex?”

There is little difference in wearing a condom to prevent your partner from getting an STD and wearing a face mask so the masses don’t continually spread a contagion that is causing sickness, death, sadness, closures of long-held establishments, historic unemployment and the near collapse of the world economy.

Discomfort is a small price to pay.

And, like many things that cause irritation, all it takes is a bit of getting used to. Case in point: Mask in tow, I recently did a large grocery run at the Kroger on Mockingbird. It was the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, which was an absurd day to go to the store.

In addition to my long list, there was a large number of fellow shoppers — not like the throngs on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, but certainly more than

I had seen in quite some time.

I donned my mask as I walked out of my air-conditioned car and into the humid environs. Although I realize no one wants the visual, my face under my mask was dripping with sweat as I walked into the store. I, of course, wore the mask the entire time I shopped. That wasn’t such a great feat, I know. The big accomplishment for me was that I totally forgot I was wearing it. I even tried to take a sip from the coffee tumbler I brought with me into the store out of habit, not realizing my mouth was fully covered, as well as my nose because that is how we’re supposed to wear it.

Like many, if not all of us, I long for the days we all took for granted — shaking hands, blowing out candles to celebrate a birthday and hugging a close friend extra tight after a few too many.

When we finally get to the other side of this, who knows what it will look like? If we have extremely short-term memories, we’ll go back to our carefree ways of not obsessively washing our hands and not minding a bit of someone else’s spittle on a slice of birthday cake.

If we’re smart, we’ll remember we could have managed this so much better than we did. A little sacrifice goes a long way. Staying inside, waving a greeting, Zooming to school and wearing a face mask are nothing compared to the damage that was done by flouting the science.

MITA HAVLICK is neighborhood resident and Dallas Education Foundation director. Find her commentary regularly in the back pages of our print edition and online at lakewood. advocatemag.com.

GO ONLINE to read updates and comment on this story and more at lakewood.advocatemag.com.

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