We’ll give you a smile that leaves everyone blinded by the light.

Almost overnight, the New Bohemians went from playing shows for a few hundred people at Club Dada to launching their nationwide tour with a performance on “Saturday Night Live.”

“We were like a Deep Ellum weirdo band, and all of a sudden we were on top-40 radio,” Withrow says. He was born and raised inLakewood, and now plays with Cricket Taylor in the Electro-Magnetics. Their new album, “Dirty,” was released a few months ago.

You grew up on Bob-O-Link. Where were you living after high school? There were six of us living in a three-bedroom house on Bryan Parkway. Six dudes and six cats. Some people called it the litter box. There was also a documentary that someone filmed on New Year’s Eve. It’s floating around out there somewhere. We were moving out on Jan. 1, and it was called “The Slime Palace.”

Do you remember the address?

No. The house is not there any more. There’s an apartment building there now. But that’s where we wrote a lot of the New Bohemians’ first record. Edie [Brickell] would tolerate the environment and come in and jam for a period of time.

What are you working on right now?

I play with Cricket Taylor (also a neighborhood resident) and The Electro-Magnetics. It’s two guitars and drums. Gerard Bendiks is the drummer. I love that band. It’s been since New Bohemians that I’ve felt so good about a band. I also play in Forgotten Space, just for the love of it. We play Grateful Dead music. Oh, and I also play with Edie sometimes in a band called Heavy Makeup.

And you teach guitar?

I teach guitar at the Kessler Theater, mostly to kids, but I have some adult students as well. And I teach a class at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center.

What do you like about teaching?

I like to teach kids the way I wish I had been taught. It’s a way that makes guitar more fun and easier to learn. I didn’t have a good time learning the theory of guitar. It’s important to learn the notes of the guitar, but [most guitar teachers] want you to learn a lot of songs that are very boring and concentrate on the notes instead of just playing the guitar immediately. I get them playing songs right away. And then the questions about theory naturally come as they get curious.

I know you graduated from an arts magnet high school. Did you go to college after?

I went to Richland College for a while. There was a brief time when a lot of arts magnet students were going to Richland and not going to UNT because a lot of people would go to UNT for a year and then drop out. Paul Guerrero was the lab band teacher, and he was amazing. I was there for almost two years, and that’s where New Bohemians actually started.

Didn’t you already know Edie Brickell from arts magnet?

What if, during the course of your new home’s construction, you change your mind about a detail in your new home? If you decide to remove a wall, fall in love with new fixtures, or change your mind about the flooring, will your project go over time and over budget?

You’re concerned that your builder is going to ask for more money. And that concern is justified by online stories of changes gone awry, timelines thrown off, and budgets busted. It’s a problem we’ve recognized for years, but we’ve done something about it.

Changes you request

of experience, we believe we’re accountable — not our customers — to prepare, and to anticipate and avoid potential problems. It isn’t just a matter of principle; we have the expertise to avoid surprises that many builders don’t have. That’s why when an unanticipated change arises, we don’t charge either of the two common fees: a change fee or a timeline adjustment fee.

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I met her in high school, but we became friends after I joined the band. She was in the band about two months before I was. She got her start at an open mic after Calm Eddie’s comedy show. She had never sung before, and she got up and improvised with them. She’s a great improviser. That’s the great thing about Heavy Makeup. You can just play, and she is like another instrument with lyrics and singing. She’s another member of the band, just jamming, basically.

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—Rachel Stone

from our interview with Kenny Withrow at lakewood.advocatemag.com.

Almost all change requests are initiated by the customer: a change of materials or an adjustment to the floor plan. As a Bella Vista customer, you never have to worry. We’re flexible. We’ll complete a change request form with just the fee for the work itself – not an administrative fee or a timeline adjustment fee – and then notify you with the change to the project schedule. Our efficiency minimizes your cost.

Unforeseen changes

It’s rare, but problems beyond the control of the buyer or builder may happen. It could be inclement weather, a pest infestation, or vandalism. As builders with decades

You’re entitled to complete satisfaction. That’s why we’ve done everything to make our process change-friendly. So if a surprise comes up, don’t worry. You’ve already got our change policies in writing, in your hands right now.